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Making Connections Real
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has creator: Mike Bergman
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created: 2011-01-31T07:18:34Z
content: Refining UMBEL's Linking and Mapping Predicates with Wikipedia We are only days away from releasing the first commercial version 1.00 of UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) [1]. To recap, UMBEL has two purposes, both aimed to promote the interoperability of Web-accessible content. First, it provides a general vocabulary of classes and predicates for describing domain ontologies and external datasets. Second, UMBEL is a coherent framework of 28,000 broad subjects and topics (the "reference concepts"), which can act as binding nodes for mapping relevant content. This last iteration of development has focused on the real-world test of mapping UMBEL to Wikipedia [2]. The result, to be more fully described upon release, has led to two major changes. It has acted to expand the size of the core UMBEL reference concepts to about 28,000. And it has led to adding to and refining the mapping predicates necessary for UMBEL to fulfill its purpose as a reference structure for external resources. This latter change is the focus of this post. There is a huge diversity of organizational structure and world views on the Web; the linking and mapping predicates to fulfill this purpose must also capture that diversity. Relations between things on the Web can range from the exact and identity, to the approximate, descriptive and casual [3]. The 16 K direct mappings that have now been made between UMBEL and Wikipedia (resulting in the linkage of more than 2 million Wikipedia pages) provide a real-world test for how to capture this diversity. The need is to find the range of predicates that can reflect and capture quality, accurate mappings. Further, because mappings also can be aided with a variety of techniques from the manual to the automatic, it is important to characterize the specific mapping methods used whenever a linking predicate is assigned. Such qualifications can help to distinguish mapping trustworthiness, plus enable later segregation for the application of impr…
encoded: Refining UMBEL’s Linking and Mapping Predicates with Wikipedia We are only days away from releasing the first commercial version 1.00 of UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) [1]. To recap, UMBEL has two purposes, both aimed to promote the interoperability of Web-accessible content. First, it provides a general vocabulary of classes and predicates for describing domain ontologies and external datasets. Second, UMBEL is a coherent framework of 28,000 broad subjects and topics (the “reference concepts”), which can act as binding nodes for mapping relevant content. This last iteration of development has focused on the real-world test of mapping UMBEL to Wikipedia [2]. The result, to be more fully described upon release, has led to two major changes. It has acted to expand the size of the core UMBEL reference concepts to about 28,000. And it has led to adding to and refining the mapping predicates necessary for UMBEL to fulfill its purpose as a reference structure for external resources. This latter change is the focus of this post. There is a huge diversity of organizational structure and world views on the Web; the linking and mapping predicates to fulfill this purpose must also capture that diversity. Relations between things on the Web can range from the exact and identity, to the approximate, descriptive and casual [3]. The 16 K direct mappings that have now been made between UMBEL and Wikipedia (resulting in the linkage of more than 2 million Wikipedia pages) provide a real-world test for how to capture this diversity. The need is to find the range of predicates that can reflect and capture quality, accurate mappings. Further, because mappings also can be aided with a variety of techniques from the manual to the automatic, it is important to characterize the specific mapping methods used whenever a linking predicate is assigned. Such qualifications can help to distinguish mapping trustworthiness, plus enable later segregation for the application of impr…
topic: Adaptive Innovation
topic: Ontologies
topic: UMBEL
links to: umbel.org
links to: en.wikipedia.org
links to: UMBEL
links to: [1]
links to: [2]
links to: [3]
links to: OWL 2
links to: [4]
links to: [5]
links to: [6]
links to: [7]
links to: [8]
links to: [9
links to: 10]
links to: [11]
links to: Semantic Vectors
links to: S-Match
links to: [12]
links to: [13]
links to: [14]
links to: gold standard
links to: [15]
links to: [16]
links to: Ontotext
links to: RENDER
links to: DBpedia
links to: the-nature-of-connectedness-on-the-web
links to: owl2-primer
links to: semantic reasoners
links to: exploding-the-domain-umbel-web-services-by-zitgist
links to: Community:Overloading OWL sameAs
links to: 522.pdf
links to: alternatives-to-owlsameas-for-linked-data
links to: SWEETpedia
links to: UMBEL Annex G: UMBEL SuperTypes Documentation
links to: UMBEL Specifications

Mike Bergman
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Mike Bergman
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