Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-06-23, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL (this might not be fully functional right now, we just migrated to WordPress and it may be that not eveything is in place yet).

Only a minimal offering this week, a tiny fraction of the things that have been happening recently, but hopefully better than nothing (just to get back into the saddle – I’m still catching up after several week’s travel/holiday time). If you know of something from the last few weeks that simply must appear, please mail me and I’ll include it next week – Danny

In the Media

• Slides: Linked Open Data (Tim Berners-Lee)
• T-Shirts: The Semantic Web Community Shop, see also URIs Rule!
• InfoSource: Semantic Web on friendfeed
• Book: Generating & Rendering String Frequency Measurements of Project Gutenberg Texts (using RDF)

Docs

• Context is everything: why the semantic web is important, see also Swirrl: wiki++ for business, not yet live but taking sign-up requests
• Telling semantic lies
• ThreadsML reborn
• Semi-structured database records for social tagging
• Microformats and accessibility – a request for help, see also issues with datetime-pattern, abbr-pattern
• Inventing contact schemas for fun and profit! (Ugh)
• OpenSocial Templates – draft proposal
• Social Graph applications: why not for every community website?

Software News

• Tabulator 0.8.4 – works with FF3
• django-rdf – “an RDF engine for Django projects”
• ARC Plugins – the list grows
• DBTune.org – “Serving music-related RDF since 2007″
• RDFa Distiller
• Firefox Linked Data extension – notes
• RDFohloh 0.2
• debategraph – “the global debate map”
• VUE – “Visual Understanding Environment”
• Towards an Open Ontology Repository
• Educational Qualifications Ontology – RDF/XML, first draft
• Drupal RDF Schema proposal
• MOAT Ontology – Meaning of a Tag, SCOT Ontology- Social Semantic Cloud of Tags, Tag Ontology
• WordPress and AtomPub – now supported
• (c2) Wiki Page to RDF

Events etc.

• SearchMonkey Developer Event, 25th June, 2008, 6:00pm,Covent Garden, London
• TechCrunch BBC Debate, 25th June, 7.00pm, Broadcasting House, London
• Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Technologies for the Knowledge Society, 24-28 Sept 2008, Athens, Greece
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Miscellany

• Penthouse’s content rating in RDF
• Tim Berners-Lee wordgraph
• Universal Edit Button, see also minimalism
• A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site, OpenID for non-SuperUsers
• Bagology

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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!