SWSA panel

Thursday, October 7, 2021, saw a panel of three founding members of the Semantic Web research community, who each have been my teachers and mentors over the years: Rudi Studer, Natasha Noy, and Jim Hendler. I loved watching the panel and enjoyed it thoroughly, also because it was just great to see all of them again.

There were many interesting insights and thoughts in this panel, too many to write them all down, but I want to mention a few.

It was interesting how much all panelists talked about creating the Semantic Web community, and how much of an intentional effort that was. Deciding that it needs a conference, a journal, an organization, setting those up, and their interactions. Seeing and fostering a sustainable research community grown out of an idea is a formidable and amazing effort. They all mentioned positively the diversity in the community, and that it was a conscious effort to work towards that. Rudi mentioned that the future challenge will be with ensuring that computer science students actually have Semantic Web technologies integrated into their standard curriculum.

They named a number of the successes that were influenced by the Semantic Web research work, such as Schema.org, the heavy use of SPARQL in supercomputing (I had no idea!), Wikidata (thanks for the shout out, Rudi!), and the development of scalable graph databases. Natasha raised the advantage of having common identifiers throughout an organization, i.e. that everyone refers to California the same way. They also named areas that remained elusive and that they expect to see progress in the coming years, Rudi in particular mentioned Agents and Common Sense, which was echoed by the other participants, and Jim mentioned Personal Knowledge Graphs. Jim mentioned he was surprised by the growing importance of unstructured data. Jim is also hoping for something akin to “procedural attachments” - you see some new data coming in, you perform this action (I would like to think that a little Wikifunctions goes a long way).

We need both, open knowledge graphs and closed knowledge graphs (think of your personal ones, but also the ones by companies).

The most important contribution so far and also well into the future was the idea of decentralization of semantics. To allow different stakeholders to work asynchronously and separately on parts of the semantics and yet share data. This also includes the decentralization of knowledge graphs, but also in the future we will encounter a world where semantics are increasingly brought together and yet decentralized.

One interesting anecdote was shared by Natasha. She was talking about a keynote by Guha (one of the few researchers who were namechecked in the panel, along with Tim Berners-Lee) at ISWC in Sydney 2013. How Guha was saying how simple the technology needs to be, and how there were many in the audience who were aghast and shocked by the talk. Now, eight years later and given her experience building Dataset Search, she appreciates the insights. If they have a discussion about a new property for longer than five minutes, they drop it. It’s too complicated, and people will use it wrong so often that the data cleanup will become expensive.

All of them shared the advice for researchers in their early career stage to work on topics that truly inspire them, on problems that are real and that they and others care about, and that if they do so, the results have the best chance to have impact. Think about problems you can explain to people not in your field, about “how can we use triples to save the world” - and not just about “hey, look, that problem that we solved with these other technologies previously, now we can also solve it with Semantic Web technologies”. This doesn’t really help anyone. Solve new problems. Solve real problems. And do what you are truly passionate about.

I enjoyed the panel, and can recommend everyone in the Semantic Web research area or any related, nearby research, to check it out. Thanks to the organizers for this talk (which is the first session in a series of talks that will continue with Ora Lassila early December).

• Watch the whole panel on YouTube

Sacre Coeur

Ich teste nur flickr aus. Angeblich kann flickr direkt auf meinen Blog posten. Und das Bild ist wirklich schön. Aber nicht von mir.

Update: Bild ist nunmehr gesperrt. Es handelte sich um dieses Bild der Kirche Sacre Ceour in Paris, doch es scheint nun auch von flickr entfernt worden zu sein

Sagrada Familia

Ich bin zwar schon zurück aus Barcelona, aber so zwei, drei Nachwehen werde ich dazu noch bloggen. Heute: die Sagrada Familia, die Kathedrale der Heiligen Familie zu Barcelona (noch im Bau). Man kommt hin, und muss schlappe 8 Euro hinblättern für den Eintritt. Erscheint viel, ist es auch.

Aber wie berechnet man den Eintritt für etwas, das wirklich einzigartig ist? Man sieht vor allem eine Baustelle, umgeben von den gewaltigen bestehenden Türmen. Der Aufzug nach oben kostet nochmal 2 Euro, und der Treppenaufgang ist versteckt und finster und dunkel - und sehr lohnenswert. Der Blick über Barcelona, den man von da oben genißen kann, ist nur das Sahnestück, das eigentlich unglaubliche ist die Kathedrale selbst. Höher und höher, Scharten, Fenster, Durchblicke überall, immer wieder fällt der Blick durch ein Fenster, genau auf ein golden Geschriebens Wort, auf eine Engelsfigur, auf eines der unzähligen Elemente der Kathedrale.

Wie gewaltige Mammutbäume schmiegen sich die Säulen an eines der vier Portale, alles scheint gen Himmel zu fließen, überall Zitate aus Natur und Geschichte. Das Museum öffnet einem die Augen für zahlreiche Details, zeigt die Tricks für die fließende Wirkung, entschlüsselt manches Detail aus der Natur, und ich blieb staunend zurück mit der Frage, was Gaudi heute mit einem CAD-Programm anstellen würde, ob er genialer, ob er konservativer wäre...

Teuer, aber sehenswert. Und zudem ein schönes Glockenspiel. Und sehr, sehr hoch...

Sam Altman and the veil of ignorance

(This is not about Altman having been removed as CEO of OpenAI)

During the APEC forum on Thursday, Sam Altman has been cited to having said the following thing: "Four times now in the history of OpenAI—the most recent time was just in the last couple of weeks—I’ve gotten to be in the room when we push the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward. And getting to do that is like the professional honor of a lifetime."

He meant that as an uplifting quote to describe how awesome his company and their achievements are.

I find it deeply worrying. Why?

The "veil of ignorance" (also known as the original position) is a thought experiment introduced by John Rawls, one of the leading American moral and political philosophers of the 20th century. The goal is to think about the fairness of a society or a social system without you knowing where in the system you end up: are you on top or at the bottom? What are your skills, your talents? Who are your friends? Do you have disabilities? What is your gender, your family history?

The whole point is to *not* push the veil of ignorance back, otherwise you'll create an unfair system. It is a good tool to think about the coming disruptions by AI technology.

The fact that he's using that specific term but is obviously entirely oblivious to its meaning tells us that there was a path that term took, probably from someone working on ethics to then-CEO Altman, and that someone didn't listen. The meaning was lost, and the beautiful phrase was entirely repurposed.

