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Subj3ct.com Beta 2 Released

Graham Moore — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:59:06 +0000

We have just refreshed Subj3ct.com with Beta 2. We have tried to incorporate the feedback we have had as well as adding some things we think are useful. The highlights are:
* Support for OpenID for signing in
* Ability to create and publish identifiers and indicator pages from with the Subj3ct portal
* A changes feed that can be used to aggregate whats happening in Subj3ct
* Embeddable snippets (RDFa, SKOS etc) on each subject record page that can be used to tag a page with a given subject.
* The start of a user community that currently supports user search
* Ability to process SKOS feeds
* Ability to register feeds without creating an account (this allows users to reference existing SKOS vocabularies that they don't own)
* Updated statistics on the home page and quick links to most recent subjects and some random subjects.
* Bug fixes and performance improvements
We now have 3180 identifiers in 23 feeds and we and others are adding to this all the time.
More stuff to come...

subj3ct.com Released

Graham Moore — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:54:33 +0000

Today we are proud to have launched Subj3ct.
Subj3ct is a Subject Identity Resolution Service, it provides both a portal for humans to use and an API for developers and applications. We store subject identifiers, equivalent identifiers and also links to web resources that contain structured or unstructured information about a subject.
The resolution service is intended to provide services to:
a) people looking to re-use common identifiers in order to improve interchange
b) application developers who are building the next generation of web applications, where dynamically finding and merging linked data is key
We are starting out in gathering mode, trying to get collections of identifiers registered so that we have a useful set of subjects.
Once we have this we will be creating new features and writing more on how to use the service in building Web 3.0 applications.
In the meantime, we would really appreciate it if people can register subject feeds and just generally provide feedback on the portal and API.
Everything can be found at https://subj3ct.com
Finally, thanks for all the support and encouragement we have received in putting this exciting service together.
The Subj3ct Team

A Vision for a Topic Maps World

Graham Moore — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:14:16 +0000

Yesterday at the Topic Maps 2009 conference in Oslo I gave a presentation called 'A Vision for a Topic Maps World'. In this presentation I summarised some of the key successes of Topic Maps and then looked forward to how Topic Maps can work on a more global scale.
One of the key things I presented was a concept for a Subject Identity Resolution service, a kind of DNS for subjects and representations of statements about subjects.
The full presentation can be found here.
We'll be blogging more about the Subject Identity Resolution Service over the coming weeks.