Re: Ann: COLD - Coloring the Data Web

That could be much more "powerful" if it was practical to map the 
colours to the ones referenced in http://tinyurl.com/br3jl42 -- think of 
the possibilities joining up these diverse forms of knowledge!

On 01/04/2013 21:14, Colin wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> An immense breakthrough, thanks!
>
> Tomorrow I will definitely show it to our MarCom team, I bet they'll 
> finally fall in love with linked data. The risk is that they start 
> building URIs patterns that matching the company's style guide... but 
> I guess the inconsistency of our URIs is an acceptable sacrifice.
>
> Shall we call the web of colors Web 4.0?
>
> Thanks!
> Colin
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Michael Martin 
> <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de 
> <mailto:auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>> wrote:
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     On behalf of AKSW research group [1] I'm proud to announce an
>     innovative
>     approach for coloring the Data Web. The monochromacity of the Data Web
>     is widely perceived to be the main obstacle for a wider deployment and
>     penetration of Linked Data and Semantic Technology (cf. e.g. [2]).
>
>     So far, no unified algorithm existed for coloring the Data Web. With
>     http://cold.aksw.org  we developed a key base technology able to color
>     URIs and IRIs (future work will focus on literals, whole triples,
>     containers, reifications etc.). Features of COLD include:
>
>     * globally unique URI/IRI coloring algorithm
>     * cross-application color consistency
>     * ensuring color fidelity
>     * built in color attack prevention
>     * support for vocabulary/ontology coloring
>     * 24bit / 16,777,216 color support
>     * integrated RGB support, extensibility for other color models
>     * example implementations in five programming languages
>     * small memory and code footprint
>
>     We deem COLD to be the key technology for the ultimate breakthrough of
>     semantic technologies. COLD is already implemented in a number of
>     tools
>     including CubeViz [3]. Please beware of brand infringement, due to
>     color
>     trademark protection (cf. [4]).
>
>     Best,
>
>     Michael Martin
>
>     [1]http://aksw.org
>     [2]http://purl.org/colors
>     [3]http://aksw.org/Projects/CubeViz
>     [4]http://brandcolors.net/
>
>     --
>     Michael Martin, M.Sc.
>     Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
>     Research Group: http://aksw.org/
>     Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/MichaelMartin
>     Phone: +49 341 97-32322 <tel:%2B49%20341%2097-32322>
>
>
>

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