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21 January 2008
This Week's Semantic Web
Posted by Danny Ayers at January 21, 2008 07:23 PM
Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-01-21, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.
In the Media
- Video: DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix
- Video: First steps with nepomuk
- Podcast: Mathieu d'Aquin Talks with Talis about Networked Ontologies and the Semantic Web
- Podcast: A conversation with Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg about Many Eyes
- Semantic Web takes big step forward
- Semantic Wave 2008
- Business Case for Semantic Web Technologies
- Web 3.0: Chicken Farms on the Semantic Web
- Planet RDFoffsite facility
Docs
- SPARQL Recommendations: SPARQL Query Language for RDF, SPARQL Protocol for RDF, and SPARQL Query Results XML Format - press release, testimonials, 14 implementations. See also: Polishing that SPARQL, so you can all see it shine, SPARQLing Services, W3C's SPARQLing Data Access Ingenuity, photo of Sparql
- Notation3 (N3): A readable RDF syntax, W3C Team Submission
- Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language, W3C Team Submission
- SIOC-ing the Semantic Web
- What is RDF and what is it good for?
- DCMI Recommendation: Expressing Dublin Core metadata using the Resource Description Framework, also Major update of DCMI Metadata Terms documentation
- Watching WADL
- Using GRDDL and/or RDFa to annotate REST services
- Semantic Web Services, Part 2
- RESTful Identity Services, parts 1, 2, 3
- Atom as Registry / Repository
- Semantic Data Web Epiphanies: The Semantic Web, What the Semantic Web IS, The Strange Secret of the Semantic Web
- Data Referencing, Data Mobility and the Semantic Web
- Towards the Active Web
- Web 2.0 project: privacy in genealogy
- Wondering about ontologies for resumees
- "Easy Keys" (aka, inverse functional datatype properties) proposal to the OWL WG
- DataPortability thread re W3C involvement
Software News
- SPARQL Demo (on Talis Platform)
- RDF Tools - An RDF Store for WordPress
- ARC2 Preview Release - "Easy RDF and SPARQL for LAMP systems", see also Tabulator-happy Data Wiki
- DOAP from the Bazaar
- MOAT (Meaning Of A Tag) - "provides a Semantic Web framework to publish semantically-annotated content from free-tagging"
- RDFizing and Interlinking the EuroStat Data Set Effort - a LinkingOpenData project
- RDF Store Benchmarks with DBpedia, see also RdfStoreBenchmarking
- RDF and the Semantic Web in Drupal
- Flickcurl 1.0
- Raptor/JSON
- The FOAFnaut widget
- theinfo.org - "a site for large data sets and the people who love them", Aaron's intro
- Some Datasets Available on the Web
- No Google Analytics API? No Problem!
- OpenSearchFox - fsdl-powered
- The Open Source Business Management Ontology (BMO)
- image-regions ontology
Events etc.
- Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008) at WWW2008 (submission deadline 28th Jan)
- XTech 2008, May 6-9th 2008, in Dublin, Ireland (submission deadline 25th Jan)
- Scripting For the Semantic Web workshop at ESWC2008
- Course : Social Web Technologies, UMBC, Spring 2008, MW 7:10pm
- See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
Miscellany
- OpenID and Wireless sharing
- OpenSocial API roadmap
- In a vortex buying MySQL
- Database gods bitch about mapreduce, Not even wrong
- Safeguarding our data
- Telegraph to become OpenID provider
- UK Government revisiting net censorship
- </war>
- Internet Hierarchy of Needs
Quote of the Week
Trying to use the Semantic Web without SPARQL is like trying to use a relational database without SQL
- Tim Berners-Lee(in announcement)
Snippet of the Week
include_once('path/to/arc/ARC2.php');
$ep = ARC2::getStoreEndpoint(array(...));
$ep->go();
- a SPARQL Enpoint in 3 lines of PHP with ARC,, see also: ARC Plugins)
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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!
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