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11 February 2008
This Week's Semantic Web
Posted by Danny Ayers at February 11, 2008 07:53 PM
Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-02-11, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.
In the Media
- Screencast: Playing with Linked Data, Jamendo, Geonames, Slashfacet and Songbird (background)
- Video: The Social Cloud
- Podcast: After Foo
- Slashdot: Semantic Web Getting Real
Docs
- POWDER (Protocol for Web Description Resources) WG decides final format
- The Self-Describing Web - draft TAG finding
- My [Jim Hendler's] ideal OWL
- PubMed Central ready for the Semantic Web and Open Data?
- Decentralizing Media Types, Decentralizing Gensyms
- BATCH / HTTP/1.0
- OpenAjax Metadata Specification Properties Datatypes
- Birthdays - XML is 10 and RDF/XML is 9
- XML 1.0 (Fifth Edition)
- DocBook V5.0
- Developing SGML DTDs: from Text to Model to Markup
Software News
- public-rdf-ruby@w3.org
- RDF in Ruby revisited
- NASA’s First Semantic Web App
- Outbox FOAF crawl: using the Google SG API to bring context to email
- Public Skype RDF presence service
- Browsing your FOAF social graph
- Graph URIs in SPARQL: Using UUIDs as named views, Venn diagrams for Groups UI
- Small databases, loosly joined
- Hercules RDF Library in JavaScript: SPARQL Engine Demo (announcement)
- PyProfile - "a test-driven Python tool for social network portability"
- Oort - "a Python toolkit for accessing RDF graphs as plain objects. It has RDFLib under the crust."
- Catalog of types of SPARQL extensions
- GWT-Ext (2.0) - "a powerful widget library"
- @semantics new generation of feed aggregators, BBC - MemoryShare
- replacing ant with rdf
- 10 Reasons to use OpenLink Data Spaces, Additional OpenLink Data Spaces Features
- What's Wrong With LUBM?
- Hypertable 0.9 alpha
Events etc.
Miscellany
- Ian Hixie and Mark Nottingham on Web Architecture
- The Guardian takes a stab at Web 3.0
- Reuters gets a very clever CEO
- Google Social Graph API, privacy and the public record
- Interactive Linux Kernel Map
- Android Hands-On Video: It's Fast, It's Still Not There
Quote of the Week
Of course you can't trust what people tell you on the web anymore than you can trust what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants.
- Douglas Adams, via Kevin Marks
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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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