Metaweb CC Semantic Web and Google
Paul D. Fernhout
"YouTube - Welcome to Metaweb"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJfrNo3Z-DU
That video talks about giving a unique ID to a concept.
Mentioned here:
http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/What_is_Freebase%3F
"Freebase is an open, Creative Commons licensed repository of structured
data of more than 12 million entities. An entity is a single person, place,
or thing. Freebase connects entities together as a graph. "
Related online development environment:
http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Acre
Anyway, any big open manufacturing system will have similar issues to deal
with as mentioned in the video -- coming up with agreed on pointers about
concepts. Metaweb's "Freebase" is under a Creative Commons CC-BY license.
WordNet and Pointrel have aspects of that too... WordNet has senses for a
word. Pointrel always had the notion of a unique concept identifier. Bill
Kent talked about some of these issues in his book "Data and Reality".
Google recently bought Metaweb (July 2010):
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_buys_semantic_web_database_metaweb.php
"The Semantic Web is all about structuring data so that humans and computers
can more easily interpret the Web and discover relevant data for a wide
variety of purposes. Google, a company built on the ability to advertise
based on contextual data, announced today a major acquisition in the
Semantic Web space. As of today, Metaweb, maker of Freebase and a leader in
the Semantic Web, has joined forces with Google. Freebase is a massive
open-structured database of information about almost anything, including
books, movies and music. In fact, Google already has a relationship with
Freebase, pulling in its information to provide intelligent search results
within Google News. With the acquisition of Metaweb, Google can now leverage
the company's tools and data even further, especially within basic Web
search results. "This is a huge win for the Semantic Web," Alex Iskold,
founder and CEO of AdaptiveBlue, the semantic technology company behind
GetGlue.com (and occasional ReadWriteWeb contributor), told us. "It could
not be bigger, because really, we had the biggest company on the Web buy the
biggest player in the Semantic Web space." ..."
Anyway, aspects of open manufacturing information could be seen as an
extension to Metaweb. Of course, there are lots of other ways to do that,
too. :-) And to some extent, all these systems overlap or should be
inter-convertable.
--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/
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