1.How it all started
Photo Credit: Daniel Sparing The slides to this talk are licensed CC-BY-SA/3.0

2. Flickr kills the dream
3. But Creative Commons Saves the Day
4. animalphotos.info
5. dbpedia & the semantic web
Subject
Predicate (Verb)
Object
.
http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Bird
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albatross
6. the linked data cloud
Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and AnjaJentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/
7. automating the process
search for candidates
Identify topics
filter correct images
describe images
dbpedia
flickr
8. amazon mechanical turk
9. carpictures.cc
10. the business model
11. how many things exist?
The game of 20 questions 220 = about a million
12. what sort of things exist?
Everything on Earth: Places, People, Creative Works, Life Forms, Technological Artifacts
13. ny-pictures.com
14. exploring the earths nosphere
Nosphere, according to the thought ofVladimir VernadskyandTeilhard de Chardin, denotes the "sphereof human thought".
15. ookaboo.com takes off
16. ookaboo semantic API
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand
API
Thanks: Andyindia, Echiner1, Rene Eherhardt
17. Why dont computers understand human language?
The Ink is In The Pen
The Pig is In The Pen
Thanks: Seaniz, GiangHThHong, Claudia Scholz and
18. the human memome project
One ring to bind them all?
19. Top-down? Bottom-up?Both!
Merge data from a wide range of sources,continuously test against reality by performance in practical applications
20. Ontology2: Long Term Evolution