1. How it all started Photo Credit: Daniel Sparing The slides to this talk are licensed CC-BY-SA/3.0

2. Flickr kills the dream…

3. But Creative Commons Saves the Day

4. animalphotos.info

5. dbpedia & the semantic web Subject Predicate (Verb) Object <dbpedia:Albatross> <rdf:type> <dbpedia-owl:Bird> . http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Bird http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type http://dbpedia.org/resource/Albatross

6. the linked data cloud “Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and AnjaJentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/”

7. automating the process search for candidates Identify topics filter correct images describe images dbpedia flickr

8. amazon mechanical turk

9. carpictures.cc

10. the business model

11. how many things exist? The game of 20 questions  220 = about a million…

12. what sort of things exist? “Everything on Earth:” Places, People, Creative Works, Life Forms, Technological Artifacts

13. ny-pictures.com

14. exploring the earth’s noösphere Noösphere, according to the thought of Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin, denotes the "sphere of human thought".

15. ookaboo.com takes off

16. ookaboo semantic API http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand API Thanks: Andyindia, Echiner1, Rene Eherhardt

17. Why don’t computers understand human language? The Ink is In The Pen The Pig is In The Pen Thanks: Seaniz, GiangHồThịHoàng, Claudia Scholz and

18. the human memome project One ring to bind them all?

19. Top-down? Bottom-up? Both! Merge data from a wide range of sources, continuously test against reality by performance in practical applications

20. Ontology2: Long Term Evolution