2011
Nantes ouverture des données: Accueil
by Xavier LacotNantes ouvre ses données, une superbe initiative que la plupart des villes devraient suivre ! Très bonen idée !
uberblic
by François HodierneUberblic links data across APIs so that you can build applications using the best data sources on the Web and put your own data into context.
DataSF - Liberating City Data
by Xavier LacotThe City of San Francisco too, decided to publish several Datasets. DataSF is a central clearinghouse for datasets published by the City & County of San Francisco. The site allows to find datasets in several ways: general search, tags/keywords, categories, and rating. The goal is to improve access to city data through open machine-readable formats.
Anyway, there does not seem to be any SPARQL endpoint or any other semantic expression of the exposed datasets... Maybe in a future iteration?
RDFa API
by Xavier Lacotthis document defines an API for extracting structurated information from web pages, using the RDFa formalism.
2010
How to publish Linked Data on the Web
by Xavier LacotA step-by-step guide which covers all the required steps before publishing data on the Web in a semantic way
KnowledgeBase - Named Entity Recognition
by Xavier LacotAnother Named Entity Recognizer, available as a paid-offer SaaS solution.
Ontos Semantic Technologies
by Xavier LacotOntosMiner uses ontologies to define the areas of interest and linguistic rules of NLP to analyze natural language text. Objects and their relations are automatically realized and annotations to the related text fragments are added.
EasyRdf
by Xavier LacotEasyRdf is a PHP library designed to make it easy to consume and produce RDF. It was designed for use in mixed teams of experienced and inexperienced RDF developers. It is written in Object Oriented PHP.
Semantic web user interfaces - Do they have to be ugly?
by Xavier LacotA presentation which explains how semweb people should work to create more user-friendly tools. There is a common dream about the semantic web : it should help develop omnipotent applications. Instead of this, the author explain that developers should concentrate on creating useful software, using semweb technologies. Meaningful.
Le nouveau Facebook : un guide complet pour les éditeurs, les annonceurs, les utilisateurs et la concurrence | ReadWriteWeb France
by ghis (via)Facebook a secoué le monde des technologies en annonçant une série d’innovations majeures qui constituent, prises dans leur ensemble, un mouvement destiné à faire du web tout entier un web social et sémantique.
dbrec - Intelligent music recommendations for and from the Web of Data
by Xavier Lacotdbrec is a new kind of recommender system, entirely based on Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies, providing recommendations for 39,000 artists from DBpedia (and consequently from Wikipedia) based on the relationships that they hold together, either directly (e.g. having played together) or indirectly (e.g. playing the same genre, sharing a common record label or even being associated in a particular cultural movement).
2009
OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview
by Xavier LacotThe W3C published 2 days ago the OWL2 Recommendation, made by 12 documents. A great step further in SW technologies, 5 years after the first OWL Recommendation !
Yahoo! Placemaker™ Beta - YDN
by Xavier Lacot & 1 otherProvided with free-form text, the service identifies places mentioned in text, disambiguates those places, and returns unique identifiers (WOEIDs) for each, as well as information about how many times the place was found in the text, and where in the text it was found. Gorgeous!
jOWL - semantic javascript library
by Xavier Lacot & 1 otherjOWL is a jQuery plugin for navigating and visualising OWL-RDFS documents.
tagthe.net - Webservice that tags your resources
by Xavier Lacot & 5 otherstagthe.net is a simple webservice that helps you in tagging textual content on and off the web
Tim Berners-Lee speaks on Linked Data (1)
by Xavier LacotTim Berners-Lee's talk at TED 2009 conference slides, about Linked Data.
Blog Smarter | Zemanta Ltd.
by Xavier Lacot & 5 othersZemanta is a text enrichment tool. Packaged as a firefox extension, it helps adding tags, photos, links to the texts you type in your web browser. It is based on "natural language processing, machine learning and fine tuning", and would take profit out of SemWeb technologies.