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Kingsley Uyi Idehen
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Founder & CEO, OpenLink Software.
Interested in AI, Smart Agents, Data Connectivity, and DBMS Tech.

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kidehen

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LLMs + the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are the Yang to the Semantic Web Project's Yin.

We now have a solution to the final hurdle—visualization.

Years of Linked Data work now come alive. I explain this, with demonstrations, in a new newsletter post.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/semant...

#MCP
The Semantic Web Project Didn’t Fail — It Was Waiting for AI (The Yin of its Yang)
TL;DR: The Semantic Web Project — often dubbed the most successful marketing failure ever — has quietly evolved into the foundational layer of today’s Web. Made finally usable by AI, particularly thro...
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
LLMs + the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are the Yang to the Semantic Web Project's Yin.

We now have a solution to the final hurdle—visualization.

Years of Linked Data work now come alive. I explain this, with demonstrations, in a new newsletter post.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/semant...

#MCP
The Semantic Web Project Didn’t Fail — It Was Waiting for AI (The Yin of its Yang)
TL;DR: The Semantic Web Project — often dubbed the most successful marketing failure ever — has quietly evolved into the foundational layer of today’s Web. Made finally usable by AI, particularly thro...
www.linkedin.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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We’re excited to introduce the latest Virtuoso Maintenance Release—Virtuoso 08.03.3333—packed with feature enhancements and bug fixes across the platform.

community.openlinksw.com/t/virtuoso-0...

#AI #GenAI #VirtuosoRDBMS #DataSpaces #SQL #SPARQL #KnowledgeGraph #SemanticWeb #LinkedData
March 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Using the MCP services at: awsnews.remotemcp.directory

Operations bound to the services offered via the following Streamable HTTP endpoint:
awsnews.remotemcp.directory

Chat UI Options:
* linkeddata.uriburner.com/chat
* inspect.mcp.garden#chat (via linkeddata.uriburner.com/chat/mcp/mes...)
AWS News MCP Server
MCP Server for hourly updated AWS News
awsnews.remotemcp.directory
May 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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One more thing, OPAL implements MCP as both a Client and Server, so it can bind to operations (tools) published by other MCP Servers that support SSE or Streamable HTTP.

Links in the next reply for a quick example.
May 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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🧰 This is what modern AI infrastructure looks like.

Here’s a quick showcase featuring AnthropicAI’s Claude Desktop interacting with a live OPAL instance that queries the DBpedia Knowledge Graph—entirely instructed using natural language.

#MCP #OPAL #Screencast
June 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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⚙️ Deploying to the cloud? It’s simple:

1. Go to the AWS Marketplace
2. Instantiate the OPAL AMI
3. Open {cname}/chat and log in
4. Plug in your favorite LLM API key from providers

Enjoy!

3/N 🧵
June 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Another major benefit of Anthropic’s Claude Desktop support for remote MCP servers is the ability to combine powerful data access and visualization in notebooks that can be shared via web links.

OPAL MCP server example: an earlier demo ⤵️

claude.ai/share/11cb40...
June 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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What’s happening here?

An A2A Orchestrator is interacting with an LLM-powered AI Agent that exposes procedures, functions, 3rd party APIs etc., as MCP-accessible tools.

All made possible by the, in deceptively simple manner, by the OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL).

#MCP #A2A #GenAI
June 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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🚀 Just Released: The New Cloud-Deployable OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL)

We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of the latest edition of the OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL)—now equipped with powerful MCP and A2A protocol support, on both the client and server sides.

1/N 🧵

#MCP #OPAL #A2A
June 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) brings Unix-style loose coupling to AI Agents.

I built a visual explainer (JSON-LD metadata included) using Google Gemini’s new Canvas feature—with an embedded Knowledge Graph to illustrate.

Check it out:
openlinksw.com//data/html/u...

#MCP #Unix #Explainer
May 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Quick screencast demo of the @OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL) in action—showcasing how MCP + A2A enable loosely coupled, agentic workflows.

