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The W3C has published a second working draft of EmotionML , or the emotion markup language , Here's how it's described. As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology needs to deal increasingly with human factors, including emotions. The present draft specification of Emotion Markup Language 1.0 aims to strike a balance between practical applicability and scientific well-foundedness. The language is conceived as a "plug-in" language suitable for use in three different areas: (1) manual annotation of data; (2) automatic recognition of emotion-related states from user behavior; and (3) generation of emotion-related system behavior. Unfortunately EmotionML is not ...

31 Jul 2010 3:54pm GMT

I had another look at the Named Entity Extraction APIs by Zemanta and OpenCalais for some product launch demos. My first test from last year concentrated more on the Zemanta API. This time I had a closer look at both services, trying to identify the "better one" for "BlogDB", a semi-automatic blog semantifier. My main need is a service that receives a cleaned-up plain text version of a blog post and returns normalized tags and reusable entity identifiers. So, the findings in this post are rather technical and just related to the BlogDB requirements. I ignored features which could well ...

28 Jul 2010 9:50am GMT

Today, we released version 0.2 of the ontology repair and enrichment (ORE) tool. It is a tool for knowledge engineers to improve an OWL ontology through a wizard like repair process and uses state-of-the-art ontology debugging methods. The main feature in version 0.2 is a mode for incrementally detecting inconsistencies in large knowledge bases available as SPARQL endpoints. Using this mode, we have detected inconsistencies and computed justifications in DBpedia Live and OpenCyc. Previously, both knowledge bases were too large to compute justifications on standard hardware to the best of our knowledge, i.e. inconsistencies could not be fixed efficiently. A ...

27 Jul 2010 9:31pm GMT

Balisage 2010 is only days away. (How did that happen?)

27 Jul 2010 8:43pm GMT

Announcing XML Calabash V0.9.23.

27 Jul 2010 8:02pm GMT

Announcing DocBook V5.1b2, the second beta release of (what will become) DocBook V5.1. Version 5.1 includes significant new features for topic-based authoring as well as a number of bug fixes.

27 Jul 2010 7:30pm GMT

Theory and practice.

27 Jul 2010 2:04pm GMT

2010-07-27, The organizing committee of DC-2010 , the tenth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 20-22 October 2010, has published an update to the program for the event. More meetings of DCMI Communities and Task Groups have been added and more details are now included for these meetings and the special sessions. Please register online ; early-bird discount is available until 10 September 2010.

27 Jul 2010 12:00am GMT

I've been at a couple of great Web of Data events in the last ten days or so. On 13 July, I organised a Linked Data meetup in Edinburgh that I'm pleased to say went very well. Around 25 people showed up to hear interesting talks from Zach Beauvais of Talis ( slides ) and Paola di Maio of Strathclyde University ( slides ). There was a good mix of people already experienced with linked data and others who wanted to learn more about it - many of them with specific potential applications in mind. There's a fuller write-up at ...

23 Jul 2010 2:11pm GMT

I've been at a couple of great Web of Data events in the last ten days or so. On 13 July, I organised a Linked Data meetup in Edinburgh that I'm pleased to say went very well. Around 25 people showed up to hear interesting talks from Zach Beauvais of Talis ( slides ) and Paola di Maio of Strathclyde University ( slides ). There was a good mix of people already experienced with linked data and others who wanted to learn more about it - many of them with specific potential applications in mind. There's a fuller write-up at ...

23 Jul 2010 2:11pm GMT

The Talis Linked Data in Libraries event, held at the British Library in London on Wednesday 21st July was attended by 50 enthusiastic interested people interested in the topic. Below you will find presentations from the day. Introduction Talis and the world of Linked Data - Zach Beavais, Talis Click to play The data.bnf.fr Project - Romain Wenz, Bibliothèque nationale de France (Presentation not yet available) Linked Data, RDF, and SPARQL - Rob Styles, Talis By rob Linked Data in Action - Richard Wallis, Talis By rob Lightning Talks: Neil Wilson, The British Library Sally Chambers, ...

22 Jul 2010 3:53pm GMT

The Talis Linked Data in Libraries event, held at the British Library in London on Wednesday 21st July was attended by 50 enthusiastic interested people interested in the topic. Below you will find presentations from the day. Introduction Talis and the world of Linked Data - Zach Beavais, Talis Click to play The data.bnf.fr Project - Romain Wenz, Bibliothèque nationale de France (Presentation not yet available) Linked Data, RDF, and SPARQL - Rob Styles, Talis Click to play Linked Data in Action - Richard Wallis, Talis Click to play Lightning Talks: Neil Wilson, The British Library ...

22 Jul 2010 3:53pm GMT

Last month's Augmented Reality on the Web workshop in Barcelona has sparked a good deal of debate within and around W3C. As the final report shows, the workshop brought together many different companies and organizations working on or with a direct interest in the field of Augmented Reality - but how can W3C help in this area? One outcome is clear: we need a method for representing data about points of interest and proposals are advancing to achieve this in a new POI Working Group. Quite what data needs to be represented concerning Points of Interest depends on who you ...

22 Jul 2010 9:26am GMT

The " OWLlink Protocol " specification has been published as a W3C member submission, co-authored by experts from Clark & Parsia LLC, Creative Commons, Daimler Chrysler Research and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, NTT DOCOMO, Stanford University, University of Aberdeen, Computing Science, University of Manchester, and Vrije Universiteit. The specification defines a general, implementation-neutral protocol to access the functionalities of a reasoner acting as an (OWLlink) server. This general mechanism is defined in term of UML; separate documents define bindings of this general protocol with different syntaxes that can be used to ...

19 Jul 2010 4:05pm GMT

Well, exactly this happened yesterday: Google bought Metaweb - provider of Freebase . Freebase is an important hub in the linked data cloud providing 12 million entities with uniform resource identifiers most of them linked to other semantic web datasets like DBpedia or New York Times . For example: Google´s page on Freebase offers a rich source for machine-readable facts around this company. What does this mean to the Semantic Web Community which has been working on a smarter web in the last decade? Well, a lot… First of all, it´s good to hear that Google will continue to develop ...

17 Jul 2010 10:47am GMT

Since it completed the Recommendation Track process last year, little has been said or written about POWDER . However, there have been a number of unrelated events recently that I take as evidence of a long term future. As chair of the WG that created it (and an editor of all but one of the documents and general front-person for the whole thing), this makes me happy! One of my private measures of success for it has always been that one day, someone I don't know and who doesn't know me stands up at a big conference and says "you ...

17 Jul 2010 8:28am GMT