This Week’s Semantic Web
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!














September 10th, 2007 at 12:18 am
A Milestone Week of Innovation
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Danny Ayers has recently instituted a semantic Web links re-cap each week (hey folks, set up a specific category!, though the del.icio.us tag “semweb weekly” is a nice touch), which is…