Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-11-12, all weeks.

In the Media

• Video: Web 2.0 Summit – The Semantic Edge
• Diagram: The basic follow-your-nose way the web works (diagram)
• Diagram: FOAF spec updated
• Cartoon: Cavemen adopt RDF
• How to Tell Stuff to a Computer

Docs

• WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project (Nov 12th, 1990)
• TAG Lines – W3C Technical Architecture Group blog
• Implicit Namespaces – the “magic” of HTML
• Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements, see also Dublin Core Metadata and RDF
• Versioning and the Web
• DocBook V5.0 Committee Draft – victory called
• Using Wikipedia Entries as Vocabulary for Knowledge Management, in the context of DBpedia
• Refactoring the Law: Reformulating Legal Ontologies
• DIAL Part 0: Primer – from Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group
• Significant change of direction for POWDER
• Annotation System for OWL Proposal
• RDFLib on GetSemantic.com
• SWHCLSIG Note on Sustainable Naming
• RDBMS to RDF Mapping Workshop and Benchmarks – report
• Social Web RDF Store Benchmark
• Querying DBpedia
• Using Taxonomies for SPARQL-DL optimizations
• Eduserv OpenID Event – report
• Leo has a barcode
• deSkolemizing to get Horn-expressivity with RDF rules
• Give us the data raw and give it us now!

Software News

• Sindice – Semantic Web Search Engine centered on indexing and ranking online RDF data sources, project blog
• Falcons – keyword-based search engine for the Semantic Web, equipped with browsing capability, announcement
• Vapour – A web-based validator tool to check the compliance of a web site against the “recipes” described in the “Best Practices for Publishing RDF Vocabularies“. Sourceforge project.
• Sesame 2.0-rc1 released – open source framework for storage, inferencing and querying of RDF data
• Aperture 1.0.1-beta – Java framework for extracting full-text content and metadata from various information systems and files
• D2RQ v0.5.1 and D2R Server v0.4 – a system for mapping relational databases to RDF; a SPARQL and Linked Data server that allows access to the data stored in D2RQ-mapped databases
• Greengrass – new RDF library for .Net
• RKB Explorer – semweb browser applet
• An Ontology for Relating Generic and Specific Information Resources
• RDF Review Vocabulary – revised, set up as GRDDL profile for hReview, see also Revyu.com, ITerating
• [IANA #110393] Application for port-number: CouchDB
• TopBraid Composer 2.4.0 (payware)

Events etc.

• 4th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2007), Bari, Italy, 18th to 20th December, 2007
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• Call for System Demos, 5th European Semantic Web Conference, 01-05 June 2008, Tenerife (Spain)
• Joost Developer Days

Calls for Papers

• Workshop on Legislative XML – December 15, 2007 Leiden, NL
• 5th International Workshop on Philosophy an Informatics (WSPI2008), Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 1-2, 2008
• JavaOne! Papers. Not much time left!
• Seventh International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) 26-30 October 2008

Positions

• 1 Post-doc and 3 Junior Researchers, OKKAM European Union Integrated Project at University of Trento, Italy
• 6 full-time PhD research positions, Corporate Semantic Web research group, Freie Universität Berlin
• 2 Research Assistant/Doctoral Positions, University of Munich
• PhD Fellow vacancies, Aalborg University in Denmark

Quote of the Week

HTML is a big community, but there are others communities. Smaller communities are more in need of uri-extensibility than bigger ones.

- timbl at TPAC 2007 – URI-Based Extensibility: Benefits, Deviations, Lessons-Learned

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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!