Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-01-14, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Podcast:
  Eyal Oren Talks with Talis about Sindice and tagging on the Semantic Web
• Video: RDFa Basics
• Talis Platform News, Jan 2008
• What will 2008 mean for the Semantic Web?
• 2008: The Rise of Linked Data

Docs

• First Public Working Draft of Web Ontology Language (OWL) 1.1 specifications: Structural Specification and Functional-Style Syntax, Model-Theoretic Semantics, and Mapping to RDF Graphs - Working Drafts Arrive - please review!
• It’s Fun to Pun
• Will I need to understand the Semantic Web in 2008?
• Scraping and linked data
• Semantic Web: What Is The Killer App? - Semantic Web Killer Application? - “The Semantic Web is the killer app.”, timbl, 2001
• SemTech 2008 Talks; and Some Thoughts about OWL-based Policy Management
• One FOAF fits all
• Retrospective and Outlook for 2008
• DataPortability.org Workgroup is still born, Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org, LinkedIn, SixApart and Flickr People Join DataPortability.org: Is This Stuff For Real?
• Have you seen Mark Zuckerberg parading around totally stark naked?
• Shouting about the Semantic Web on Social Networks
• inkdroid
• Tucana’s Fate Sealed
• Semantic Web Company
• The global graph
• RDF in a…database?
• What’s in a list?
• Graph Farming (pdf)

Software News

• Semantic Radar - Firefox extension
• Named Graph Exchange
• Your AudioScrobbler data as Linked Data
• LV2 Audio Plugin Standard - “separates the static data into RDF
  files in the easy to read and hand-write Turtle syntax”
• SemanticCampProfileDiscoveryServlet.java
• Flickr (Yahoo) upcoming support for OpenID
• RDFa Bookmarklets
• AtomOWL on ESW Wiki - work is recommencing, as an offshoot from GRDDL WG
• The W4 Project - “aims at developing Standard Prolog interoperable tools for
  supporting distributed, secure, and integrated reasoning activities in the Semantic Web”
• Skippr: “The RDF Navigation Server” (proposed)
• Where is Neno/Fhat?
• Rapid Semantic Web Prototyping (and Portability)
• google-feedserver - tools for publishing legacy data with Atom Publishing Protocol
• See also : 10 Semantic Web Applications to Watch, 650 Sweet Tools

Events etc.

• SemanticCamp London, Feb 16-17 2008 at Imperial College
• 5th International Conference on Social Software and BlogTalk
  2008 - 3-4 March 2008 cool keynotes, and oor Paul
• Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval Workshop (ECIR’08), March 30th, 2008,
  Glasgow, Scotland
• Call for Demos: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, August 4th-7th,
  2008, Santa Clara, California, US
• Call for System Demos : 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC’08), 1-5 June 2008, Tenerife, Spain
• Call for Participation: 2008 IEEE International Services Computing Contest (SCContest 2008)
• Call for Book Chapters : Emergent Web Intelligence
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Calls for Papers

• Linked Data on the Web (LDOW 2008) at WWW2088, April 22, 2008, Beijing, China
• Semantic Search 2008 Workshop, June 1st 2008, Tenerife, Spain
• 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises (SWAE08), Turin, Italy 1-5 September 2008
• The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2008), July 13-15, 2008, Las Vegas, USA
• 21st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL’08), May 13-16, 2008, Dresden, Germany
• Social Web and Knowledge Management Workshop at WWW2008, April 22nd, 2008, Beijing, China
• International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics and
  Engineering (SOCASE), Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16, 2008
• 8th International Conference on New Technologies of Distributed Systems (NOTERE 2008), June 23-27 2008, Lyon, France
• Fifth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
  (ArgMAS 2008) Estoril, Portugal, May 12 or 13, 2008
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Part C: Applications & Reviews
• 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments (WaGe08), May 25-28, 2008, Kunming, China
• MULTICONF-08 : International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern
  Recognition (AIPR-08), Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-08), Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and
  Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08), Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08), High Performance Computing, Networking and
  Communication Systems (HPCNCS-08), Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-08), Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer
  Science (TMFCS-08)

Miscellany

• NLP finding mass audience
• Continuous context off the Shelf
• Falcons concept search for “real time control”
• Lifestreaming: a ReadWriteWeb Primer
• NewsGator, NetNewsWire and FeedDemon feed readers now free
• Bloom filters in Perl
• 1 letter taxonomy
• Command line processing with the DITA Open Toolkit
• How Google processes 20 petabytes of data each day
• Speaking of, “lying through their teeth…”
• diagrams of the day

Quote of the Week

Is it part of some deep human instinct that we take an organism as open and wild and free as the internet, and wish then to divide it into
citadels, into closed-border republics and independent city states?

- Stephen Fry, Social networking through the ages

~

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!

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