Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-08-05, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

Dell trying to trademark cloud computing. The cloud does seem feature of the week, maybe there’s climate change in the virtual world too (sorry!).

One question for regular readers - do you think there should be a separate “Business” section here for items like “X buys Y for $Z”, should they continue to be mixed in with everything else, or left out entirely (and leave it to on Paul’s ZDNet coverage)?

In the Media

• Video: GRDDL, bridging the interwebs? - Harry Halpin talks sexy
• Video: Kevin Kelly looks to the next 5,000 days of the Web
• Music Video: Mistress Niva with a semweb person involved, apparently

Docs

• Social dimensions of P2P and the semantic web
• Open Web Foundation - see also Where to develop web specs?
• Six RIF Working Drafts Published; Last Call for Basic Logic Dialect and RDF-OWL
• Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub
• Applying SKOS Concept Schemes
• Common vs. Marginalized Knowledge - a Potential Showstopper for the Semantic Web?
• Source Attribution in RDF [last update 2006]
• Simple semantic mashups from InfoSpace show possibilities
• Time for Context Lenses (Update)
• Virtuoso’s Universal Server Architecture (Conceptual & Technical)
• Zembly and its uses for the Semantic Web
• Thinking differently about XML
• Will There Be Only One Cloud?
• Give it a REST?
• Code on Demand, REST, and Cloud Computing - “It’s almost as if the web were designed for this stuff.”
• The Open Software Description Format (OSD) - 1997 predecessor of DOAP
• Squabbling about URI persistence

Software News

• Crunchbase meets the Semantic Web - see also Pimp My (CrunchBase) API
• ARC Triples Visualizer Plugin
• Implementing RDFa in XQuery
• DBTune facet demo powered by ClioPatria
• Last.fm events and DBpedia mobile
• Gloze: XML to RDF, RDF to XML, XSD to OWL mapping tool (part of Jena project) - paper (PDF), slides: (PPT)
• Semantic search on aggregated music data
• LinqToRdf v0.8
• .NET, LINQ, and RDF based Linked Data (Update)
• Linked Movie Database
• Adaptive Path Releases Aurora To “Inspire And Engage” Community - nifty UI for related objects
• Cuil - bigger, better, semantic, more - or what?
• RDFTree - Java desktop RDF editior any Swing+Jena gurus out there?
• Triplify 0.4 - converts queries to relational databases into RDF, JSON and Linked Data
• PDFMiner - Python PDF parser and analyzer
• Introducing Gargoyle POI Server [GPS Point of Interest]
• Geographic Queries on Google App Engine
• ISEN (Internet Search Environmnet Number) - proposal for index of online DBs
• XRDS-Simple On The Move

Events etc.

• Triplification Challenge Nominations - nominate/vote now!
• DERI, NUI Galway launches the boards.ie SIOC Data Competition
• VoCampOxford2008 - informal vocab dev, 24-25th September 2008. See also: Tackling the Vocabulary Bottleneck
• BarcampBrighton3 - 6-7th September 2008
• OneWebDay - Sep 22, 2008
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Miscellany

• Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam
• VCs Have Their Heads in the Clouds
• Comparing the Cloud: EC2, Mosso, and GoGrid
• True Knowledge attracts new funds
• Decoding eBay’s Best Match
• The theory of (identity) relativity
• Rapleaf Study of Social Network Users vs. Age
• The Future of Blogging Revealed
• Has Blogging Lost Its Relational Focus?
• Social engineering on Twitter
• Diplopedia - US Dept. of State Wiki, see also NYT article
• Borges taxonomy nodified
• Google Code blacklists Mozilla Public License
• Avoiding the Second System Effect in Software Development
• The Shahadah (Islamic Declaration of Faith) in Python
• The World’s First Metadata

Quote of the Week

Unlike anything that has come before it, the combination of software and the World Wide Web has the potential to connect people and empower them in more ways than humanity has never seen. And it is possible to become immensely rich while moving humanity forward with the software that you create. [sic]

- Dare Obasanjo

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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 mail meor use the del.icio.us tag “TWSW” - thanks!

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