Posts Tagged ‘dbpedia’

11th of Mai, the company Knowledge Hive published the Polish DBpedia !

DBpedia Poland, being a part of the international project DBpedia, gives access to information in Polish Wikipedia in accordance with the Linked Open Data standard.
It is envisioned that soon DBpedia Poland will become an important source of knowledge for various systems and applications using Semantic Web technologies, and in the future, will become a central node in the Linked Open Data cloud.

‘Who Knows?‘ (clic on the Facebook logo inside the application to play) is a simple Q&A game in the style of ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’. The questions are automatically generated from DBpedia content.

The purpose is the evaluation of some heuristics that are used to determine a ranking of facts within a knowledge base such as e.g. DBpedia.

You can find the whole blog entry at http://moresemantic.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-knows-semantic-web-game.html

I found this very interesting quote today:

“The Vienna-based company punkt. netServices is just about to release a demo version of their PoolParty service, a SKOS-based thesaurus management tool with linked data capabilities. I had the chance to pre-read a white paper and test their service. Here is a brief overview. You can also try a demo.

PoolParty is aiming to be easy to use for people without a strong Semantic Web background or special technical skills. The GUI is entirely web-based and utilizes AJAX so the user can e.g. quickly merge two concepts via drag & drop. An overview over the thesaurus can be gained with a tree or a graph view on the concepts.

PoolParty also helps to semi-automatically add concepts to a thesaurus as it can be used to analyse documents (e.g. web pages or PDF files) relevant to a thesaurus’ domain in order to glean candidate terms.“

You can find the whole article here