2023 is the year that loose coupling of disparate components and software composability return to the fore.
YES! No more expensive data silos (accelerated by application sprawl) impeding enterprise and individual agility!
Stay tuned with us in 2023 as we are committed to solving critical Data Access, Integration, and Management challenges with products and services delivering unrivaled performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. As usual, let’s recap some highlights from our activities in 2022!
A full listing of our updates from 2022 can be found here. Recap is also available in newsletter form here.
January 2022
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Exploiting HTML-hosted Knowledge Graphs — Using OpenLink Productivity Tools
OpenLink Software CEO, Kingsley Idehen, demonstrates how to exploit Knowledge Graphs embedded in HTML documents using a selection of productivity tools from our product portfolio. -
Quick and simple demonstration by Sonj Heward-Mills, showcasing how to use the OpenLink Structured Data Sniffer (OSDS) Browser Extension to extract, transform, and load (ETL) recipe data from a BBC Food HTML document, accomplished with just a few simple steps.
February 2022
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Introducing Twingler — A Smart Agent for powerful Knowledge Graph generation from Tweets & Threads. Invoke it by replying to a thread with “@DataTwingler unroll”.
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Mini presentation on the new “Really Simple Syndication (RSS)” feature of OpenLink Structured Data Sniffer (OSDS), which delivers a productive method of content publication, syndication, and subscription. This presentation covers what RSS is, why it is important, how it is commonly used, and how to exploit it via OSDS.
March 2022
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What do DBpedia Live (Legacy), New DBpedia Live, and Wikidata Demo have in common? Virtuoso instances running in Virtual Machines, all sharing the same Host Computer!
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Generating Knowledge Graphs from existing Data Sources is a game-changer — especially if you have a platform at your disposal that makes it all possible using existing open standards, such as our Virtuoso.
April 2022
- The Knowledge Graph, Ontology, and Linked Data Explainer by Kingsley Idehen, will help you understand why Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies, and Linked Data are powerful tools for digital transformation, by demonstrating how the magic of Hyperlinks extends beyond the World Wide Web. This post includes a collection of simple explanations with embedded use-case demonstration screencasts.
May 2022
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Virtuoso Reasoning and Inference capabilities — The notion of a Semantic Web is “deceptively simple,” just like the real-world. It can be demonstrated using very simple examples, while still remaining somewhat tricky to comprehend.
Here is a demonstration of Knowledge Graph based reasoning and inference, using book recommendations from Barrack Obama and Oprah Winfrey via ReadThisTwice.
July 2022
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Why should you consider OpenLink’s Data Access & Connectivity Technology?
- Preserve Investment in IT Infrastructure
- Secure User Access to Data
- Reduce Costs of Application Development
- Ease Integration of New Applications
- Increase Sophistication of Application Functionality
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Wikidata Snapshot (Virtuoso PAGO) EBS-backed EC2 AMI starts as a static instance, preloaded with the
Wikidata 2020-03dataset dump, mirroring the public Wikidata instance found behind this OpenLink Virtuoso SPARQL Query Editor.
September 2022
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The world of Data Access, Integration, and Management is changing profoundly — There was a time when a DBMS table or Spreadsheet file was the prime source of structured data for operations driven by declarative query languages (prime example, SQL). Today, HTML documents are emerging as broadly supported additions to the structured data source collective.
For instance, here are live examples of declarative SPARQL queries that use HTML document URLs as Data Source Names — just click to explore!
- Ford Cars — HTML5 table (faceted browsing links)
- McDonalds Recipes — HTML5 table (faceted browsing links)
October 2022
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Maintenance Release of Virtuoso 08.03.3326 — new features include:
- Encryption at Rest (EAR),
- Built-in (a/k/a Native) GraphQL support,
- Mutual-TLS, PKCE, and DPoP support,
- NetID-TLS protocol extended to support blockchains (Bitcoin and/or Ethereum)
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Virtuoso Open Source edition 7.2.8 Release with Key New Features:
- Native GraphQL support
- More flexible AnyTime Query functionality that scales ad-hoc querying to the Web
November 2022
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- OpenLink Structured Data Sniffer (OSDS) Browser Extension v2.21.6
- YouID — The Magic of Being You!
- Virtuoso release and DBpedia bundle for Microsoft Azure PAGO Edition
- PAGO Virtuoso 8.3.3326 for Ubuntu 18.04 on Azure Marketplace
- BYOL Virtuoso 8.3.3326 for Ubuntu 18.04 on Azure Marketplace
- PAGO Virtuoso with DBpedia Snapshot for Ubuntu on AWS Marketplace
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Loading the Wikidata Truthy dataset into Virtuoso Open Source Edition — Here’s a simple guide that covers how we constructed a Wikidata Truthy instance deployed using the latest Virtuoso Open Source Edition!
December 2022
- Updated OpenLink Release 8.0 Windows 64bit Single-Tier Lite ODBC-JDBC Bridge driver Installer and DLLs — Updated the components to enable installer or manual update of an existing OpenLink Windows 64bit Single-Tier Lite ODBC-JDBC Bridge driver installation.