Given that's coming from the then-CEO of the company that claims and insists on, again and again (without substantial proof) that they are doing all this for the greater benefit of all humanity, that are, despite their name, increasingly closing their results, making public scrutiny increasingly difficult if not impossible - well, I find that worrying. The quote indicates that they have no idea about a basic tool towards evaluating fairness, even worse, have heard about it - but they have not listened or comprehended.

• Wikipedia on the veil of ignorance
• Source of the Altman quote

San Francisco and Challenges

Time is running totally crazy on me in the last few weeks. Right now I am in San Francisco -- if you like to suggest a meeting, drop me a line.

The CKC Challenge is going on and well! If you didn't have the time yet, check it out! Everybody is speaking about how to foster communities for shared knowledge building, this challenge is actually doing it, and we hope to get some good numbers and figures out of it. An fun -- there is a mystery prize involved! Hope to see as many of you as possible at the CKC 2007 in a few days!

Yet another challenge with prizes is going on at Centiare. Believe it or not, you can actually make money with using a Semantic MediaWiki, wih the Centiare Prize 2007. Read more there.

Saturn the alligator

Today at work I learned about Saturn the alligator. Born to humble origins in 1936 in Mississippi, he moved to Berlin where he became acquainted with Hitler. After the bombing of the Berlin Zoo he wandered through the streets. British troops found him, gave him to the Soviets, where against all odds he survived a number of near death situations - among others he refused to eat for a year - and still lives today, in an enclosure sponsored by Lacoste.

I also went to Wikidata to improve the entry on Saturn. For that I needed to find the right property to express the connection between Saturn, and the Moscow Zoo, where he is held.

The following SPARQL query was helpful: https://w.wiki/7ga

It tells you which properties connect animals with zoos how often - and in the Query Helper UI it should be easy to change either types to figure out good candidates for the property you are looking for.

• Saturn on English Wikipedia
• Saturn on Wikidata

Schlagzeuger sind ersetzlich

Durch Maschinen. Diese Studie zeigt eine solche Möglichkeit.

Im ernst, wer Percussion mag, wird sicher dieses Video sehr cool finden. Und wer Musik mag auch. Oder Computerzeichentrick. Ich habe gelesen, dass das Programm, welches das Video erzeugt hat, ein beliebiges Midi reinladen konnte. Man musste dann nur noch die Kameraschwenks und Perspektiven bestimmen. Wow.

Weitere solche Videos bei Google. Die Animusic DVD gibt es auch, in deutlich besserer Qualität, zu kaufen.

Schnitt!

Dass dem Chirurgen notfalls Gesundheit vor einem Tattoo geht, ist ja nur verständlich. Dass durch den Schnitt des Chirurgen ab und an Tattoos beschädigt werden, leider unvermeidbar.

Dumm nur, wenn das Tattoo die Worte I like women bildete, und das wo durch den Schnitt verloren geht... (aus der Zeit)

Schon Juni, wie die Zeit vergeht...

Nachdem im Mai nicht nur die Zahl der Hits geradezu explodierte - Danke, liebe Leser, Danke, Danke, Danke! - sondern sich auch vor allem Schwesterchens Galerie mit inzwischen über 50 Bildern ausdehnte, wird es im Juni ebenso weitergehen: noch mehr Bilder von Schwesterchen warten darauf, in die Galerie zu gelangen, die Jahre 2000-2002 (soweit vorhanden) werden in diesem Monat ihren Platz auf Nodix finden. Die Studienarbeit wollte ich bis heute in einer ersten Version fertig haben, verspäte mich aber ein wenig. Auf alle Fälle wird sie im Laufe des Junis ebenfalls hier auftauchen.

Das zugesagte Entstauben von Nodix hat noch nicht stattgefunden: dafür warteten einfach zu viele neue Inhalte, die hier auf die Seite wollten. Ein völlig andersartiger Text als die meisten dieser Seite, an dem ich ebenfalls beteiligt bin, findet sich übrigens auf baumgarf.de, für die Nodix auch ein wenig Werbung macht. Besagter Text ist das herrlich-unsinnige Frank, neben vielen anderen Sachen, die allemal ein Besuch wert sind.

Und endlich noch ein paar Worte zu den DSA4 Tools: der DSA4 Heldenerschaffer und das DSA4 Heldendokument sind nicht mehr - in den nächsten zwei, drei Tagen werden sie beide von dieser Seite entfernt. Weil sie nämlich durch das DSA4 Werkzeug ersetzt werden! Statt vieler kleiner Tools wird es ein großes geben, welches alle diese Aufgaben erfüllt. Dies hängt auch zusammen mit der baldig anstehenden Entscheidung, ob ich das DSA4 Werkzeug als Open Source Projekt aufziehen werde - spätestens seitdem Schwerter & Helden erschienen sind, scheint diese notwendig klar und deutlich zu sein. Aber dazu sicher mehr im Laufe des Monats... es wird ohnehin noch ein wenig dauern, bis ich den Quelltext soweit aufgeräumt habe, dass ich ihn für veröffentlichbar halte - oder wollt ihr lieber jetzt gleich und sofort damit rumspielen, auch wenn man nicht notwendig durchsteigt?

Soweit die Begrüßung! Vergesst nicht, das tolle Wetter zu genießen, und viel Spaß noch auf den Seiten von Nodx! Schließlich gilt es zu feiern, dass die Aktion 10.000 so gigantisch weiterläuft - über 6000 Hits sind bereits geschafft!

Alles Gute,
ein kurzhaariger
Denny Vrandecic

P.S.: vielen Dank für die lobenden Worte, die ich immer liebend gerne lese. Wer sich auch immer dazu hinreißen lässt, sich die Zeit für etwas Feedback zu nehmen, dem werde ich sicherlich dankbar sein.

Schwesterchens Rückkehr

Schwesterchen ist wohlbehalten daheim angekommen. Nach der Katastrophe von letzter Woche wollten die außerirdischen Entführer von Zirkonia-B das Risiko einer Wiederholung nicht eingehen und haben sie freigelassen! Herzlich Willkommen, Schwesterchen, und Knuddelz!!

Über persönliche Glückwünsche zur bestandenen Entführung freut sich, und über die Mitteilung, dass Ihr ihr Comic vermisst habt, freut sie sich sicher ungemein... schreibt Schwesterchen!

