Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-10-29, all weeks.

This Week’s Semantic Web is now available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL, courtesy Kanzaki (discussion)

In the Media

• Slides: Semantic Web in Anwendungen (PPT)
• Slides : Towards a Musical Semantic Web
• Audio: OKMDS Tutorial on Virtual Worlds – Sharing Knowledge in Second Life
• A Video and an Audio Cast About Twine
• Issue 2 of the Semantic Report
• Proposed changes to Semantic Web logo policies – see also Semantic Web is a lot of fun

Docs

• Chord Ontology – allows you to say things like “D# minor with added ninth and missing flat third, over the fifth” (Ds:min(9,*b3)), some code available, announcement,
  [above] slides
• RDF Access to Relational Databases workshop – papers
• RDFa Primer Working Draft – “Embedding Structured Data in Web Pages”
• Content Transformation Landscape 1.0 – “identifies the issues surrounding use of transforming proxies in the delivery of Web content” [to mobile devices]
• FOAF and OpenID: two great tastes that taste great together, also sbp’s write-up
• Meaning = Data + Structure: User Generated Structure
• Is there fertile ground between RDFa and GRDDL?
• Towards SPARQL-DL Evaluation in Pellet
• HTTP caching options

Software News

• Open Anzo 2.5 released – open-source enterprise RDF store
• Pubby 0.2 – Linked Data frontend for SPARQL endpoints
• Mojo! – BT’s call-by-HTTP service
• Ontology Mapping Store
• Widgetarians.org, a Planet-based aggregator of
  Widgety stuff – background
• RDFLib gets SPARQL CONSTRUCT/DESCRIBE support [thanks Chime!], see also RDFLib on Wikipedia
  [documentation!]
• Plan3 -
  imperative n3
• Pythonic Description Logic
  Programming
• Barebones -
  the Web as links-only, RDF or HTML
• Tutorials list
  from del.icio.us
• New
  York Times rich metadata
• The Great Semantic
  Web Survey is coming on quite well
• The
  next version of the Zitgist Browser
• Prism is an
  application that lets users split web applications out of their browser
  and run them directly on their desktop (formally known as Mozilla
  WebRunner)
• Logilab.org – logic/AI code,
  mostly Python
• OpenID Attribute Exchange
  demo
• 275
  Flickr mashups – starting with flickr
  wrappr
• SmartLinks from
  AdaptiveBlue “…automatically deliver relevant information from
  the best sites on the web right to your blog”
• bug.gd – “has anyone seen this
  error?”

Events etc.

• Upcoming
  Web Conferences
• Workshop on
  Privacy Enforcement and Accountability with Semantics, at ISWC’07 & ASWC’07
• HollandSemanticWebGatherings
• See also : Presentations of
  W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Calls for Papers

• Journal
  of Logic and Computation – Special Issue on Ontology Dynamics
• International
  Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and
  Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08)
• IEEE
  International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and
  Networks
• 3rd International Computer Science
  Symposium (CSR 2008) June 7-12, 2008, Moscow, Russia
• See also : SemanticWebJournals
• Call for Panels : 5th
  European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008) – Tenerife, Spain, June
  1-5 2008

Miscellany

• Privacy Lost?
  see also Attention
  to Intention to VRM [Vendor Relationship Management]
• Senators
  Call For Net Neutrality Hearing
• Yahoo
  as a Platform
• Web
  2.0 Summit reflections
• Video
  of conversation with SILVIA, talking bot
• Supercomputing
  challenge – includes list of benchmarks
• Report: 7 Out
  Of 10 Americans Experience ‘Search Engine Fatigue’
• Patterns
  in My Head from Talking with Technology Architects
• Remembering
  Modula-3
• Tim
  Berners-Lee – inventor of the World Wide Web, Director of the
  World Wide Web Consortium,, Knight Commander of the British Empire, Lego
  figure…

Quote of the Week

Formal semantics – formal methods generally – are valuable, but they
should be our servants rather than our masters.

- Pat
Hayes

~

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!