Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-12-03, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Video: Robert Scoble – Talking with Tim Berners-Lee
• Video: Inventor of the Web talks about future of the Web
• Video: Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee and the Web Science Research Initative
• Video: Web pioneer discusses science of the Internet
• Podcast: Peter Bloodsworth on multi-agent systems, Ontologies, and the Health-e-Child project
• Podcast: Bill Hutchison on classification, Wordmap, and the role of the Semantic Web
• The Semantic Web In Action – Scientific American (payware, except for preview)
• 10 Semantic Apps to Watch
• Future of the Web coming fast and furious
• Stephen Fry on Tim Berners-Lee in the Guardian

Docs

• Semantic
  Technologies Really Do Pay Off
• How Shall I Integrate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways…
• Joe Triple: A FOAF Tale, Joe Triple: Deconstructed
• Semantic Technology In Action: An Interview with Dr. Paul Miller
• Cool URIs for the Semantic Web – editor’s draft, feedback
  requested
• New XProc Working Draft
• Streams, Pools and Reservoirs
• Dublin Core Encoding Guidelines – for RDF, HTML etc.
• GRDDL support in proposed Dublin Core in X/HTML guidelines
• Embedding OWL-RDFS syntax in XHTML with RDFa
• Thoughts on Named Graph Queries in SPARQL
• It’s OK to use URIs with Fragments in RDF
• VANN – a vocabulary for annotating vocabulary descriptions
• Cindy Ché and other interesting people – report on SWIG Bristol meet

Software News

• Tales from the SIOC-o-sphere, part 6 – lots of resource links
• ARC 2 preview release – “a flexible RDF system for semantic web and PHP practitioners”
• n3-km – small n3 reasoner for swi-prolog
• Present and Future Scalability
• Linked Data on qdos.com
• John Peel sessions RDF server – more Linked
  Data
• The BBC Content Aggregator for the Memoryshare Service
• Facet Building Web Pages with SPARQL
• Zitgist DataViewer, Why reading DataViewer pages instead of conventional web pages?
• Discussion: OpenLink Data Spaces
• Greengrass C# framework and API for RDF
• SKOS2GenTax: Tool for Converting SKOS Vocabularies into RDF-S and OWL Ontologies
• Experiment Ontology (HCLS) from Lilly
• Ontology Online
• WS-CDL+ execution engine 0.1 (prototype system) released
• A new kind of (SOA) Registry – RESTful, using AtomPub
• This is Sparta!

Events etc.

• Opening up the social graph at the WebCamp workshop on “social network portability” (co-located with BlogTalk, Cork, Ireland, 2nd March 2008)
• CategoryGatherings on the ESW Wiki
• 4th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2007), Bari, Italy, 18-20 December, 2007
• SemanticCampLondon – proposed early 2008
• 12th Int. Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces, January 13-16, 2008, Maspalomas, Canary Islands
• Congrats to Eyal, successful defence
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Calls for Papers

• Jazoon call for papers
• Final CFP: 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008)
• Linked Data on the Web (LDOW 2008), workshop at ISWC2008 April 22, 2008, Beijing,
  China
• Web Services and the Semantic Grid (WSSG’2008), June 3-6th, Cyprus
• International Workshop on Cooperation & Interoperability – Architecture & Ontology (CIAO! 2008), 16 -17 June 2008, Montpellier, France
• Call for Applications – The 11th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2008) September 16 – 19, 2008, Sydney, Australia
• 3rd Young Researchers Workshop on Service Oriented Computing (YR-SOC 2008), London, UK, June 12-13, 2008

Miscellany

• Three years with ICANN
• Open letter to IRC operators from IRSeek IRC search
  engine
• Face About, The Next Good Thing, Goodbye, Facebook
• Free speech-related privacy rights of book buying (and reading?) records
• Duality principle : Taxonomy vs. Meronomy
• Open Standards are not enough to prevent lock in
• Nick Carr reckons Google’s is not the model to emulate
• Challenge of the Week: find a blog post with more raw triples than Neno/Fhat’s The Compilation Process/The Instantiation Process (whichever is greater)

Quote of the Week

My document can point at your document on the Web, but my database can’t point at something in your database without writing special purpose code. The SW aims at fixing that.

-hendler’s executive
elevator pitch

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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!