Clark & Parsia: Thinking Clearlyhttp://weblog.clarkparsia.com/2006-02-10T00:00:00ZSemtech 2013 Previewhttp://weblog.clarkparsia.com/2013/05/13/semtech-2013-preview/2013-05-13T00:00:00Z2013-05-13T00:00:00Z<p>We’ll be at the <a href="http://semtechbiz.com/">Semantic Technology and Business Conference</a> in San Franciso next month giving four scheduled talks, an all-day tutorial, and innumerable conversations and chats in the halls. What follows is a brief preview of the scheduled talks…</p>
Pellet on Githubhttp://weblog.clarkparsia.com/2013/05/13/pellet-on-github/2013-05-13T00:00:00Z2013-05-13T00:00:00Z<p>We’ve moved Pellet source code to <a href="http://github.com/clarkparsia/pellet">Github</a> and it’s a good thing, too…</p>
Stardog 1.2http://weblog.clarkparsia.com/2013/04/22/stardog-12/2013-04-22T00:00:00Z2013-04-22T00:00:00Z<p>Earlier today we released <a href="http://stardog.com/"><strong>Stardog 1.2</strong></a> which you can download for evaluation right now.</p>
<p>Go on…I’ll wait. Done? Awesome…</p>
Stardog: What's Coming Next?http://weblog.clarkparsia.com/2012/09/27/stardog-whats-coming-next/2012-09-27T00:00:00Z2012-09-27T00:00:00Z<p>Stardog is on the move; we got <a href="http://stardog.com/">Stardog 1.0</a> out the door without anyone dying; we’ve got customers; people are using it; and we released Stardog Community, too. Since the 1.0 release in June we’ve done 6 releases, about one every two weeks. Most of them have focused on small usability improvements, performance tweaks, and, of course, bug fixes…</p>
Stardog 1.0http://weblog.clarkparsia.com/2012/06/18/stardog-10/2012-06-18T00:00:00Z2012-06-18T00:00:00Z<p>Today I’m happy to announce the release of <a href="http://stardog.com/">Stardog
1.0</a>, the fastest, smartest, and easiest to use RDF
database on the planet. Stardog fills a hole in the Semantic Technology
(and NoSQL database) market for an RDF database that is fast, zero config,</p>
Stardog 0.9 Release Announcedhttp://weblog.clarkparsia.com/2012/02/23/stardog-09-release-announced/2012-02-23T00:00:00Z2012-02-23T00:00:00Z<p>We’re happy to announce the release of <strong>Stardog 0.9</strong>,
the first <em>feature-complete</em> version of Stardog. Please <a href="http://stardog.com/">download</a> it and send feedback to the
<a href="https://groups.google.com/a/clarkparsia.com/group/stardog/about">support forum</a>…</p>
Semantic Versioning and OWL Ontologieshttp://weblog.clarkparsia.com/2011/09/19/semantic-versioning-and-owl-ontologies/2011-09-19T00:00:00Z2011-09-19T00:00:00Z<p>I begin with a bald, if not exactly bold claim: an OWL ontology is
like a public API for your data. Better: an OWL ontology is a public,
machine-readable contract between producers and consumers about the meaning
of data…</p>
Stardog Performance: SP2B Benchmarkhttp://weblog.clarkparsia.com/2011/05/31/stardog-performance-sp2b-benchmark/2011-05-31T00:00:00Z2011-05-31T00:00:00Z<p>As you may already know, we’re working hard on
<a href="http://stardog.com/">Stardog</a>, our upcoming RDF database. It’s presently
in closed alpha testing (55 testers), at version 0.5.3, and progressing
rapidly. The overriding goals for Stardog, which we’ve repeated often, are:</p>
How to Create Business Value with Semantic Techhttp://weblog.clarkparsia.com/2011/05/04/how-to-create-business-value-with-semantic-tech/2011-05-04T00:00:00Z2011-05-04T00:00:00Z<p>I recently
<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/kendall/status/65404717152473088">tweeted</a> that we
build ontologies to create business value. I meant that we build Semantic
Technology-based software to empower our customers to create business value
(or to create it for them). In reply, a few people said they’d like to hear
more…</p>
SDQ: Information Integration in the Real Worldhttp://weblog.clarkparsia.com/2011/03/07/sdq-information-integration-in-the-real-world/2011-03-07T00:00:00Z2011-03-07T00:00:00Z<p>The semantic technology sweet spot is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_integration">information
integration</a>; that means
(primarily, but not only) evaluating SPARQL queries over a set of
distributed, heterogeneous data sources. Such query results should be sound;
they can be, optionally, exact or approximative. SDQ is our product that
provides this (and more) functionality…</p>