Welkin more stylish? [2]

This is the first developement step for adding in welkin icons to resources of a particular rdf type
(you can find it on svn of the Simile Project)

It is possible to change the icon to be displayed by clicking on the icon image. It is suggested to upload only icons of 16x16 pixels (14x14 maximum) to not have overlapping in the chart.



Clicking on the "trash" icon it is possible to delete one of the defined icon element.



Double clicking on the uri it is possible to modify an already defined icon element.

Welkin more stylish? [1]

This is the first developement step for adding in welkin icons to resources of a particular rdf type
(you can find it on svn of the Simile Project)

When a model as been loaded it is possible to associate an icon to all the resources of the specified rdf type:

1) Click on the "icons" tab on the left of the welkin interface
2) Type the URI of the desired type to associate to the icon on the left
3) Click on the "Add Element" button



After performing the above steps the new icon element will be displayed on the panel on the top left (4). Enabling the icons drawing (5), the resources that are of the specified type will be displayed with the selected icon (6).

Linotype going to be "semantic"

Linotype software was written by Stefano Mazzocchi for his own blog [1]. It is implemented as a Cocoon application and the original software is available at [2].

Working on the same software Stefano and I started to introduce semantic annotation of the content through rdf/a [3].

At the location [4] it is available a branch in which an initial integration
of rdf/a is under developement.

[1] http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/
[2] http://simile.mit.edu/repository/linotype/trunk/
[3] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/2005-rdfa-spec
[4] http://simile.mit.edu/repository/linotype/branches/rdf-a/

Piggy Bank and Solvent... Welcome Semantic Web!

Three years ago I started my trip through languages and technologies for ontologies definition and usage. I read several papers on this topic and after a certain period I felt quite sad in realizing the high price to pay to obtain a benefit from "semantic add ons".

The idea was to define a sort of perfect micro-world where everything has a well defined meaning. And obviously, after a certain period I gave up. At that time Jena was something really complex to understand to me and Sesame was only a "magic" word. I took a look at the powerful and, in the same time, cryptic KIF formalism, at DAML and DAML+OIL. For some reasons (besically one :D... the serialization in XML was driving me crazy) RDF sounded too weird.

Then OWL came out and I started reading again... n3... Rio... Sesame. The "Semantic Web" concept was still something not well defined and my impression was that OWL was "a light version" of the old-style ontology languages coming from the AI world...

I was wrong, look at the Simile Project... with Piggy Bank and Solvent ... the "semantic web" started to rock!

And now it is clear "Semantic Web" is everything you want it to be ;)