Re: web to semantic web : an automated approach

> I am a mathematician by training and would love to accept the challenge of creating a new search engine which is customizable semantic web enabled..

you could get a job at MetaWeb or Twine or Hakia. or heck even Google

that is if theyre actually hiring right now, not unhiring - YMMV

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> After all, anyone who knows the origin of Google, may believe it is possible to create something new if Google no longer fits the bill.
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> The same simple line of reasoning Page and Brin had when they built the prototype, was, "Build it and they (the guys with money) will come (to our door).'
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> But the project will have to be OPEN SOURCE with OPEN LICENSE approach, and preferably have support from popular browsers.

ok yeah, the above mentioned companies are all proprietary hosted webservices. how about Wikia's search, or whatever? i know they bought some open source search engines. plus theres SINDICE/SWOOGLE etc. some of these are probably open

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> Anyone up to the challenge?

frankly, my search needs are already met:

amazon for non-consumerelectronics products and reviews
newegg for consumerelectronics products and reviews
ebay for discontinued products
google for DNSy searches (eg engadget, dailykos, etc)
imdb for film reviews
isohunt for torrents
googlenews/topix for commercial news stories

the only needs that arent fully met ironically is the stuff on my own HD. i dont have an interest in beastly trackerd churning through the drive, and i wont run a proprietary OS, so Spotlight is out of the question..


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gay militia?

> Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide
> www.projectparadigm.info (under construction)

the paradigm is shifting. perhaps remove 'www' from the URL?

> NGO-Opensource: Creating ICT tools for NGOs worldwide for Project Paradigm
> www.ngo-opensource.org (proposed project)

how about ngopen? easier to type/remember


> MetaPortal: providing online access to web sites and repositories of data and information for sustainable development
> www.metaportal.info (proposed project)

metaportal? welcome to 1993

> SemanticWebSoftware, part of NGO-Opensource to enable SW technologies in the Metaportal project (proposed site: www.semanticwebsoftware.org)
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> --- On Mon, 10/20/08, ?????????????????? ?????? <ravinderthakur@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: ?????????????????? ?????? <ravinderthakur@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: web to semantic web : an automated approach
> To: metadataportals@yahoo.com
> Cc: "Semantic Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>, semantic_web@googlegroups.com, "Andreas Langegger" <al@jku.at>
> Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 2:44 PM
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> >>>>What sort of stuff does a linked-data space enable? What sorts of
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> >>>>things can you _do_ with a linked data graph that you couldn't do
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> >>>>before? 
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> A lot depends upon the kind of data we have. Assuming we have the
> requisite data i would expect best system to give answers to queries
> like "world population in 1968" as?? 3.5 billion and not something like this (the current best system). How good and confident a system is which says he has found 489,000  matches
> for a simple one word question like this. The reason for this is the
> underlying architecture used to process the data. Unless that
> architecture is moved form a word analysis based system(pagerank etc)
> to one based on meaning (SW) there isn't much scope to improve.
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> >>>>Where are the real, working, non-hypothetical applications I
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> >>>>can play with now that use say the linked-open-data space?. 
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> There isn't any real semantic web application that i know of. Please do let me know if anyone knows one.
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> >>>>How do we get people excited enough about these things to invest the time in
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> making their data assets available in this way on the web? These are
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> >>>>the questions I personally need help with. 
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> The point is data owners wont be doing it unless they find some
> monetary benefit in this. One or two might share, but there will always
> be a bigger proportion that wont be sharing their data. But the point
> is why should we wait for others to share their data. Why not create
> our own semantic data ? If the approach of convincing people to share their data is not working why not take the other one or even better why not use both the approaches. We only stand to gain with these approaches.
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