Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week
ending 2007-09-24

In the Media

• Ontology Matching new
  book
• Boris Motik wins this year’s ERCIM Cor Baayen Award
  for work around OWL
• Economist
  Confused About the Semantic Web? – see also The
  Semantic Web, Collective Intelligence and Hyperdata and Web of Linked
  Data & Hyperdata and The
  Semantic Web – is everyone confused?

Docs

• Open
  Data Commons license, background
• OAuth – “creates a
  freely-implementable and generic methodology for API authentication”, see
  also OpenID
  & OAuth Latency – Painful User Experience
• RDFa syntax and
  processing document and introductory
  primer ready for review
• Semantic
  Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach, Top-Down:
  A New Approach to the Semantic Web, – see also: Semantic
  Web Doesn’t Have to Be Difficult, Read/Write
  Web paints a prettier picture of the Semantic Web
• Semantic Web
  Value Proposition
• Semantic Tagging the A-list
  bloggers
• Web
  3.0 & the Semantic Web
• The
  4th Platform, also Fourth Platform:
  Data Spaces in The Cloud
• Shared
  Annotations? – Norm wants them

Software News

• mopy 0.2 -
  Music Ontology Python library, also covers FOAF vocab, and the timeline
  and chord ontologies
• knowee – Web-based contact manager
  proof of concept presented, see also : Slowly
  resurfacing for more SWEOing
• DOAPspace – a report
• ARC2
  Progress – update on the PHP RDF toolkit
• New
  jSpace App: Baseball Stats Browser
• GRDDL
  transformation for VoteLinks
  microformat
• GRDDL
  transformation for Atom (in progress)
• Metadata
  entry
• FeatureServer is an
  implementation of a RESTful Geographic Feature Service
• Konstrukt – a RESTful framework of
  controllers for PHP5
• REST Client – Python + wxWidgets
  Desktop application for talking to RESTful web service (needs digest auth!)
• SixApart: Opening the Social Graph
• Google
  planning to leverage social network data?
• Loosly joined
  [sic] – danbri SPARQLs some of his social networks, then plays with
  Flock
• Intel®
  Mash Maker: Mashups for the Masses
• Microsoft
  releases new Interactive Media Manager with RDF and OWL!
• M2N:
  building Swing apps with N3
• ActiveRDF – putting the semantic
  web on rails

Events etc.

• ISWC2007 + ASWC2007 :
  Early Registration deadline extended until 30 Sept. 2007
• Practical Semantic
  Astronomy workshop Caltech, Pasadena, USA 18-21 February 2008
• 5th European Semantic Web
  Conference (ESWC2008) Tenerife, Spain, June 1-5 2008.
• International Conference on
  Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent
  Systems (AIE-IEA 2008) Wroclaw, Poland, June 18-20, 2008
• IEEE International Conference on
  Digital Information Management (IEEE ICDIM 2007)
• See also : Presentations of
  W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Calls for Papers

• ACM International Conference on
  Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI08) – Canary Islands, Spain, January
  13th-16th 2008

Miscellany

• Computer Programming as
  an Art – Knuth’s piece
• Talis
  Platform Advisory Group kicks off

Thread of the Week

• caching
  HTTP 303 responses – has
  HTTP 1.1 got it wrong?

Quote of the Week

best thing we ever did, was make those tshirts!

- danbri
on education and outreach

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