Nebenher angemerkt: das DSA4 Werkzeug Version 1.21 ist erschienen. Mit toller neuen Druckfunktion! Genau genommen, drei verschiedenen Ausgabefunktionen für Heldenbriefe...

Semantic MediaWiki 0.6: Timeline support, ask pages, et al.

It has been quite a while since the last release of Semantic MediaWiki, but there was enormous work going into it. Huge thanks to all contributors, especially Markus, who has written the bulk of the new code, reworked much of the existing, and pulled together the contributions from the other coders, and the Simile team for their great Timeline code that we reused. (I lost overview, because the last few weeks have seen some travels and a lot of work, especially ISWC2006 and the final review of the SEKT project I am working on. I will blog on SEKT more as soon as some further steps are done).

So, what's new in the second Beta-release of the Semantic MediaWiki? Besides about 2.7 tons of code fixes, usability and performance improvements, we also have a number of neat new features. I will outline just four of them:

• Timeline support: you know SIMILE's Timeline tool? No? You should. It is like Google Maps for the fourth dimension. Take a look at the Timeline webpage to see some examples. Or at ontoworld's list of upcoming events. Yes, created dynamically out of the wiki data.
• Ask pages: the simple semantic search was too simple, you think? Now we finally have a semantic search we dare not to call simple. Based on the existing Ask Inline Queries, and actually making them also fully functional, the ask pages allow to dynamically query the wiki knowledge base. No more sandbox article editing to get your questions answered. Go for the semantic search, and build your ask queries there. And all retrievable via GET. Yes, you can link to custom made queries from everywhere!
• Service links: now all attributes can automatically link to further resources via the service links displayed in the fact box. Sounds abstract? It's not, it's rather a very powerful tool to weave the web tighter together: service links specify how to connect the attributes data to external services that use that data, for example, how to connect geographic coordinates with Yahoo maps, or ontologies with Swoogle, or movies with IMdb, or books with Amazon, or ... well, you can configure it yourself, so your imagination is the limit.
• Full RDF export: some people don't like pulling the RDF together from many different pages. Well, go and get the whole RDF export here. There is now a maintenance script included which can be used via a cron job (or manually) to create an RDF dump of the whole data inside the wiki. This is really useful for smaller wikis, and external tools can just take that data and try to use it. By the way, if you have an external tool and reuse the data, we would be happy if you tell us. We are really looking forward to more examples of reuse of data from a Semantic MediaWiki installation!

I am looking much forward to December, when I can finally join Markus again with the coding and testing. Thank you so very much for your support, interest, critical and encouraging remarks with regards to Semantic MediaWiki. Grab the code, update your installation, or take the chance and switch your wiki to Semantic MediaWiki.

Just a remark: my preferred way to install both MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki is to pull it directly from the SVN instead of taking the releases. It's actually less work and helps you tremendously in keeping up to date.

Semantic MediaWiki 1.0 released

After about two years of development and already with installations all over the world, we are very happy to announce the release of Version 1.0 of Semantic MediaWiki, and thus the first stable version. No alpha, no beta, it's out now, and we think you can use it productively. Markus managed to release it in 2007 (on the last day of the year), and it has moved far beyond what 0.7 was, in stability, features, and performance. The biggest change is a completely new ask syntax, much more powerful since it works much smoother with MediaWiki's other systems like the parser functions, and we keep constantly baffling ourselves about what is possible with the new system.

We have finally reached a point where we can say, OK, let's go for massive user testing. We want big and heavy used installations to test our system. We are fully aware that the full power of the queries can easily kill an installation, but there are many ways to tweak performance and expressivity. We are now highly interested in performance reports, and then moving towards our actual goal, Wikipedia.

A lot has changed. You can find a full list of changes in the release notes. And you can download and install Semantic MediaWiki form SourceForge. Spread the word!

There remains still a lot of things to do. We have plenty of ideas how to make it more useful, and our users and co-developers also seem to have plenty of ideas. It is great fun to see the numbers of contributors to the code increase, and also to see the mailing lists being very lively. Personally, I am very happy to see Semantic MediaWiki flourish as it does, and I am thankful to Markus for starting this year (or rather ending the last) with such a great step.

Semantic MediaWiki Demo

Yeah! Doccheck's Klaus Lassleben is implementing the Semantic MediaWiki, and there's a version of it running for quite some time already, but some bugs had to be killed. Now, go and take a look! It's great.

And the coolest thing is the search. Just start typing the relation, and it gives you an autoexpansion, just like Google Suggest does (well, a tiny bit better :) Sure, the autoexpansion is no scientific breakthrough, but it's a pretty darn cool feature.

The SourceForge project Semediawiki is already up and running, and I sure hope that Mr Lassleben will commit the code any day soon!

Even better, Sudarshan has already started implementing extensions to it - without having the code! That's some dedication. His demo is running here, and shows how the typed links may be hidden from the source text of the wiki, for those users who don't like it. Great.

Now, go and check the demo!

Semantic MediaWiki goes business

... but not with the developers. Harry Chen writes about it, and several places copy the press release about Centiare. Actually, we didn't even know about it, and were a bit surprised to hear that news after our trip to India (which was very exciting, by the way). But that's OK, and actually, it's pretty exciting as well. I wish Centiare all the best! Here is their press release.

They write:

Centiare's founder, Karl Nagel, genuinely feels that the world is on the verge of an enormous breakthrough in MediaWiki applications. He says, "What Microsoft Office has been for the past 15 years, MediaWiki will be for the next fifteen." And Centiare will employ the most robust extension of that software, Semantic MediaWiki.

Wow -- I'd never claim that SMW is the most robust extension of MediaWiki -- there are so many of them, and most of them have a much easier time of being robust! But the view of MediaWiki taking the place of Office -- Intriguing. Although I'd put my bets rather on stuff like Google Docs (former Writely), and add some semantic spice to it. Collaborative knowledge construction will be the next big thing. Really big I mean. Oh, speaking about that, check out this WWW workshop on collaborative knowledge construction. Deadline is February 2nd, 2007.

Click here for more information about Centiare.

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Semantic MediaWiki officially Beta

Semantic MediaWiki has gone officially Beta. Markus Krötzsch released Version 0.5 yesterday -- download it at Sourceforge and update your installation!

