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5 November 2007
This Week's Semantic Web
Posted by Danny Ayers at November 5, 2007 10:41 PM
Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-11-05, all weeks.
In the Media
- Screencast: Protege 101 - getting started with the leading open-source ontology editor
- Poster: The Web is Agreement
- Podcast: OAuth
- Microformats Hop on Semantic Web 'Griddle'
Docs
- The Future of Social Networks on the Internet: The Need for Semantics
- RIF Working Drafts published: Basic Logic Dialect and RDF and OWL Compatibility
- Geospatial Vocabularies and Ontologies document published
- Powdering logos
- Optimizing SPARQL-DL
- Updating doap:store architecture and rewriting queries
- FOAF Sites "are open social networking sites which host a large amount of 'Friend of a Friend' FOAF data. they generate it automatically for all users. If you know of sites not on the list, please add them."
- Want to comment on Tim Berners-Lee’s blog? Here’s how
- hCard for OpenID Simple Registration and Attribute Exchange, Replacing OpenID SREG with hCard part 1: Modest proposals
- CIFPs for OWL 1.1?
- Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking - see also: Cool URIs Don't Change, Linked Data, Cool URIs for the Semantic Web, How to Publish Linked Data on the Web, Evolving the Link, Reminder: Why We Need Linked Data!...
Software News
- Sindice, a Semantic Web Search Engine centered on indexing and ranking online RDF data sources - blog announcement
- FOAF Project revitalised, with diagram!
- planetplanet foafrolls
- turtle.py
- hTurtle - "...is a microformat [contested!] for embedding Turtle, an RDF format that's easy to write, into XHTML documents". Service processing is Python cgi rather than XSLT-based.
- GRDDL Profile for Links
- CustomRdfDialects
- Pellet 1.5.1 Release - bugfix/maintenance
- rdflib SPARQL CONSTRUCT/DESCRIBE support, Major re-write of MySQL triple pattern evaluation
- Google announce OpenSocial widget platform, see also : The 6 essential things you need to know about Google's OpenSocial, Terms, Getting a Handle on OpenSocial Gadgets , Open Social Gateway initiative, Is Google Really Playing Fair?
- Widgetarians.org now on Venus
- Google announce mobile platform (Android SDK due next week)
- Online RDFa Test Harness (Crazy Ivan) - "...provides an interactive mechanism to check the conformance of an RDFa extractor and SPARQL query engine"
- LinkHeader, also recent thread
Miscellany
- The next big thing: User-contributed metadata
- Postgenomic paper reviews
- How to Build Decent Productivity Software, see also More dogfood
- A 'naming spectrum'
- Frame language
- Self-referential jokes
Quote of the Week
...it's not the supply of "P2P sites" that drives this, it's the demand from users online, across the globe
-Ken Fisher, OiNK’s new piglets proof positive that Big Content’s efforts often backfire
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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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