Selected links related to the Semantic Web and associated technologies for the week
ending 2007-09-03

In the Media

• This Week’s Semantic Web (and the rest of the Nodalities blog) now available on Planet RDF (thanks
  Dave!)
• The
  web: some antics - article in The
  Economist
• Storing and Using
  RDF in Mulgara - DevX.com
• RDF
  pour tous - “RDF
  for the rest of us” crosses the channel

Docs

• Semantic
  Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL) - now a
  Recommendation
• Semantic Web application
  survey results - also presented
  using Exhibit, survey
  properties, slideshow
• LinkHeader -
  discussion of HTTP
  Header Linking on ESW Wiki
• POWDER
  Use Cases and Requirements updated
• XMPP
  Matters
• Returning
  HTTP 303s for Semantic Web URIs
• Ontological
  Definitions for an Information Resource
• Better
  Navigation with XProc
• Photographic
  Metadata (see also Flickr’d)
• A Difficult
  Abstraction (PDF) - Web development is hard?
• ATOM
  interface - rich visualization, via:
• DERI blog
• DC-2007
  brief report

Software News

• Tabulator Extension for
  Firefox - generic data browser
• Ripple 0.4 - new release of
  prize-winning
  Semantic Web Scripting Language
• DBPedia 2.0 - goes live
  (docs)
• Semantic Search - Web 3.0 for
  Drupal
• Social.ie - Ireland’s Social
  Network (see also: John’s
  been busy)
• OpenID plugin for
  Wordpress - and the social network graph
  (FOAF) angle
• JQbus -
  Jabber chat query services
• Playtools for RPG
  Software - framework for creating applications for role-playing
  games, uses N3
• Neno - an RDF-powered semantic
  network programming language, blog
• TopBraid
  Live: Rich Semantic Internet Applications with Flex - latest addition
  to the commercial semweb dev suite
• Ontology
  Modularisation Tool
• Yet
  Another RDFa Processor and Yet Another RDFa
  Demo
• Amusons-nous
  avec RDFa, le retour (More on
  Operator and RDFa)

Miscellany

• Chapter
  Outline for Ph.D. topic - HarryH:
  Has three gee-whiz factors “This guy is doing the philosophy of the
  Web”, “That sure looks a lot like Scheme for Web Services in XML”, and “A
  blog that writes itself…cool!”
• RDF Schema
  Development mailing list - “A place for authors of RDF schemas to
  gather and talk shop. The focus is on smaller schemas that don’t already
  have an established community so discussion of improvements to FOAF,
  SIOC, DOAP and the like are off topic, although reference to those
  schemas and their designs is not.”
• Latest SUMO in
  OWL
• The Structure
  of Information Networks
• How to Write Parallel Programs
• Parsing
  Miss South Carolina
• Sparql’s
  back!!! (the cat, not the similarly-named query language)
• Leobard
  has a party

Quote of the Week

Every link has a relation on the Semantic Web. Each time a person create
a link from a web page to another web page, it does much more than simply
linking… In fact, the Web and the Semantic Web are starting to mesh
together.

- Frederick Giasson: Blogs,
Wordpress, Zitgist and the Semantic Web

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 me or
use the del.icio.us tags “semweb weekly” -
thanks!

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