Markus and I are both busy today updating existing installations (and creating new ones -- greetings towards California!). The new version has several new features:

• One can reuse existing Semantic Web vocabulary, like FOAF. This feature is used so strongly, it led to Swoogle actually believing, FOAF was defined at ontoworld!
• The unit code was improved a lot -- one can define linear units now from inside the wiki. Africa has a list of all African countries, and you can see their size neatly listed.
• New datatypes for URLs and Emails.
• Better code (why we dare to call us Beta)

Check out the new features on ontoworld. Thanks for Markus and S for the coding marathon this weekend, that allowed to make this new release! We are fetching bugs now, and planning 0.6, and our first big stress tests, with lots and lots of data...

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Semantic MediaWiki: The code is out there

Finally! 500 nice lines of code, including the AJAX-powered search, and that's it, version 0.1 of the SeMediaWiki project! Go to Sourceforge and grab the source! Test it! Tell us about the bugs you found, and start developing your own ideas. Create your own Semantic Wiki right now, today.

Well, yes, sure, there is a hell of a lot left to do. Like a proper triplestore connecting to the Wiki. Or a RDF-serialization. But hey, there's something you can play with.

Semantic Mediawiki 0.3

Yay! Markus "the Sorcerer" Krötzsch finished the new release of Semantic MediaWiki today. The demo website is already running version 0.3 for a while.

I'll let Markus speak:

I am glad to finally announce the official release of Semantic MediaWiki 0.3, available as usual at http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/. The final 0.3 is largely equivalent to the preview version that is still running on wiki.ontoworld.org -- the latest changes mainly concern localization.

Semantic MediaWiki 0.3 now runs on MediaWiki 1.6.1 that was released just yesterday. Older versions of MediaWiki should also work but upgrading is generally recommended.

The main new features of 0.3 are:

• support for geographical coordinates (new datatype),
• improved user interface: service links for JScript tooltips, CSS layout,
• OWL/RDF export of all annotation data,
• simplified installation process (including special page for setup/upgrade),
• (almost) complete localization; translations available for English and German,
• better MediaWiki integration: namespaces, user/content language, support for MediaWiki 1.6,
• specials for displaying all relations/attributes,
• experimental (OWL/RDF) ontology import feature,
• and, last but not least, we also fixed quite some bugs.

The next steps towards 0.4 will probably be the inclusion of query results into existing pages, date/time support, and individual user settings for displaying certain datatypes. We also will have another look at ways of hiding the annotations from uninitiated users.

Have fun.

Markus

P.S.: I am not available during the weekend. Upgrading existing wikis should work (it's what we do all the time ;), but be aware that there is not going to be much support during the next three days.

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Semantic Mediawiki 0.4 - Knowledge Inside!

Until now, Semantic MediaWiki was kind of a nerds project. Yes, you could get a lot of information out in RDF, and actually, I used it as an RDF editor more than once -- but heck, what normal person needs that?

Now, with the freshly implemented feature, the advantages of a Semantic MediaWiki over a normal MediaWiki should become obvious: you can simply ask the wiki for stuff! Wiki, what are the 10 biggest city in the US? Put a list here. Or, wiki, what is the height of the current German chancellor? Put the info here. I have made a writeup on those inline queries on our demo wiki. Go there, read it.

But a lot of other things made it into the 0.4 release. Here's Markus' list:

• Improved output for Special:Relations and Special:Attributes: usage of
• relations and attributes is now counted
• Improved ontology import feature, allowing to import ontologies and to update existing pages with new ontological information
• Experimental suport for date/time datatype
• More datypes with units: mass and time duration
• Support for EXP-notation with numbers, as e.g. 2.345e13. Improved number formating in infobox.
• Configurable infobox: infobox can be hidden if empty, or switched off completely. This also works around a bug with MediaWiki galeries.
• Prototype version of Special:Types, showing all available datatypes with their names in the current language setting.
• "[[:located in::Paris]]" will now be rendered as "located in [[Paris]]"
• More efficient storage: changed database layout, indexes for fast search
• Code cleaned up, new style guidelines
• Bugfixes, a lot of Bugixes

Thanks to everyone who contributed and still contributes to the project! And, connected to this, thanks to the answers to my last blog entry -- I will write more on this tomorrow.

Semantic Scripting

Oh my, I really need to designate some time to this blog. But let's not ranting about time - no one of us has time - let's directly dive into my paper for the Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web on the 2nd ESWC in Heraklion next week. Here is the abstract.

Python reached out to a wide and diverse audience in the last few years. During its evolution it combined a number of different paradigms under its hood: imperative, object-oriented, functional, listoriented, even aspect-oriented programming paradigms are allowed, but still remain true to the Python way of programming, thus retaining simplicity, readability and fun. OWL is a knowledge representation language for the definition of ontologies, standardised by the W3C. It reaps upon the power of Description Logics and allows both the definition of concepts and their interrelations as well as the description of instances. Being created as part of the notoriously known Semantic Web language stack, its dynamics and openness lends naturally to the ever evolving Python language. We will sketch the idea of an integration of OWL and Python, but not by simply suggesting an OWL library, but rather by introducing and motivating the benefits a really deep integration offers, how it can change programming, and make it even more fun.

You can read the full paper on Deep Integration of Scripting Languages and Semantic Web Technologies. Have fun! If you can manage it, pass by the workshop and give me your comments, rants, and fresh ideas - as well as the spontaneous promise to help me design and implement this idea! I am very excited about the workshop and looking forward to it. See you there!

Semantic Web Challenge 2006 winners

Sorry for the terseness, but I am sitting in the ceremony.

18 submissions. 14 passed the minimal criteria.

Find more information on challenge.semanticweb.org -- list of Finalists, links, etc. See also on ontoworld.

And the winners are ...

3. Enabling Semantic Web communities with DBin: an overview (by Christian Morbidoni, Giovanni Tummarello, Michele Nucci)

2. Foafing the Music: Bridging the semantic gap in music recommendation (by Oscar Celma)

1. MultimediaN E-Culture demonstrator (by Alia Amin, Bob Wielinga, Borys Omelayenko, Guus Schreiber, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Janneke van Kersen, Jan Wielemaker, Jos Taekema, Laura Hollink, Lynda Hardman, Marco de Niet, Mark van Assem, Michiel Hildebrand, Ronny Siebes, Victor de Boer, Zhisheng Huang)

Congratulations! It is great to have such great projects to show off! :)

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Semantic Web Gender Issue

Well, at least they went quite a way. With Google Base one can create new types of entities, entities themselves, and search for them. I am not too sure about the User Interface yet, but it's surely one of the best actually running onbig amounts of data. Nice query refinement, really.

