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- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:49:54 +0000
- To: "Mischa Tuffield" <mmt04r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>,semantic-web-request@w3.org,paoladimaio10@googlemail.com
- Cc: "Robert Isele" <robertisele@googlemail.com>,public-lod@w3.org,"SW-forum" <semantic-web@w3.org>,marta.nagy-rothengass@ec.europa.int,"VAN ORANJE-NASSAU Constantijn (CAB-KROES)" <Constantijn.Van-Oranje-Nassau@ec.europa.eu>
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+1 Paola it was harsh. People get offended good will is lost. I refer to my more general points in previous email. Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange -----Original Message----- From: Mischa Tuffield <mmt04r@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sender: semantic-web-request@w3.org Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:35:59 To: <paoladimaio10@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Isele<robertisele@googlemail.com>; <public-lod@w3.org>; SW-forum<semantic-web@w3.org>; <marta.nagy-rothengass@ec.europa.int>; VAN ORANJE-NASSAU Constantijn (CAB-KROES)<Constantijn.Van-Oranje-Nassau@ec.europa.eu> Subject: Re: Silk - Link Discovery Framework Version 2.4 release Hi, I don't usually write to this list, and have no idea what SILK is about (Sorry SILK people!), but I found the below email to be incredibly harsh. Look at the git history of the project (which was 1 click way from the email I am referring to below!), it does seem to be in active development, with a number of committers: http://www.assembla.com/code/silk/git/node/logs?page=1 (apache license 2.0) And the page DOES seem to reflect this: http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/silk/ Perhaps there was a bug in the HTML(?), I don't know - but I would give people the benefit of the doubt before pointing fingers in public. I do think a personal email to Robert would probably have sufficed, but perhaps I am just that way inclined. I have recently unsubscribed from a few of the SW based mailing lists because of trolling and people being incredibly rude - and I hope I don't have to remove myself from any others. The Semantic Web community is full of a great number of nice, helpful, intelligent people, and I find it a pleasure and an honour to be involved with this international community of awesome.... Lots of people put lots of time and effort into writing open specs and open-source code - and i don't see how finger pointing helps anyone! Mischa http://mmt.me.uk/ On 1 Jun 2011, at 16:16, Paola Di Maio wrote: > Robert > > thanks lot for the update, I look forward to be trying it out > > I see from this page > http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/silk/ > > that SILK V 2.4, announced on this list today was actually released > last year: See the snippet below > > 2010-06-01: Version 2.4 released including the new Silk Workbench, a > web application which guides the user through the process of > interlinking different data sources. > > I also seem to understand from the project page that much of LOD2 > software are tools developed in previous years (ie, nothing new!) > > Am I reading something wrong? > > In the past decade or so, millions of euros of tax payers money have > been paid for projects for which the codebase had already been > developed, either by funded projects from prior calls( ie, for which > the tax payer had already paid ) or by other companies. > > In essence, as it has been already pointed out, the public has been > paying for the same semantic web tools to be rebranded over and over, > and each time it has costed lots of public money, and each time it has > not delivered the semantic web functionality the public is waiting for > (ie, a useable web based application layer) > > Since LOD2 has become a funded EU project in September 2010, I would > be grateful if you could explain what part of the tool/functionality > has been developed after September 2010, and for what part of this > development is the public funding being used for > > > Thanks a lot in advance > > PDM > > > > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Robert Isele <robertisele@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> we are happy to announce version 2.4 of the Silk - Link Discovery >> Framework for the Web of Data. >> >> The central idea of the Web of Data is to interlink data items using >> RDF links. However, in practice most data sources are not sufficiently >> interlinked with related data sources. The Silk Link Discovery >> Framework addresses this problem by providing tools to generate links >> between data items based on user-provided link specifications. It can >> be used by data publishers to generate links between datasets as well >> as by Linked Data consumers to augment Web data with additional RDF >> links. >> >> Link specifications can either be written manually or developed using >> the new Silk Workbench. The Silk Workbench, is a web application which >> guides the user through the process of interlinking different data >> sources. It’s being shipped with the 2.4 version of Silk. >> The Silk Workbench offers the following features: >> - It enables the user to manage different sets of data sources and >> linking tasks. >> - It offers a graphical editor which enables the user to easily create >> and edit link specifications. >> - As finding a good linking heuristics is usually an iterative >> process, the Silk Workbench makes it possible for the user to quickly >> evaluate the links which are generated by the current link >> specification. >> - It allows the user to create and edit a set of reference links used >> to evaluate the current link specification. >> >> The Silk Link Discovery Framework includes three applications to >> execute the link specifications which address different use cases: >> 1. Silk Single Machine is used to generate RDF links on a single >> machine. The datasets that should be interlinked can either reside on >> the same machine or on remote machines which are accessed via the >> SPARQL protocol. Silk Single Machine provides multithreading and >> caching. In addition, the performance can be further enhanced using an >> optional blocking feature. >> 2. Silk Server can be used as an identity resolution component within >> applications that consume Linked Data from the Web. Silk Server >> provides an HTTP API for matching instances from an incoming stream of >> RDF data while keeping track of known entities. It can be used for >> instance together with a Linked Data crawler to populate a local >> duplicate-free cache with data from the Web. >> 3. Silk MapReduce is used to generate RDF links between datasets using >> a cluster of multiple machines. Silk MapReduce is based on Hadoop and >> can for instance be run on Amazon Elastic MapReduce. Silk MapReduce >> enables Silk to scale out to very big datasets by distributing the >> link generation to multiple machines. >> >> More information about the Silk framework, the Silk Link Specification >> Language, as well as several examples that demonstrate how Silk is >> used to set links between different data sources in the LOD cloud is >> found at: >> >> http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/silk/ >> >> The Silk framework is provided under the terms of the Apache License, >> Version 2.0 and can be downloaded from >> >> http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/silk/releases/ >> >> The development of Silk was supported by Vulcan Inc. as part of its >> Project Halo (www.projecthalo.com) and by the EU FP7 project LOD2 - >> Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data (http://lod2.eu/, Ref. No. >> 257943). >> >> Thanks to Christian Becker, Michal Murawicki and Andrea Matteini for >> contributing to the Silk Workbench. >> >> Happy linking, >> >> Robert Isele, Anja Jentzsch and Chris Bizer >> >> >
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