http://simonwillison.net/2023-03-16T01:09:52+00:00Simon Willison2023-03-16T01:09:52+00:002023-03-16T01:09:52+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/16/gpt4-scraping/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/110030289294541249"><p>I expect GPT-4 will have a LOT of applications in web scraping</p> <p>The increased 32,000 token limit will be large enough to send it the full DOM of most pages, serialized to HTML - then ask questions to extract data</p> <p>Or... take a screenshot and use the GPT4 image input mode to ask questions about the visually rendered page instead!</p> <p>Might need to dust off all of those old semantic web dreams, because the world's information is rapidly becoming fully machine readable</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/110030289294541249">Me</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scraping">scraping</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/semanticweb">semanticweb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gpt-4">gpt-4</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a></p>

2010-10-19T19:11:00+00:002010-10-19T19:11:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Oct/19/linked/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform/blog/linked-data-open-platform">Linked Data at the Guardian</a></strong></p> The Guardian’s Open Platform API can now be queried by MusicBrainz ID and ISBN, opening up some extremely useful new types of query. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/guardian">guardian</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openplatform">openplatform</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/semanticweb">semanticweb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a></p>

2009-11-01T12:12:24+00:002009-11-01T12:12:24+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/1/4store/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://thinklinks.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/4store-amazon-machine-image-and-billion-triple-challenge-data-set/">4store Amazon Machine Image</a></strong></p> Instructions for firing up an EC2 AMI running the recently released 4store high performance triple store and loading in 1.14 billion statements collected by crawling the semantic web. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/4store">4store</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ami">ami</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ec2">ec2</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/semanticweb">semanticweb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/semweb">semweb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/triplestore">triplestore</a></p>

2008-10-23T16:14:03+00:002008-10-23T16:14:03+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/23/learning/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://ftrain.com/a-semantic-web-fear.html">Learning to Fear the Semantic Web</a></strong></p> Paul Ford raises the liability issue with regards to building sites around other people’s metadata, pointing out that OpenCalais is owned by Thomson Reuters who have a bad track record with regards to intellectual property lawsuits elsewhere in the organisation. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/intellectualproperty">intellectualproperty</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/opencalais">opencalais</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/paul-ford">paul-ford</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/semanticweb">semanticweb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/thomson-reuters">thomson-reuters</a></p>

2008-09-29T15:29:34+00:002008-09-29T15:29:34+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/29/secretsauce/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://laughingmeme.org/2008/09/29/on-the-freebase-custom-tuple-store-graphd/"><p>The only down side is everyone I’ve talked to at Freebase seems pretty solid on this being their proprietary secret sauce, because a good, fast scalable open source tuple store might actually jump start a real semantic (small-S) web after all these years.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://laughingmeme.org/2008/09/29/on-the-freebase-custom-tuple-store-graphd/">Kellan Elliott-McCrea</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/freebase">freebase</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphd">graphd</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/kellan-elliott-mccrea">kellan-elliott-mccrea</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/proprietary">proprietary</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/semanticweb">semanticweb</a></p>

2007-11-22T00:30:23+00:002007-11-22T00:30:23+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/22/timbl/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215">Giant Global Graph</a></strong></p> Tim Berners-Lee points out that the Semantic Web is designed to solve problems such as portable social networks. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid">openid</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/portablesocialnetworks">portablesocialnetworks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/semanticweb">semanticweb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/social-graph">social-graph</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tim-berners-lee">tim-berners-lee</a></p>

2007-08-07T15:24:20+00:002007-08-07T15:24:20+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Aug/7/dbpediaorg/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://dbpedia.org/docs/">dbpedia.org</a></strong></p> They scrape Wikipedia and extract useful information from it so you don’t have to. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dbpedia">dbpedia</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/semanticweb">semanticweb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wikipedia">wikipedia</a></p>

2007-03-30T15:30:15+00:002007-03-30T15:30:15+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/30/triplr/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://triplr.org/">Triplr</a></strong></p> Ultra simple GET-based web service for converting RSS / Atom / RDF / Microformats+GRDDL to HTML / ntriples / RDF / RSS / JSON / Turtle. Small pieces, loosely joined. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/atom">atom</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/grddl">grddl</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html">html</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/json">json</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microformats">microformats</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ntriples">ntriples</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rdf">rdf</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rss">rss</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/semanticweb">semanticweb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/triplr">triplr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/turtle">turtle</a></p>