The meetup on Practical RDF in a Publishing Environment & RDA and the Open Metadata Registry talk were simply great.
Barbara McGlamery was one of Time Incs. ontologist at least until Thursday 5:00pm (she's moving to Martha Stewart) and she gave a great overview on web semantics and it's practical application at Time Inc. There were some brilliant insights into dealing with controlled vocabularies, tagging and content management. As well as some of the issues in regards to problems like caching, problems with Endeca and relational databases and how they handled relationships for People.com and Entertainment Weekly.
It's really interesting to see that to get around relational database issues they used triples stored in Sybase. It was a really insightful discussion and reaffirmed that tagging, content management and publishing is all going semantic. Personally for me learning how relationships were managed for lets say People.com was really insightful, how relationships between lets say Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt and Brad Pitt/Jennifer Aniston. It was excellent to hear that it was all managed using triples in PAST tense! In regards to blogs it was nice to hear that tagging/categories via weblog software was a big issue and simply didn't work. Even to go as far as explaining that categories, ontologies and organized data are two different things was still much like talking to a wall. It was really great chatting with her and I learned a lot!
Another thing that came to the surface were that timeline issues were difficult to manage via triples. In-fact, it wasn't so much the timeline issues as it was maybe having a 4th field, in general. Right now the workarounds are a little cumbersome but interesting to note nonetheless.
As usual saw some familiar faces and all that; I actually have the talk recorded so if anyone wants an mp3 version of it or to hear more about content management, rdf and publishing environments in real commercial websites hit me up.
Christopher Warner is part genius, part idiot. This makes him well balanced. He's worked on numerous opensource projects with great people and has generally led an eventful and fulfilling life. He hopes to retire an old man in a rocking chair should he be so fortunate.
Practical RDF in a Publishing Environment
The meetup on Practical RDF in a Publishing Environment & RDA and the Open Metadata Registry talk were simply great.
Barbara McGlamery was one of Time Incs. ontologist at least until Thursday 5:00pm (she's moving to Martha Stewart) and she gave a great overview on web semantics and it's practical application at Time Inc. There were some brilliant insights into dealing with controlled vocabularies, tagging and content management. As well as some of the issues in regards to problems like caching, problems with Endeca and relational databases and how they handled relationships for People.com and Entertainment Weekly.
It's really interesting to see that to get around relational database issues they used triples stored in Sybase. It was a really insightful discussion and reaffirmed that tagging, content management and publishing is all going semantic. Personally for me learning how relationships were managed for lets say People.com was really insightful, how relationships between lets say Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt and Brad Pitt/Jennifer Aniston. It was excellent to hear that it was all managed using triples in PAST tense! In regards to blogs it was nice to hear that tagging/categories via weblog software was a big issue and simply didn't work. Even to go as far as explaining that categories, ontologies and organized data are two different things was still much like talking to a wall. It was really great chatting with her and I learned a lot!
Another thing that came to the surface were that timeline issues were difficult to manage via triples. In-fact, it wasn't so much the timeline issues as it was maybe having a 4th field, in general. Right now the workarounds are a little cumbersome but interesting to note nonetheless.
As usual saw some familiar faces and all that; I actually have the talk recorded so if anyone wants an mp3 version of it or to hear more about content management, rdf and publishing environments in real commercial websites hit me up.
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Christopher Warner is part genius, part idiot. This makes him well balanced. He's worked on numerous opensource projects with great people and has generally led an eventful and fulfilling life. He hopes to retire an old man in a rocking chair should he be so fortunate.