This Week’s Semantic Web
Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-01-07, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.
In the Media
- Video: RDFa Basics
- Podcast: Troy Lane Williams Talks with Talis about PeoplePad, Questia, and the Semantic Web
- Book: TheBig Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
- ImageMap: FOAFSpec
- Web3.0 and medicine
- following your nose to the web of data
- 2008: The Rise of Linked Data
- XML Outlook for 2008 - “The Semantic Web Becomes Real”
- Help us Win! Twine is a Finalist in the Crunchies!
Docs
- Reinventing Academic Publishing – Part III
- Data is a Commodity, or How Not to Revolutionize…, Data And The Future Of The Web, Information wants to be expensive,
- Debayeser,Scoble, Facebook, Plaxo, open data; time for change?, 2008, Facebook Data Portability, and the Giant Global Graph of Linked Data, Privacy in the Cloud, Data Portability: Scoble Right or Wrong and beyond, Told Ya So, Data Licenses for Social Network Services
- DataPortability.org, web standards, SIOC and FOAF
- Open social networks: bring back Iran
- Eventually Consistent, Eventual Consistency Is Not That Scary
- Your Data in the Cloud - URL-based computing, SimpleDB, Astoria, etc, Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008, 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008
- Resource-Type Revisited - how to refer to the IRs that URIs 303 to
- Web design 2.0 - it’s all about the resource and its URL
- It’s high time we moved to URL-based identifiers
- permalinks reloaded
- Uniqueness of Entities
- Association for Logic Programming Newsletter
- Semantic Annotation with RDFa: a simple experiment
Software News
- Sesame 2.0 final released
- JFresnel, Fresnel - displayvocabulary for RDF, Alibaba - presentation ontology and framework
- mod_sparql, Apache TripleSoup
- JenaMulgara - a bridge between the Jena API, a Java-based framework for writing Semantic Web applications and Mulgara, an RDF database, written in Java - also Jena-Mulgara: example of implementing a Jena graph
- RDF and Perl,RDF::Query updates
- Ruby client for querying SPARQL REST services
- Commandline PHP for loading RDF URLs into ARC (and Twinkle for query UI)
- OpenOffice.org, SPARQL, and the Linked Data Web
- Querying across’social graph’ fragments
- SPARQL results in spreadsheets
- Twinkling the Platform
- Wordpress, FOAF, OpenID - updated
- Imagemap magic, RDFa and HTML imagemap
- Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit - libraptor for parsing and serializing RDF syntaxes (latest release 2007-10-01)
- Rasqal RDF Query Library - librasqal for executing RDF queries (latest release 2007-11-17)
- Redland RDF Library - librdf providing the RDF API and triple stores (latest release 2007-12-24) includes Raptor and Rasqal
- Redland Language Bindings for language APIs to Redland in Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby (latest release 2007-12-28)
- redland-utils (Ubuntu)
- Hoosgot exploits the wisdom of the Blogosphere crowd - LazyWeb reborn
- What’s Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008, also some RDF
- Interworking - SIP & XMPP
Calls for Papers
- Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments (WaGe08) - deadline Jan 15, 2008 - 25-28 May 2008, Kunming, China
- 3rd Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI2008), 5-6 June, 2008, Torino, Italy
- 6th European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and The Semantic Web (SSSW-2008), 6-12 July, 2008, Cercedilla (near Madrid), Spain
- Call for Workshop Proposals for IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC’08) and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce
and E-Services (EEE ‘08), July 21-24, 2008, Crystal City, Washington, DC USA - Fifth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2008), Estoril, Portugal, 12 or 13 May 2008
Miscellany
- SNePS
- MapReduce info
- Urban Geometry
- Smart classification using Bayesian monads in Haskell
- Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster
- Microblogs and the monolingual
- Politics, Old Media, and Linked Data
- Amazon EC2: My 131 cents
- Meta Content Framework : A Whitepaper
- HTTP POST in PHP5
- Porn, Ning, and the Internet
- Hashtags Wikia Search
- Bill Gates at CES: No Web Fridges, But You Can Watch TV on Your Xbox 360
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!
