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WorldWideScience: Like Google for Deep Web Science - ReadWriteWeb
Need to get access to real scientific data but having trouble finding any relevant search results in Google? That could be because a lot of the science and technology documents on the web aren’t typically indexed by major search engines. They’re a part of the “deep web,” the repository of web pages usually generated by database-driven sites that search engines’ spiders can’t access. One resource to help open up the deep web for scientific research is WorldWideScience. This portal allows you to query more than 200 million documents not typically indexed by today’s search engines.
“1. Blogs are only effective if you already have a brand. People come here, or go read Seth Godin, or Marshall Goldsmith, or Jeffrey Gitomer, or David Meister, because we’re all well…
Here is a short list of limitations which I feel the Semantic Web web will address:
- Tags do not provide enough meaningful metadata to make meaningful comparisons
- More information is needed besides their origin - Tags are essentially a full text search mechanism, although faceting helps
- Need more relationships between tags and the objects they pertain to
The solution, tags as objects
Allowing users to tag an object with another object we can make extremely interesting comparisons; discerning a lot more information about the original object becomes simple and accurate. With this type of interrelationship we can pivot through the data like never before, not with full text search but object graph linkages that machines and humans can understand.
Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program ‘Visio’, though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.
Distributed/Decentralized microblogging (Twitter) possible -
The prototype uses FOAF and SIOC to model microbloggers, their properties, account and service information, and the microblog updates that users create. A multitude of publishing services can ping one or a set of aggregating servers as selected by each user, and it is important to note that users retain control of their own data through self hosting.
Powerset’s Wikipedia search engine isn’t going to slow down the Google in the near term, but it will raise the bar on the search experience for all players. “There are implications beyond Wikipedia,” Pell said. ” Search is not done. You can see the emerging Semantic Web with our integration of Wikipedia and Freebase. We will add other components with structured data and ways to answers questions.”
Powerset has said that the longer term plan is to read, linguistically analyze and index 20 billion documents on the Web, which will be a costly and ambitious undertaking. (Getting acquired by Microsoft would be helpful for that project. Powerset has received $12.5 million in Series A funding from Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, and angel investors in 2006.)
via C|Net News.com
