50+ Semantic Web Pros to Follow on Twitter
Here at ReadWriteWeb, we find the Semantic Web fascinating. We write about it a lot. What is the semantic web? The way we explain it is that it's a paradigm advocating that the meaning of content on the web be made machine readable.
Why would you want to do that? Because once the "meaning" of text is automatically discernible, there's a whole new world of things we can do with content on the web. Far out things that full text search for the mere presence of keywords would never be able to accomplish. Who's working on the semantic web and how can you meet them? Read on.
In November, 2007 we published a list of 10 Semantic Web companies to watch. Then, one year later, we published a new list for 2008 of Semantic Web companies to watch.
Based on those lists, and reader suggestions in comments of other companies that should be watched, we present to you a list of 50+ Twitter users who work at Semantic Web companies. If you find this sector as interesting as we do, you might want to add some of these people to your microblogging community. You can click through the arrows in the iframe below to scroll through all the accounts and add the people listed. RSS readers who'd like to see the list should click through to the full post.
A handful of these are company accounts, but most are accounts from individual employees. Want to suggest anyone we missed? (We know there are lots we've missed!) Let us know in comments. You can also meet the RWW crew on Twitter.
If this iFrame is driving you batty, see also this old list of links to all the accounts displayed below.
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What about APML Richard
Posted by: Chris Saad
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January 19, 2009 7:35 PM
This list is great! A lot of people that I am missing. However I believe the following people are key in the Semantic Web space:
@kidehen
@cyc_ai
@sicross
@tommorris
@bmanely
@tomtague
@aldonline
@bblfish
@ivan_herman
@mhausenbas
@moutaki
@novaspivack
@olafhartig
@semwebcompany
@ValeskaUXBoston
and me: @juansequeda
Thanks Juan, we appreciate those suggestions. We turned those into URLs, which could be turned into an Agglom slide show as we did, below:
http://twitter.com/kidehen
http://twitter.com/cyc_ai
http://twitter.com/sicross
http://twitter.com/tommorris
http://twitter.com/bmanely
http://twitter.com/tomtague
http://twitter.com/aldonline
http://twitter.com/bblfish
http://twitter.com/ivan_herman
http://twitter.com/mhausenbas
http://twitter.com/moutaki
http://twitter.com/novaspivack
http://twitter.com/olafhartig
http://twitter.com/semwebcompany
http://twitter.com/ValeskaUXBoston
http://twitter.com/juansequeda
this post failed. is that a iframe widget?
Does anyone have any recommendation for some good forums that discuss the semantic web? I'm looking to ensure that the data on my site is available through the leading tools but feel like some dialog about it would help me out.
Thanks.
+1 on @tomtague
Hopefully this is useful: here's an index of your neighbors in the big data community, based on a survey by @mdreid :
http://mark.reid.name/iem/ml-and-stats-people-on-twitter.html
and my own additions. (Some are included in above, as they overlap into here.)
Summarizing:
Open Data organizations:
http://twitter.com/fbase
http://twitter.com/okfn
http://twitter.com/freeourdata
http://twitter.com/infochimps
http://twitter.com/manyeyes
http://twitter.com/statlab
http://twitter.com/swvl
Hadoop/Big Data:
http://twitter.com/hadoop
Commercial:
http://twitter.com/abdur (Chief Scientist of twitter.com)
http://twitter.com/jasonmorton (Dataspora)
http://twitter.com/dataspora (Dataspora)
http://twitter.com/aaronsw (Get.Theinfo)
http://twitter.com/jmay (Numbrary)
http://twitter.com/feltron (Daytum)
http://twitter.com/dtunkelang (Endeca / Noisy Channel)
http://twitter.com/ealdent
http://twitter.com/peteskomoroch (Data Wrangling / Juice Analytics)
http://twitter.com/smolix (Principal Researcher at Yahoo! Research)
http://twitter.com/kiwitobes (Data Magnate at Freebase)
http://twitter.com/skud (Community Manager, Freebase)
http://twitter.com/hackingdata (Ex Data team at Facebook, now Cloudera)
http://twitter.com/cutting (Lucene/Nutch/Hadoop/Cloudera)
Academics in Data Mining and Machine Learning:
http://twitter.com/mdreid (Australian National University)
http://twitter.com/arthegall (MIT CS)
http://twitter.com/mja (U Edinburgh)
http://twitter.com/dwf (U Toronto)
http://twitter.com/SoloGen (U Alberta)
http://twitter.com/markusweimer (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
http://twitter.com/DataJunkie (UCLA)
http://twitter.com/ansate (IBM)
http://twitter.com/nealrichter (U Montana)
http://twitter.com/brendan642 (Dolores Labs / Stanford)
http://twitter.com/mikiobraun (Technische Universität Berlin)
http://twitter.com/lemire (U Quebec-Montreal)
http://twitter.com/moorejh (Dartmouth Med)
http://twitter.com/johndcook (UT Biomedical Sciences)
http://twitter.com/paulrodrigues (Indiana U)
http://twitter.com/juansequeda (UT CS see above ^^^^^)
http://twitter.com/flowingdata (UCLA / FlowingData blog)
http://twitter.com/mrflip (me -- UT-Austin and Infochimps.org)
Boy, the spam filter is just going to choke on that.
