Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-01-28, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Podcast: Jon Udell interviews Richard Wallis on libraries, the Talis Platform and the Semantic Web (and libraries), see also: What is it with all this Library stuff?
• Podcast: Andreas Harth Talks with Talis about the Semantic Web Search Engine and SIOC
• Podcast: SIMILE and the Semantic Web
• Podcast: Scott Kveton on OpenID, OAuth etc

Docs

• Building the Core of the NextGen Web
• Why SPARQL?
• The Semantic Web and Industry Standards
• W3C Publishes HTML 5 Draft, Future of Web Content
• SKOS System Reference (First Public Working Draft)
• OWL Safe Rules
• Tabulator Redux: Writing Into the Semantic Web
• SA-REST: Semantically enhancing REST services
• DCMI term declarations represented in RDF schema language
• Towards the Active Web
• Bobbing Heads and the IE8 Meta Tag, X-UA-Combustible, Best Standards Support, Microsoft: Fish, or Cut Bait
• TSTTCPW
• Doctrine of Minimum Necessary Disclosure
• REST Describe & Compile for WADL vs. Six months later and we still don’t need WADL, On Web Service Definition
• Among the dynamos, My Data and advice for startups - *aaS
• There’s Grid in them thar Clouds

Software News

• JRDF 0.5.3 released - see also Nodes by type
• jOWL
  - a javascript library for traversing OWL-RDFS documents
• Grawiki - “a Wiki (and aggregator) for graph-shaped data”
• BBC Programmes Ontology
• SchemaCache (in development)
• SPARQL Recipes
• Large-scale RDF Graph Visualization Tools
• MOAT plug-in for Drupal 5, see also The Meaning Of A Tag
• Embedding queries in RDF - FOAF Group example
• Waving not Drowning? groups as buddylist filters
• Star This - “Think of it as a decentralized del.icio.us / twitter combination that uses XMPP instead of SMS”
• Wordnet in RDF/OWL
• RDFizers

Events etc.

• 5th International Conference on Social Software, co-located workshop on social network portability - BlogTalk
  2008, Cork, Ireland, 3-4th March 2008
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

For Calls for Papers, see semantic-web, OWL Dev mailing lists

Miscellany

• Midwest Web Sense
• Open IDiomatic? Dada engine hosting as OpenID client app
• Defining a perfect blogging tool
• Microsoft Joining DataPortability.org - so that’s everyone except Microsoft + Microsoft…
• 2008: The Year Web 2.0 Hits the Enterprise, Says Forrester
• 100% Accuracy in Automatic Face Recognition
• Validating XML documents with PUBLIC identifiers and catalogs
• Scaling MapReduce
• SICP Reading
• On FOAF & SW - “…it’s like if MySpace was irradiated with XML-Rays and mutated into a complete XML-based social network specification…”

Quote of the Week

The people who are building real applications, and deriving real benefit, don’t give two hoots about RDF and triple stores. They just want the effects.”

- Richard Wallis

~

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!

Share This