- ARCHIVE / Semantic Web
- Open Data Summit 2016
On November 1st we were invited to present the Scigraph project at the London ODI Summit, the annual event organized by the Open Data Institute to review and discuss the social and economic impact of open data in both the public and commercial sectors. If data infrastructure is as important to our infrastructure as […]
- Ontospy v. 1.6.7
A new and improved version of OntoSpy (1.6.7) is available online. OntoSpy is a lightweight Python library and command line tool for inspecting and visualizing vocabularies encoded in the RDF family of languages. This update includes support for Python 3, plus various other improvements that make it easier to query semantic web vocabularies using OntoSpy’s […]
- Is wikipedia a valid source of scientific knowledge?
Is wikipedia a valid source of scientific knowledge? Many would say yes. Others are still quite skeptical, or maybe just cautious about it. What seems to be the case though – and this is what this post is about – is that wikipedians are increasingly including references to scientific literature, and when they do it […]
- Towards an ontology for philosophy
I enjoyed watching a recent presentation by Barry Smith about ontology engineering and in particular its application in the field of philosophy itself. The presentation was hosted by the InPho team at Indian University, whose ongoing work based on creating an ontological backbone for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has drawn the attention of many. Barry […]
- Recent projects from CrossRef.org
We spent the day with the CrossRef team in Oxford last week, talking about our recent work in the linked data space (see the nature ontologies portal) and their recent initiatives in the scholarly publishing area. So here’s a couple of interesting follow ups from the meeting. ps. If you want to know more about […]
- A sneak peek at Nature.com articles’ archive
We’re getting closer to releasing the full set of metadata covering over one million articles published by Nature Publishing Group since 1845. So here’s a sneak peek at this dataset, in the form of a simple d3.js visual summary of what soon will be available to download and reuse. In the last months I’ve been […]
- Nature.com ontologies portal available online
The Nature ontologies portal is new section of the nature.com site that describes our involvement with semantic technologies and also makes available to the wider public several models and datasets as RDF linked data. We launched the portal nearly a month ago, to the purpose of sharing our experiences with semantic technologies and more generally […]
- Italian public spending data: a review
The Italian government recently announced a new portal containing data on public spending: http://soldipubblici.gov.it. This is obviously great news; the website is still in beta though so in what follows I’d like to put forward a few (hopefully constructive) comments and desires for how it could/should be developed further. Incidentally, I recently ran into Ian […]
- ISWC14 paper: a hybrid semantic publishing architecture combining XML and RDF
I’m posting here a short summary of the paper I’ve given at the last International Semantic Web conference in Riva del Garda (ISWC14) together with my colleague Tony Hammond. The presentation focused on an hybrid data architecture (XML for storage&querying, RDF for modeling&integration) which emerged as the most practical solution during the process of re-engineering […]
- Installing Stardog triplestore on mac os
Stardog is an enterprise-level triplestore developed by clarkparsia.com. It combines tools to store and query RDF data with more advanced features for inference and data analytics – in particular via the built-in Pellet Java reasoner. All of this, combineded with a user experience which is arguably the best you can currently find in the market. […]