This Week’s Semantic Web
Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week
ending 2007-10-22. All weeks.
In the Media
- Video : Moving
from the Web of Documents to a Web of Data - What
I Meant to Say Was Semantic Web - Podcast : Twine:
A social network built on the semantic web - Exhibit on the OLPC
XO
Docs
- Talis
Platform News – Issue 4, see also: news and
events - RFC 5023 – The Atom
Publishing Protocol - XTech
2007 proceedings - Web 2.0 Summit – conference
reports - New W3C Semantic Web
logos - Draft
of RDFa syntax and Primer published - “The Semantic
Web Vision: Where are We?” (PDF) – survey results, see also A
Tale of Two Studies - OntologWiki
- Noteworthy Events from the Past (including podcasts) - A Data Model of Web Data
Models: Part I - Column
Stores - Wikipedia
URI-s as reliable identifiers for the Semantic Web? - A Digital
Music Archive for the Norwegian National Broadcaster using Semantic Web
techniques – SWEO Case
Study
Software News
- Twine – Radar
Networks‘ long-awaited “service for sharing, organizing and
finding information with people you trust” – previewed,
VentureBeat interview with Nova: What
is Web 3.0? It’s Web 2.0 with a brain - knowee – “Your Contacts, the Webby
Way” – demo - Seesmic – mainstream
video-over-IP app (in alpha), makes significant use of Semantic
Web tech - Opening
Up the Social Graph – with the Six Apart Relationship Update
Stream - Open
Anzo project from Cambridge Semantics -
open-source fork of IBM‘s Boca
enterprise RDF store - DBSlayer -
“lightweight database abstraction layer” (SQL over HTTP) from code.nytimes.com
Events etc.
Miscellany
- SVG
Onward - Powerset
outsources query result evaluation to Mechanical Turk - Pile O’ LAMPs: What Would Fielding Say?
- jQuery and
XML, Bridging
XML, E4X and JSON - Open
Social Scene - GoodReads – book clubs of the
social graph, see also LibraryThing - Squeaky Tales – EToys
screencasts
Kids Special
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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!



