Re: Ann: COLD - Coloring the Data Web

Hi Christopher,

Thank you for your feedback. We will think about this idea!

Best
Michael

On 04/01/2013 10:21 PM, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> 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>
>>
>>
>>
>
> -- 
> Christopher Gutteridge --http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
>
> University of Southampton Open Data Service:http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
> You should read the ECS Web Team blog:http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>


-- 
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

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