Archive for the 'Semantic Web' Category

Sun completes Community Equity Specification

March 3, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

Community Participation 
One of the aspects of social media in the enterprise that has been hard to quantify is Community Participation. There are a number of arbitrary measurements that Enterprise 2.0 solutions providers and end users have cobbled together but up until recently there has not been a tried and proven method to calculate community participation.

To solve this vexing issue, Peter Reiser and the team at Sun have completed and filed a patent on the Community Equity Specification.

The Community Equity Specification has an algorithm that capture 2 variables - information equity (IQ) and personal equity (PEQ). Sun defines IQ as the social activities around information that is calculated into a numeric value which represents the importance, relevance  and quality of a information. PEQ is a numeric value calculated for an individual that helps recognize their achievements and their participation in a community.

Sun Community Equity Specification

The PEQ algorithm looks to be the most complex aspect of the specification and is probably the piece of the specification that Sun has filed the patent on.

Sun has the specification in pilot stage and it will be interesting to see how Sun goes about releasing the specification for use once the pilot and beta testing is complete.
 


W3C SPARQL Specification Lays Groundwork For The Semantic Web

February 19, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

w3c 

The W3C Semantic Web Group recently standardized its recommendation for the SPARQL Query Language for RDFRDF is a directed, labeled graph data format for representing information in the Web.

SPARQL (pronounced Sparkle)  is a query language for RDF that can be used against diverse data sources, whether the data is stored natively as RDF or viewed as RDF via middleware. SPARQL in many ways opens the door to the true Semantic Web and once fully adopted as the main RDF query language, will accelerate creation of advanced automated data sharing applications.

Ivan Herman recently presented a tutorial entitled “Introduction to the Semantic Web” that gives a great overview of how the Semantic Web works.