Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week
ending 2007-07-22

Yahoo!
Pipe for “This Week’s Semantic Web” posts

In the Media

• Open
  Source Semantic Desktop Is Coming – internetnews.com
• Health
  care eyes Web 3.0 – Government
  Health IT
• Podcast : Peter
  Morville on Ambient Findability
• Podcast : Joan
  Lippincott on the challenge of the Net Generation to University
  libraries

Docs

• GRDDL (Gleaning Resource
  Descriptions for Dialects of Languages) moves to Proposed
  Recommendation – see also GRDDL, the Takahashi Way; Bootstrapping the Semantic Web with GRDDL, microformats and RDFa; GRDDL Quick
  Reference (PDF)
• SemWeb
  on a Slide
• Tutorial on “How
  to publish Linked Data on the Web” released – announcement,
  call for feedback. See also: Over
  1 billion interlinked triples…
• Linked Data
  & The Web Information BUS
• Open
  Data Licensing, An Unnatural Thought
• The Rise of the Social Operating System
• Geneology of
  FOL and LP – a diagram summarizing the geneology of First-order Logic
  (FOL), Description Logic (DL), and Logic Programming (LP)
• POWDER
  Update – “a lightweight system that will enable RDF triples to be
  applied to groups of resources, typically all those available from a
  given Web site…Think of it as the automated/Semantic Web version of
  ‘Click to Verify’ when you see a trustmark on a Web site.”
• RIF
  [Rule Interchange Format] WG agrees to Basic Logic and PR dialects -
  “…the dialect formerly known as the “RIF Core” will be renamed the
  “Basic Logic Dialect” (BLD), and its sibling will be called the
  “Production Rule Dialect” (PRD). Work on a common RIF core dialect will
  re-commence once the requirements set by these two dialects are
  specified.”. Sandro explains:
  “…some key elements of Horn — like logic function terms (which are
  unified, not evaluated) are quite unlike what’s found in production
  rules. functions in production rules are just evaluated functions, as in
  imperative programs.”
• RDF.
  Clustered Databases, Partitioning vs Cache Fusion – “I recently
  read Oracle’s papers about RAC, Real Application Cluster. This is
  relevant as we are presently working on the Virtuoso
  equivalent.”
• Cowpaths of the
  Web – re. calls to drop @profile in HTML5 (yeah, one of mine,
  bite me)

Software News

• Snoggle -
  graphical, SWRL-based
  ontology mapper
• Pellet 1.5.0 – adds incremental
  reasoning, axiom tracing, and an optimized classifier, etc. – see also Making
  Ontology Modules Fast
• CMap Tool Ontology Editor -
  via new
  categories in COE Editor (ontolog-forum
  thread)
• JBoss Rules
  4.0 – open source Rete engine,
  featuring Drools Rule
  Language
• Radar Networks Progress Update – also mailing list/request for beta account

Events etc.

• Social
  Events in Vienna this week with the 15th Annual International
  Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) & 6th
  European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB)
• W3C Workshop on RDF Access
  to Relational Databases, 25-26 October, Cambridge, MA, USA
• UBL
  International 2007, Madrid, Spain, October 1-5, 2007
• Data Sharing Summit

, Sept. 7th-8th, “somewhere in the Bay Area”, see Marc Canter’s blog for updates.

• (see also previous
  week’s listings)

Calls for Papers

• 5th International Workshop on
  Philosophy an Informatics (WSPI2008), Kaiserslautern, Germany, April
  1-2, 2008
• Ontology Matching
  workshop (OM-2007), at ISWC2007+ASWC’07, November 11, 2007, Busan,
  Korea
• Ontology Alignment
  Evaluation Initiative (OAEI-2007) : call for ontology matching
  systems, in cooperation with the ISWC Ontology Matching workshop
• First
  Industrial Results of Semantic Technologies (FIRST 2007), workshop at
  ISWC+ASWC Conference, November 11-15 2007, Busan, Korea

• Internships
  at DERI Galway – research and development of innovative
  infrastructures and platforms for the Semantic Web
• Master
  in Computational Logic, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano – openings
  and scholarships for Europeans

Miscellany

• Open Library Project -
  “Our goal is to build the world’s greatest library, then put it up on
  the Internet free for all to use and edit.”
• Note
  to Software Vendors, the World is Collaborative and Loosely
  Coupled
• XQuery
  and Data Abstraction
• Design for
  the web (featuring ETags)
• Language
  Game – links on template languages (inc. the Principle of Least
  Power)
• you know you want to

Thread of the Week

• Terminology
  Question concerning Web Architecture and Linked Data
  (continuing…)

Quote of the Week

Semantics isn’t just for kids anymore.

- Kurt
Cagle

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