On Monday 04 December 2006 22:55, S Page wrote:
> http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17845&ch=infotech ,
> while talking vaguely about Web 2.0 and Semantic Web, mentions Piggy Bank:
>
> "Another project attempting to extract more meaning from the Web is
> Piggy Bank, a joint effort by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial
> Intelligence Laboratory, MIT Libraries, and the World Wide Web
> Consortium. Piggy Bank's goal is to lift chunks of important information
> in data-heavy websites from their surroundings, so that Web surfers can
> make use of these info chunks in new ways."
>
> I installed http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Piggy_Bank 3.01 in Minefield (a
> Firefox pre-alpha variant) and visited my page on ontoword, and somehow
> its "Collect and Browse Data from the Current Page" shows all my
> attributes and relations!

Well, that alone is the one and only reason why the application/rdf+xml link 
is in the header. ;-)

>
> I think it follows the  link type="application/rdf+xml" in pages to read
> the RDF export of the page info.  And maybe it has special knowledge of
> Semantic MediaWiki -- http://simile.mit.edu/wiki Special:Version has SMW
> 0.6 installed.
>
> Piggy Bank's details are beyond me but at least it's a user-friendly way
> to view SMW's RDF export.

I am happy to see new practical results on using PiggyBank. Last time we tried 
it, it would always crash the browser when viewing our institutes homepage -- 
too many triples. I think this might have improved.

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