Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-01-07, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

No obvious themes this week, but still lots of activity in diverse areas. So instead of introductory blurb, here’s a seasonal picture:

“If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, I would call it a duck” – but what if it also hops like a bunny?

(source – public domain)

In the Media

• Podcast: Jim Hendler talks about the Semantic Web and Artificial Intelligence
• Diagram: Features in N3, SPARQL where clauses, Turtle and NTriples
• Economist: online social networks – Everywhere and nowhere
• Book: Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist

Docs

• OpenOffice RDF API draft
• Cool URIs for the Semantic Web – last call draft
• Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER): Description Resources – updated draft
• RDFa Primer 1.0 – updated draft
• Making Links at the BBC
• How to make OpenID really rock
• how binary relations beat tuples
• Why Flickr Doesn’t Do FOAF – [timbl: So do you think Flickr could be persuaded to source FOAF? dajobe: maybe ]
• A typical day working with RDF and FOAF
• Interoperability by Friction
• IR and SW communities
• Gathering SPARQL Extensions
• On software architecture, Connecting, REST, Hypermedia, and JSON
• Addressing Doubts about REST
• Linked Data is vital to Enterprise Integration driven Agility
• Use Oracle technology for spatial RDF graph query
• GeoNames Ontology
• WHOIS Ontology, Who’s who description vocabulary, BIO: A vocabulary for biographical information
• More Talis Bloggers
• Zitgist Got its Orchestrator
• Installing Virtuoso Open Source Edition on Windows
• Semantic Web Advocate of Tribe Linked Data!

Software News

• Triplify – “a small plugin for database driven Web applications which exposes RDF, Linked Data and JSON” from Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW)
• Semantify – Automate Your Semantic Web SEO in Five Minutes – not altogether well-received
• Owlgres – “a scalable OWL database”
• RDF::Query 2.000
• SPARQL Wrapper for Python 1.1.0
• Curies: A Ruby library for parsing and creating CURIEs
• Cypher Natural Language to RDF/SPARQL transcoder
• i r s – “a generic linked data editor with RDFa export”
• schemacache
• VocabularyMarket, Semantic Web Search Engines
• Falcons statistics of indexed entities (classes, properties, objects or
  individuals)
• Semantic Web Formats Converter, triplr – “stuff in, triples out”
• Perl code that archives your Flickr
• XSB – “is a Logic Programming and Deductive Database system for Unix and Windows”
• Prolog-2-RDF, km-rdf
• RSpec is Fun
• Prism for Firefox
• First Week of Twine Beta Phase II Report
• tabulator and google reader notifier oddness

Events etc.

• XTech registration open, schedule published
• See also : Semantic Web Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• CfPs – see recent semantic-web@w3.org archives

Miscellany

• VC confab: Please, no more social networks
• Is OpenID Being Exploited By The Big Internet Companies?
• C2: Microsoft’s take on FriendFeed?
• “Disks have become tapes”
• Google’s own robots.txt
• Awards for orgs which contributed to open source
• Web creator rejects net tracking
• Mark Mail allows search of W3C lists: 400,000 emails
• Now Companies too have profiles on LinkedIn!
• Pirates
• I Haven’t Got a Myspace Because…

Quote of the Week

Hi, I’m Web Developer Barbie. Pull my string and I say, “Standards are tough! Let’s go shopping!”

-Mark
Pilgrim translates Joel Spolsky

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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!