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You can add inferences to a template, for example, if the address within 40 miles of a Ciggies Inc, add it to the category "Close to ciggies inc," or check for overlaps in "went to school at ..." to generate "went to school together." | You can add inferences to a template, for example, if the address within 40 miles of a Ciggies Inc, add it to the category "Close to ciggies inc," or check for overlaps in "went to school at ..." to generate "went to school together." | ||
Annotations can be hierarchical (actually [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterarchy hetrarchical]); "went to school together" could be a subproperty of "probably knows." Then you can do broad to narrow queries on "probably knows" or any other annotations. | |||
Categories an annotations can be queried and combined. Since | Categories an annotations can be queried and combined. Since it's a semantic system, marked text has meaning and can be reused and constantly built on. | ||
Because it's a wiki with a front end, you can open it up to a group of people to query or edit with forms. It's | Because it's a wiki with a front end, you can open it up to a group of people to query or edit with forms. It's common Free Software so you don't have to "invent" or maintain anything, though you can extend it as needed. | ||
We're starting to see ways to use open linked data (LOD), so your data can include data from sites like Freebase, and "official" sources. Here's a sample list today.http://esw.w3.org/SparqlEndpoints http://www.data.gov/ might be of particular interest to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usonia Usonians]. With LOD the "back end" system doesn't matter as long as it conforms to the data/query standard, so the data sets can be very large an distributed. | We're starting to see ways to use open linked data (LOD), so your data can include data from sites like Freebase, and "official" sources. Here's a sample list today.http://esw.w3.org/SparqlEndpoints http://www.data.gov/ might be of particular interest to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usonia Usonians]. With LOD the "back end" system doesn't matter as long as it conforms to the data/query standard, so the data sets can be very large an distributed. | ||
Enjoy! (but stay away from the ciggies) | Enjoy! (but stay away from the ciggies) | ||