Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-04-28, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

This week was dominated by WWW2008 in Beijing, an interesting location as the WWW2008 photos on Flickr attest. There are tons of resources available via the WWW2008 site, and individual workshops like Linked Data on the Web and the W3C Open Your Data! session. Not surprisingly the Semantic Web Interest Group IRC Scratchpad was rather busy - only a tiny selection of the material from these sources linked below.

One interesting aspect, to quote Ivan Herman: “Huajun Chen gave an overview [pdf] on what is happening in the Semantic Web area in China. In two words: a lot.”

I don’t think it’ll be very long before I can retire these manually-compileded posts, in favour of something more comprehensive and better faceted. An indicator is Twine, despite still being in (genuine) beta has rapidly become a key source for info on Semantic Web developments, either in the anglo Web 3.0 - Semantic Web or if vous preferons, un twine Web sémantique. (I have a few Twine invitations, mail me if you’re interested).

In the Media

• Wiki: semanticweb.org
• Blog: n²
• Podcast: A conversation with Deepak Singh about science in the web 2.0 era
• Podcasts: The
  Library 2.0 Gang
• Slides: SIOC tutorial at WWW2008
• Slides: UMBEL Web Services
• Video: Nova Spivack at DigitalNow
• Video: Linking to DBpedia with TopBraid
• Videos: SemanticCamp Paris 1
• Jobs: Want to Work at Talis?
• Science 2.0 — Is Open Access Science the Future?

Docs

• Linked Data on the Web, WWW2008, Update from WWW2008, Attending WWW2008, Semantic Web W3C Track at WWW2008, A Semantic Multimedia Web - Create, Annotate, Present and Share your Media, Nadeem’s reports
• For review: HCLS Knowledgebase - “a biomedical knowledge base that integrates 15 distinct data sources”, Experiences with the conversion of SenseLab databases to RDF/OWL
• Understanding SPARQL - “create journaling micro-blogs with the semantic Web” (IBM developerWorks)
• The economic case for Open Science
• Tying FOAF identity with the identity semantics of OpenID
• LForum - Linked Discussion Forums on the Web of Data
• Why I Migrated Over to Twine (And Other Social Services Bit the Dust)
• Semantic Web in the Startup School
• Web 3.0 just around the corner?
• MIME types and library metadata
• The original FOAF images
• FOAF & SSL: creating a global decentralised authentication protocol
• Authoring RDFa from within a Wiki
• Setting up an RDFa file with Apache (second)
• APML-RDF
• openData Definition, ???
• Linked Data are the roots for the Future Web
• The Freebase Blog
• Nouns and Resources
• Hubjects on Twine
• XForms, Dyslexia and the Right Brain
• Owlgres, DL-Lite and Selectivity Optimizations
• Important New Jersey Supreme Court decision in Internet privacy
• Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
• It’s a big planet…, +1

Software News

• dbpedia mobile, Social, mobile, semantic
• Sesame 2.1
• QuASAR SW services validator
• Open Anzo - Semantic Application Middleware
• Cyparkler 1.0 - “implements a query factory for SPARQL and SeRQL”
• SPARQLScript
• SemWebParlParse - “takes XML data about the UK Parliament and re-publishes it in
  semantic web format”
• Online Semantic Community Framework
• Optimus: Microformats data transformer
• Fenfire Linked Data browser
• Cadbury World - “is an adventure into the world of chocolate” (Talis Engage demo)
• Friends In Feed - “is an experiment in secure distributed social networking”
• RDFa-”enhacked” validator add-on for Firefox
• So(m)mer Address Book home page
• linqtordf - LINQ Query Provider for Semantic Web Applications

Events etc.

• Upcoming deadlines
• Support for US students attending ISWC 2008
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Subtle Promo

Miscellany

• debategraph
• ProofWiki
• Collective Intelligence Book
• BBC joining OpenID Foundation
• New
  business models for life science content
• Interview
  with Donald Knuth
• Cloud Security
• Another
  week (or two) in CouchDB
• Top
  10 Reasons to Avoid the SimpleDB Hype
• Happy
  spamiversary! Spam reaches 30
• IdeaScale
  - Crowdsourcing R&D
• Wii remote
  projects

Quote of the Week

Linked Data is the Semantic Web done as it should be. It is the Web done as it should be.

- Tim Berners-Lee
(via Paul)

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Sources include Planet RDF, various other blogs, Semantic Web Interest Group IRC Chatlogs & Scratchpad, ESW Wiki, Twine, 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 tag “TWSW” - thanks!

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