What would you do with free pictures of everything on Earth?

Paul Houle

How it all started

Photo Credit: Daniel Sparing The slides to this talk are licensed CC-BY-SA/3.0

Flickr kills the dream…

But Creative Commons Saves the Day

animalphotos.info

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

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

automating the process

dbpedia flickr

Identify topics search for candidates filter correct images

describe images

amazon mechanical turk

carpictures.cc

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

the business model

People use images

People make links

Site gets more traffic

Advertising Revenue

Gather content

how many things exist?

The game of 20 questions 220 = about a million…

what sort of things exist?

“Everything on Earth:” Places, People, Creative Works, Life Forms, Technological Artifacts

ny-pictures.com

geospatial selection + Wikipedia graph

The only way is no way…

The only limits are no limits…

The only taxonomy is no taxonomy…

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

ookaboo.com takes off

ookaboo

pictures

topics

sources

Network analysis+

Text analysis+

Social

ookaboo

ookaboo semantic API

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand

API

Thanks: Andyindia, Echiner1, Rene Eherhardt

Why don’t computers understand human language?

The Ink is In The Pen

The Pig is In The PenThanks: Seaniz, GiangHồThịHoàng, Claudia Scholz and

the human memome project

One ring to bind them all?

Top-down? Bottom-up? Both!

Merge data from a wide range of sources, continuously test against reality by performance in practical applications

Databases Logic

21st century knowledge engineering

RDF

“machine learning” + rules + social + …

A Market in Common Sense

Linked Data Business Models

Free Shared Vocabulary Enables Interconnection…

…but the profit motive spurs investment to create quality data.

Ookaboo directions

• Official RDF dump

• More pictures

• Better navigation

• Better accuracy

• Semantically targeted advertising

Questions?

http://ookaboo.com/

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