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C|Net Integrates Ontology Viewer Into News Site

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the ontology-begets-phylogeny dept.

ikewillis writes "The new beta version of news.com now features an integrated ontology viewer developed in collaboration with LivePlasma who appears to have built a large ontology for music and movies. While they don't appear to provide direct access to the ontological data using semantic web formats like OWL and RDF, it's the first time I've ever seen web ontologies used on such a high profile site. How long until we can expect web ontology viewers (and semantic web integration) for sites like Wikipedia?"

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  1. Google news needs this by G4from128k · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've noticed, for example, that the "Macintosh" (the computer) section of Google News often has non-Macintosh-related stories about sports, crimes, political events, etc. just because a person named "Macintosh" was named in the story. Smarter semantic analysis of news stories would help better categorize articles.

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  2. functional by icepick72 · · Score: 5, Informative

    To get an actual working version of this thing, you have to go to the beta news site and then click on any of the story headlines.

    1. Re:functional by advocate_one · · Score: 4, Informative

      It needs Flash... without it, there's no fancy schmancy picture...

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  3. Wikipedia... by presroi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Maybe the poster was looking for something like that.