Thread: [Pointrel-discuss] Fwd: [Open Manufacturing] Metaweb CC Semantic Web and Google
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From: Paul D. F. <pdf...@ku...> - 2010-08-29 21:49:14
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Just noting this here. --Paul Fernhout http://www.pdfernhout.net/ ==== The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those thinking in terms of scarcity. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Open Manufacturing] Metaweb CC Semantic Web and Google Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:43:51 -0400 From: Paul D. Fernhout <pdf...@ku...> Reply-To: ope...@go... To: Open Manufacturing <ope...@go...> Background: "YouTube - Welcome to Metaweb" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJfrNo3Z-DU That video talks about giving a unique ID to a concept. Mentioned here: http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/What_is_Freebase%3F "Freebase is an open, Creative Commons licensed repository of structured data of more than 12 million entities. An entity is a single person, place, or thing. Freebase connects entities together as a graph. " Related online development environment: http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Acre Anyway, any big open manufacturing system will have similar issues to deal with as mentioned in the video -- coming up with agreed on pointers about concepts. Metaweb's "Freebase" is under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. WordNet and Pointrel have aspects of that too... WordNet has senses for a word. Pointrel always had the notion of a unique concept identifier. Bill Kent talked about some of these issues in his book "Data and Reality". Google recently bought Metaweb (July 2010): http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_buys_semantic_web_database_metaweb.php "The Semantic Web is all about structuring data so that humans and computers can more easily interpret the Web and discover relevant data for a wide variety of purposes. Google, a company built on the ability to advertise based on contextual data, announced today a major acquisition in the Semantic Web space. As of today, Metaweb, maker of Freebase and a leader in the Semantic Web, has joined forces with Google. Freebase is a massive open-structured database of information about almost anything, including books, movies and music. In fact, Google already has a relationship with Freebase, pulling in its information to provide intelligent search results within Google News. With the acquisition of Metaweb, Google can now leverage the company's tools and data even further, especially within basic Web search results. "This is a huge win for the Semantic Web," Alex Iskold, founder and CEO of AdaptiveBlue, the semantic technology company behind GetGlue.com (and occasional ReadWriteWeb contributor), told us. "It could not be bigger, because really, we had the biggest company on the Web buy the biggest player in the Semantic Web space." ..." Anyway, aspects of open manufacturing information could be seen as an extension to Metaweb. Of course, there are lots of other ways to do that, too. :-) And to some extent, all these systems overlap or should be inter-convertable. --Paul Fernhout http://www.pdfernhout.net/ ==== The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those thinking in terms of scarcity. |