Category Archives: Semantic Web
The Semantic Web and Medicine – Why or Why not?
The Semantic Web promises us new collaborative possibilities with medical research. However my question is when will Semantic Web applications be accessible to medical researchers, and what would be the motivator for them to use? Their time is valuable, and … Continue reading
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Semantic Web and Medical Research
Advancing translational research with the Semantic Web Resource: BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8(Suppl 3):S2doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-S3-S2 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/S3/S2 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Subject: Advancing Translational Research with the Semantic Web Resource: … Continue reading
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Semantic Web Search Engines: True Knowledge
Recently I’ve been exploring Semantic Web applications as a way to understand how they might be able to help my group working within medical research. My latest find is a Semantic search currently in Beta, called True Knowledge. The following … Continue reading
Semantic Web: Wikipedia’s Collective Definition
As I work at trying to wrap my brain around the power of the Semantic Web, I have actually found Wikipedia to be quite helpful for quick succinct definitions. Here is a nice roundup of the latest postings on Semantic … Continue reading
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Semantic Web – Building OWL Ontologies
If you are interested in developing your own Semantic Web ontology or application, you may wish to check out TopBraid Composer. Here you may download their data sheet which describes TopBraid and what it can do. Even Nova Spivack, of … Continue reading
Semantic vs Keyword Searches
Keyword based searches through traditional search engines tend to produce a lot of irrelevant results. The method is not precise enough and especially does not work well for automated processing. Humans must sift and sort through the retrieved pages. Important … Continue reading
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FOAF – Friend of a friend
FOAF – is an ingenious little application that allows you to create an RDF about yourself, and your friends. You can create your own RDF file simply by visiting the FOAF-a-Matic. According to the FOAF Website: FOAF-a-matic is a simple … Continue reading
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Tagged automated search engine, FOAF, Friend of a Friend, online communities, RDF, search engine, XML
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Tim Berners-Lee Semantic Web Podcast
The following is a transcript is of a Podcast produced by Talis, with Tim Berners-Lee. [music] Paul Miller: 00:10 Hello and welcome to this Talking with Talis Podcast with your host, Paul Miller. Today, I talk with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, … Continue reading
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Tim Berners-Lee: Visions on Semantic Web
Recently Sir Tim Berners-Lee, created a new posting on his blog about the Semantic Web. Well, the Semantic Web has been in the news a bit recently. There was the buzz about Twine, a “Semantic Web company”, getting another round … Continue reading
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Semantic Web Resources
It’s now time to start providing more Semantic Web resources for your reference as opposed to only the W3C. Which of course, is the best one of all. But after all we must explore further. In this posting I will … Continue reading
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