- From: Dieter Fensel <dieter.fensel@sti2.at>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:29:21 +0100
- To: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>,Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Would FOAF be the right choice to describe them? At 17:07 21.12.2010, Hugh Glaser wrote: >Hi. >Good stuff. > >But I am sitting here waiting for Martin Hepp to tell us that the >Good Relations stuff is the way these businesses should be >publicising themselves. >It is disappointing that in this field of all, we should be >gathering such stuff together, either by hand, or in a Semantic Wiki. >At the worst, it should be possible for this harvester to gather >this information by being given RDF from the root web page. >I tried doing the usual curl -i -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" on >quite a few of them (the most obvious ones), and fundamentally got >200 plus a bunch of pure html. >With one exception, which gave me RDFa as well. > >Pretty sad, I would say, if all we can do is gather this into a web >page, and then start thinking about doing something else - surely >our society and technology is better than that! > >CHeers >Hugh > > >On 21 Dec 2010, at 12:12, Riccardo Tasso wrote: > >Why don't we use a semantic wiki? > >There are interesting properties to understand, such as the place >where the company resides, the years of foundation and so on... > >Cheers, > Riccardo > >On 20/12/2010 23:06, Michael F Uschold wrote: >Dieter, > >This is a fabulous idea. There is at least on major shortcoming: >you forgot to include the company I work for (Semantic >Arts<http://semanticarts.com/> :-)). I'll make sure you get an entry from us. > >Seriously, I'm delighted to see this happen. I do wonder how you >may attempt to draw the line that defines "semantic >technology". There will always be grayness. If it is too broad, the >usefulness of this list could decrease. That could be ameliorated by >a rich set of semantic technology categories, so a person could >focus on a particular technology are, or ignore other ones. I.e one >facet could be 'type of technology" which could include > > > 1. NLP, with sub-categories including sentiment analysis > 2. Triple stores > 3. Latent-semantic technology > 4. etc... > >I look forward to seeing this in the linked data cloud! > >Michael > >On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Dieter Fensel ><dieter.fensel@sti2.at<mailto:dieter.fensel@sti2.at>> wrote: >Dear all, > >we started to collect a list of companies active in the semantic >technology area. >A first draft is at http://semantic-technology-companies.sti2.at/ > >Obviously this list is biased and severely incomplete. Also one may want >to add more details on the specifics of the mentioned companies. Here is >were I ask your help. Could you please post me (or to the list if you >think it is of immediate general interest) any information on >missing companies >or important details on the ones listed. Also if you know similar initiatives >please drop me a note. So please apologize for the lack of completeness but it >is an invitation to jointly improve this list. > >In the long term we want to establish a repository of semantic technology >vendors. Obviously we plan more advanced interaction and semantics >for future versions of this web site. For the moment, it is only the data >that matter. If you want to cooperate on the repository aspect >you are more than welcome to contact me, too. Yes, we may want >to "eat our own dog food" no matter how many (definitely being different) >dogs we have. > >Thank you for your help, > >Dieter >--------------------------------- >Dieter Fensel >Director STI Innsbruck >University Innsbruck >http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/ >phone: +43-512-507-6488/5 >fax: +43-512-507-9872 > > > > > > >-- >Michael Uschold, PhD > Senior Ontology Consultant, Semantic Arts > LinkedIn: http://tr.im/limfu > Skype: UscholdM > > > >-- >Hugh Glaser, > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia > School of Electronics and Computer Science, > University of Southampton, > Southampton SO17 1BJ >Work: +44 23 8059 3670, Fax: +44 23 8059 3045 >Mobile: +44 78 9422 3822, Home: +44 23 8061 5652 >http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~hg/ --------------------------------- Dieter Fensel Director STI Innsbruck University Innsbruck http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/ phone: +43-512-507-6488/5 fax: +43-512-507-9872
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