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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