Re: Open Calais exercise

[Rick Creamer]

Dear SW Members,

Marco asked me to distribute this thread to (all of) you.

> Could you send this discussion to the global list and mention it in
> the email that this is a subject that might be of interest to more
> than one location and cc it to following local meetups?
> Please send the message to SF and NYC with a note that the discussion
> will take place on the global list here
> sw...@googlegroups.com


Regards,

Rick

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Original e-mail:

Hi Marco and Alex,

After absorbing the OpenCalais presentation I sat in on the other night, I
decided to spend some time today exploring a simple, single-sentence news
tidbit I made up. First, I graphed it by hand in PowerPoint. Then, I
parsed the text via the Calais Document Viewer, the RDF output of which I
then pasted into the W3C Validator in order to graph it. I placed the
Validator's graph, my graph, and the text on a quickie web page on my site.
You're welcome to glance at it if you like. I was at first thinking of
starting a discussion thread for this exploration in the swnyc group and
perhaps the swsf group, but I wasn't sure if this sort of thing was too
trivial for the members. Basically, it could function as an example that
would allow me to pose a lot of beginner questions to the group(s) about if
and how statement metadata is structured by companies actually working in
the SW field. A second potential thread might be to simply discuss opinions
as to why my graph (what I expected Open Calais to output) did not match the
Open Calais output and even whether the graph I expected is appropriate.
[Alex, you are welcome to use any or all of this exploration or any
derivative thereof in your SemanticAlley site once I feel it is cleaned up
enough so that I don't appear too much of a dummy:-).]

Here is the URL:
http://sites.google.com/site/rickcreamer/Home/miscellaneous-items/news-rdf-exploration

Rick