Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-02-03 or thereabouts, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Podcast: Inigo Surguy Talks with Talis about 67 Bricks and the Semantic Web
• Podcast: A Chat with Benjamin Nowack
• Video: The Existential DiSo Interview
• Twine in the New York Times
• Data Portability: Reasonable Goal or Impossible Dream?
• More Semantic Web coverage out in venture capital land
• Reuters Calais: free text to Semantic Web services

Docs

• Linked Data Comes of Age
• Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies Working Draft
• SKOS Reference Working Draft
• Bee Node: A FOAF Tale, Bee Node Deconstructed
• SPARQL Recipes
• hAudio-RSS - “Hypertext Playlist using the hAudio Microformat” (on the GRDDL!)
• The future of RDFa - “Think Big.”
• Data Spaces, User Identity, and Data Portability
• Microformats, CSS and Amaya
• DataPortability Use Cases
• Self-Description for Service Connection
• FOAF-ing Linked Data is quite SIOC-ing
• Desert Museum use case in N3
• OWL is the SGML of the Semantic Web, Who Uses OWL for the DL?
• Chris Messina on OpenID, Simon Willison on OpenID
• Developer incentives in social networking platforms
• Resources not Services
• Semantic Web on Mahalo (community recommender system)
• rdf web ring idea: co-depiction (2001)
• PLING - W3C Policy Languages Interest Group, Wiki
• Policy-controlled dynamic spectrum access

Software News

• riese - RDFizing and Interlinking the EuroStat Data Set Effort - “first linked-data set
  deployed in XHTML+RDFa; riese offers links to other LOD datasets and introduces a new interlinking method, called User Contributed Interlinking“
• Billion Triples Challenge Intro
• Google Social Graph API ,SocialGraph Node Mapper see also URNs, Namespaces and Registries
• Accidental Friendships, The Google Social Graph API: the good and the bad
• Tabulator RDF browser - new release of Firefox Plugin
• SIOC reader (universal) widget
• Falcons enhanced - “a search engine for the Semantic Web”
• Find a friend
• Foaf Groups and Bloom Filters
• Accumulators come to MovableType, see also WP: Venus
• LUBM and Virtuoso 5.5, Latest LUBM Benchmark results for Virtuoso, LUBM results with Virtuoso 6.0
• CouchDB Catchup
• Jaql - “is a new query language being developed for JSON data”
  (includes a jaqlGet() function that can retrieve JSON data from a URL - there’s an example query of Freebase in the Overview)
• Taggle, a TagSoup in C++
• A namespace for MySQL function identifiers
• lcsh, thesauri and skos
• RDF Schema for LV2 [digital audio] plugins
• LinkingOpenData
  news

Events etc.

• The LinkedData Planet conference
• 4th Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web
• 3 semantic web talks for JavaOne 2008
• Open Knowledge Foundation and Conference
• ISCB Conference on Semantics in Healthcare & Life Sciences
• See also : Semantic Web Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• CfPs - see recent semantic-web@w3.org archives

Miscellany

• Overhaul of net addresses begins - ipv6
• The ACID3 Race
• Developing an improved online environment for educating computer users
• Can a Bayesian spam filter play chess?
• The password anti-pattern, Foo
  fighting
• Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous…
• A tale of two business models
• IFPI Forces Danish ISP to Block The Pirate Bay
• HTML/PoeticSemantics
• Delver - “is a socially connected search company; a next-generation web search engine”
• The Industry Standard - tech business opinion site, has novel community vote-by-bet
  system
• Twine - for
  cats (thanks Laurian!)

Quote of the Week

A rule of thumb to promote here might well be: if you find your thinking on some topic can almost be fully captured in OWL statements about categories, hierarchies and logical membership rules, … you’re not thinking hard enough.

- danbri, Re: post-structuralistm and (formal) ontologies

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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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