http://www.mkbergman.com Mike Bergman on the semantic Web and structured Web Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:52:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Coca-Cola, Toucans and Charles Sanders Peirce The crowning achievement of the semantc Web is the simple use of URIs to identify data. Further, if the URI identifier can resolve to a representation of that data, it now becomes an integral part of the HTTP access protocol of the Web while providing a unique identifier for [...]]]> http://www.mkbergman.com/994/give-me-a-sign-what-do-things-mean-on-the-semantic-web/ Number of Semantic Web Tools Passes 1000 for First Time; Many Other Changes We have been maintaining Sweet Tools, AI3‘s listing of semantic Web and -related tools, for a bit over five years now. Though we had switched to a structWSF-based framework that allows us to update it on a more regular, incremental schedule [1], [...]]]> http://www.mkbergman.com/991/the-state-of-tooling-for-semantic-technologies/ Ontology Modularization and Roles within an OSF Instance For some time now, Structured Dynamics (SD) has been touting the unique advantages of ODapps, or ontology-driven applications [1]. ODapps are modular, generic software applications designed to operate in accordance with the specifications contained in one or more ontologies. The relationships and structure of the information driving [...]]]> http://www.mkbergman.com/989/an-ontologies-architecture-for-ontology-driven-apps/ Improved Ontology Navigation and Management in Read-only and Editable Forms This continues our series on the new UMBEL portal. UMBEL, the Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer, is an upper ontology of about 28,000 reference concepts and a vocabulary designed for domain ontologies and ontology mapping [1]. This part four discusses structOntology, the online ontology [...]]]> http://www.mkbergman.com/988/umbel-services-part-4-structontology/