Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-04-07, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

Lots more around social networks and DataPortability this week, with a handy post from Bob DuCharme on what RDF has to offer beyond what’s provided by XML formats.

The pieces might be falling into place for Paul Ford’s predictions in his 2002 classic August 2009:
How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web. Google recently went public with their RDF-aware Social Graph API, and this week eBay describe how they’re using RDF internally (primarily system documention). While Amazon themselves have yet to reveal anything that’s unquestionably Semantic Web, they’re clearly working in a nearby space with their commodification of online storage and processing (which can be used to develop Semantic Web-oriented systems). But right now, of the big public-facing players, Yahoo! are probably ahead of the field with their deployments, though even Microsoft have investment in Semantic Web technologies.

Whatever, the future is already here: the first of the month saw the release of a Universal RDF Encoder.

In the Media

• Logos: (as above) from SemanticWebCompany
• Video: Learning from the Future with Chris Saad
• Format change: Semantic Report, feed
• Slide remix: Data Accessibility and Me: Introducing SIOC, FOAF and the Linked DataWeb
• Lesson: Teaching a Six Year Old About Triples
• The Semantic Web in Action Article From Scientific American Online and Free

Docs

• Cool URIs for the Semantic Web
• Tales from the SIOC-o-sphere #7
• eBay Looks to the Semantic Web
• Digg starts using RDFa
• Nova Spivack: “The Semantic Web as an open and less evil web”
• Ofcom report on Social Networking
• Introducing SPO(G)
• Nash Equilibria in Non-Cooperative Data Modeling
• SPARQL FAQ
• “OWL 2″ is the Next Version of the Web Ontology Language
• RDFS 3.0
• RDB2RDF XG mailing lists
• IRC RDF logs and foaf:chatEvent
• Mockup sketching how we might visualise RDF vocab distribution
• RDF and social networks
• Teach students GIS using Geonames
• LinkedIn’s Semantic Technology Initiatives
• What is Data Portability?
• Dublin Core Education Community Wiki
• RDFa Wiki
• Visualizing the Emergence of a Strategic Knowledge Cluster
• functional (web) resources
• Basing UMBEL’s Backbone on OpenCyc
• Semantic Weblogs
• Closing of the SWEO Interest Group - “our work here is done…”

Software News

• 13.1 billion [music-related] triples
• MusicBrainz SQL-to-RDF D2RQ mapping
• Raptor Web Library 1.4.17 - “there’s more to see than just triples”
• Semantic Email
• NaturalOWL - “generating texts from ontologies”
• FOAF pathfinder - “cargo cult edition” [Ruby], see also: 2002 FOAF Co-depiction path finder
• Freebase Data Dumps, Open CellID databases, Some Datasets Available on the Web
• Neo4J - “is a netbase - a network-oriented database… optional layers to expose Neo as an RDF store”
• single sign on with no password, using SSL + foaf
• When your OpenID provider goes offline…
• The geographic spread of crystallography
• New Globus release

Events etc.

• Open Knowledge London Group - meeting “later this month”
• Microformats vEvent, London, 27th May - One Big Happy Family (FOAF/RDF and Microformats)
• Linked Data Planet program in place
• Essay Contest: What’s Web 3.0 / the Semantic Web / the Giant Global Graph and Why It All Matters?
• See also : Semantic Web Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• CfPs - see recent semantic-web@w3.org
  archives

Miscellany

• (Back to) The Future of Interactive Media
• What Is the Open Web and Why Is It Important?
• Cancer research Web exploits human Genome map
• What a DVCS gets you (maybe)
• Feds lie about link between software piracy and terrorism
• Web 3.0 isn’t the Semantic Web, it’s Hailstorm 2.0. Why it Matters & How Microsoft-Yahoo can beat Google., Web 3.0 belongs to those who control personal profile infrastructure
• USB and Atom
• Google Inc.’s Statement about IPR related to RFC 5023 and RFC 4287
• HTML5: the foreign lands (mathematics and graphics)
• On Twitter
• Tweet!
• Mark V Shaney
• Your Facebook Profile Isn’t Really “You”
• Critical Metrics - “is a bibliographic database of highly recommended songs”
• “Hidden Costs” Of Watching TV Online?
• 10 Ways the Internet (As We Know It) Will Die
• Card Sorting
• Textism

Quote of the Week

Forget Markup Barbie… I want Unicode Barbie. When you pull her string, she says “text is hard.”

-Aristotle Pagaltzis

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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!

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