Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week
ending 2007-09-10

In the Media

• 10
  Future Web Trends - ReadWriteWeb
• free listing for CommercialProducts

Docs

• OWL Working Group chartered
  to produce a W3C Recommendation for an extended Web Ontology Language
  (OWL), adding a small set of extensions and defining profiles
  identified by users and tool implementers.
• Web
  Services Policy 1.5 Is a W3C Recommendation - “The Policy Framework
  defines a model for expressing the nature of Web services in order to
  convey conditions for their interaction.”
• Comparing
  OWL Semantics Full & DL
• RDFa
  - Implications for Accessibility (all good)
• RFC 5005 - Feed
  Paging and Archiving, mnot’s
  comments
• draft-nottingham-http-cache-channels
• SemanticWebJournals

Software News

• RDF reasoning
  for home automation - aiming towards “I unlocked the door because
  someone friendly was nearby, because Drew is friendly and Drew carries a
  phone with the bluetooth address I saw“
• Leeet - “a Semantic
  Web application that allows rapid and intuitive creation, editing and
  querying of Semantic Web content and annotations” uses
  ‘Leeetspeak’ - “a very simple, human-readable and well-structured
  syntax for Semantic Web content“
• W3C Online GRDDL
  Service, see also: Triplr
• Zitgist
  Browser Linker Wordpress plug-in
• Son of
  Dublin Core (SoDC) - Encoding, Validating and Harvesting Graph-based
  (Meta)data
• An RDF/OWL Implementation of the
  Institute of Medicine’s Recommendations for Computer-based Patient
  Records (CPR) - browsable
  in the Tabulator
• Doctest/JS
  - unit testing for Javascript made simple
• jQuery
  1.2 - perfect for SPARQL JSON
  results?
• flickrwrappr, flickcurl, flickr2rdf,
  Net-Flickr-RDF
• Strata Data Browser
• One
  Triplestore Per Child

Events etc.

• CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings
  (Cambridge, Mass.) - tonight
  featuring The Social Semantic Web, Observations from the business side of
  the Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee demoing Tabulator RDF Browser as a
  Firefox Extension
• Semantic Web
  Strategies September 30 - October 2, 2007, San Jose, CA (one day left
  for early registration), see also: A
  taxonomy with two categories
• ApacheCon US 2007 - November
  12-16, Atlanta, Georgia
• See also : Presentations of
  W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Miscellany

• XEP-0154: User
  Profile - This document specifies how to represent and manage profile
  data about IM users and other XMPP entities using the XMPP Data Forms
  extension.
• Reports from the Singularity Summit
• Hello
  TagBot
• Ascetic
  Database Architectures
• obo:part_of -
  meriology is not for the faint-hearted
• Microsoft
  Astoria is Whistling Past the Graveyard to Irrelevance
• “The [Eclipse] Identity
  Attribute Service (IdAS) component provides a virtualized, unified
  view and a common means of access to identity information from multiple
  heterogeneous data sources. IdAS is an extensible framework based on the
  Higgins Data
  Model that represents identities (Digital Subjects) and
  their Identity
  Attributes in a Context.” See also: Community Dictionary
  Service, CloudTripper, XDI, XRI
• URNs,
  Namespaces and Registries - draft TAG finding - just use http:
  URIs
• Building
  the Social Web with OpenID
• Web,
  AJAX slammed for deficiencies - Doug “Grinch” Crockford
• “Semantic
  Web” - Twitter search

~

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

Share This