Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-08-28, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

Finally returned. But still only a short one this week to get me back into the swing of things. Everyone’s lying on a sunny beach somewhere anyhow.

In the Media

• Semantic Web at ZDNet

Docs

• W3C Semantic Web Activity
• POWDER (Protocol for Web Description Resources) Formal Semantics First Working Draft Published
• Short article on Semantic Search
• Semantic Modeling Edge Case List
• OWLED Twine
• The SVG argument
• Google Gears: the SOAP approach to Web app development
• ARQ Property Paths
• SPARQL Functions in Motion
• My [bblfish] Semantic Web BlogRoll
• Tom Heath’s home page

Software News

• Southampton Pub data as linked open data
• Rena Ruby RDF library – now with Turtle/N3 parser
• OpenLink RDF Browser – starting at Steve Jobs
• SWAML (Semantic Web Archive of Mailing Lists) version 0.1.0 released
• SHER – “a highly scalable ontology reasoning engine for OWL ontologies”
• JRDF 0.5.5.1 Released

Events etc.

• JobMart on ESW Wiki
• Survey on reading habits – from SmILE group at DERI, announcement
• Bristol Knowledge Unconference, 5th September 2008 : 14:00 – 18:00
• 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2008) – co-located with ISWC2008
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Miscellany

• The RDFWeb in 2000(/1)
• Microformats, dark data and CSS – part 1, part 2

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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!