Riva Ysabel A. Vergara

Here’s my work from a recent job for FactsMission.com. PROOFREAD (1st Page) I started at your Home Page. HOME Our Mission Yours: We promote technologies that encourage and facilitate verifying claims by using linked data technologies. My revision: 1) To promote technologies that facilitate verifying claims by using linked data technologies. 2) To encourage/ promote the use of technologies that can distinguish facts from false information to help people reach the ‘truth’ so they can make the best decisions. 3) Our mission is to aid people make the best (or better) decisions (you can insert: in their lives) by verifying the information they have whether it is true or not by using linked data technologies. 4) Our mission is to aid people make the best (or better) decisions (you can insert: in their lives) by providing them facts through technologies that facilitate verifying claims by using linked data technologies. 5) Our mission is to aid people make the best (or better) decisions (you can insert: in their lives) by promoting technologies that facilitate verifying claims through linked data technologies. SUGGESTION: No offense, but your mission is somewhat lacking. It has no impact and it lacks the usual stimulating or inspiring feeling that someone usually gets after reading a company/ organization’s mission. It’s vague and lacks details to what really is your purpose or your ‘mission’. A mission statement usually serves like a daily goal and guide to the ‘employees’; something they must keep in mind to remember why do they (the company/ organization) exist, who are you, to what they are doing this work for, what do they want to achieve or produce, and to what or whom do they dedicate their effort. I think you need to be clear on what do you mean by to “promote technologies” such as why do you want to do it? Why do you want to promote such kind of technology? Why do you want to encourage the use of technologies that ‘facilitate verifying claims by using linked data technologies’? The revisions I made are merely something I came up with by reading through your website, but as it is it’s lacking something too since I still don’t fully know what you really want to do by building this team. Technology Yours: Linked Data refers to a set of standards promoted by the W3C to create a web of data. Linked Data extends the Web by allowing data to be directly exposed and interlinked. This means that to access data one no longer needs to search through websites or use proprietary APIs but can access data from disparate sources using standardized means. My Revision: 1) Linked Data refers to a set of standards promoted by the W3C to create a web of data. Linked Data extends the Web by allowing data to be directly exposed and interlinked with other related data. Meaning, one no longer needs to search through a website or use proprietary APIs to access data, but through disparate sources using standardized means. 2) Linked Data are a large collection of interrelated data that are directly exposed and accessible in the Web. It is used for coordinating and reasoning of data on the Web available in a common format and can be accessed through a collection of technologies by W3C. 3) Linked Data refers to a set of standards promoted by the W3C to create a web of data. It is a large collection of interrelated data that are directly exposed and accessible in the Web through different sources using standardized means. Services Yours: FactsMission AG offers consulting and development services to create, process, store, publish and consume linked data. We help you provide data in such a way that it can easily be used as foundation for many kind of applications as well as linked as authoritative source. We help you grow communities around your data to maximize its impact and increase your organization’s influence. My Revision: FactsMission AG offers consulting and development services to create, process, store, publish and consume linked data. FactsMission AG helps you provide data in such a way that it can be easily used as the foundation of different applications as well as (or moreover), linked it as an authoritative source. FactsMission AG helps you grow communities around your data to maximize its impact and increase your organization’s sphere of influence. Individuals Yours: Have better tools to decide what to accept as facts. My Revision: Are equipped with decision making tools to accept what are facts. Public Agencies Yours: Publish facts so that they can best be used, this increases the impact of the data and reduces costs to satisfy freedom of information and open data requirements. My Revision: 1) Publish facts that are best to be used. This increases the impact of the data and reduces costs to satisfy freedom of information and open data requirements. 