Author Archives: Adrian Gschwend

About Adrian Gschwend

Founder and head of netlabs.org

Inner nerd and Semantic Web: The glory details

What we just heard in the introduction means that the semantic web once and for all (at least for a while) solves the data modeling problem we face today. There is no application or use case proprietary data anymore. The … Continue reading

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How my inner nerd got hooked by the Semantic Web

This was supposed to be the first post for this blog but I never published it so far. The second part is a pretty technical explanation on why I started to love the semantic web, which might also explain the … Continue reading

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Academics are rewarded for publishing papers

As mentioned in the last post I participated at the information day for the FP7 call on big data a few weeks ago. I’m not sure if netlabs.org will participate in this call, I see the need for big data … Continue reading

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Big Data and the Semantic Web

I wrote this post in the train on the way back from Luxembourg where I participated at the ICT Call 8 Information and Networking Day: Intelligent Information Management, which is another EU FP7 call for research projects on big data. … Continue reading

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On the quest of explaining Semantic Web

A few weeks ago I did the (for me) so far most successful presentation about semantic web. And guess what: it worked so well because I almost did not mention it in the presentation. An old friend of mine asked … Continue reading

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Files are not the problem, finding them is

Recently Alex Bowyer blogged at O’Reilly Radar about why files need to die. He provides some good ideas about how we will store and find information in the future but he also misses the point a bit. Files are not … Continue reading

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schema.org: Not Too Impressive

Last Friday Google, Yahoo and Bing announced the launch of schema.org, which promotes annotation of web pages to make them more useful for search engines. This is definitely a hot topic as the current web of documents reached its limits … Continue reading

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