Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-02-18, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Video: The Talis Platform: A Generic Infrastructure for Next Generation Web Applications
• Video: Making Sense of the Semantic Web
• Podcast: Stefano Mazzocchi on SIMILE and the Semantic Web
• Podcast: Phil Windley on Online Reputation Frameworks
• Slideshow: Automatically indexing science using natural-language processing, RDF and SPARQL
  (background)
• Slideshow: RDF for Beginners (pdf)
• RWW: 11 Things To Know About Semantic Web
• SemanticReport - new issue

Docs

• RDF and XML Q&A: Which should I use?
• RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing - new editor’s draft : “A collection of attributes and processing rules for extending XHTML to support RDF”
• RelExtensions
• Genealogy and Computers
• One Semantic Application, One Semantic UI?
• Stats of the FOAF-o-sphere
• Proof: Data Portability requires Linked Data
• XMLSemanticWeb
• SALT - Semantically Annotated LaTeX
• Editing ‘Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)’
• Media type centralization is a feature, not a bug
• How To Do RESTful Partial Updates - [except this approach isn’t RESTful, check the links in the updates] - Roy suggests PATCH see also: Delta: an ontology for the distribution of differences between RDF graphs, ChangeSet Vocabulary
• Roy’s blog

Software News

• Back from SemanticCamp London, Yay for SemanticCamp!
• RDF API for Drupal 6.x
• MOAT, Sindice and the Tag Ontology
• FOAF hacks of the day
• SparlPress and foaf:openid, owl:sameAs reciprocity with OpenID
• New version of the SPARQL Python wrapper
• JQbus: social graph query with XMPP/SPARQL
• Testing TBD with RDF VM
• Perl RDF/Atom/REST Server work-in-progress
• URI Play “is a name service for video content, giving it URIs and simple descriptions”
• Citeseer Semantic Repository
• AOL Announces New Open Source Mobile Software Platform
• ufXtract demo - “portable social network parser”
• Relationship Update Stream
• Linked Data Community system, Linked Data Solution for Exposing OpenLink Product Portfolio
• asyncorg - “Asynchronous Network Peer Programming in Java”
• Super GreaseMonkey (a.k.a GreaseMonkey with JQuery)

Events etc.

• Social Network Portability WebCamp
• BarCamp Web Sémantique à Paris
• Semantic Scripting Challenge at ESWC2008
• Oxford SWIG meetings
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• See also : Semantic Web Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• CfPs - see recent semantic-web@w3.org archives

Miscellany

• A funny thing happened on the way to the forum
• If content isn’t king, what is?
• Crowdsourcing Software QA
• Engineering Challenges
• Non-evil links for musicians
• Rules of Thumb
• Spatial Displays for Information
• The Open Sauce

Quote of the Week

[any suggestions?]

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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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