2) Publish facts that can be used to increase the impact of the data and reduce costs to satisfy freedom of information and open data requirements. Companies & Organizations Yours: Make better decision based on reliable knowledge. My Revision: Can make better decisions based on reliable knowledge. Open Source Yours: FactsMission is involved in various open source products around Linked Data technology and we are happy to assist developers and development teams to choose the optimal tools and to make the best use out of it. My Revision: FactsMission is involved in various open source products around Linked Data technology. We are more than happy to assist developers and/or development teams to choose the optimal tools and to make the best out of it. Improving the Web Yours: FactsMission supports the W3C in making sure all people benefit from the Web. As a member of the W3C FactsMission is involved in defining tomorrow’s standards to make the Web better. My Revision: FactsMission supports the W3C in making sure that all people benefits from the Web. As a member of the W3C, FactsMission is involved in defining tomorrow’s standards to make the Web a better place. (2nd Page) Essentials Linked Data Yours: Data published on the web that can be connected to other data by using the standard →RDF data model and HTTP URIs. Ideally the data is published following the →Data on the Web Best Practices. My Revision: Data published on the web can be connected to other data by using the standard RDF data model and HTTP URIs. Ideally, a data is published by following the Data on the Web Best Practices. Question: I’m not sure what the arrows are for exactly, are they supposed to lead to a different link where RDF data model and HTTP URIs and Data on the Web Best Practices is explained more? If so, the links are not working and there’s no indication that they are links. Open Data Yours: Data made available to the public to be freely used, re-used and redistributed. A growing number of governments all over the world have adopted policies promoting the publication of Open Data. Open Government Data goes beyond freedom of information laws in that it is proactively made available electronically by government agencies and not just handed out on request. In Switzerland the Federal Council approved the Open Government Data Strategy for Switzerland in April 2014. Further Information: http://opendatahandbook.org/guide/en/what-is-open-data/ https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data My Revision: Data are made available to the public to be freely used, re- used and redistributed. An increasing number of governments around the world have adopted and implemented policies promoting the publication of Open Data. Open Government Data goes beyond freedom of information laws because it is electronically made available by government agencies and not by handing out on request. In Switzerland, the Federal Council approved the Open Government Data Strategy for Switzerland in April 2014. Further Information: http://opendatahandbook.org/guide/en/what-is-open-data/ https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data Linked Open Data Yours: Open Data made available using Linked Data technologies. While Open Data it is often just some files (typically PDFs or Excel files) available for download Linked Open Data allows directly querying datasets using the standardized query language SPARQL. Linked Open Data also allows to directly link individual data items, this is an essential feature to make claims verifiable and thus promote facts. My Revision: Open Data are made available by using Linked Data technologies. With Open Data, the files (usually PDFs or Excel files) are often available for download. Linked Open Data allows to directly query datasets using the standardized query language: SPARQL. Moreover, Linked Open Data allows to directly link individual data items. This is an essential feature to make claims verifiable and thus, promote facts. RDF Yours: The Resource Description Format (RDF) is a data model that shapes data as graphs. Data item can be connected to abstract concepts as well as to real world entities. The RDF model is more flexible than the relational database model (RDBMS) in that it doesn’t require a fixed tabular structure of the data and allows relations not only between tables but between arbitrary data items. My Revision: The Resource Description Format (RDF) is a data model that shapes data as graphs. Data items can be connected to abstract concepts, as well as, to real world entities. The RDF model is more flexible than the relational database model (RDBMS); in ways that it doesn’t require a fixed, tabular structure of the data and it allows relations not only between tables, but between arbitrary data items as well. Triple Yours: The most basic unit in RDF data. A triple is an edge when viewing RDF data a graph of a simple subject-predicate-object statement. My Revision: 1) The most basic unit in RDF data. A triple is an edge when viewing RDF data- a graph of a simple subject- predicate- object statement. 2) The most basic unit in RDF data. A triple is an edge when viewing RDF data as a graph of a simple subject- predicate- object statement. Triple Store Yours: A database specialized for storing and querying RDF graphs. Triple Stores are available by several vendors both a open source as well as commercial products. Popular triple stores:      Startdog Fuseki Virtuoso BlazeGraph Oracle Spatial and Graph My Revision: A database specializing in storing and querying RDF graphs. Triple Stores are available in several places; both as an open source, as well as, a commercial product. Popular triple stores are:  Startdog  Fuseki  Virtuoso  BlazeGraph  Oracle Spatial and Graph Semantic Web Yours: The web of →Linked Data. Semantic Web Technologies refers to the set of technologies including the standards →RDF, RDFS and OWL that allow to express the meaning of data to electronic agents. My Revision: The web of Linked Data, also known