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!