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Remapped in NY

Wednesday, June 20th 2012 in NYCFacets News by Joel Natividad

NYC is New Tech City!  It’s the fastest growing tech hub in the US!  Just take a gander at the Made in New York map launched last month at InternetWeekNY.
The map is a great resource, but being metadata geeks, we thought we can tweak it a little bit and give it an Exhibit faceted search [...]

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Joel On The Panel: Wikis And Semantics At Semtechbiz SF

Wednesday, June 6th 2012 in NYCFacets News, Press by Sami Baig

Ontodia’s CEO Joel Natividad  is on the PANEL: Wikis and Semantics  at Semtechbiz San Francisco (June 6th 2012)
Panel details: Semantic technology has recently emerged as a powerful accelerator for social technologies. The potential is clearest at the intersection of wikis and semantics. Traditional wikis are some of the most successful platforms in existence for knowledge [...]

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NYCFacets Press Coverage

Wednesday, April 18th 2012 in NYCFacets News, Press by Sami Baig

Press coverage of NYCFacets

That’s So New York: NYC BigApps 3.0 Competition Awards

MAYOR BLOOMBERG [...]

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MAYOR BLOOMBERG ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF NYC BIGAPPS 3.0

in NYCFacets News, Press by Sami Baig

Best Overall Application Awarded to NYCFacets, Which Seeks To Streamline the Process for Accessing and Utilizing the NYC Open Data Portal
Year One Winner MyCityWay Also Announces the Official Launch of Their Brand New Mobile App, MyCityWay NOW
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced the winners of NYC BigApps 3.0, the third annual competition for software developers [...]

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NYCFacets featured on semanticweb.com

Wednesday, March 7th 2012 in NYCFacets News by Joel Natividad

The article has an extended treatment of our vision for New York City, with NYCFacets as our initial installment towards creating a comprehensive Smart Open Data Exchange.
Read it here NYCFacets Wants To Be the Key to the Digital City of New York’s Future

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NYC Open Data Bill Passed!!!

Thursday, March 1st 2012 in NYCFacets News by Joel Natividad

By unanimous vote (48-0), the City Council Committee on Technology passed Intro 29-A – otherwise known as “NYC Open Data Bill“.
This is HUGE!!!! With this law, NYC will lead the way and publish practically ALL of its data and kickstart a whole new Open Data ecosystem that will power it to its ambition to become [...]

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NYCFacets selected as Semantic Mediawiki of the Month!

in NYCFacets News by Joel Natividad

We’ve been active members of the Semantic Mediawiki community over the past few years, and we wouldn’t even dream of pursuing our startup ambitions where it not for the support of the community.
We are truly standing on the shoulders of giants.  Thanks heaps for the recognition!
Onwards Open Semantic Data!!!!
- Sami and Joel

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NYCFacets current as of February 26, 2012

Monday, February 27th 2012 in NYCFacets News by Sami Baig

NYCFacets data is current as of February 26th 2012. We have 900 datasets with 5 new datasets compared to last week.
Next update is scheduled for Saturday, Mar 3rd.

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NYCFacets current as of February 18, 2012

Sunday, February 19th 2012 in NYCFacets News by Sami Baig

NYCFacets data is current as of February 18th 2012, We have 5 new datasets compared to last week.
Next update is scheduled for Saturday, Feb 26.

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Got Questions?

Thursday, February 16th 2012 in NYCFacets News by Joel Natividad

We got answers.  Check out the FAQ!

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