Introducing UMBEL Version 1.00 - semanticweb.com

Introducing UMBEL Version 1.00 - semanticweb.com

After four years of tinkering, Structured Dynamics and Ontotext are ready to announce the release of UMBEL version 1.00, the first production-grade release of the system. According to the article, UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) “is primarily a reference ontology, which contains 28,000 concepts (classes and relationships) derived from the Cyc knowledge base. The reference concepts of UMBEL are mapped to Wikipedia, DBpedia ontology classes, GeoNames and PROTON.”

2010 Visualization Challenge

2010 Visualization Challenge

An “ocean” composed of a single layer of molecules; an intricate depiction of an HIV particle as a study in orange and gray; a phantasmagoria of fungi; a video tracing the long-distance travels of items dumped in the trash in Seattle: The four first-place winners in this year's International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge grab your attention and draw you into unseen worlds in very different ways.

The Semantic Puzzle | Transforming spreadsheets into SKOS with Google Refine

The Semantic Puzzle | Transforming spreadsheets into SKOS with Google Refine

CILIP | Cataloguing and Indexing Tools and resources - cataloguing, indexing and classification

CILIP | Cataloguing and Indexing Tools and resources - cataloguing, indexing and classification

Professional tools and resources

A taxonomy of professional tools, resources and publications supporting traditional cataloguing, metadata manipulation, classification and indexing. All links point to professional articles, tools and resources that are either open access or licensed for free use by cataloguers.

This section is maintained by David Bennett.

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