Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-03-17, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

Big news this week regarding Yahoo! and the Semantic Web - an update about the Yahoo! Search open platform describes their adoption of significant support for Semantic Web technologies : RDF (with several key vocabularies), microformats, RDFa and eRDF. While it’s been no secret that Yahoo! has been quietly developing with RDF for a while, the surprise here is the level of integration with their most visible application, search.

Speaking of RDFa, “microformats all grown up“, its momentum continues to grow, and the announcements of a new RDFa Wiki and mailing list for developers and publishers are well timed to catch this wave.

While there’s no major announcement right now from the Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) W3C WG, they deserve a special mention due to their maintenance of a regularly-updated blog of meetings, issues and decisions that appear - openness beyond the call of duty!

btw, I got a Twine beta invite this week, and several of the links below came from there - thanks Nova!

In the Media

• Podcast: Barak Pridor Talks about ClearForest, Calais, Reuters and the Semantic Web
• Podcast: A Chat with Richard Cyganiak
• Podcast: Norman Gray Talks with Talis about Astronomy and the Semantic Web
• Podcast: Eric Miller talks about Zepheira and semantically enabling systems for the Semantic Technology conference
• Diagram: HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST)

For more semweb-related podcasts see talk.talis.com.

Docs

• Web creator rejects net tracking
• Google could be superseded, says web inventor, see also Telephone Game about the Semantic Web
• Hung Up On the Semantic (Web)
• Semantic thoughts
• The Shaky Semantics of the Semantic Web
• RDFa Wiki, public-rdfamailing list
• People as Data Connectors
• RDF Primer — Turtle version
• Get Started with the Semantic Web
• The media and the Semantic Web (short post)
• Set Algebra For Updating a Triple Store
• W3C XG on Uncertainty Reasoning
• RESTful message queues
• Networks are everywhere
• Portable Social Networks session at sxsw
• Portable contact lists and the case against XFN
• Dynamic Foaf - Issues with XFN
• Twine’s dual personality
• beer causes karaoke

Software News

• The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem,Yahoo! Search reading the semantic web, Semantic Web Search Engine Roundup, Looking for a dominant Semantic Web search engine, Semantic Web Rising, The (lowercase) semantic web goes mainstream, And Nerds Became Queens: Yahoo and Smart Searches
• Triplify - “expose semantics!” - lightweight PHP RDB2RDF tool
• i r s - “eats all kinda stuff, such as RDFa, RDF/XML, etc.”
• MySpace RDF service
• FOAF/Music Ontology exporter for last.fm (interlinked with Musicbrainz) on build.last.fm
• Application Idea : Music/Audio Equipment Lists
• Why RDFa is the only Web scaleable metadata format for next-generation search engines
• RDFa In Wiki Interface (RiWi)
• RDFa Support coming in ODF 1.2
• ARC2 Extractors, including RDFa
• RDFa Test Harness
• twinkle-sparql-tools
• Tabulator does N3
• Drupal calling Semantic Web..!
• Linked Open Data projects, (partial) machine-readable list
• Bio2RDF - Semantic Web atlas of postgenomic knowledge about human and mouse
• phennowl is an RDF enabled IRC bot running on #swig
• open-nars - “an intelligent reasoning system”
• ConceptNet “is a freely available commonsense knowledgebase and
  natural-language-processing toolkit”
• Transforming XML in Ajax with XSLT
• Semantic Web Tomorrow, Semantic Marketing TODAY!

Events etc.

• Commercial uses of the Semantic Web at WWW2008?
• Linked Data at Google Summer of Code?
• Over the Air, London, 4th and 5th April
• Semantic Technology Conference, May 18-22, San Jose
• XTech 2008, 6-9 May 2008, Dublin, Ireland
• See also : Semantic Web Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• CfPs - see recent semantic-web@w3.org archives

Miscellany

• Spaghetti-Western Coding
• The Adoption-Led Market
• Ozzie signals Microsoft’s surrender to the cloud
• Why
  We’re Powerless To Resist Grazing On Endless Web Data
• GovTrack.us: a weak link?
• Six degrees of separation proves no separation
• Child-like intelligence created in Second Life

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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 mail meor use the del.icio.us tags “semweb weekly” - thanks!

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