Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-12-17 (plus some material from the previous week). All weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Video: Twine, semantic Web tool, revealed, 10min version
• Video: Graph Links Prototype in Arcs – sbp’s hackery
• Slides: GRDDL in a Nutshell
• Slides: RDFa in a Nutshell
• Slides: Oracle and RDF/OWL (pdf) – company presentation on their implementation
• Talis Platform News new issue
• Issue 3 of the SemanticReport

Docs

• Open Data Commons Public
  Domain Dedication and Licence, from Talis & Creative Commons (and Science Commons)
• SWEO Case Studies and Use Cases
• Reciprocal Privacy for the Social Web (a.k.a. FOAF)
• Extracting and Re-using Structured Data from Wikis
• Moving the Internet Inside with Semantic Technologies
• Emergency Information Interoperability Framework Incubator Group – chartered
• LinuxWorld interviews Geonames founder – summary
• James Gosling has a foaf name
• The future of web standards
• RDF/XML and named graphs – proposal for a new attribute
  rdf:graph="URIRef"
• Information resource – timbl’s algorithm
• 303 Asymmetry
• HTTP-in-RDF, HTTP messages in RDF, HTTP headers in RDF
• Namespace Changes over Time
• XProc state of play
• XHTML 2 for authoring?
• Virtuoso LUBM Load Update
• On Queries with Undistinguished Variables
• Burn semantic Web, Burn! – religious wars?
• OnTheFlyProperties – antipattern?
• Andrew Walkingshaw’s weblog – semweb/science

Software News

• OntoGame: Weaving the Semantic Web by Online Games – “…masquerade core tasks of weaving the Semantic Web behind on-line, multi-player game scenarios, in order to create proper incentives for humans to contribute” – announcement
• doapurl – “canonical DOAP permanent URLs”
• Amazon SimpleDB – “a web service for running queries on structured data in real time“, appealing, but not RESTful, still may be useful as a triplestore backend
• Open Archives Standard for the Description and Exchange of Aggregations of Web
  Resources (OAI-ORE), from Open Archives Initiative
• New Exif/RDF vocabulary – announcement
• HENRY: A small N3 parser/reasoner for SWI-Prolog
• Authorization by Codepiction – group photos contain social network information too
• Northwind database as seen through Virtuoso & Zitgist
• Seesmic for enterprise?
• Google Knol – Wikipedia-like venture, see also Iron Clouds
• Unobtrusively Mapping Microformats with jQuery
• Ring, “the [proposed] social application to rule them all” – maybe start with Beatnik? (and dbpedia?)

Events etc.

• The Open Web, Billion Triples Challenge 2008
• Semantic Web stuffs at WWW2008 – preview
• London Microformats vEvent – first quarter, TBD
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Miscellany

• FeedSync 1.0 (formerly SSE), Sync!, Sync, Part 2
• The Wealth of Networks – Wiki
• Google Chart API
• Nick Carr’s The Big Switch
• Venezuela creates own time zone
• The Indexable Web is more than 11.5 billion pages Jan 2005 – anything more recent?
• Tela totius terrae

Quote of the Week

Every triple is sacred.

Every triple is great.

If a triple is wasted,

Tim gets quite irate.

-Peter F. Patel-Schneider, A Song for the Semantic Web

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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 me or use the del.icio.us tags “semweb weekly” – thanks!