Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-03-31, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

DataPortability features highly this week - though intended more as a principle, and an umbrella for all kinds of technologies, the significant overlap with the Semantic Web vision hasn’t gone unnoticed.

Microsoft have been experimenting with a triplestore/rdb hybrid - “…they are coming around, albeit gradually :-)” says Kingsley.

There seems to be a lot happening around the various mailing lists at the moment. Despite the growth of other communication channels, this still seems to be a big one - it certainly remains the best option for permathreads and bickering. For comparison: Wiki collaboration leads to happiness (hmm, Word & Outlook are somewhat wild variables in that diagram).

In the Media

• Semantic Web in the news
• Scientific American: “The Semantic Web in Action” - now online
• “The semantic web enables us to use portals in a more intelligent fashion, so we can do business more efficiently”
• Podcast: Introducing the Semantic Web Gang
• Slides: DataPortability and Me: Introducing SIOC, FOAF and the Semantic Web
• Graphic: Social Network Stack
• Mailing list: Linking Open Data’s list has moved
• Mailing list: new Social XMPPlist
• Video: Les Horribles Cernettes - Collider
• Video: DataPortability and Me (Get Your Data Out!)

Docs

• In Defense of Ambiguity
• New RDFa Primer
• SocialWebXGCharter, relationship to DataPortability.org
• Trip planning via the Semantic Web
• (De-)centralised me
• Thoughts on the Billion Triple Challenge
• Fingerprinting and Metadata Progress Report (on last.fm)
• DataPortability, Microsoft’s Contacts API and OpenSocial.org
• Microsoft and “Research-Output” Repositories, Relationships can have properties as well - MS do “semantic web lite”
• Delivering Data Portability (Part 2) - “Sharing Contacts Between Social Networks”
• The Cost of doing the Right Thing
• A Re-Introduction to UMBEL, The emergence of UMBEL and Linked Data
• Putting XRDS-Simple in Context
• A Journey of a Thousand Steps, We don’t need DataPortability
• Query: Semantic Web Alignment with the Underlying Security Infrastructure
• Getting Freebase onto the Semantic Web
• DevX.com Semantic Web Zone
• semantic technology in AAAI Spring Sympothia 2008
• RDFAuth: sketch of a buzzword compliant authentication protocol, RDFAuth, with less Story-telling
• literals and resources
• Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies, Nitpicking Alex’s Semantic Web Patterns, Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies (Update 1), Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies (Update 2)
• RDF and MOO notes

Software News

• Linking Open Data cloud updated
• OwlSight version 0.36
• knowee - “is a semantic web address book and contact data manager”
• Social Graph API parser test API - “to run any document against the Social Graph API’s internal parser to see what it would’ve parsed, had Googlebot actually crawled it” see also: Google sgapi example
• Virtuoso, Open-Source Edition version 5.0.6, Virtuoso 5.0.6 Updates
• Raptor RDF Parser Library version 1.4.17
• New ARC2 plugins
• Two more ARQ extensions
• SKUA project - distributed network of semantically aware shared annotated services prototype for astronomy
• SPARQL Browser (using Flex) - see also netthreads
• triplr “Stuff in, triples out” - JSON serializers callback parameter restored - happy 1st birthday!
• Animal Diversity Web - has OWL
• Creating a HTML “friends” page from a Google Reader subscription list
• Windows Live Contacts API
• Integrating Triplify with Joomla! - Google Summer of Code proposal
• FOAF whitelisting for mailman?
• Sindice in use
• Mapping photographs - “an AJAX/Google Maps hack”
• RESTlet - “lightweight REST framework for Java”

Most Productive SemWeb Coder of the Week

[a trial/one-off category, as suggested - feel free to make nominations for next week]

• Keith Alexander, who’s produced three new ARC2 plugins :
• • An RDFa Serializer
  • Utilities for working with ARC structures (e.g. filter, merge, or diff)
  • A SPARQL (Re-)Serializer (very handy for checking/adjusting SPARQL queries before they are passed to the store)
  • - plus a SPARQL+wrapper for Talis Platform stores.

Events etc.

• Over The Air, 4th-5th April, London
• Portable London 0.96b - DataPortability Lunch Meet-up, Sunday April 6, London
• SemanticCampParis 2 - 4 avril
• Internship - interesting semweb stuff in Cambridge, Mass.
• Call for Chapter Proposals: Event-based Systems, Publish/Subscribe and Message Filtering
• See also : Semantic Web Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• CfPs - see recent semantic-web@w3.org archives

Miscellany

• State of SVG, State of the Bird, Wordpress 2.5 releases
• RESTful Services with Erlang and Yaws
• Customizing nxml to find your schemas automatically
• “Full Text of Google’s General Guidelines for Remote Quality Raters from April 2007“
• On meetings
• Diana Ross’ unexpected career move

Quote of the Week

This is the year we finish the job, I reckon…

-danbri, via email

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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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