{"id":201,"date":"2007-06-19T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T13:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/google-research-talk-semantic-web\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T13:49:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T13:49:51","slug":"google-research-talk-semantic-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/google-research-talk-semantic-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Research Talk: Semantic Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google have recently launched <a href=\"http:\/\/research.google.com\">http:\/\/research.google.com<\/a> that will provide information on research activities at Google. There&#8217;s a series of video talks that are associated with these research activities.<\/p>\n<p>This is a talk by Eyal Oran, Sebastian Kruk and Stefan Decker entitled &#8220;Semantic Web&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><embed style=\"width:400px; height:326px;\" id=\"VideoPlayback\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docId=5831755623836636435&#038;hl=en\" flashvars=\"\"> <\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Our development group has been doing a lot of semantic web related work here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talis.com\/\">Talis<\/a>, in fact we have built a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talis.com\/platform\/index.shtml\">semantic web platform<\/a> that we have built several applications upon, so the entire research area is something we are all very passionate about.<\/p>\n<p>The talk covers some of the basic principles of the Semantic Web but also takes about FOAF, RDF and introduces ActiveRDF:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>an object-oriented API for managing RDF data. ActiveRDF can be used with different RDF stores and integrates with Ruby on Rails. An addition to ActiveRDF is BrowseRDF, a faceted metadata browsing library. Faceted browsing is a natural technique for navigating that graph. We developed an expressive faceted interface that allows navigating arbitrary semi-structured data and formally show the improvement over existing interfaces. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found the talk quite interesting, and it&#8217;s given me a fair bit to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google have recently launched http:\/\/research.google.com that will provide information on research activities at Google. There&#8217;s a series of video talks that are associated with these research activities. This is a talk by Eyal Oran, Sebastian Kruk and Stefan Decker entitled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/google-research-talk-semantic-web\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[97,99,387,98,49,389],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-activerdf","tag-foaf","tag-google","tag-rdf","tag-semantic-web","tag-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}