Tag Archives: linked data

SameAs4J: little drops of water make the mighty ocean

Few days ago Milan Stankovic contacted the Sindice crew informing us that he wrote a simply Java library to interact with the public Sindice HTTP APIs. We always appreciate such kind of community efforts lead to collaboratively make Sindice a better place on the Web. Agreeing with Milan, we decided to put some efforts on [...]

Cheap Linked Data identifiers

This is a (short) technical post. Everyday, I face the problem of getting some Linked Data URIs that uniquely identify a “thing” starting from an ambiguous, poor and flat keyword or description. One of the first step dealing with the development of application that consumes Linked Data is to provide a mechanism that allows to [...]

RWW 2009 Top 10 Semantic Web products: one year later…

Just few days ago the popular ReadWriteWeb published a list of the 2009 Top Ten Semantic Web products as they did one year ago with the 2008 Top Ten. This two milestones are a good opportunity to make something similar to a balance. Or just to do a quick overview on what’s changed in the [...]

the italian political activism and the semantic web

A couple of years ago, during his live show, the popular italian blogger and activist Beppe Grillo provided a quick demonstration about how the Web concretely realizes the “six degrees of separation”. The italian blogger, today a Web enthusiast, shown that it was possible to him to get in contact with someone very famous using [...]