Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-03-10, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

Big news this week was Drupal and the opportunity of RDF - the popular content management system looking seriously toward the Semantic Web.

PR-watchers might note the announcement of the Google Contact Data API arrived in the same few days as Why data matters and How Google keeps your information secure.

[Running late - only minimal notes for now]

In the Media

• Video: DrupalCon “video from the future”, see also: The Best is Yet to Come
• Lecture: From Representing Knowledge to Deploying Metadata in the Multimedia Domain
• Slides: Twinkle & SPARQL Query Forms
• Podcast: A Chat with Tom Morris
• Newsletter: Semantic Web Company, March 2008
• Slides: The Social Web, Data Portability, and the W3C

Docs

• W3C RDB2RDF Incubator Group
• DataPortability Wiki
• Web 3G:The Third Generation of the Web
• Semantic Web Aliases
• Driving Lanes on the Web based Information Super Highway
• Complete beginner’s guide to starting a Jena project in Eclipse
• Modeling Statistics in RDF - A Survey and Discussion, Modelling Statistical Publications: Some Notes
• Documents Types in RDF
• POPS
  is new W3C SWEO Use Case
• Talk on XMPP at SNP WebCamp
• Language Expertise in FOAF: Speaks, Reads, Writes revisited
• Templating Language for Authoring Tools
• Accessibility problems with microformats, Accessibility, Microformats, and Rule by Mob
• Yahoo Microsearch supports RDFa
• Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) Resource Page
• Design By Attrition [HTML5]
• REST vs. Erlang vs. XMPP
• It’s an Atompub World
• RELAX NG for matching
• Ditching the Semantic Web?
• The Semantic Web takes shape, with Twine
• G’day Nova
• Open Handle - identification and resolution services on the Internet (fixed links)
• “Blacklight is intended as a general faceted browser with keyword inclusion for use by libraries and digital collections”
• Trusting people on the Web
• Save Ontologies from the Ontologists
• Amit Sheth’s blog
• Aman’s Blog

Software News

• Seek: stop searching, start finding (your email) [dhuynh++]
• StYLiD - Structure Your own Linked Data
• sidekick calendar subscription for SXSW
• Drupalcon Boston 2008 - RDF-based schedule
• Discover Nepomuk As a User
• SPARQL Endpoint interface to Python
• SparqPlug - RDFizing service
• RDF::Query 2.0 beta
• Implementing FOAF in Rails
• Opening Sesame with Networked Graphs
• implementing a moat server
• Semantics in the wild: new jOWL wine Demo
• hAudio for microformats mixtapes, in progress
• Python Microformats Parser
• Contexts in rdflib
• R2D2 – RDF to Database too
• Yahoo! Fire Eagle - location-oriented API
• Yahoo! Media Player, see also: Checking in
• Google Contacts Data API, see also: Network Address Book, Beatnik
• Flex: Social Graph Browser
• graphpipes - “is a visual tool for the web to create complex SPARQL-queries and reuse them later in Networked Graphs”
• TreeTriples - yet another RDF syntax
• jQuery.Talis - “is a plugin for the popular javascript library jQuery. It acts as a wrapper around the talis convert service, for retrieving json, through jsonp, from the Platform”
• ARC2_IndexUtils plugin - for processing rdf/json-shaped data
• WebDAV AJAX Library
• Different ways of inserting RDF into Virtuoso
• Noodling with Atom/RDF
• rdfbus - “middleware for enabling RDF publish/subscribe payloads over XMPP and Stomp, based on the RDF.rb library”
• Tamarind - “…Semantic Web…targets developers using Ruby frameworks and ORMs”
• open-nars - “an intelligent reasoning system”
• topicle - “search engine community”

Events etc.

• HTMLTestJam - Austin and/or #html-wg IRC, 10-11 March
• Dataportability Meetup, SF CA, March 20, 2008
• Open Coffee Galway
• See also : Semantic Web Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• CfPs - see recent semantic-web@w3.org archives

Miscellany

• Who Killed Gopher?
• Philosophy of information blog
• Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki
• generatedata.com
• Choose Your Own Adventure book as directed graph
• RIP Gary Gygax, co-creator of D&D
• Social Networking is Just Another CB Radio
• A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears
• Awesomeness

Quote of the Week

For the record, my site is valid HTML 5, except the parts that aren’t. My therapist says I shouldn’t rely so much on external validation.

-Mark Pilgrim

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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 me or use the del.icio.us tags “semweb weekly” - thanks!

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