Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week
ending 2007-10-01. All weeks.

In the Media

• Podcast: Carlos
  González-Cadenas on ExperienceOn Ventures and transformative travel site
  BeFogg.com
• Podcast: Bdale Garbee – Citizenship: Open Source Community Rewards and Responsibilities
• The
  semantic web is not just today’s web with special sauce

Docs

• Talis
  Platform News – issue 3 [includes "how I do This Week's Semantic
  Web"]
• Turtle – Terse RDF
  Triple Language updated
• SPARQL
  Query Results XML Format moves to Candidate Recommendation
• Protocol for
  Web Description Resources (POWDER) : Description Resources, Datatypes
  and Vocabulary: Working Drafts
• Enabling
  Read Access for Web Resources – Working Draft
• mobileOK
  Basic Tests 1.0 – Last Call Working Draft
• Rules
  for a Realistic Semantic Web?
• Lightweight
  Attention Preference Markup, Tom Morris on
  Attention, Thoughts
  on Tom Morris on APML
• DOAP
  and the Linked Data Web
• More
  Than Who You Know, It’s What You Know
• Microformats:
  Toward a Semantic Web
• W3C Semantic Web Activity
  News
• Are
  you existentially inclined?
• SemanticWebSchools
  - “Educational establishments which cover Semantic Web technologies
  as taught courses or research programmes.“, new on ESW Wiki, awaiting your
  input…

Software News

• Jena GRDDL Reader v
  0.3
• Raptor RDF Parser Library
  1.4.16 – support for every format under the sun, most demonstrated by Triplr. See also: RDF in
  Ruby
• Maariwa
  Wiki – supports RDF export of annotations
• OpenFriendFormat FOAF
  Generator [???!]
• Simple RDF
  Querying with Python
• Introducing
  Pronto: Probabilistc DL Reasoning in Pellet
• U.S.
  Census/Congress datasets: 1 billion triples – accessible over SPARQL and browsable
  using linked data
  principles
• Turbocharge
  your Links with zLinks, with WordPress plugin, see also: Sleek zLinks Weaves Tightly Meshed
  Links on the Web

Events etc.

• Web 2.0 Summit – Oct. 17-19,
  San Francisco, California [Talis
  will be there!]
• 5th Annual European Semantic Web
  Conference (ESWC 2008) – 1-5 June, Tenerife, Spain
• See also : Presentations of
  W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Calls for Papers

• International
  Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition
  (AIPR-08), July 7-10 2008, Orlando, FL, USA
• 4th Workshop on Semantic Web
  Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2007), Bari, Italy, 18-20 Dec,
  2007

Miscellany

• Squeak projects
  begging for RDFification: Seaside, a framework for developing
  sophisticated web applications in Smalltalk; Magritte,
  a generic self-described meta-model; Pier,
  an extensible object-oriented content management system. See also: Lukas
  Renggli’s blog, One
  Triplestore Per Child
• ElementTree:
  Working with Namespaces and Qualified Names – Python
  essentials
• Python Patterns -
  Implementing Graphs
• Functional
  Javascript
• Actor model
• La Traviata’s great, but where’s the blog, Giovanni?

Quote of the Week

I grew up in India, with a household full of servants. However
politically incorrect it may be to say so, I thoroughly enjoyed the
lifestyle of being able to delegate tedious tasks to these servants. Thus,
in the future that I envision, I would very much like to see Intelligent
Agent “Servants” taking care of lots of my repetitive tasks.

- Sramana Mitra, Web 3.0
& the Semantic Web (quoted on DERI
blog)

~

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!