The first semantic web meetup was held May 20th, at the co-working office of http://www.companydallas.com/. As I expected it was a motley crew. The “semantic web” space consists of RDF/OWL interests, natural language processing, and mathmatical techniques such as LSA (latent semantic analyses)…it’s really a diverse set of interests and I sometimes wonder what joins them all together. I gave a talk on geosparql, a tool build on google’s new app engine for java. My favorite talk was from 80legs.com. They have a new cloud compute model that targets when crawling. Somebody asked “what does that have to do with the semantic web?”. I was thinking to myself…everything! The semantic web requires that one be able to scrape here and there, or at least I see it that way. Swingly was also introduced, an index of questions and answers found on the internet…again, very interesting. PureDiscovery came out to set us straight and remind us that ontology creating will never work, why do we keep trying?
The Web Semantic
data for humans and computers and the tools that make it available