But heck, there's one thing that scares me off. I was looking today for all the people interested in the Semantic Web, and there are already some in. And you can filter them by gender. I was just gently surprised about the choices I was offered when I wanted to filter them by gender...

Hier fehlt noch ein Bild.

Oh come on, Google. I know there are not that many girls in computer science, but really, it's not that bad!

Semantic Web Summer School 2006

The Summer School for the Semantic Web and Ontological Engineering is an annual event that brings together PhD students from all over the world and some of the brightest heads in the Semantic Web, to teach, to socialize, to learn, and to have fun. This year's invited speakers are Jim Hendler himself, and Enrico Motta, Stephan Baumann, Guus Schreiber, and the tutors are John Domingue, Asun Gomez-Perez, Jerome Euzenat, Sean Bechhofer, Fabio Ciravegna, Aldo Gangemi. You will learn a lot. You will have lots of fun. The place is really beautiful, the girls, well at least last year, were really beautiful, the stuff we learned was interesting, and inspired quite some cooperation further on. And it's really great for getting to know a lot of people: at the next conference you're guaranteed to meet someone again, and thus it is also a perfect possibility ot get into the community.

The deadline is May 1st, so be sure to go over to the SSSW2006 website and sign up.

If this didn't convince you, take a look at my series of posts about last year's summer school.

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Semantic Web and Web 2.0

I usually don't just point to other blog entries (thus being a bad blogger regarding netiquette), but this time Benjamin Nowack nailed it in his post on the Semantic Web and Web 2.0. I read the iX article (a popular German computer technology magazine), and I lost quite some respect for the magazine as there were so many unfounded claims, off-the-hand remarks, and so much bad attitude in the article (and in further articles scuttered around the issue) towards the Semantic Web that I thought the publisher was personally set on a crusade. I could go through the article and write a commentory on it, and list the errors, but honestly, I don't see the point. At least it made me appreciate peer review and scientific method a lot more. The implementation of peer review is flawed as well, but I realize it could be so much worse (and it could be better as well - maybe PLoS is a better implementation of peer review).

So, go to Benji's post and convince yourself: there is no "vs" in Semantic Web and Web 2.0.

Semantic Web patent

Tim Finin and Jim Hendler are asking about the earliest usage of the term Semantic Web. Tim Berners-Lee (who else?) spoke about the need of semantics in the web at the WWW 1994 plenary talk in Geneva, though the term Semantic Web does not appear there directly. Whatever. What rather surprised me, though, is, when surfing a bit for the term, I discovered that Amit Sheth, host of this year's ISWC, filed the patent on it, back in 2000: System and method for creating a Semantic Web. My guess would be, that is the oldest patent of it.

Semantic Wikipedia

Marrying Wikipedia and the Semantic Web in Six Easy Steps - that was the title of the WikiMania 2005 presentation we gave about a month ago. On the Meta-Wikipedia we - especially Markus Krötzsch - were quite active on the Semantic MediaWiki project, changing and expanding our plans. DocCheck is working right now on a basic implementation of the ideas - they have lots of Wiki-Experience already, with Flexicon, a MediaWiki-based medical lexicon. We surely hope the prototype will be up and running soon!

Wow, the project seems perceived pretty well.

Tim Finin, Professor in Maryland: "I think this is an exciting project with a lot of potential. Wikipedia, for example, is marvelously successful and has made us all smarter. I’d like my software agents to have a Wikipedia of their own, one they can use to get the knowledge they need and to which they can (eventually) contribute." - Wikipedia meets the Semantic Web, Ebiquity blog at UMBC

Mike Linksvayer, CTO of Creative Commons: "The Semantic MediaWiki proposal looks really promising. Anyone who knows how to edit Wikipedia articles should find the syntax simple and usable. All that fantastic data, unlocked. (I’ve been meaning to write on post on why explicit metadata is democratic.) Wikipedia database dump downloads will skyrocket." - Annotating Wikipedia, Mike Linksvayers Blog

Danny Ayers, one of the developers of Atom and Author of Atom and RSS Programming: "The plan looks very well thought out and quite a pile of related information has been gathered. I expect most folks that have looked at doing an RDF-backed Wiki would come to the same conclusion I did (cf. stiki) - it’s easy to do, but difficult to do well. But this effort looks like it should be the one." - Wikipedia Bits, Danny Ayers, Raw Blog

Lambert Heller of the University of Münster wrote a German blog entry on the netbib weblog, predicting world domination. Rita Nieland has a Dutch entry on her blog, calling us heroes - if we succeed. And on Blog posible Alejandro Gonzalo Bravo García has written a great Spanish entry, saying it all: the web is moving, and at great speed!

So, the idea seems catching like a cold in rainy weather, we really hope the implementation will soon be there. If you're interested in contributing - either ideas or implementation - join our effort! Write us!

Semantic Wikipedia presentations

Last week on the Semantics 2006 Markus and I gave talks on the Semantic MediaWiki. I was happy to be invited to give one of the keynotes at the event. A lot of people were nice enough to come to me later to tell me how much they liked the talk. And I got a lot of requests for the slides. I decided to upload them, but wanted to clean them a bit. I am pretty sure that the slides are not self-sufficient -- they are tailored to my style of presentations a lot. But I added some comments to the slides, so maybe this will help you understand what I tried to say if you have not been in Vienna. Find the slides of the Semantics 2006 keynote on Semantic Wikipedia here. Careful, 25 MB.

But a few weeks ago I was at the KMi Podium for an invited talk there. The good thing is, they don't have just the slides, they also have a video of the talk, so this will help much more in understanding the slides. The talk at KMi has been a bit more technical and a lot shorter (different audiences, different talks). Have fun!

Shazam!

Shazam! was fun. And had more heart than many other superhero stories. I liked that, for the first time, a DC universe movie felt like it's organically part of that universe - with all the backpacks with Batman and Superman logos and stuff. That was really neat.

Since I saw him in the first trailer I was looking forward to see Steve Carell playing the villain. Turns out it was Mark Strong, not Steve Carell. Ah well.