RWW - not sure that the frame thing you have her works. It would be great if you could just list out the links to the top 50 Twitter accounts (like you did for Juan). Unfortunately, Juan's people are rather new to Twitter which tends to make me question their true value.
http://twitter.com/uptake
http://twitter.com/NBandaru
should be on the list
http://twitter.com/theproductguy
Hey, that's @bmanley, not @bmanely :)
Great list! Thanks for your hard work. Your site helps me always stay on top of the cutting edge and in planning my next networking events. If your interested there is an event coming up: NetSavvy - Upscale IT Networking Event for IT Professionals ( http://tiny.cc/dMofU )
Ron: the people I suggest are the main academic researchers and developers that are the most active in the Semantic Web community, discussion list, irc, etc. Most of them are just getting on the Twitter boat. Not having enough followers does not mean they do not have valuable things to say about the Semantic Web.
Brian Manley: sorry, my mistake!
Oops, I just realized that I recommended people with typos.
http://twitter.com/mhausenblas
http://twitter.com/moustaki
Also forgot to recommend
http://twitter.com/tommyh
Ron - what's wrong with the iframe? Is it not clear how to navigate it?
this post of full of errors in linguistic semantics - talk abt machine-readable semantics :)
Get over it already. Google is the biggest Semantic app - and guess what it doesn't use any OWL crap. it runs on simple statistical signals.
Semantics?
Juan se queda > Sp > Juan stays
There's also Ben Hunt from:
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/
http://twitter.com/benscratch
Thx for mentioning us.
I'm truly honored : )
mike AKA @headup
http://headup.com
Honored to be on the list and hi to all new followers (got more than 30 new followers in just few hours)
Juan Saqueda also added some really valuable people. It would be good to have a one liner descriptions of what they do, for example
@tomtague - Head of OpenCalais
@kidehen - CEO of OpenLink, maker of Virtuoso SPARQL server
@juansequeda - Co-Founder of Semantic Web Austin
@andraz - CTO at Zemanta
@Richard: The Iframe looks great when browsing on laptop. But this solution really doesn't work for mobile users - when I first came to this page on BlackBerry no list could be found except on in comments.
@COP:
Yes Google is probably the largest user of semantic tech on the web, but does that mean that others should stop trying to do anything at all?
bye
Andraz Tori
I'm in no way an expert yet, but over the next few weeks/month I'll be adding semantic capabilities to my website and documenting the experience and decisions via twitter.
httw://www.twitter.com/thesuggestr
Ther is a problem with the Iframe. I can only view one user: @fbase + updates, no list of users.
Apart from that, good initiative as I'm trying to grasp the concept of semantic web. I also thought the comment about Google as a semantic web-app interesting. The human mind relies on a form of pattern recognition on a sort of hit and miss basis. Yes or no. If it's a no other processes are available. However, the process (any sophisticated understanding, beyond running away when you see a hungry Tiger) requires input from more than one person and requires a free exchange of ideas, thoughts and information.
That would make me look towards friendfeed, Twitter, blogs, RSS and other aggregators of "human input". I tend to view them as apart of developing semantics on the web.
Just thinking :)
/Jonas
For those having trouble with the iframe try this link:
http://www.agglom.com/set/51315/Sem_Web_Comm_on_Twitter
The easiest way to understand the Semantic Web is to experience the power of "Linked Data" (hyperdata links). This is analogous to how you came to understand the initial Web bootstrap via "Linked Documents" (hypertext links).
Hyperlinking is now comprised of Hypertext and Hyperdata link types. The addition of Hyperdata to the Hyperlink mix is the basic new feature that the "Semantic Web" delivers.
Hyperdata allows you to use the same URL mechanism to locate and negotiate the representation of a description of a resource/object/entity i.e., you can see a description in (X)HTML, RDF/JSON, RDF/XML, N3/Turtle etc. You can query Hyperdata links (using SPARQL) and then get tabular results in a variety of formats (including Excel CSV alongside, JSON, XML etc..).
Linked Data is basically the facilitator of Hyperdata linking.
Links:
1. http://tinyurl.com/6t8yby - "this page" (a resource/object/entity) in RDF Linked Data form with links to mentioned Twitter accounts and their Linked Data Spaces
2. http://dbpedia.org/resource/Linked_Data .
Here's a suggestion, instead of following thousands of people on twitter, how about publish here the good work they do so I can read it on greader? =)
How about @azaaza for Mozilla Lab's Ubiquity?
Thanks for the list, this is good stuff.
And while I'm pretty much a nobody in the semweb space, I am working on a semantic-web powered social-networking and collaboration platform, know as OpenQabal. Feel free to follow me on twitter as @mindcrime