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29 July 2007
This Week's Semantic Web
Posted by Danny Ayers at July 29, 2007 08:02 PM
Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-07-29
Docs
- Atom [Publishing Protocol] is Finished
- Not Safe For Work - HTML Meta Data Profile for marking pages thus (suitable for use with GRDDL)
- URI Templates - now an Internet-Draft, see also mnot's post
- Structure Paves the Way to the Semantic Web
- Introducing OpenSearch
- XQuery, libferris, and Virtual Filesystems - libferris is an RDF/SPARQL capable vfs, uses Redland
- Final Report from Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group
- XForms 1.0 Third Edition - Proposed Edited Recommendation published
- Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL) updated Working Draft - "describes data, styling, layout, and interaction independently, making Web content adaptable for a wide variety of platforms including the thousands of mobile devices in use and devices to come"
- RDFON: a new RDF serialization - RDF in JSON, not without its critics, see thread
- ramm.x - specification for RDFa-deployed multimedia metadata, announcement
- SemanticDB: A CMS Methodology for the Enterprise Semantic Web
- Composite Design Pattern in RDF/OWL
Software News
- Potluck - a tool for mixing data see also Potluck: Another Tasty Meal from MIT Simile
- Stellaris: An RDF-based Information Service for AstroGrid-D - "Stellaris is the core component of the AstroGrid-D middleware that enables scientists to share their resources, provides access to large datasets and integrates instruments such as robotic telescopes.". Built on Virtuoso/RDFLib.
- Basic Federated SPARQL Query - new keyword in ARQ : SERVICE
- pymarc, marc8 and nothingness - new function, marc8_to_unicode()
- Koble!
Events etc.
- Tomorrow : Silicon Valley's Semantic Web interest group will discuss how Semantic Web will impact MDA, reminder
- Jena Semantic Web Platform User Conference - Silicon Valley, California, September 5-6 2007 (extended registration deadline - Aug 8th - because there was a problem with the system)
Calls for Papers
- 5th International EON Workshop on Evaluation of Ontologies and Ontology-based tools (EON2007), November 11th, 2007 @ ISWC 2007, Busan, Korea
- 2nd International ExpertFinder Workshop (FEWS2007), @ ISWC 2007
- Workshop on Privacy Enforcement and Accountability with Semantics @ ISWC 2007
- Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web @ ISWC 2007
- 3rd Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web @ ISWC 2007
Miscellany
- Semantic Web Ontology Map
- A FOAF File for Sun
- Injecting Facebook Data into the Semantic Data Web
- Cortex Intelligence demo - natural language to triples system, graphic (proprietary)
- Facial Recognition Comes to [Microsoft] Live Search
- View-Model-Template
- Russell Beattie on Jabber
- Lots of slideshows about Scalability on the Web
- Shared Knowledge vs. Shared Objects - licensing issues
Quote of the Week
I treat my head as the normative copy of my filing system algorithm. The real world is just the place I keep the physical files: not the filing algorithm itself.
Semantic Web Search Engines of the Week
See also: thread on crawling the Semantic Web
Graph Chart of the Week
Posts to semantic-web@w3.org
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Sources include Planet RDF, various other blogs, Semantic Web Interest Group IRC Chatlogs & Scratchpad, ESW Wiki, SemWebCentral, Sweet Tools, W3C Semantic Web Activity, mailing lists, personal emails etc etc. If you see anything suitable this coming week, please mail meor use the del.icio.us tags "semweb weekly" - thanks!
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