as Semantic Web Technologies, refers to the set of technologies including the standard RDF, RDFS and OWL that allows to express the meaning of data to electronic agents. Question: Again, not sure what the arrows are for. SPARQL Yours: SPARQL is the query language for RDF data standardized by the W3C. My Revision: SPARQL is the standardized query language created by the W3C used for RDF data. Ontology Yours: The term is used in the context of Linked Data to refer to a controlled vocabulary of classes and properties used to describe and allow inference on data. My Revision: In the context of Linked Data, the term ontology refers to a controlled vocabulary of classes and properties used to describe and allows inference on data. Wikidata Yours: Wikidata is a collaboratively edited knowledge base operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is intended to provide a common source of data which can be used by Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, and by anyone else, under a public domain license. My Revision: Wikidata is a collaboratively, edited, knowledge base operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is meant to provide a common source of data which can be used for Wikimedia projects; such as Wikipedia, and by anyone else under a public domain license. Data on the Web Best Practices Yours: A W3C recommendation on how to publish data on the web for it to be discoverable and understandable bot by humans and machines. My Revision: A W3C recommendation about how to publish data on the web in order for it to be discoverable and understandable by both humans and machines. (3rd Page) FAQ How does Your Technology Distinguish Facts from Lies? Yours: Well it doesn’t. Linked Data technology can give you better means to decide whether to accept a claim as fact or not by linking it to supportive evidence or rebuttals. By making assertions more precise they are the better object of scrutiny, by linking them to a network of knowledge one can see what acceptance of a claim implies. My Revision: Well, it doesn’t. Linked Data technology can give you a better means to decide whether to accept a claim as a fact or not by linking it to supportive evidences or rebuttals. By making assertions more precise, the better object of scrutiny and by linking them to a network of knowledge, one can see what acceptance of a claim implies. Where do I Find Linked Data? Yours: Several governmental agencies have started providing data as Linked Data. DBpedia.org exposes the content of Wikipedia as Linked Data. Wikidata.org is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines, Wikidata exposes all its data as Linked Data and allows querying with SPARQL. My Revision: Several government agencies have started providing data as Linked Data. DBpedia.org exposes the contents of Wikipedia as Linked Data. Wikidata.org is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and edited by both humans and machines, Wikidata exposes all its data as Linked Data and allows querying with SPARQL. Suggestions: Highlight (like put a color or underline or both) at the Website you’ll mention so it’ll catch the reader’s attention and makes it easier for them to remember. Also, highlighting websites is important when you’ll linked the website to your own website. By linking it, I mean that when the readers clicked the highlighted website on your website, it’ll automatically direct them to said website. Do take note of the capitalized first letters too in the head questions. (4th Page) Team Reto Gmür, Founder and CEO Yours: Studied Philosophy and history of Science and has been working with Linked Data technologies since 2002. He worked with the Jena team at HP Laboratories on Graph Versioning, with Adobe on Semantic Content Management and has helped with the Linked Open Data pilot of the Swiss Government while working with Zazuko. My Revision: Reto Gmür had studied Philosophy and History of Science in _______? (Please, provide where you studied these courses). He has been working with Linked Data technologies since 2002. He worked with the Jena Team at HP Laboratories on Graph Versioning, with Adobe on Semantic Content Management and has helped with the Linked Open Data pilot of the Swiss Government while working with Zazuko. Thomas Gehrig, COO Yours: Thomas Gehrig studied political sciences and journalism and later specialized in project management and communication. He was project coordinator for several European research projects in the field of Linked Open Data and teaches management at the School of Design in Bern. My Revision: Thomas Gehrig studied Political Sciences and Journalism and later on specialized in Project Management and Communication. He was a project coordinator for several European research projects in the field of Linked Open Data and teaches management at the School of Design in Bern. Alessio Melandri, Synapta (or Synaptics?) Development Liaison Yours: Alassio is our liaison with our development team at Synapta in Torino. Alessio is the youngest fellow at Nexa Center for Internet & Society and an expert both in Linked Data technologies as well as agile software development. My Revision: Alessio is our liaison with our development team at Synapta in Torino. Alessio is the youngest member of Nexa Center for Internet & Society and an expert both in Linked Data technologies as well as agile software development. (6th Page) Our Values Knowing