- From: Peter F Brown <peter@pensive.eu>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:09:04 +0200
- To: "Jens Lehmann" <lehmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Cc: "SW-forum" <semantic-web@w3.org>
I don't want to be a "party pooper" but you do your cause no good with the example that you cite "How are Leipzig and the Semantic Web related?" - this is just amateur nonsense to claim that there is any semantically significant link between the two through a path that depends on the place of death of JS Bach - it's just the perverted "seven degrees of separation" by another name. Now, if it had come up with something like: [Leipzig] <---Venue---- [Annual "TopicMaps Research and Applications" conference] ----concerned with----> [Topic Maps] ----is a---> [semantic web technology] ----implements-----> [Semantic Web] then you'd have my attention. Yes, I realise this currently depends on some flaky data in Wikipedia but it's maybe not a good idea to promote something that currently offers no real value... Regards, Peter ------------- Peter F Brown Chair, CEN eGovernment Focus Group Founder, Pensive.eu Co-Editor, OASIS SOA Reference Model Lecturer at XML Summer School --- Personal: +43 676 610 0250 http://public.xdi.org/=Peter.Brown www.XMLbyStealth.net www.xmlsummerschool.com -----Original Message----- From: semantic-web-request@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Jens Lehmann Sent: 31 July 2007 03:57 To: semantic-web@w3.org Subject: DBpedia Relationship Finder Release 2 Hello, I'd like to announce the second version of the DBpedia Relationship Finder, which can be found at: http://wikipedia.aksw.org/relfinder/ It is a small application developed by Jörg Schüppel and me, which explores the DBpedia [1] infobox dataset. It can answer questions like "How are Leipzig and the Semantic Web related?" [2]. The Relationship Finder provides an easy to use interface to explore the huge amount of DBpedia data. The new version uses better algorithms, offers the possibility to ignore objects and properties, and includes numerous smaller improvements. Best regards, Jens Lehmann PS: Apologies in advance if the server responses are somewhat slow. [1]http://dbpedia.org [2]http://wikipedia.aksw.org/relfinder/index.php?firstObject=Leipzig&secondObject=Semantic_Web&limit=1&maxdistance=10 -- Dipl. Inf. Jens Lehmann Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig http://www.jens-lehmann.org
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