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

• Web Science
• Web
  3.0 Vision

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!