semantic-web

multilingual sparql

i want to query a triple store which is multilingual , Query that works : select * where {?s ?p "sdfsdf"@en} i want that "sdfsdf" to be an attribute in general like ?o@en how should i query then ? ...

Open Source Semantic Web Project, input SPARQL, output Graph

Hi All, I am looking for an open source (java is preferred) semantic web project which it's input is SPARQL and its output is a triple RDF format grid & graph, like this site: http://linkedlifedata.com Any help would be appreciated Cheers Erwin ...

Is semantic web a dead on arrival project ?

Does anybody use semantic techniques (RDF, OWL, machine reasoning, etc.) in comercial apps or is it still an academia's toy? ...

Comprehending the Semantic web and it's methods, syntax, vocabularies and languages

Hi. I have just been introduced to the semantic web and it's family of functions but I have a hard time understanding some of it, which I was hoping someone could explain to me. As far as I've understood, RDF can be written in several syntaxes. RDF/XML, Turtle, etc. Now, I understand XML. How it is presented and how it can be parsed. ...

Semantics and Structure of Name-Value Pairs

This is a question I have been struggling with for a while. What is the proper way to mark up name/value pairs? I'm fond of the <dl> element, but it presents a problem: There is no way to separate one pair from another - they have no unique container. Visually, the code lacks definition. Semantically, though, I think this is the correct...

What support does HTML5 provide for semantic markup and Semantic Web technologies?

It seems that, as of right now, there is little to no support in HTML5 for semantic markup using RDFa or Microformats. I've done a little bit of reading, but if I were to start using HTML5 right now, what could I do to support semantic markup (such as microformats) and Semantic Web technologies (such as RDFa)? If I want to utilize these ...

Generating RDF From Natural Language

Are there any tools available for generating RDF from natural language? A list of RDFizers compiled by the SIMILE project only mentions one, the Monrai Cypher. Unfortunately, it seems to have been a proprietary tool developed by Monrai Technologies, which has since disappeared, and I can't find any download links. Has anyone seen anythin...

.Net Triplestore?

Anyone aware of any .net triplestores out there? I know there is a lot of Java stuff, but I'm more interested in a .net version. ...

Correct usage of HTML5 <hr> tag

Hi, I'm writing a new webpage for a company and I have (a sane subset of) HTML5/W3C recommendations in mind. After reading the semantic meaning of <hr />, I was wondering if this was a good place to use it: <section name="historyItem"> <h2>2002</h2> <p>Dolorem ipsum dolor sit amet in 2002, consectetur [...]</p> <hr /> ...

Implement a semantic search with in a web application

This web application is about posting different kind of posts to the web application where users can search those posts by a text-based search. Basically a post has following attributes. Title Description Category Budget Submit_date End_date Currently, Post content is store in sql server database under 'Post' table....

Reading a Turtle/N3 RDF File with Python

I'm trying to encode some botanical data in Turtle format, and read this data from Python using RDFLib. However, I'm having trouble, and I'm not sure if it's because my Turtle is malformed or I'm misusing RDFLib. My test data is: @PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#&gt; . @PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rd...

Link weight between DBpedia objects

Hi guys, I am bit new to this semantic web topic and especially DBpedia, as much as I did reading about this I could not find any information about possibility to determine weight of link between DBpedia objects. For example, is it possible to determine that PHP is more related to Symfony than Ruby on Rails is, even though they are both...

Why would one use RDF in a Web service definition?

I've been looking at the resources definition of the Change Management module of the OSLC. Why using RDF? Is this use related to semantic Web services? Thanks ...

Java web service error

I got this error 'java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Model' when I run my java web service which implement a jena framework function such as OWL reading function. But it worked as a standalone java application and read the owl file correctly. But when I host it as web service and execute the read method in a .net...

How exactly do the semantics of the HTML5 <header>, <section>, and <footer> tags work?

I'm a bit puzzled how I'm supposed to use the HTML5 <header>, section>, and <footer> tags. Currently, I can't work out whether to use them like this: <section id="example_section"> <header> <h1>Example Section</h1> <p>etc</p> </header> <p>Content para 1</p> <p>Content para 2</p> <p>Content para 3</p>...

Correct usage of HTML5 `figure` and `aside`

I have a chunk of a page that looks semantically this: Heading A Textual information related to heading A. Blah blah blah blah blah. [image gallery related to heading A] I can think of a couple of ways to mark this up: Method 1: <section> <h1>Heading A</h1> <p>Textual information related to heading A.<br /> ...

Do I still need to use the title attribute if my element has a `<figcaption>`?

I have a piece of code like this: <figure> <img title="An amazing image that I forgot to specify a url for"/> <figcaption>An amazing image that I forgot to specify a url for</figcaption> </figure> Is it necessary for me to specify the title attribute in addition to the figcaption element, and will not doing so result in SEO pr...

Is unordered list necessary on the following example?

As it's valid markup, I have done the following; <div class="list"> <a href="#">Link 1</a> <a href="#">Link 2</a> </div> My question is, does it have to be written as this; <ul class="list"> <li><a href=...

When writing semantic HTML, which is better: Scoping with <h1> to <h6> tags or scoping with id attributes and <span> tags?

I am trying to write high quality semantic HTML5. Which of the following two options are better semantically: OPTION 1: Define the styles by selecting spans using IDs: %body %header#global-header %h1 My Startup Name %h2 Home of the best offers in the Motor City %section#offers %h1 Today&apos;s Of...

How to use h1 to h6 within header, section, article, etc.. in html5?

In xhtml 1.0 hn (h1 to h6) must represent document structure, like chapters in a book, and they all descend from the body. In html5 there are section, article, header, hgroup, and it seems that hn tags descend from one of these tags, and then are not relative to the body element. like <html> <body> <h1>My personal homepage</h1> <sectio...