I am not sure the film knew exactly at whom it was marketed. The theater was full with kids, and given the trailers it was clear that the intention was to get as many families into it as possible. But the horror sequences, the graphic violence, the expletives, and the strip club scenes were not exactly for that audience. PG-13 is an appropriate rating.

It was a joy to watch the protagonist and his buddy explore and discover his powers. Colorful, lively, fun. Easily the best scenes of the movie.

The foster family drama gave the movie it's heart, but the movie seemed a bit overwhelmed by it. I wish that part was executed a bit better. But then again, it's a superhero movie, and given that it was far better than many of the other movies of its genre. But as far as High School and family drama superheroes go, it doesn't get anywhere near Spiderman: Homecoming.

Mid credit scenes. A tradition that Marvel started and that DC keeps copying - but unlike Marvel DC hasn't really paid up to the teasers in their scenes. And regarding cameos - also something where DC could learn so much from Marvel. Also, what's up with being afraid of naming their heroes? Be it in Man of Steel with Superman or here with Billy, the hero doesn't figure out his name (until the next movie comes along and everybody refers to him as Superman as if it was obvious all the time).

All in all, an enjoyable movie while waiting for Avengers: Endgame, and hopefully a sign that DC is finally getting on the right path.

She likes music, but only when the music is loud

Original in German by Herbert Grönemeyer, 1983.

She sits on her windsill all day
Her legs dangling to the music
The noise from her room
drives all the neighbours mad
She is content
smiles merrily

She doesn't know
that snow
falls
without a sound
to the ground

Doesn't notice
the knocking
on the wall

She likes music
but only
when the music is loud
When it hits her stomach
with the sound

She likes music
but only
when the music is loud
When her feet feel
the shaking ground

She then forgets
that she is deaf

The man of her dreams
must play the bass
the tickling in her stomach
drives her crazy

Her mouth seems
to scream
with happiness
silently
her gaze removed
from this world

Her hands don't know
with whom to talk
No one's there
to speak to her

She likes music
but only
when the music is loud
When it hits her stomach
with the sound

She likes music
but only
when the music is loud
When her feet feel
the shaking ground

Site went down

The site went down, again. First time was in July, when Apache had issues, this time it's due to MySQL acting up and frying the database. I found a snapshot from July 2019, and am trying to recreate the entries from in between (thanks, Wayback Machine!)

Until then, at least the site is back up, even though they might be some losses in the content.

P.S.: it should all be back up. If something is missing, please email me.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

aus der Reihe Filme in 50 Worten

Ein Film, der so mordsmäßig dick aufträgt und sich derart frech bei allen Klassikern bedient, dass es richtig cool wird. Die Schauspieler spielen ihre Rollen perfekt - ob Gwyneth Paltrow, ob Jude Law, und insbesondere Angelina Jolie.
Man merkt gar nicht, dass der ganze Film - außer den Schauspielern (und selbst von ihnen einer, der schon eine Weile lange nicht mehr lebt - Lawrence Olivier) - aus dem Computer stammt. Der Sprung von Final Fantasy zu Sky Captain ist unglaublich.
Die Story ist banal, und dennoch in ihrer naiven Übertriebenheit extrem spaßig, die Figuren sind klischeehaft wie seit langem nicht und die Sprüche dermaßen knackig, dass es eine Freude ist.

Reingehen!

Auch Schwesterchen hat einen Blog, inzwischen! Hier ihr Kommentar zu Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

Sleeping Lady with a Black Vase

In 2009, a Hungarian art historian was watching the movie Stuart Little with his 3 year old daughter. And he's like "funny, that painting that's used in the set looks like that 1928 black and white photograph I have seen, of a piece of art which has been lost". So he sends a few emails...

Turns out, it *is* the actual artwork by Róbert Berény (1887-1953) which was last seen in public in 1928, and somehow made it to Sony, where it was used in a number of soap opera episodes and in Stuart Little.

• Wikipedia article about Sleeping Lady with Black Vase

Social Web and Knowledge Management

Obviously, the social web is coming. And it's also coming to this year's WWW conference in Beijing!

I find this topic very interesting. The SWKM picks up the theme of last year's very successful CKC2007 workshop, also at the WWW, where we aimed at allowing the collaborative knowledge construction. The SWKM is a bit broader, since it is not just about knowledge construction, but about the whole topic of knowledge management, and how the web changes everything.

If you are interested in the social web, or the semantic web, or specifically about the intersection of these two, and how it can be applied for knowledge management within or without an organisation, you will like the SWKM workshop at the WWW2008. You can submit papers until January 21st, 2008. All information can be found at the Social Web and Knowledge management workshop website.

Social tagging und Co

Cool. Ich sei im Januar Inspiration für diesen Blogeintrag zu Social Tagging mit del.icio.us, flickr und ähnlichem gewesen. Scheint, als hätte ich meine Arbeit nicht soo schlecht gemacht... (und dabei war ich nach genau dieser ersten Sitzung davon überzeugt, dass ich grottig gewesen sei. Aber das bin ich ja von eigener Arbeit zunächst immer...)

Something Positive in Deutsch wieder online

2005 und 2006 übersetzten Ralf Baumgartner und ich die ersten paar Something Positive comics von R. K. Milholland ins Deutsche. Die 80 Comics, die wir damals übersetzt haben, sind hiermit wieder online. Wir haben noch vier weitere Comics übersetzt, die in den nächsten Tagen auch nach und nach online kommen werden.

Viel Spass! Oh, und die Comics sind für Erwachsene.

• Something Positive auf Deutsch

Sommerpause

Die Pause verlängert sich. Heute geht es nach Bielefeld, Sonntag zurück, und am Montag geht es für eine Woche nach Kroatien. Sorry!

Sommerpause 2003

So, jetzt gibt es zunächst mal Sommerpause mit den nutkidz, Nodix selbst wird sich vorerst auch kaum verändern. In den nächsten Wochen wird meine Diplomarbeit hier vorgestellt, und die Ergebnisse online gestellt, aber für mehr ist zur Zeit schlicht keine Zeit vorhanden. Sorry, hätte Euch früher informieren sollen!

Aber keine Angst, wir kommen wieder!

Spring cleaning

Going through my old online presence and cleaning it up is really a trip down memory lane. I am also happy that most - although not all - of the old demos still work. This is going to be fun to release it all again.

Today I discovered that we had four more German translations of Something Positive that we never published. So that's another thing that I am going to publish soon, yay!

