Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week
ending 2007-09-17

In the Media

• Linked Data on
  Wikipedia
• The Semantic
  Naturalist – “musings on natural history, geography, and the semantic
  web”
• UMBC
  Semantic Web research mentioned in the NYT
• Yahoo!
  News on Semantic
  Report
• Podcast : Rohit
  Khare on syndication-oriented architecture see also SynOA
  What?, “piles
  of junk“

Docs

• GRDDL to W3
  Recommendation
  • GRDDL – main
    specification doc
  • GRDDL Test Cases -
    demonstrate the expected behavior of a GRDDL-aware agent
  • GRDDL Primer -
    introductory material
  • GRDDL Use Cases
    - example applications of the technology

  + Quick
  Reference (PDF)

  see also How
  to integrate with SPARQL (not brittle!)

• Simplifying RDFa Notation
• Turtle
  @base
• “The World is now
  closed” – danbri is no longer a teenager
• Symbol languages and
  the Semantic Web
• Deploying
  Linked Data (PDF)
• Understanding
  SWRL (Part 3)
• An
  initial sketch of a KR for Semantic Web agents (as Logic
  Programs)
• Proving
  a URI is a document
• Soccer
  schedules, flight itineraries, timezones, and python web
  frameworks
• The three
  kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet – Google
  to join the club?
• Salesforce.com’s
  Platform as a Service
• Neno/Phat
  Architecture, plus presentation
  (PDF)
• Lingvoj
  and hubjects also Gopher
  URIs for FOAF – 303s, strangeness and charm…

Software News

• Sweet Tools
  (Version 10) – 577 Semantic Web (and related) tools Exhibited, intro
• Semantic
  Eco-blogging: Spotter 1.0 Released
• Sioku – Jaiku to rdf
  converter
• Simple Widget Markup Language (SWM)
  - “is a framework to create HTML pages with rich graphic elements as if
  they simply were extra HTML elements. The additional components are
  wrapped versions of the GWT [Google Widget Toolkit]
  widgets or can be created using GWT or SWM itself.”. See also: RDF2Go.
• Facebook
  FOAF generator – see also Querying Facebook in
  SPARQL
• Tying FOAF identity with the identity semantics of OpenID
• Y!Mash,
  SquidWho
• RDFa Distiller
• ProjectsUsingAperture
• Search
  SUMO via WordNet
• mod_atom
  gets a HTML template language
• Opera 9.5
  alpha
• SleekXMPP

Miscellany

• Triple-I 2007
  Wrapup, Web
  2.0 meets Web 3.0
• Introducing
  Quaere – language integrated queries aka LINQ for Java
• Basing
  the Design of History on the User’s Memory, see also Trailblazer,
  #swhack
  discussion
• Places
  - “is designed to be a complete replacement for the Firefox bookmarks and
  history systems.”
• Jottit – “makes getting a website as
  easy as filling out a textbox.”
• The Database Column
• freedb
  data dump
• MapReduce
  in a Week
• Command
  prompt as an IM session with my computer?
• We
  have lost control of the apparatus

Quote of the Week

Everything is a platform!

- dull-looking character in Dilbert

See also: tagged but forgotten…

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this coming week, please mail meor
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