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More on triple stores – molecules next

Posted on May 19, 2007 by pm286

Since I think triple stores will change the way we think about information the current posts are somewhat of a stream of consciousness. (Rather tedious as it is almost impossible to put nicely formatted TT stuff into WordPress). We shall … Continue reading →

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dbpedia, RDF and SPARQL – for chemistry

Posted on May 19, 2007 by pm286

A comment on the last post Richard Cyganiak Says: May 19th, 2007 at 7:55 pm e Thanks for this nice introduction Peter. Note that the DBpedia URIs also work in a web browser, so you can go to http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uppsala and … Continue reading →

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SPARQL, SNORQL triple store – an introduction

Posted on May 19, 2007 by pm286

I am overwhelmed by the potential power of RDF and the semantic web and am sure that this is a large part of our information-based future. I have been playing with dbpedia and its SPARQL interfaces and here I introduce … Continue reading →

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WWW2007 postscript

Posted on May 13, 2007 by pm286

I am delighted that I had the chance to go to WWW2007 – at one stage I’d wondered whether there would be anything of interest other than the session I was in (Open Data). Or that I would know anyone… … Continue reading →

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What's in a namespaceURI?

Posted on May 13, 2007 by pm286

On more than one occasion we had heated debates about whether a namespaceURI may/must be resolvable. In the session on linked Data TimBL made it clear that he thought that all namespaceURIs must be resolvable. This conflicted with my memory … Continue reading →

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the chemical semantic web has arrived! just do it NOW

Posted on May 11, 2007 by pm286

I have been overwhelmed with excitement about the new maturity of semantic technology and RDF data that is available for our construction of the chemical semantic web. Note that I used to write “Chemical Semantic Web” with the assumption that … Continue reading →

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semantic chemistry – "dbchempedia" and crystaleye

Posted on May 11, 2007 by pm286

An obvious requirement for the chemical semantic web is that we have chemistry – non-trivial as most is in walled-gardens. But things have really moved in the last hour. I left a message on Martin Walker’s Talk on WP, then … Continue reading →

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dbpedia – structured information from Wikipedia => dbchem

Posted on May 11, 2007 by pm286

I’m at a session at WWW 2007 on Linking Data – which I think will be of enormously important for us. Something I had never heard of before (it’s new this year): DBPedia it scrapes 750, 000 infoboxes from WP … Continue reading →

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tbl+13 – the magic exposed (if not explained)

Posted on May 10, 2007 by pm286

Here is the theme from TBL’s keynote: (slide 14/39) The Two Magics of Web Science. He used many examples of the slide below, emphasizing the cyclic nature of the process. Start at the top and cycle clockwise. This shows how … Continue reading →

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chem:microformats – what questions would YOU like?

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

Many years ago Henry Rzepa and I discussed the idea of extending Dublin Core to chemistry and we called it Dublin-Chem. The “Dublin” is Dublin Ohio, home of OCLC. We discussed this with Stuart Weibel [OCLC] – the DC guru … Continue reading →

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