The new Search Computing Web site is online! The Search Computing Web site is the main source of information for the Search Computing project, and it features: A brand new section dedicated to demonstrators, where you canfind several demonstration videos of the prototypes developed within the project, plus access to some live demonstrators Slides, pictures [...]
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This posts presents another initiative to open-up data sources by mean of standard Web technologies such as HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) and JSON: the Open Data Protocol (OData). OData (which seems to be mainly supported by Microsoft) is a Web protocol for querying and updating data. OData can be used to give access to a variety of sources, such [...]
Georgi Kobilarov, the CEO of a German, Linked Data startup called Uberblic, issued an open challenge on his blog, asking: if we had a Web of Data, what would you build? Here’s Georgi idea: Here’s my idea: If we had a Web of Data, I would built an application for painless travel planning. It would [...]
ManyEyes is a IBM social networking application for data visualization, where one may share and visualize data sets via a social network. With more than 20 data visualization types and more than 100.000 publicly available data-sets, ManyEyes is a remarkable example of generic data visualization techniques adapted to heterogeneous data sources. Moreover, the available data-sets [...]
As an increasing number of organizations feels the need to open up their data for public usage, it also arises the need for tools able to unlock the intrinsic value of such data. Following a trend that already saw the creation of a public data search feature, Google Lab just launched the Google Public Data [...]
The New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently decided to release their transit data to the public. Examples of release data are about the subway, buses, railroads, etc. The goal of MTA is to enable the creation of new mash-up services, such as the WayFinder Mobile Application for iPhone, an augmented reality application that has [...]
Google Base is a free service for submiting all kinds of content for Google to host and to make searchable online. It allows content providers to upload structured data to Google, surface it across Google search properties, and syndicate it via apis, gadgets and gadget ads. Using the Google Base Data API, developers can programmatically [...]
