Linked data keeps rolling

A Library Linked Data Incubator Group was formed at W3C. The mission of the Library Linked Data Incubator Group is to help increase global interoperability of library data on the Web, by bringing together people involved in Semantic Web activities—focusing on Linked Data—in the library community and beyond, building on existing initiatives, and identifying collaboration [...]

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Think Outside the box

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Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment analysis or opinion mining refers to a broad (definitionally challenged) area of natural language processing, computational linguistics and text mining. Generally speaking, it aims to determine the attitude of a speaker or a writer with respect to some topic. The attitude may be their judgment or evaluation (see appraisal theory), their affective state (that [...]

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Historical browser statistics

A clear graphical visualization representing the percent of people using different browsers ranging back to 2002 View it HERE.

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Computer Program Recognizes Sarcasm

Sarcasm:  a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual. The pursuit of machine intelligence means we have to come up with ways to communicate with our computers in a way both entities can understand. But while computers process verbal commands [...]

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Google’s USA Economic Impact

People think of Google first and foremost as a search engine, but it’s also an engine of economic growth. For the first time Google made a report quantifying their economic impact on a state level. On Google’s report, they’re announcing that in 2009 they had generated a total of $54 billion of economic activity for [...]

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The web and beyond 2010

The third edition of The Web and Beyond is near. With 18 parallel presentations, mostly interactive demos, with orators like Michael Meyer and Josephine Green, the event has high expectations. If you go drop your feedback, otherwise check the proceedings. You can check here the program. More information.

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Code Quarterly – The Hackademic Journal

This might interest some prymas readers: Code Quarterly is a new publication, edited by Peter Seibel, that intends to publish in-depth articles of interest to hackers… Here are some of the kinds of articles we hope to publish: Technical explanations – Explain a technical concept. Code reads – Explore an interesting piece of code. Q&A [...]

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The Web, one huge database …

A set above the presentation done by Ian Davis, is this video tutorial done by Michael Hausenblas. You can get also examples and slides here.

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An introduction to linked data

Create by Ian Davis, for code4lib2009, it is a very concise tutorial about linked data, and stepping stone to new users.

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