Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-11-26, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Podcast: @semantics and the Semantic Web
• Podcast: The Social and Semantic Webs
• Podcast: VortexDNA and the Mapping of Human Intention on the Web
• Various: 2^W: The Second Coming Of The Web
• Diagram: Personal Learning Environments and Institutions

Docs

• Turtle – Terse RDF Triple Language – major document reorganisation
• Fragmentation, Is the Semantic Web Destined to be a Shadow? What are Information Resources Good For?
• Moving out of the shadow with RDFa
• Shadows on the Web
• A Pragmatic Theory of Reference for the Web
• URI Declaration Versus Use
• Plato’s cave
• URI Fragment Identifiers for the text/plain Media Type
• URI Template-02
• httpbis charter
• HTML Design Principles – Working Draft
• Web Standards’ Three Buckets of Pain
• OpenID Attribute Exchange
• GRDDL support in proposed Dublin Core in X/HTML guidelines
• SPARQL isn’t Unix Pipes
• Semantic Structures for Teaching and Learning
• Report on ISWC Day 1, Days 2 & 3
• RDF Benchmarking, Role, Motives and Rationale

Software News

• Cindy Ché and other interesting people (overview of SWIG-UK )
• Facet
  - Building Web Pages with SPARQL (from SWIG-UK )
• The Talis Platform, report
  (from SWIG-UK)
• Building a Semantic Web accessible image publication repository – report
  (from SWIG-UK)
• Ordnance Survey Ontologies,
• trio – RDF tools in Python
• LOAD, INSERT, and DELETE in ARC2 via SPARQL+
• DIY SPARQL Mailman
• BBC Aggregator
• Profile for GRDDL transformation for
  SAWSDL
• Koble!
• CompLearn “is a suite of simple-to-use utilities that you can use to apply compression techniques
  to the process of discovering and learning patterns”
• Songbird “is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web”
• timbl’s spellchecker

Events etc.

• Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008), WWW 2008, April 22, 2008, Beijing, China
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Calls for Papers

• International Workshop on Cooperation & Interoperability – Architecture & Ontology (CIAO!’08), 16 -17 June 2008, Montpellier, France
• 3rd International Computer Science Symposium, June 7-12, 2008, Moscow, Russia
• 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments (WaGe08), May 25-28, 2008, Kunming, China

Jobs

• Sindice is Hiring! – now at 20 million documents indexed

Miscellany

• Data portability and thinking ahead to 2008
• SaaS 2.0: Welcome to the Evolution
• 10 Online Storage APIs
• Google, a single point of failure
• APSWstands for Another Python SQLite Wrapper, handy for Full Text Search
• Jersey is the open source JAX-RS (JSR 311) Reference Implementation for building RESTful Web services.
• IKL is an extension of ISO Common Logic (PDF), extended with the ability to talk about the propositions that its
  own sentences express, and to describe its own referring names as character strings
• Integrated Sciences Needed For Global Warming Solutions
• The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts)
• Why buy the Amazon Kindle when you can give and get an OLPC XO-1 for the same
  price?

Thread of the Week

• Giant Global Graph (see also: Levels of Abstraction: Net, Web, Graph)
• The GGG: For Plane Trips More than People
• Defining the Semantic Graph — What is it Really?
• … all over techmeme …
• Who is afraid of the GGG?

Quote of the Week

‘A gruffalo! Why, didn’t you know?
He has terrible triples, and terrible graphs, and terrible OWL in his terrible ontologies.’”

-Paul Miller, from Julia Donaldson

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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!