Just to add a final short link for today’s Semantic Web set of posts (I was preparing a long post on web frameworks, but I just can’t seem to be able to finish it. It’s probably somehow related to me having bad nightmares doing web development. But that’s certainly a subject for a completely different post).
An interesting concept of allowing people to create easily and richly referenced vocabularies. Like on my previous post I was talking about getting more information about entities, this project allows you to tag anything as an “entity” and not just people and places.
Right now there isn’t much to see there, unless you want to learn about:
blah or blah22 (also known as blah2) or blah3
there you will find the most authoritative resource about those concepts. They are very important!
I don’t think that this is probably going to get anywhere unless somebody gets really serious about it and starts dumping data and information there and then other people start working on cleaning it up, grouping synonyms and connecting things that were too far away from each other for the authors to make the connections. I’ll keep an eye to this project and see where it goes. In general, maybe the best is to just have entities referencing something like FreeBase and non-entities referencing something like WordNet or other dictionary/thesaurus-like resources. All this would make me a little happier than throwing time and energy on a service that will just absorb it all and disappear.
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