Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week
ending 2007-07-15

In the Media

• The
  future of the Web as seen by its creator - interview with Tim Berners-Lee in
  ITWorld (also, in response Michael
  Calore at Wired asks
  about the role of microformats)
• Das
  Semantic Web ist tot! Lange lebe das Semantic Web! - interview with
  Leo Sauermann in XML Magazin (German)
• Podcast : Mills
  Davis talks with Talis about multi-billion dollar markets and the
  Semantic Wave
• Video : Clay
  Shirky on Love

Docs

• How
  to Publish Linked Data on the Web (draft)
• GRDDL Primer, Working
  Group Note
• Talis Platform
  News - new monthly newsletter on (soon-to-be) everyone’s favourite Semantic Web Platform
• The
  Bibliographic Ontology: a first proposition
• POWDER:
  Grouping of Resources Working Draft - the Protocol for Web
  Description Resources is a way to attach small, easily-produced
  annotations to large collections of Web content, see also POWDER blog
• UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding
  Exchange Layer) project announced - “a
  lightweight, universal subject reference structure for the
  Web…UMBEL will, at minimum, support Atom, microformats, OPML, OWL,
  RDF, RDFa, RDF Schema, RSS, tags (via Tag Commons), and topic maps in its
  first release“
• Proceedings
  of the OWLED 2007 Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions
• Discobits:
  an ontology for describing the structure of documents
• The
  limitations of JSON - with great image
  of syntax vs. semantics
• JSON:
  best RDF format for real-world usage? & JSON-querying
  RDF via SPARQL see also How
  I learned to stop worrying and to love the Javascript: “It’s
  not living in the future; it’s living in a better past.
• Updating
  Relational Data Via SPARUL - Updatable RDF Views
• SPARQL
  as an expression language for OWL-S (PDF) - although the examples are
  in the context of OWL-S, the paper describes
  a neat general way of doing production rules using SPARQL
  CONSTRUCT
• Graphical Topic
  Maps notation proposal (PDF) from ISO, for a summary see Larsblog
• Who
  is in the business of authoring metadata?
• Semantic
  Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL) moves to Proposed
  Recommendation
• XHTML™
  Basic 1.1 moves to Candidate Recommendation
• XProc: An XML
  Pipeline Language Working Draft - see also Norm’s posts
• Widgets 1.0
  Requirements

Software News

• JQbus :
  Jabber chat for query services - uses off-the-shelf Jabber chat services
  as a generic information bus, passing SPARQL queries and
  results via user accounts, encoded as XMPP
  IQ messages.
• SPARQL
  Endpoint interface to Python
• RDFa
  on Rails - a talk,
  original announcement
• Amaya 9.55 - new
  version of the W3C’s standards-friendly open source HTML editor, most OSs
  supported (downloads for MS
  Win, OS X, various Linux)
• Redland, with Raptor and Rasqal multi-platform-native RDF
  libraries are now available in MacPorts (formerly Darwin Ports) - announcement
• OWLS2WSDL
  semi-automatically generates the groundings of given OWL-S services (with
  imported OWL ontologies) in WSDL through syntactic translation
• mod_atom
  - Apache
  module for the Atom
  Publishing Protocol
• Joseki 3.1 - new release of Java
  SPARQL/HTTP engine, see also SDB - A SPARQL Database for
  Jena and ARQtick blog
• More
  about Nepomuk-KDE, - Social Semantic Desktop for Linux, see also Nepomuk Wiki
• Virtuoso
  update - “…the number of triples that will fit in memory is
  doubled for any configuration“
• Swoogle
  2007 - “The biggest change is that Swoogle’s IR index is now
  updated incrementally…“

Events etc.

• Hardcore
  Hardware Hacking Weekend, 21-22 July ‘07, London
• 22nd
  Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Vancouver, Canada,
  July 22-26, 2007
• XML Summer School,
  22nd-27th July 2007, Oxford University, UK - featuring Semantic Web Interest Group
  evening (25th)
• Panel: “Will
  Web 3.0 Finally Give Developers a Real Model Driven Architecture
  Solution?“, July 30, 2007, Palo Alto, CA
• Cambridge
  Semantic Web Gatherings, Cambridge, MA, USA - next
  gathering August 14, 2007
• Jena
  Semantic Web Platform User Conference, September 5-6 2007, Silicon
  Valley, California
• Semantic
  Web Days @ I-Semantics 2007, 5 - 7 September 2007 in Graz,
  Austria
• Defrag Conference, Nov 5-6, Denver,
  Colorado - “…focused solely on the internet-based tools that
  transform loads of information into layers of knowledge, and accelerate
  the “aha” moment“
• 6th International Semantic
  Web Conference and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference
  (ISWC2007+ASWC2007), Busan, Korea, November 11-15, 2007
• 3rd
  International Workshop On Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base
  Systems (SSWS ‘07), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 25 - 30,
  2007
• See also : Presentations of
  W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Calls for Papers

• The
  Fifth Semantic Web Challenge @ ISWC 2007
• Cultural
  Heritage on the Semantic Web Workshop @ ISWC 2007
• Ontology
  for the Intelligence Community (OIC 2007)
• Journal
  of Logic and Computation: Special Issue on Ontology Dynamics
• On
  The Move Federated Workshops (OTM’07)
• International
  Workshop on Modular Ontologies
• ACM
  Web Information and Data Management workshop
• Workshop
  on Privacy Enforcement and Accountability with Semantics, @ ISWC
  2007

Miscellany

• Zepheira to partner with the Online
  Computer Library Center (OCLC) to
  enhance the Persistent URL (PURL) service
  to make it more Web of Data-capable [this year - press
  release], see also Making
  PURLs work for the Web of Data
• Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
  becomes W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative Activity Lead
• Garlik launch DataPatrol
  Advanced commercial service, see also comments
  on the free service
• Freedom
  from choice - an asset for Facebook?
• let’s
  keep metadata profiles (head/@profile) in HTML for use in GRDDL
  etc.
• US citizens:
  please lobby for House vote on Open Access mandate next Tuesday
• Delaminate the
  Bastards! - David
  Weinberger on Net Neutrality
  (a serious
  issue) and beyond
• Purple
  Include: Transclusions, you know you want them!
• Calling
  PHP Functions from XSL
• Video: The Web in
  1994

Thread of the Week

• caching
  HTTP 303 responses - has
  HTTP 1.1 got it wrong?

Quote of the Week

That is not a term that I invented.

- timblon
Web
2.0

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this coming week, please mail meor
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