Standpunkt (nicht meiner!)

"We could really speed up the whole process of drug improvement if we did not have all the rules on human experimentation. If companies were allowed to use clinical trials in Third World countries, paying a lot of poor people to take risks that you wouldn't take in a developed country, we could speed up technology quickly. But because of the Holocaust --"

Stanford seminar on Knowledge Graphs

My friend Vinay Chaudhri is organising a seminar on Knowledge Graphs with Naren Chittar and Michael Genesereth this semester at Stanford.

I have the honour to present in it as the opening guest lecturer, introducing what Knowledge Graphs are and what are good for.

Due to the current COVID situation, the seminar was turned virtual, and opened to everyone to attend to.

Other speakers during the semester include Juan Sequeda, Marie-Laure Mugnier, Héctor Pérez Urbina, Michael Uschold, Jure Leskovec, Luna Dong, Mark Musen, and many others.

• CS520 at Stanford, Spring 2020

Star Trek's 32nd century

I like Star Trek for the cool technology, which has inspired plenty of people to work eg on "the Star Trek computer". I love Star Trek for the utopian society of plenty they sketch in the 23rd and 24th century.

I claim it is because of the laziness of the writing: they don't keep that utopia up.

When I heard about Discovery going to the 32nd century, I was excited about the wonders they would dream up. The new technology. The society. The culture. The breakthroughs.

With regards to that, it was a massive let down. Extremely disappointing.

Stars in our eyes

I grew up in a suburban, almost rural area in southern Germany, and I remember the hundreds, if not thousands of stars I could see at night. In the summers, that I spent on an island in Croatia, it was even more marvelous, and the dark night sky was breathtaking.

As I grew up, the stars dimmed, and I saw fewer and fewer of those, until only the brightest stars were visible. It was blindingly obvious that air and light pollution have swallowed that every-night miracle and confined it to my memory only.

Until in my late twenties I finally accepted and got glasses. Now the stars are back, as beautiful and brilliant as they have ever been.

Start the website again

This is no blog anymore. I haven't had entries for years, and even before then sporadically. This is a wiki, but somehow it is not that either. Currently you cannot make comments. Updating the software is a pain in the ass. But I like to have a site where I can publish again. Switch to another CMS? Maybe one day. But I like Semantic MediaWiki. So what will I do? I do not know. But I know I will slowly refresh this page again. Somehow.

A new part of my life is starting soon. And I want to have a platform to talk about it. And as much as I like Facebook or Google+, I like to have some form of control over this platform. Facebook and Google+ -- maybe they won't disappear in a year. But what about ten? Twenty? Fifty years? I'll still be around (I hope), but they might not...

Let's see what will happen here. For now, I republished the retelling of a day as a story I first published on Google+ (My day in Jerusalem) and a poem that feels eerily relevant whenever I think about it (Wenn ich wollte)

Starting Abstract Wikipedia

I am very happy about the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation having approved the proposal for the multilingual Wikipedia aka Abstract Wikipedia aka Wikilambda aka we'll need to find a name for it.

In order to make that project a reality, I will as of next week join the Foundation. We will be starting with a small, exploratory team, which will allow us to have plenty of time to continue to socialize and discuss and refine the idea. Being able to work on this full time and with a team should allow us to make significant progress. I am very excited about that.

I am sad to leave Google. It was a great time, and I learned a lot about running *large* projects, and I met so many brilliant people, and I ... seriously, it was a great six and a half years, and I will very much miss it.

There is so much more I want to write but right now I am just super happy and super excited. Thanks everyone!

• Abstract Wikipedia on Meta

Statistiken

Grummel, pah, der letzte Eintrag war kein sogenanntes fishing for compliments, deswegen habe ich ihn auch wieder rausgemacht. Ich weiß, das kann ich jetzt gerne drei Mal behaupten, glauben wird es mir eh keiner...

Wie ihr wahrscheinlich wisst, bin ich furchtbar zahlenvernarrt. Insbesondere Statistiken mag ich sehr gerne, und stelle sie auch gerne selber auf. Und da gerade gestern wieder ein Monatsanfang war, und ich Euch ja schon letzten Monat mit Hochrechnung bezüglich des Projekts 100.000 langweilte, hier meine aktuellen Zahlen: zum 1. März hattet Ihr tatsächlich 29.073 Hits geschafft! Wow, herzlichen Glückwunsch, das sind 4.860 Hits alleine im Februar - Wahnsinn, besonders im Vergleich zu den 3.776 Hits im Januar.

Zudem, zum 1. März waren folgende Zahlen erwartet (nach den verschiedenen Hochrechnung, wie ich sie letzten Monat ja vorgestellt habe): Lineare Hochrechnung kam auf 32.980 (die einzige Hochrechnung, die wir nicht erreicht haben), die Hochrechnungen, die von linearem Wachstum ausgingen, besagten 25.583 bzw. 26.331, die von quadratischen Wachstum ausgehenden gar nur 24.500. Die beste Hochrechnung ist und bleibt die aus dem Bauch heraus: sie besagt zum 1. März eine Besucherzahl von 27.000 - damit lag sie deutlich am nähesten bei der tatsächlichen Zahl.

Trotz der ganzen Zahlen darf ich nicht vergessen, wem ich das alles verdanke: Euch! Ihr seid Klasse! Ich hoffe sehr, die Website gefällt Euch. Wenn nicht, schreibt! Wenn doch, schreibt auch! :) Einen schönen März, allemal.

Status

Viel zu wenig Zeit... sorry, für die Inaktivität auf Nodix selbst. Ich bin gerade heftig daran, meine Hausarbeit über den ontologischen Status Neuronaler Netze zu schreiben - hochinteressant! Wer mir dazu Fragen beantworten kann, soll sich bitte mal bei mir melden, ich knacke da noch an einigen Nüssen, zu denen ich keine Literatur finde...
Sobald sie fertig ist, wird auch diese Arbeit hier auftauchen. Auch die noch übriggebliebenen Nodix-Rubriken werden demnächst weichen - Nodix wird zu einer reinen Sammlung von Essays, Aufsätzen und sonstigen Texten aus meiner Feder (na ja, eher Tastatur). Die sonstigen Themen werden je mehr als erfolgreich von den restlichen Seiten der Nodix-Gruppe abgedeckt.

