Mashup Cookbook

Tasteful Recipes of How to Combine the Freshest Ingredients
from Data Visualization, Semantics and Information Currency
During the Global Economic Recovery of 2010 and beyond.


Recipe #1: The Words and the Abstract Truth


Ingredients: note use only the freshes ingredients.
No substitutes!

  • 1 tablespoon of nouns
  • 1 tablespoon of verbs
  • 1 tablespoon of unused words
  • 1 teaspoon of colors
  • Lexical and semantic distance measures as needed

See what's in the oven by clicking on the image to the right.

The Words and the Abstract Truth Circle Layout

Combine the ingredients using a circle layout from the Java Universal Network Graph Framework. Display search words in yellow, the words against which they are compared in blue and the unused words in orange. Dislplay nouns as N, verbs as V and unued words as U. Create a vertex for each search word. Create a vertex for lexical matches, words in the synset that contain the search word as well as related words that contain the search word. Count the lexical and semantic distance. Add a directed adge for pairs of vertexes. Display the lexical and semantic distance on each edge.

Semantics

Use the premade ingredients from the Wordnet lexicographers who encoded the Wordnet data with synset offsets. The blue words and their distance measures represent the interpretation of the search words by the respondent in a dialogue.

Information Currency

Translate ingredients from their native format into RDF. Just straight resources and properties. No RDFS or OWL is required. Combine the ingredients into a Jena in memory store query and SPARQL query as necessary. Note RSS feeds may vary. You may not have the opportunity to choose how the RSS feeds are implemented. Use the Tweets for the search words and the RSS feeds for the words against which they are compared. Setup your own controlled vocabulary on Wordie to restrict the search words to taste.



Recipe #2: RDFS Idioms for the Working Semiotician


  • 1 tablespoon of Objects
  • 1 tablespoon of Signs
  • Conceptions as needed
  • 1 teaspoon Icon
  • 1 teaspoon Likeness
  • 1 cup of representation
  • 1 cup of signification
  • 1 cup of resolution

See what's in the oven by clicking on the image to the right.

RDFS Idioms for the Working Semiotician

Combine ingredients using design patterns from Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist and domain knowledge from On a New List of Categories. Separate signs from the objects and place on cooking sheet. Set the Concepts aside. Place one sign on top of each object. Decorate with Conceptions.

RDFS Inference

Semiotics Domain