The Tetherless World Weblog

The Tetherless World invites users of Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch to try out our new ontology browser, OWL Mobile.

OWL Mobile is powered by Jena and Pellet, operating remotely, to provide speed and battery performance mobile devices users expect from their applications. Load one or more ontologies through the Load Ontologies tab. Supply a URL to a custom ontology or use the list of past ontologies. Once you’ve loaded an ontology, use the “Classes”, “Properties”, and “Individuals” tabs to browse through the ontology. Clicking on an item will expand it and give additional information about that particular object. Links which point to other members of the ontology will switch to the appropriate URI when clicked. External links such as web pages, email address, and phone numbers will open the appropriate application on iPhone (phone numbers won’t work on the iTouch) when activated.

Point Safari to http://onto.rpi.edu/demo/owlmobile2/ to try the application. Feel free to bookmark it or add it to the home screen for easy access.

Evan Patton

Alright, this is an odd blog post since it’s really directed at the bloggers who are aggregated on Planet RDF, and this was the only way I could figure out how to get it there.

Like many of the other blogs on this site, the Tetherless World blog has a number of different authors who write our pieces. On PlanetRDF, however, if we don’t sign the blog, you cannot tell who wrote it (except by guessing) unless you link over to the original blog site. This is odd as the RSS feeds from most of these blogs use some form of author field.

I did a little mousing around, and best I can tell there seem to be a bunch of different ways the different blogs report the author, with the RSS author element not being the most used. I wonder if either we the bloggers, or PlanetRDF’s keepers, might not think about fixing this somehow?

At the very least, perhaps we could use the low tech solution and sign our blogs.

cheers

The masked blogger