Re: numeric data on the web, numeric web search

Semantics-ProjectParadigm wrote:
> See 
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/adding-search-power-to-public-data.html.
>
> This is the first intent at making large amounts of data available in 
> structured formats.
>
> Although it is not linked data in all conceivable formats from all 
> sources on the web, the fact that the E-Government Act is forcing US 
> federal agencies public data to make their data more accessible could 
> be the push required to get linked data initiatives to the next level.
>
> Time for a Semantic Web/Linked Data lobby in DC to make funding 
> available to expand to all public domains.\
>

We can start here: 
http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/ideas/make-collecting-recovery-data-agile-using-semantic-web-technology   
:-)


Kingsley
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> --- On *Wed, 4/29/09, Wolfgang Orthuber 
> /<orthuber@kfo-zmk.uni-kiel.de>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Wolfgang Orthuber <orthuber@kfo-zmk.uni-kiel.de>
>     Subject: numeric data on the web, numeric web search
>     To: public-lod@w3.org
>     Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 3:25 PM
>
>     Hello!
>      
>     We know that quantifiable objects play a central role in daily
>     life. Nevertheless up to now quantifiable objects have in general
>     no well defined globally machine readable and precise
>     representation on the web. The following concept proposes a simple
>     data structure called "pattern" for such representation of
>     quantifiable objects in general which also allows their similarity
>     search:
>     --------
>      
>     * Numeric web search *
>      
>     Web search is up to now word based. Additionally language
>     independent similarity search of quantifiable objects is
>     desirable. For well defined numeric representation of quantifiable
>     objects a simple data structure called "pattern" is proposed,
>     which contains a feature vector (a sequence of numbers) for
>     representation of the object, and a "pattern name" which is a URI
>     which uniquely identifies the kind of object which is represented
>     by the feature vector.
>      
>     Pattern:                  Pattern name       +        feature
>     vector          (+ auxilliary data)
>      
>     Patterns with the same pattern name represent the same kind of
>     object. Because the number of possible pattern names is not
>     limited*, infinitely* many different kinds of quantifiable objects
>     can be represented by patterns.  (*only physically limited by
>     finite time and energy)
>      
>     So the search terms are not words, but feature vectors in patterns
>     which allow quantification of similarity. Feature vectors of
>     patterns with the same pattern name are directly comparable using
>     a given metric. At this similarities of the original quantifiable
>     objects are mapped to spatial similarities of the feature vectors.
>     So similarity search is possible by calculating distances: Objects
>     are the more similar, the smaller the distance between the feature
>     vectors of the representing patterns is.
>      
>     Due to the multitude of different kinds of quantifiable objects
>     the work for development of efficient pattern resp. feature vector
>     definitions for their representation is open ended. Global task
>     sharing has the greatest potential: According to this suggestion
>     every owner of an internet domain name abc.xyz gets the right to
>     define feature vectors of all patterns with names abc.xyz/* (in
>     well defined location abc.xyz/pat/*).
>      
>     Patterns are machine readable, uniformly comparable and
>     searchable. They allow to search with the same search engine not
>     only for text, but also for an increasing number of well-defined
>     quantifiable objects on the web. This bundling of the search
>     activity into one crawler and web database for all quantifiable
>     objects is much more efficient than building and managing a
>     database and a crawler for every kind of object.
>      
>     Numeric similarity search could be efficiently combined with
>     conventional word based search. Details are described in
>     http://www.orthuber.com/wpa.htm , don't hesitate to ask me further
>     questions.
>      
>     --------------------
>     It seems clear that introduction of the above conventions would
>     have relevant advantages. Can this get support that we can step by
>     step realize this?
>      
>     Regards
>      
>     Wolfgang Orthuber   (Mathematician and Orthodontist at University
>     of Kiel / Germany)
>
>


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