This Week’s Semantic Web
Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-02-25, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.
Happy 9th Birthday, RDF…Happy 100th Birthday Axiomatic Set Theory
In the Media
- Video: DataPortability and me, JB
- Podcast: A Chat with Uldis Bojars
- Blog: The Semantic Web at ZDNet
- Survey: HowPeopleExportSIOC
- Leaflet: Semantic Web Vision - Reality (PDF)
- Newsletter: February’s Talis Platform News
- Flashback: Innovators of the Net: Ramanathan V. Guha and RDF
- Flashforward: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web
Docs
- RDFa Syntax - Last Call Working Draft, Primer, Test Harness, see also RDFa Syntax LC is out
- SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) Primer, Working Draft
- Semantic Bar Camp London and Flue
- Codecs, Metadata, and Addressing: Video on the Web Workshop Report
- So, What Might The Web’s Subject Backbone Look Like?
- 99 Wikipedia Sources Aiding the Semantic Web
- Semantic Web for Dummies, Semantic Web…in a nutshell?
- XFN encoding, extraction, and visualizations
- Managing digital rights in the publishing world
- oai-ore and the shadow web
- Potential RDF use cases for Drupal
- Google’s Social Graph API, RDFa and the future of web search
- OURSE - “an ontology for OODBMS/RDF mapping”
- PRESTO - A WWW Information Architecture for Legislation and Public Information systems
- A solution to the RDF publishing dilemma
- Beyond Redirection: Rich and Active PURLs
- Some thoughts on resources, information resources and representations, Resource, Resource! Wherefore art thou Resource?, (TAG thread)
- Why RFC 2616 Is To Blame
- Search on “RDF” at Microsoft Research Labs
- Some goals for a better wiki system
- Tissue Parade
Software News
- microsearch, Building on top of microsearch
- Semantic Radar, now with RDFa support
- RDFa Distiller
- Setting up an RDFa file with apache
- SPARQLBot - “the Semantic Web command line”
- xOperator 0.1 - Semantic XMPP / Jabber Agent, Playing with SPARQL and XMPP
- digging into XMPP/Jabber pubsub again, for micropublishing
- Beatnik Address Book
- Phenny, the Python IRC bot
- Bookmarklet
Bootloader Generator - Rena - Ruby RDF library
- Semantic Conference Scheduling Application
- hAudioRSS
- Semantic
Web Search Engines - Rules for HTTP Inferences
- Addressing fragments in REST
- ConceptualTopology
- UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository
- Google Static Maps API
- Higgins Project 1.0 Takes OpenID to the Next Level
- CDATA in XHTML
- mozillaOS vs dillo
- Radar Networks Raises $13M for Twine
- Ian’s on the Web of Data
Events etc.
- One day left to register online for BlogTalk 2008!
- RDFa-outreach dinner at SXSWi
- Linked Data Planet - Conference & Expo, 17-18 June 2008, , New York
- Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW) at ESWC 2008
- First International Workshop on Secure Semantic Web (SSW’08), April 7-12, 2008, Cancun, Mexico
- W3C Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development, 2-3 June 2008, São Paulo, Brazil
- See also : Semantic Web Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
- CfPs - see recent semantic-web@w3.org archives
Miscellany
- Pakistan removed from the Internet
- The street as platform
- Google Health Pilot Program, Top Health 2.0 Web Apps,
- Rethinking Recommendation Engines, 10 Recommended Recommendation Engines
- The Personalized Homepage War: Who Matters
- Facebook Targets FriendFeed; Opening Up The News Feed
- Nearly a million users, and no spam or trolls, Diapers that Twitter when they are dirty…
- Yahoo! Launches World’s Largest Hadoop Production Application
- Time to rewrite DBMS, says Ingres founder
- Wanted: One new computing paradigm : preferably an old one that is known to work but newly packaged up as a shiny new thing
- Euphonic rules for naming
- How “View Source” Broke the Web
- Spectral clustering rocks!
- Adobe
Blurs Line Between PC and Web - Your Brain Is In 10 Kinds of Trouble
Quote of the Week
It is of course required by law that the very last thing in every presentation be a URL
-Bryan Alexander, via David
Weinberger
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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!
