Google investigating semantics…

http://code.google.com/p/swecr/

Early days, but its Google - can’t ignore it.

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3 Responses to “Google investigating semantics…”

  1. Mia Says:
    March 16, 2007 at 2:52 pm

    Interesting! I came across the Transitioning Applications to Ontologies (TAO) Project (http://www.tao-project.eu/) today, that might be of interest: “TAO is about how existing ‘legacy’ applications can migrate to open, semantics-based Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

    We will create an open source infrastructure to aid transitioning of legacy applications to SOA, via ontologies and refactoring into SWS. This will enable a much larger group of companies to exploit semantics without having to re-implement their applications.”

  2. semanticweb Says:
    March 16, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    Both very interesting developments.

    A couple of other (less hardcore SW) things I’ve seen lately are Tim O’Reilly making a series of posts about, firstly, Freebase (http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/freebase_will_p_1.html) and then about his own conceptions of what SW was (http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/my_outdated_vie.html, http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/different_appro_1.html), and how he was behind the times inasmuch as he hadn’t realised the degree of convergence between SW and Web 2.0 activities (notably microformats). Which neatly reflects what has been emerging in some of our discussions.

    The other thing was some plugins TechCrunch flagged up, which suggest some ways in which applications try to extract meaning from non-SW pages, for real-world, consumer-facing applications. The analysis is sometimes not too hot, or it’s not that obvious where the meaning-extraction has been done or usefully applied, but check out the iReader from http://www.syntactica.com/ and the thingy at Adaptive Blue http://www.adaptiveblue.com/. Not great yet, but there may be mileage in meaning extraction as well as meaningful markup.

    Jeremy O

  3. Mia Says:
    March 16, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    It’ll be interesting to see whether the academic or commercial sectors produce the first SW (or sw) content and engines.

    Contextualised Learning Activity Repository Tools (CLAReT, http://www.claret.ecs.soton.ac.uk/) is another project at Southampton. Their goals are to “to engage the language teaching and learning community in a body of shared practice” and to:

    “facilitate resource discovery. This will be done by creating prototype repository web service(s) that will explore visualisation of Learning Object metadata and teaching and learning context.”

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