Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-05-12, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

Another burst of activity this week around the general area of DataPortability, with announcements from MySpace, Facebook and Google regarding the opening up of social network data. While it isn’t yet clear how much better these systems will at meshing with the Giant Global Graph, it certainly seems a step in the right direction.

In the Media

• Video: Semantic Technology in Enterprise Computing
• Video: Where does the time come from? (transcript)
• Podcast: Library 2.0 Gang 05/08: ILS API
• Podcast: Peter Mika talks about SearchMonkey and the Semantic Technology Conference
• Podcast: DataPortability: In-Motion
• Slides: Golem and CrystalEye - mashing up science data
• Slides: With or Without UIDs

Docs

• Proposed Activity for Video on the Web
• Should every web page be semantic-backed?
• Peter Mika offers bananas at Yahoo! Research
• SPARQL Update to Complete RESTful SOA Scenario
• Open Notebook Science–sensemaking
• Biological Taxonomy Vocabulary 0.1, discussion
• Describing Copyright in RDF, The Statistical Core Vocabulary (scovo) - also with spec in RDFa
• The Role of UMBEL: Stuck in the Middle with You . . .
• The Open Data licensing issue
• Explaining Web 1.0, Web 2.0 & Web 3.0
• XTech report
• Thoughts on DataPortability, The care and feeding of online relationships, DataPortability, SPARQL and the “Connect!” button
• MySpace joins the ’semantic’ web, Google to launch Friend Connect for the social Web (Press Release), Facebook to open the gates with ‘Facebook Connect’

Software News

• Powerset Wikipedia/Freebase search, (review at TechCrunch)
• Prototype for distributed / decentralised microblogging using semantics
• Owlgres 0.1 - OWL reasoner using Postgres
• Server-side storage of OWL syntax
• Introducing StraightWalker - WordPress theme with semweb hooks
• baby steps at linking library data
• Dbpedia Benchmark Revisited
• processing.js, the hidden value of processing.js
• webthumb - REST API for generating thumbnails from Mozilla
• Twitter Jabber PubSub

Events etc.

• Semantic Web Meeting, Austin, 13th May
• Evening beers with Music Ontology, MusicBrainz folks, London, May 14
• SearchMonkey launch party, Yahoo!, Bay Area, May 15
• Data Sharing Workshop/Summit, Mountain View, CA, May 15
• Semantic Web Challenge - “The data set for the Billion Triples Challenge has been posted”
• 1st NEPOMUK - Social Semantic Desktop - Summer School
• 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2008)
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• semantic-web@w3.org

Miscellany

• Teaching Kids Computer Skills and Programming
• SciSpace - social networking site for scientists
• Announcing xrdstype.net - service type registry
• The hard stuff - VRM Use Cases

Quote of the Week

the semantic web is already here if you know where to look

- Julian Higman

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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 tag “TWSW” - thanks!

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