Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo’

Biography

Peter Mika is a researcher and data architect at Yahoo! Research in
Barcelona. He received his BS in computer science from Eotvos Lorand
University and his MSc and PhD in computer science (cum laude) from
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His interdisciplinary work in social
networks and the Semantic Web earned him a Best Paper Award at the 2005
International Semantic Web Conference and a First Prize at the 2004
Semantic Web Challenge. He has been co-chair of the Semantic Web
Challenge since 2007. Mika is the youngest member elected to the
editorial board of the Journal of Web Semantics. He is the author of the
book ‘Social Networks and the Semantic Web’ (Springer, 2007). In 2008
he has been selected as one of “AI’s Ten to Watch” by the editorial
board of the IEEE Intelligent Systems journal.

Abstract

“Year of the Monkey: Lessons learned from the first year of SearchMonkey”

In this presentation we reflect on the experiences we have gained since
the launch of SearchMonkey, Yahoo’s groundbreaking Semantic Web
application platform in May, 2008. For most publishers, SearchMonkey
provided the first occasion to learn about semantic technologies and
reflect on the costs and benefits of providing data in semantic formats
such as RDFa. For developers inside and outside Yahoo, it often meant
having to learn the somewhat peculiar knowledge representation paradigms
of the Semantic Web. As a summary of these experiences, this
presentation provides key insights to those interested in what the
Semantic Web looks like in action and at a large scale, viewed from the
perspective of a search engine provider. It also highlights critical
bottlenecks in the adoption of semantic technologies on the Web and
therefore should be also of interest for Semantic Web researchers and
developers.