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13 August 2007
This Week's Semantic Web
Posted by Danny Ayers at August 13, 2007 06:04 PM
Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-08-12
In the Media
- Aug. 7, 1991: Ladies and Gentlemen, the World Wide Web - the Web's 16th year celebrated at Wired.com
- Using Wikipedia as a Web Database - DBpedia featured at at programmableweb.com
- Podcast : Paul Gearon Talks with Talis about RDF databases, OWL and more
- Podcast : SOA Insights Analysts on Semantic Web, Adobe and Open Source Flex, and Future of UDDI (transcript)
Docs
- RecommendedTutorials - in progress, part of SWEO InfoGathering, additions welcome
- cryptographic web of trust - how to digitally sign your FOAF profile, using OpenId etc.
- Etags, Etags, Etags
- Web resource mapping criteria for frameworks - see also URL design for searches and queries
- Decentralised social networking
- Jon Udell on Public Data
- SwetoDblp ontology of Computer Science publications
- Talis Platform News, Issue 2
- The future of natural-language processing (new to me :-)
Software News
- State of the SIOC-o-sphere
- FuXi (reasoning system for RDFLib/4Suite) - updated with full Description Logic Programming capabilities, passes many OWL tests, added RIF Core abstract syntax, command-line script updated
- int.ere.st - create and share tags across your online communities
- W3C HTML Validator now also checks RDFa. See also : The Craft of HTML
- WebRunner - site (/application) specific browsing, based on Moz
Events etc.
- Jena User Conference for 2007 has been cancelled
- SocialNetworkDevCamp - Richmond CA, Sept 8-9, 2007
- SDForum Semantic Web SIG Event: How Can We Make Semantic Web Usable?
- Protege-OWL Short Course, Sept. 10-12, 2007, Stanford University
- See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
Calls for Papers
- Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web Workshop
- AAAI Spring Symposium "AI Meets Business Rules and Process Management"
Miscellany
- Facebook Data Store API, also ...thoughts
- Eric Schmidt Defines Web 3.0
- Shelley Powers Defines Web 9.75
- Harmony - a generic framework for reconciling disconnected updates to heterogeneous, replicated XML data
- Large Graph Layout
- OpenId Book
- Consciousness is overrated
- A Conceptionary for Speech & Hearing in the Context of Machines and Experimentation
- Anarchy in the HTTPand Fielding has a posse (Paul Downey)
Thread of the Week
On #swig :
<MFen> i love the idea that, if someone wants to create their own monster, they can just publish an n3 somewhere that describes it
<MFen> and then *use it with online tools already written*
<MFen> heck, they can even add a "color" attribute, and publish a document that annotates every existing monster in the universe with a color, should they want to
<MFen> i suppose i'm preaching to the choir
<xi_> uhhuh
<xi_> but monsters are new ground for us
Quote of the Week
The next domino to drop is data silos.
- Sam Ruby
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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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Comments
There's a typo above: Chimezie's Fuxi does *not* pass the entire OWL test suite in 1 second. He does pass many OWL tests in about 1.6 seconds, but not all of them -- at least 10 are skipped for various reasons.
If I had to do limited OWL processing (limited to DLP, near as I can tell), I'd definitely do it in Fuxi, but we should be careful about claims re: passing test suites. :>
Posted by: Kendall at August 14, 2007 12:24 AM
Thanks Kendall, corrected (my bad, I'd not read the full announcement, only a somewhat misleading summary).
Posted by: Danny at August 14, 2007 12:27 PM