Facts is Essential Yours: Without knowing the facts, we can’t make good decisions. Getting the facts right is crucial to survive and succeed individually, as a company, and as a society. While we might never be able to know with absolute certainty if a statement about a fact is true or false, technology can greatly help us making good judgements. FactsMission will help organizations and individuals adopt and make the best use of such technologies. My Revision: 1) Without knowing the facts, we can’t make good decisions. Getting the facts right is crucial to survive and to succeed as an individual, as a company, and as a society. How can we know if we got our facts right? While we might never know with absolute certainty if a statement about a fact is true or false, technology can greatly help us in making good judgments about these. FactsMission will help organizations and individuals adopt and use these technologies to their best. 2) Without knowing the facts, we can’t make good decisions. Getting the facts right is crucial to survive and to succeed as an individual, as a company, and as a society. How can we know if we got our facts right? While we might never know with absolute certainty if a fact is true or false, technology can greatly help us in making good judgments about these . FactsMission will help organizations and individuals adopt and put such technologies to their best use. Now is the Time to Act Yours: On one hand, it was never more necessary, on the other hand we never had better technologies to achieve it. The times when truth-relativism was a harmless academic gimmick or even an emancipating story of liberation are long gone. The idea that there is no truth is not only used by authoritarian regimes to dismiss the quest for objectivity as propaganda but is more and more corroding the foundation even of established democracies. The good news is, that we now have the technologies that turn the web into a huge decentralized database with cryptographically ascertained authorities and which allow to express statements about facts in a concise and verifiable manner. My Revision: On one hand, it had never been more necessary. On the other hand, we never had better technologies to achieve it. The times when truth-relativism was a harmless academic gimmick or even as an emancipating story of liberation are long gone. The idea that there is no truth is not only used by the authoritarian regimes to dismiss the quest for objectivity as a propaganda, but it is even used to corrode the foundation of established democracies. The good news is, we now have the technology that can turn the web into a huge decentralized database with cryptographically ascertained authorities and which will allow to express statements about facts in a concise and verifiable manner. Principles Yours: As urged by the digital manifesto “Behavioral Control or Digital Democracy?” FactsMission adheres to the following fundamental principles: 1. to increasingly decentralize the function of information systems; 2. to support informational self-determination and participation; 3. to improve transparency to achieve greater trust; 4. to reduce the distortion and pollution of information; 5. to enable user-controlled information filters; 6. to promote social and economic diversity; 7. to improve interoperability and collaborative opportunities; 8. to create digital assistants and coordination tools; 9. to support collective intelligence, and 10. to promote the responsibility of citizens in the digital world through “digital enlightenment”. My Revision: As urged by the Digital Manifesto: Behavioral Control or Digital Democracy? FactsMission adheres to the following fundamental principles: 1) To increasingly decentralize the function of information systems; 2) To support informational, self-determination and participation; 3) To improve transparency to achieve greater trust; 4) To reduce the distortion and pollution of information; 5) To enable user-controlled information filters; 6) To promote social and economic diversity; 7) To improve interoperability and collaborative opportunities; 8) To create digital assistants and coordination tools; 9) To support collective intelligence, and 10) To promote the responsibility of citizens in the digital world through “digital enlightenment”. Suggestions: try using some capital letters and not just a whole bunch of small letters. Sure, lowercase letters have its certain charm, but you’re a website providing information and facts so you should try to make it look like an academic or formal website. Suggestions on the Overall Website: I know that the website is relatively new, but try to make it more interactive and put some posts soon. The color theme is okay, but try to make the background stable and the “content space” as something that moves. Put on some pictures too. The logo is absolutely witty by the way, I have no problems with it. So yeah, overall I really think what your missing is something that will make the website more “interactive” or at least fun to browse with. I’m not saying that it’s not, the colors are really stimulating to the senses. But once you’ve put something in it and it’s relatively long? The colors might hurt the readers eyes for a bit and it’ll bore them if it’s just stationary throughout the whole article. Make your website move. Also, you might want to try to promote it once you have something put up in it.