Hier nur zu den Webcomics:
nutkidz erscheinen wieder halbwegs regelmäßig (freu)! Ohne zuviel versprechen zu wollen, zielen wir wieder auf eine wöchentliche Erscheinungsweise, wahrscheinlich Ende der Woche jeweils. Und es geht rund: aus den Logs entnehme ich, dass alleine die nutkidz inzwsichen etwa 300-400 regelmäßige Leser anziehen! Hurra! Auch gibt es für die nutkidz endlich ein Gästebuch! Schwesterchen und ich würden uns sehr über Eure Einräge freuen!
Something*Positive auf Deutsch ist hervorragend angelaufen, und dank der Hilfe von Buddy konnten wir auch - trotz meiner mehrtätigen Abwesenheit - weiterhin täglich einen neuen Comic hochfahren! Klasse, und hier nochmal Dank, auch und gerade für die Übersetzungen.

Hier fehlt noch ein Bild.

Und, noch zum Abschluss: hier die Besuche der letzten Woche. Als ich die Statistik das erste Mal sah, überlegte ich mir, ob mir mein Provider nicht vielleicht irgendetwas mitteilen möchte... :)

Studienarbeit RC1

Geschafft! Der Release Candidate meiner Studienarbeit Sichtpunkte in der Software-Architektur ist fertig, und per diesem Link als PDF erhältlich.

Sollte irgendjemand die Zeit finden, sich diese anzuschauen, und Kommentare loswerden zu wollen: nur zu! Bis Mitte nächste Woche nehme ich Kommentare an, danach wird das Ding gedruckt, gebunden und abgegeben.

Nun denn, jetzt heißt es, daran weiterarbeiten. Ich weiß schon, wo ich noch was verbessern möchte.

Studienarbeit fertig!

So, die Studienarbeit ist fertig. Wer mir einen großen Gefallen tun möchte, kann sie sich ja runterladen und nochmal nach Fehlern suchen. Aber nur bis heute mittag etwa, dann geht sie in die Produktion.

Hiermit ist auch auf den Informatikseiten von Nodix die Sektion Sichtpunkte in der Software-Architektur eröffnet. Noch findet sich nur der Download dort, aber demnächst soll der ganze Text der Studienarbeit über zugänglich gemacht werden.

Danke für eure Geduld, und vielen Dank für die Korrekturanmerkungen zur letzten Version! Übrigens, der größte Fehler ist uns allen nicht aufgefallen, erst mein Betreuer hat mich in einer e-Mail heute darauf aufmerksam gemacht: das Wort Sichtpunkt ist gar kein Wort der deutschen Sprache! Ha, da staunt ihr. Ich war auch verwundert, glaubt mir...

Summer School for the Semantic Web, Day 0

Arrived in Cercedilla today, at the Semantic Web Summer School. I really was looking forward to these days, and now, flipping through the detailed programme I am even more excited. This will be a very intense week, I guess, where we learn a lot and have loads of fun.

I was surprised by the sheer number of students being here: 56 or 57 students have come to the summer school, from all over the world - met someone from Australia, from Pittsburgh, and many Europeans. Happily, I also met quite a number of people I already knew, and thus I know it will be a pleasurable week. But let's just do the math for a second: we have more than 50 accepted students at this summer school. There are at least three other summer schools with related fields, like the one in Ljubljana the week before, there's one in Edinburgh, and the ESSLLI. So, that's about 200 students. Even if we claim that every single PhD student is going to a summer school - which I don't think - that would mean we get 200 theses every year! (Probably this number will be only reached in three years or so)

So, just looking at the sheer amount of people working on it - what's the expected impact?

Interesting times lie ahead.

Supporting disaster relief with semantics

Soenke Ziesche, who has worked on humanitarian projects for the United Nations for the last six years, wrote an article for xml.com on the use of semantic wikis in disaster relief operations. That is a great scenario I never thought about, and basically one of these scenarios I think of when I say in my talks: "I'll be surprised if we don't get surprised by how this will be used." Probably I would even go to state the following: if nothing unexpected happens with it, the technology was too specific.

Just the thought that semantic technology in general, and maybe even Semantic MediaWiki in particular, could relief the effects of a natural disaster, or maybe even safe a life, this thought is so incredible exciting and rewarding. Thank you so much Soenke!

Taking Lives

Ach, wie peinlich. Im gestrigen Eintrag waren gleich zwei (nunmehr korrigierte) Fehler. Die Hauptdarstellerin ist nich Judd (eigentlich Jude) Law sondern Ashley Judd, und der bessere Film des Genres heißt nicht Taking Lifes sondern Taking Lives. Danke an Kai und Ralf für die Hinweise! Als kleine Gegenleistung gibt es genau diesen Film als weitere Folge aus der Reihe Filme in 50 Worten

Wollten wir nicht schon immer mal jemand anderes sein? Wo wir uns aber nicht trauen, lebt der Schurke dieses Films diesen Traum. Dummerweise heißt die Konsequenz, dass er den anderen Personen zuvor das Leben nehmen muss, um dasselbe zu Leben. Nicht überraschend folgt daraus eine Mordserie, und gleich nach dem ersten entdeckten Mord ruft der kanadische Polizeichef das FBI um Hilfe, und das schickt Lara Croft, Angelina Jolie, die mit Vorliebe in Gräbern liegt und Leichen zum Frühstück betrachtet.
Die kanadische Polizei bestätigt mit ihren Fähigkeiten im Folgenden mehrfach die Entscheidung des Polizeichefs mit ihrer erschütternden Inkompetenz bei Hausbewachung und Personenschutz. Ein klein wenig wird sich Freud freuen, weil wir herausfinden, dass die Mutter des Täters an allem Schuld trägt und...

Ach, man kann gar nicht viel mehr erzählen, ohne die Pointe zu verraten (die man aber ohnehin die ganze Zeit erahnt). Ethan Hawke und Angelina Jolie biten ein glaubwürdiges Team, Kiefer Sutherland hat hingegen keine exponierte Rolle, egal, wie groß sein Name auf den Plakaten steht. Die Storyautoren haben sich einiges einfallen lassen, aber eigentlich das Beste am Film sind die ersten paar Minuten. Alles sonstige läuft mit einer gewissen Konsequenz ab, die kaum Raum für echte Überraschungen lässt.
Kurz: solider Film für alle, die das Genre mögen. Für alle anderen: warum Taking Lives, wenn doch Big Fish läuft?