🧠 Agent hosts route tasks via A2A
⚙️ Agents use MCP tools (APIs, functions, stored procs)
📄 Tools described using OpenAPI (JSON/YAML)

#OPAL #MCP #A2A #VirtuosoRDBMS
May 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Why Should You Care?
MCP-accessible, free, widely used edition of an innovative multi-model DBMS and application server—powered entirely by open protocols and query language implementations.

#OpenSource #VirtuosoRDBMS #KnowledgeGraph #SPARQL #SQL #GraphQL #DBMS #DataSpaces #MCP
🚀 Virtuoso Open Source 7.2.15 is out!

A high-performance, multi-model DBMS supporting SQL, SPARQL & GraphQL. Also a Web App Server (HTTP, WebDAV, OpenAPI) & MCP-accessible via ODBC, JDBC, pyODBC & ado.net.

🔗 community.openlinksw.com/t/virtuoso-o...

#VirtuosoRDBMS #OpenSource
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ADO.NET
May 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
An example of what’s now possible—thanks to our sophisticated MCP Server for JDBC, Oracle’s native JDBC Driver, and Anthropic's Claude Desktop as the MCP client:

A dashboard generated from Oracle’s HR database using the following natural language prompt.
May 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Over the weekend, I had some time to experiment more with remote MCP servers, and created one that consolidates the AWS news articles from more than 40 sources, and lets you access them via the MCP client of your choice:

awsnews.remotemcp.directory

The data is updated on an hourly basis.
AWS News MCP Server
MCP Server for hourly updated AWS News
awsnews.remotemcp.directory
May 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
💥Boom!

The MCP Server for our OpenLink Software AI Layer (OPAL for short) is now generally available for both cloud-based and on-premise deployment.

This sophisticated and secure implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) supports both client and server roles:

#MCP #VirtuosoRDBMS
Introducing the OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL) MCP Server

1/ This MCP Server is a game-changer for loosely coupling AI Agents & Data Spaces (databases, knowledge graphs, filesystems) coupling.

#MCP #VirtuosoRDBMS #OPAL #AI
May 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The EU (across many key projects) has been one of our major customers—successfully rolling out and expanding their use of #VirtuosoRDBMS for over a decade.

#UseCase #OPAL #VirtuosoRDBMS #AI #GenAI
We've just published a community post showcasing the power of the OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL) in action. It includes Cello, an AI Agent prototype built using the EU's Virtuoso-based SPARQL endpoint.

community.openlinksw.com/t/practical-...

#UseCase #OPAL #GenAI #VirtuosoRDBMS #HowTo
April 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This week’s edition of my @LinkedIn newsletter shines a light on the impact of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across multiple computing eras—leading right up to today.

We’ve arrived at a moment where loose coupling principles are cool (and super useful) again.

🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/model-...
April 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) acts as a universal translator between LLMs and data sources, eliminating complex platform-specific requirements. Our new open source MCP server for ODBC enables seamless integration of any ODBC-accessible data into RAG pipelines.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-...
March 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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How can we prepare for a future migration from Bluesky to Mastodon? Bridgy Fed — a service that enables you to connect together your website, fediverse account and Bluesky account — will help. But Bridgy Fed needs to be easier to use. So I recruited Claude’s new Sonnet 7 model to help me do […]
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March 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If you closely examine the GenAI disruption in software, you’ll notice that all roads lead to better note-taking—progressively enriching knowledge repositories that manifest as knowledge graphs constructed using Linked Data Principles.
February 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Whoa!

UniProt’s latest publicly accessible Knowledge Graph now contains 210,122,358,019 RDF triples—powered by our #VirtuosoRDBMS open-source edition, live on the Web and available to AI Agents, Apps and Services across life sciences, genomics, bioinformatics, and related fields.

#KnowledgeGraph
February 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The pendulum is swinging back toward the edge of the global connectivity mesh we call the #Internet—a familiar cycle, much like the shift from time-shared mainframes to the PC and Mac era.

Microsoft's Phi-4 LLM running on my MacBook Pro (M1).

#GenAI #Trends #PersonalComputing #AppleIntelligence
February 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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I think it already is.

But seriously. Don’t call them names. We want the door open for them when they realize the mistake they made.

We are for a better America. Not a vindictive America
Hey Mark do you think voters remorse will ever hit the magat crowd
I Doubt It
January 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM