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6 August 2007
This Week's Semantic Web
Posted by Danny Ayers at August 6, 2007 09:06 AM
Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-08-05
In the Media
- The Semantic Web Goes to Work - internetnews.com
- RDF For The Rest of Us - Digital Web Magazine
- Jena tutorial - DevX
- Podcast : Thomas Vander Wal on Folksonomies (he coined the term)
Docs
- SIOC becomes a W3C Submission - "The SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) Core Ontology provides the main concepts and properties required to describe information from online communities (e.g., message boards, wikis, weblogs, etc.) on the Semantic Web..". See also: sioc-project.org
- Semantic Web Crawling: a Sitemap Extension - updated
- Multimedia Vocabularies on the Semantic Web
- Dan Connolly on units in RDF
- Controlling your Data - robots.txt and beyond
- Desktop and Web happily together
Software News
- 43,000 new DOAP projects - freshmeat.net in RDF
- Flickcurl: C API to Flickr - featuring flickrdf utility, reads Machine Tags
- OWLSight - new lightweight web-based ontology browser powered by OWL DL reasoner Pellet, background post
- OpenLink Ajax Toolkit (OAT) 2.6 released - full of Semantic Data Web features
- New stabilized version of the Zitgist Browser (Semantic Web Query Service coming soon), new version of Ping the Semantic Web, first draft of the Bibliographic Ontology - background post
- flickr::backup to RDF, courtesy CPAN
- appfs - a utility that can mount remote resources exposed via the Atom Publishing Protocol (Atompub) as a local filesystem
- Koble!
Events etc.
- Semantic Web Strategies - Sept 30 - Oct 2, 2007, San Jose, CA
- Next Generation Data Mining and Cyber Enabled Discovery for Innovation (NGDM’07) workshop, 10-12 October 2007, Baltimore
- See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
Calls for Papers
- Knowledge Engineering Review seeks PhD dissertation abstracts - details
- RuleML-2007 Challenge: Rule Technology Showcase
Miscellany
- Amazon Flexible Payment System
- Google Maps gets hCard support
- O'Reilly on Yahoo! and Hadoop and More Hadoop
- Social Networking 3.0
- Closed is the new Open
- Create Your Own Read/Write Online Data Service with Microsoft Astoria - entity-relationship data, with SPARQL-like RESTful queries...
- A brief history of Consensus, 2PC and Transaction Commit
- Which came first: the bridge model or the bridge collapse?
- Podcast: Cover Yourself (a radical approach to copyright)
Not the Layer Cake
Quote of the Week
The universality of the URI is a fundamental aspect of the web architecture.
It remains that the benefit of the web is primarily the wide interoperability of this single namespace.
- timbl
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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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