Georgi Kobilarov

My open-data hub uberblic.org now validates the RDF data extracted from Wikipedia infoboxes and other sources. Read about the details …

In early 2009 I had the idea for a linked data integration platform, capable of importing and mapping all of the publicly available data sets in the Linked Data cloud into a single repository, represented in a coherent ontology, reconciled and accessible through central APIs.
What started out as an idea a year ago now [...]

Good news for the Linked Open Data community: Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times announced today at the International Semantic Web Conference in Washington their new service http://data.nytimes.com. Through that service, the NY Times is publishing their large annotation vocabulary which is used to tag all their articles as Linked Data, and those tags [...]

Usually I don’t publicly point my finger at the work of others that I think is wrong. Still, I believe it’s time for an analysis of the stuff that’s going on in the Linked Data world, and that will include pointing out what I believe is wrong with some of the work that’s been invested [...]

In a very interesting article, the German news site spiegel.de analyses the recently launched Wolfram Alpha. Their analysis hits the bull’s-eye: the Wolfram team will never be able to curate all the information needed to make W|A really useful. Especially compared to Wikipedia, which is maintained by such a large community.
Linked Data is the model [...]

Reuters just announced that they’re going to fully support Linked Data with the upcoming release of OpenCalais 4.0. And that they’ll join the cloud by linking to DBpedia. Finally.
Anybody still doubting that Linked Data is ready for prime time?

A week ago, Freebase announced that its rich dataset is now available as Linked Data. Congratulations, Metaweb! So it is finally the time to welcome Freebase to the Linked Data Cloud.
But wait, isn’t Linked Data about… linking data? Unfortunately, while Freebase now does export RDF, its concepts aren’t linked to other datasets in “the cloud“. [...]