Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-11-19, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Podcast: Web Evolution and the Semantic Web (Yihong Ding)
• Podcast: A conversation with Gardner Campbell about the digital imagination
• Video: from ISWC ’07 preliminary [more videos have appeared there since this post]- POWERSET – Natural Language and the Semantic Web (Barney Pell), How I was right even when I was wrong (Chris Welty), Automatic Techniques for Extracting Semantic Data (Fabio Ciravegna)
• Video: Preview of Twine (and write-up in New Scientist)
• Video: Beyond the (current) web (Spanish)
• Video: Lawrence Lessig addresses TED
• Video: The Semantic Desktop: The Intimate Supplement to Memory

See also: Talking about that Semantic Web thing – looking for new podcast subjects

Docs

• Levels of Abstraction: Net, Web, Graph
• SKOS and RDFa in e-Learning
• Converting (people) to RDF see also: ConverterToRdf
• Links Feast about Technical Plenary 2007
• Summary of POWDER F2F
• SPARQL is now a Proposed Recommendation
• URI Identity and Web Architecture Revisited, also Fragmentation, Fragmentation Reprise
• Redland Ruby binding on GetSemantic.com – installation and ‘hello world’ examples for Redland in Ruby
• Jena tip: importing ontologies from the database
• Semantic Web User Interaction Wiki
• RDF Stylesheets, follow-up
• XProc Versioning and Extensibility
• Domains and Ranges for DCMI Properties
• WS-* is to REST as Theory is to Practice
• RESTfaces, Struts2 REST, SpringMVC+Restlet – and their relative RESTfulness
• Quick performance review of Sesame
• Resources and the Kimball

Semantic Web Challenge Winners

• 1st Prize: Revyu.com – “a Reviewing and Rating Site for the Web of Data” (paper)
• 2nd Prize: Potluck – “Semi-Ontology Alignment for Casual Users” (paper)
• 3rd Prize: CHIP Demonstrator – “Semantics-driven Recommendations and Museum Tour
  Generation” (paper)
• Runner-up: GroupMe – “Where Semantic Web meets Web 2.0″ (paper)
• Runner-up: iFanzy – “Personalized TV Guide” (paper)
• All submissions

The Semantic Web Challenge 2007 was organized in conjunction with the Sixth International Semantic Web Conference in Busan, Korea. It has been noted that “Almost 100% of the presentations or the posters [at ISWC '07] were using Arial typeface”. See also: ISWC First Day, iswc 2007 in Technorati, photos on Flickr.

Software News

• Sweet Tools Updated to 650 Tools – 72 new since September
• Gnizr – open source social bookmarking and mashup application (overview)
• xOperator (tool for RDF/SPARQL over Jabber/XMPP) – “combines advantages of social network websites with instant messaging” [where's the download?]
• Rasqal RDF Query Library 0.9.15 – announcement
• Meteo is UK weather forecast data in RDF, extracted from NOAA’s public domain GRIB files.
  Example: London
• OntologyOnline update
• How to run the SVN trunk version of Tabulator as an extension
• SparqlMotion: A visual semantic web scripting language (for TopBraid Composer)
• Fedora Commons Integrates Its Software Platform with the Sun StorageTek(TM) 5800 System [the metadata Fedora, not the Linux distro]
• If You Love Your Users, Set Them Free — Portable Social Networks
• CouchDB 0.7.0
• MusicBrainz to FreeDB Gateway
• Tag Cloud and hReview to APML
• Clickstream/attention monitors: Cluztr, LinkMug
• WebKit is an open source web browser engine

Events etc.

• Piektdien – lekcijas “Praktiskais semantiskais tīmeklis” 2.daļa
• Dubai Agent & Multi-agent Systems School (DAMAS)
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Calls for Papers

• 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008), Tenerife, Spain, June 1-5 2008
• “Semantic Web and Information Systems” at ECIS 2008, Galway, Ireland, June 9-11, 2008
• International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08), July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA
• IEEE International Workshop on Ontology Alignment and Visualization (OnAV’08), March 4-7, 2008, Barcelona, Spain
• 8th International Conference on New Technologies of Distributed Systems (NOTERE 2008), 23-27 June, 2008, in Lyon, France
• 2008 IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, 2-4 June 2008, Palisades, NY, USA
• WORLDCOMP’08; 25 Int’l Joint Conferences in Computer Science, July 2008, USA

Miscellany

• Job: SKUA – Semantic Knowledge Underpinning Astronomy
• Good Stuff
• Collections of Interesting Data Tables
• The Object Oriented Web – Part 1 – Backlinks, Part 2 – Datahubs
• Maybe Email IS a social graph
• PayPerPost had a bad weekend
• Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun’s IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME, Google engineer explains Android choices
• FSF achieves apache license compatibility in latest GPLv3 draft
• Interview with Toby Segaran, author of Programming Collective Intelligence
• The Future of Reading – on Amazon’s Kindle e-reader see also Nobody like Ebooks but me

Quote of the Week

…if you care about not wasting lots of your customers’ time and money, unless you are developing a service for a single consumer who
demands them, I would strongly advise you DO NOT use WS-* at all.

-Paul Downey, Best Practice for Web Services

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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!