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2008

Categorizing and linking Joomla article in a meaningful way
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Written by Danh Le Phuoc   

Have you ever think that "is it possible to categorize and link your Joomla! articles with entities (people, places, organizations, etc.), facts (person ‘x’ works for company ‘y’), and events (person ‘z’ was appointed chairman of company ‘y’ on date ‘x’)?".Yes, theorically, it's possible,but, to have such functionalities, we have to spend a lot of efforts on natural language processing, machine learning and other stuffs. So,practically,not feasible for a small and medium CMS. However, it's still insteresting and worth trying,isn't it? .So,let's try a webservice like Calais[1] which provides such funtionalities through websevice calls.

In Calais Overview site they said that "The Calais web service automatically attaches rich semantic metadata to the content you submit" and  such "metadata gives you the ability to build maps (or graphs or networks) linking documents to people to companies to places to products to events to geographies to … whatever. You can use those maps to improve site navigation, provide contextual syndication, tag and organize your content, create structured folksonomies, filter and de-duplicate news feeds or analyze content to see if it contains what you care about. And, you can share those maps with anyone else in the content ecosystem". This sounds very attractive,right? . But don't be too optimistic, it is not perfect yet. Let play arround with their viewer at [2], to find out yourself which kind of extracted data they can give you. Or you can check out [3] to  see very useful comments of their usecase. And actually, Wordpress and Drupal already integrated Calais to enable auto-tagging, see the Gallery section of Calais website to interesting examples. Let's come up with an extension or plugin for Joomla, it won't take much effort,but definitely could be a lot of fun with it!!!!

[1] Calais.

[2] Calais Viewer.

[3] Powerhouse Museum 

 

 

 

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Thu

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Apr

2008

Team: Semantic Web
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Written by Amy Stephen   

Danh Le Phuoc

 

Danh Le Phuoc is a PhD student from Vietnam studying with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in Ireland. DERI is a leading research facility worldwide for the Semantic Web. Danh has a rich technical background with eight years of SW research and has contributed to numerous open source projects, including the Semantic Web Pipes, Integrated Modeling, Simple Widget Markup and Global Sensor Network. Danh is also an experienced Joomla! developer who has created extensions and several Web sites using Joomla!.

Nur Aini Rakhmawati Mentor: Nur Aini Rakhmawati is nearing her July graduation from the National Taiwan Universityof Science and Technology in Taipei, Taiwan when she will be awarded a Masters degree in Electronic Engineering. Following her graduation, Aini plans to return to her home in Indonesia. Aini is a GSoC student from 2007 and a contributing member of the Joomla! Development Team. She is working on a Smart Card Web Server and is involved in the N2Women, LinuxChix and Debian Women organizations.

 

Dr. Sören Auer Mentor: Dr. Sören Auer is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Database Group at University of Pennsylvania and Business Information Systems at the University of Leipzig. He is also founder of Triplify.org, a project which provides a small plugin that enables the "semantification" of Web applications by making database content available as RDF, JSON or Linked Data. Sören is involved in numerous Semantic Web research projects and organizations world-wide.

 

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Wed

23

Apr

2008

Abstract: Joomla! semantification - expose Joomla data as RDF and Linked Data
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Written by Danh Le Phuoc   

Last year, Joomla has more than 3 million downloads last year. From this fact, consider how many sites are using Joomla! and the volume of Joomla! content produced daily. Then, consider how those contents are data islands without any ability to automatically link this content to other sites or to be able to re-use the data as mashups. Actually, we
can already re-use data with RSS feeds, but RSS is too simple to express the potentially implicit links among them.

Hence, inspriring from Triplify ideas[17], we propose the approach called Linked Data [1] which enable users to navigate from a data item related data items through RDF [2] Links. RDF Link is actually a semantic statement about this data item and can be published by URI, for example, “user id lpdanh has the name Danh Le Phuoc who has homepage with url and has the article http://example.com/articleid=100 with the title ‘Semantic Links for Joomla’ and see also the extended version at article http://anotherblogsite.net/blogid=200, etc.”

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