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9 October 2007
This Week's Semantic Web
Posted by Danny Ayers at October 9, 2007 11:49 AM
Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-10-09. All weeks.
In the Media
- OwlSight reviewed on SemanticReport
- Future of Web Apps (FoWA) and More Thoughts From FoWA
- Slides: Semantic Web Use Cases and Case Studies (pdf) - also Semantic Web applications
- Video: Detecting Spam Blogs: An Adaptive Online Approach
Docs
- Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) - working drafts published
- What to do about Google and Doubleclick? Hold Google to it’s word with some Extreme factfinding about privacy practices
- FOAF for Social Network Portability - see also Using the foaf:openId property
- The "DL" in "OWL DL"
- A trustworthy, extensible theorem prover (pdf)
- Open Data - license it or lose it
- New Commenting Policy on DIG group blog - FOAF whitelist-based
- Semantic Web book list
Software News
- Virtuoso, Open-Source Edition, version 5.0.2
- Doap Bean available, also Turtle support for NetBeans 6
- Semantic Web Crawling: a Sitemap Extension
- RDFa detector for Firefox
- GovTrack.us data in RDF
- Smart Multimedia Archive for Conferences
- Anthracite Web Mining Desktop (payware)
Events etc.
- Kongress Semantic Web und Wissenstechnologien, 18. Oktober 2007 in Darmstadt
- See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
- Call for Workshop Proposals - 5th European Semantic Web Conference, 01 - 05 June 2008 Tenerife, Spain
- CfP: 2nd Int Conf on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'08) 31 Mar 2008, Seattle
- CfP: Semantic Web User Interaction: Exploring HCI Challenges workshop at CHI 2008 - Florence, Italy, April 5, 2008.
Miscellany
- The Perils of Platform as a Service (It’s Not As Bad As All That!)
- Why Web 3.0? also Jason Calacanis takes his stab at Web 3.0 and O'Reilly and Spivack grapple with the Webs
- Basics of Attention Profiling through APML
- Days of Leaderboards are Gone - Mr.Winer appears to agree
- I have looked at clouds from both sides now
- "big fractal tangle" is back - now focussing on OLPC and Squeak
Quote of the Week
End-users and Developers discovered and appreciated Web Pages before discovering HTML and DOM, so why should it be any different re. RDF?
- Kingsley Idehen on public-sweo-ig
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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!
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