[ANN] Public release of Glimmer RDF search engine and demo

2013-06-20 Thread Peter Mika
[7]. Lastly, we would like to thank the help and support of Paolo Boldi and Sebastiano Vigna (University of Milano) as well as Yahoo's Open Source Working Group. Best regards, The SemSearch group @ Yahoo! Labs [1] https://github.com/yahoo/Glimmer [2] Roi Blanco, Peter Mika, Sebastiano

Metadata statistics from Yahoo! Search

2012-04-17 Thread Peter Mika
Hi All, To add one more data point to the previous discussion about webdatacommons.org, we have recently presented a short position paper at the LDOW 2012 workshop at WWW 2012. Online at http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2012/papers/ldow2012-inv-paper-1.pdf Please compare this carefully with

Re: ANN: WebDataCommons.org - Offering 3.2 billion quads current RDFa, Microdata and Miroformat data extracted from 65.4 million websites

2012-04-17 Thread Peter Mika
Hi Martin, By incorporating PageRank into the decision of what pages to crawl, CommonCrawl is actually trying to approximate what search engine crawlers are doing. In general, search engines would collect pages that would be more likely to rank higher in search results, and PageRank is an imp

Semantic Web Challenge 2009

2009-07-30 Thread Peter Mika
October 25-29, 2009: ISWC 2009 Technical Program SWC Co-Chairs - Chris Bizer (Freie Universität Berlin) Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research Barcelona) Contact: Peter Mika Yahoo! Research Barcelona Avinguda Diagonal 177, 8th floor Barcelona, 08018 Catalunya, Spain (Phone) +34 93 18

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

2009-07-02 Thread Peter Mika
Hi guys, Have you looked at "Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies": http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/VM/http-examples/2006-01-18/ Peter Juan Sequeda wrote: Hi Bill, Is your code to do the content negotation in RoR available somewhere? I'm trying to come up with examp

Re: Common Tag - semantic tagging convention

2009-06-12 Thread Peter Mika
Maybe others can comment as well, but I do think it's an important piece of information, e.g. to determine recently popular tags. Cheers, Peter François Dongier wrote: Peter, maybe you could explain why you guys found it useful to date tagging events in the first place. I suppose the point of

Re: Common Tag - semantic tagging convention

2009-06-12 Thread Peter Mika
Indeed, you cannot do this merging: a ctag:Tag refers to the tagging event. So the concepts they refer to (ctag:means) might be the same, the Tags are not. Cheers, Peter Yves Raimond wrote: Hello! On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: Really good to see this work! May be

VoCamp Sunnyvale 2009

2009-05-20 Thread Peter Mika
Technologies conference (SemTech) at Yahoo in Sunnyvale, California. VoCamps are free for participants. Sign up by going to the website at vocamp.org. Attendance is limited to 30 people at the moment so be quick. Co-organizers: Peter Mika (Yahoo!) Melinda Chung (Yahoo!) Evan Goer (Yahoo!) Links

Re: vCard - Old vs. New?

2009-05-06 Thread Peter Mika
Hi Martin, This issue came up at VoCamp in Galway, and we decided to settle it in general by trying to agree on the mappings of microformats to RDF: http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Microformats_in_RDF At least Sindice and our crawler support now the same mappings for the majority of microformats

Last Call: VoCamp Ibiza 2009

2009-03-20 Thread Peter Mika
Barcelona, and offers inexpensive accommodation in April. Co-located with: Fourth Workshop on the Future of Web Search: Semantic Search http://grupoweb.upf.es/tfws09/ Co-organizers: Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research) Sergio Fernández (CTIC Foundation) Links: http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampIbiza2009

CFP: 4th Workshop on the Future of Web Search: Semantic Search

2009-03-04 Thread Peter Mika
u may consult the workshop Web site (in construction): http://grupoweb.upf.es/fows09/ Organizers: Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates & Dr. Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research Co-located event: VoCampIbiza 2009, http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampIbiza2009

2nd call: VoCamp Ibiza 2009

2009-03-04 Thread Peter Mika
be quick. Ibiza is easy and cheap to reach from both Madrid and Barcelona, and offers inexpensive accommodation in April. Co-organizers: Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research) Sergio Fernández (CTIC Foundation) Links: http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampIbiza2009 http://grupoweb.upf.es/tfws09/

VoCamp Ibiza 2009

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Mika
be quick. Ibiza is easy and cheap to reach from both Madrid and Barcelona, and offers inexpensive accommodation in April. Co-organizers: Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research) Sergio Fernández (CTIC Foundation) Links: http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampIbiza2009 http://grupoweb.upf.es/tfws09/