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Why do we call http://www.mindswap.org the first site on the Semantic Web?
The MINDSWAP Group
The Semantic Web Research Group is a group of people working with Semantic Web technology inside the MIND LAB at University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
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Mindswap Weblog
Announcing the Open-Web, Billion Triple Challenge (ISWC 08)
Announcement: The Open Web, Billion Triples Challenge 2008~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is the first public pre-announcement of the Open Web, Billion Triples Challenge, which will be organized as a special track of next year’s Semantic Web Challenge [1]. This track will be in addition to the traditional SWC competition and it will focus on pushing the limits in [...]
..but wait, Rachel’s one of the good folks
In my blog of a couple days ago, I said what set me off was a blog by Rachel.� Let me be clear, I was in no way disagreeing with her view of the Semantic Web - if you read between the flaming, you’ll see I totally endorse her view — what I didn’t like [...]
Science FOO Camp 2007 (Scifoo 07)
Given my travel schedule I have no idea when I’ll actually get a chance to do justice to this meeting (probably never), but thought I’d do a quick shot to get some things online- first, for those who don’t know what it is, Scifoo is a gathering of a relatively random collection of people, mostly scientists [...]
Airport and Time Warners Road Runner
(apologies to those picking this up on the Semantic Web list, it’s not related) I searched for information that would be of help when connecting an airport wireless router for a modern home network (i.e. multiple laptops, wifi aware devices, airport express music, etc.) to Time Warner’s Road Runner cable, but was not successful in finding [...]
2007 Semantic Web Challenge
The central idea of the Semantic Web is to extend the current human-readable web by encoding some of the semantics of resources in a machine-processable form. Moving beyond syntax opens the door to more advanced applications and functionality on the Web. The Semantic Web Challenge offers participants the chance to show the best of the [...]
Semgrail 2007
I don’t have time for a full trip report, but thought it worth doing a fast “impressions” blog on the “Semgrail 2007″ meeting hosted by Microsoft, June 21 and 22 in Redmond, WA.� This meeting brought together a number of researchers working on the Semantic Web, on issues of Web privacy, and on other somewhat [...]
SemTech 2007
I’m currently attending the Semantic Technologies Conference and thought I’d share some of my experiences. The conference has been quite interesting, as it has provided a point of view which I do not get large exposure to…specifically what’s happening in industry in the Semantic Web space. It’s great to see that there are large industrial [...]
MINDSWAP Goes Virtual
As of today, the MINDSWAP project at the University of Maryland has officially gone virtual.� We have closed our laboratory in College Park, and members are now working from other locations.� Some will remain in College Park, some will move to Troy, NY and its environs.� Our Web site, http://www.mindswap.org, which was the first RDF [...]
WWW Observations
Here I am, blogging almost a week after the conference finished. Well, there is at least one advantage of blogging this late: I can tell you which WWW papers/talks made the biggest impression on me. The first one was about Exhibit, essentially a set of javascript libraries that enable lightweight data publishing on the web. [...]
WWW 2007
Well I’ve been attending the WWW 2007 conference the past week; I do not blog that often, but I figured that since I’ve travelled all this way, I should share some of my experiences. IMHO, the conference has been, yet again, a large success. The talks have been very interesting and when there are no [...]
Mindswap News
Tetherless World Web Site Goes on Line
The Web site for the Tetherless World Project at RPI is now on line.
Yarden "Jordan" Katz takes the prize!
Yarden Katz has been awarded the Schlaretzki Prize, which is given by the philosophy department each spring to the most outstanding student in the department. Way to go Yarden!
Mindswapper Paper wins "Best Paper" Award at ESWC-06
The paper "Repairing Unsatisfiable Concepts in OWL Ontologies" by Aditya Kalyanpur, Bijan Parsia, Evren Sirin and Bernardo Cuenca Grau won the "Best Paper" award at the recently conducted European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2006 The paper is available at: http://www.mindswap.org/papers/repairESWC.pdf
Bijan Parsia Abandons Mindswap
Bijan Parsia, long time inmate of the MINDSWAP asylum, has busted loose, finding his way to a faculty position at the University of Manchester. We congratulate Bijan on his position, miss him a lot, and wish the best for him as he joins the second best Semantic Web group around :-)
Mindswap Papers
- Information Accountability
- Metcalfe's Law, Web 2.0, and the Semantic Web
- Toward Expressive Syndication on the Web
- SocialBrowsing: Integrating Social Networks and Web Browsing
RDFIG IRC Scratch Pad
W3C News
Funding
Mindswap funding is provided by: Fujitsu Laboratories of America -- College Park, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratory, NTT Corp., Kevric Corp., SAIC, National Science Foundation, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, DARPA, US Army Research Laboratory, NIST, Other DoD sources
