29th July 2007, 08:02 pm by Danny Ayers In: This Week's Semantic Web

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.

- Sean
McGrath