what would you do with free pictures of everything on earth?
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A presentation I gave at the NYC Semantic Web meetup on Dec 8, 2011. I talk about Ookaboo.com, a collection of images that are tagged with precise Linked Data terms from Freebase and DBpedia.TRANSCRIPT
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What would you do with free pictures of everything on Earth?
Paul Houle
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How it all started
Photo Credit: Daniel Sparing The slides to this talk are licensed CC-BY-SA/3.0
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Flickr kills the dream…
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But Creative Commons Saves the Day
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animalphotos.info
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dbpedia& the semantic web
<dbpedia:Albatross><rdf:type><dbpedia-owl:Bird> .
Subject Predicate (Verb) Object
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albatross
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type
http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Bird
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Taxonomy Construction and Data Integration
Output
Triple Store RDF File CMS NoSQL Lucene
RDF Processing Pipeline
OWL SPARQL 1.1 SPIN RIF Hadoop
Input Data
RDF Freebase Relational CSV
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automating the process
dbpedia flickr
Identify topics search for candidates filter correct images
describe images
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amazon mechanical turk
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carpictures.cc
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Fueleconomy.gov
2007 2008 2009
Chevrolet Honda Volkswagen
Civic ElementAccord
Wikipedia
Honda Concept Cars
Front-Wheel Drive Vehicles
S360 FCX Civic
Chevrolet Honda Volkswagen
Civic ElementAccordS360 FCX
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the business model
People use images
People make links
Site gets more traffic
Advertising Revenue
Gather content
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how many things exist?
The game of 20 questions 220 = about a million…
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what sort of things exist?
“Everything on Earth:” Places, People, Creative Works, Life Forms, Technological Artifacts
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ny-pictures.com
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geospatial selection + Wikipedia graph
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The only way is no way…
The only limits are no limits…
The only taxonomy is no taxonomy…
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exploring the earth’s noösphere
Noösphere, according to the thought of Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin, denotes the "sphere of human thought".
people
placesinventions
creative works
life forms
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ookaboo.com takes off
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ookaboo
pictures
topics
sources
Network analysis+
Text analysis+
Social
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ookaboo
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ookaboo semantic API
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand
API
Thanks: Andyindia, Echiner1, Rene Eherhardt
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Why don’t computers understand human language?
The Ink is In The Pen
The Pig is In The PenThanks: Seaniz, GiangHồThịHoàng, Claudia Scholz and
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the human memome project
One ring to bind them all?
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Top-down? Bottom-up? Both!
Merge data from a wide range of sources, continuously test against reality by performance in practical applications
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Databases Logic
21st century knowledge engineering
RDF
“machine learning” + rules + social + …
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A Market in Common Sense
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Linked Data Business Models
Free Shared Vocabulary Enables Interconnection…
…but the profit motive spurs investment to create quality data.
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Ookaboo directions
• Official RDF dump
• More pictures
• Better navigation
• Better accuracy
• Semantically targeted advertising
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Questions?
http://ookaboo.com/
All images on Ookaboo are public domain or creative commons and can be used freely for commercial and non-commercial purposes