Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-12-24, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL. Includes some overlooked older items recommended via del.icio.us.

In the Media

• Screencast: DriftR Linked Data Browser and Editor
• Video: Fedora Commons
• December 2007 issue of the SemanticReport

Docs

• Cool URIs for the Semantic Web – Working Draft, see also Cool for cats
• W3C’s Device Description Repository Core Vocabulary Draft
• New IETF Internet-Drafts for HTTP/1.1bis (charter):
  • HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing
  • HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics
  • HTTP/1.1, part 3: Message Payload and Content Negotiation
  • HTTP/1.1, part 4: Conditional Requests
  • HTTP/1.1, part 5: Range Requests and Partial Responses
  • HTTP/1.1, part 6: Caching
  • HTTP/1.1, part 7: Authentication
• Yanel (CMS) FOAF Architecture Specification – “A decentralized unified messaging and data exchange project based on FOAF profiles“
• Ratings Ontology
• Hyperdata in Sao Paulo
• How Distinguished is Your Variable?
• Extracting and Re-using Structured Data from Wikis (pdf)
• Embedding OWL-RDFS syntax in XHTML with RDFa
• Named RDF Graphs – A Warning
• Avoid talking about mechanics
• Retrospective and Outlook for 2008
• What will 2008 mean for the Semantic Web?

Software News

• Twinkle 2.0 – SPARQL desktop GUI tool, now twinkly!
• Mozilla Weave – sharing browser data “in the cloud”
• OSocial.net – Meta Social Network
• xOperator“combines advantages of social network websites with instant
  messaging”
• rdfbus“Middleware for enabling RDF publish/subscribe payloads over XMPP and
  Stomp, based on the RDF.rb librar.”
• Fedora 3.0, beta 1 – digital object repository system
• Beatnik, picture and description
• Semantic Web Pipes
• Column-Oriented RDF Storage
• RDF export of Flickr profiles with FOAF and SIOC, Binding your flickr profile to foaf
• Colombian SPARQL Client for Python
• PHOAF – The SemNum Prototype
• Second version of Yago: more facts and entities
• LINQed Data

Events

• NLP to the rescue (SDforum event) 8th Jan, Palo Alto
• Protege-OWL Short Course, March 24-26, 2008, Stanford University
• Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008), April 22, 2008, Beijing
• 4th Intl Workshop on Context-Aware Proactive Systems (CAPS 2008), June 16th-17th 2008, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Calls for Papers

• Eleventh International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2008), Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2008
• 6th International Workshop on Agent-Based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration (ACEC-08), Emphasis on Agent-Oriented Workflow and Services, June 23-25, 2008, Rome
• Fifth International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Oct 31st-Nov 3rd, 2008, Saarbrücken, Germany

Jobs

• R&D Position for Experienced Java Programmer, Clark and Parsia
• European Master in Computational Logic – scholarships for non-European and European students
• Research Position: Semantic Web Technologies, Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute
• Two PhD Positions on Ontology Reasoning, University of Aberdeen
• PostDoc Position on Ontology Reasoning, University of Aberdeen

Miscellany

• GraphSync challenge (RDFification required!)
• MonetDB
• Nirvanix – competitor to Amazon S3
• CommentAnywhere
• Asterpix educational videos
• FreeCulture.org – powered by Semantic MediaWiki

Quote of the Week

If you stay within RDF world, though, things seem fine.

– Tim Berners-Lee on XML namespaces and RDF

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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!