- From: Mika P <pmika@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:48:25 +0100 (CET)
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org, seweb-list@informatik.uibk.ac.at, rdfweb-dev@vapours.rdfweb.org
(Apologies for multiple copies.) Dear All, This is an invitation to (re)visit Flink, winner of the 1st prize at the Semantic Web Challenge of 2004 [1]. Flink is a visualization of the social networks of the Semantic Web community. Information about researchers and their relationships is extracted from the Web, FOAF profiles, emails and publications. Flink itself uses Semantic Web technology to represent, store and reason with metadata. For more information, please see the About section of the website. I encourage those who have seen or visited Flink before to take a second look due to the significantly extended scale of the application since the Semantic Web Challenge of this year. Emails from three mailing lists have been added as well as over 4000 Semantic Web-related publications from Google Scholar [2]. The amount of FOAF data collected also increased ~100 times. Further new features: -- New domain name for the application: http://flink.semanticweb.org. Special thanks to Stefan Decker and Benjamin Nowack. -- All publications and emails have now links to the original source on the Web. This means that Flink has also become a more conveninent way to browse Google Scholar for Semantic Web related publications or to review a researcher's contributions to different mailing lists. -- The FOAF export is now tidy and ready to be used as a basis for one's own FOAF profile -- Flink now treats foaf:knows relations as undirected links. The web mining component has been adjusted accordingly: it now also returns relations that are significant for one person but not for another (e.g. student - professor relationship). -- A guestbook has been added. All feedback are welcome! Happy holidays, Peter Mika Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam [1] http://challenge.semanticweb.org [2] http://scholar.google.com
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