Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-09-01, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

Summer Special!

(or Winter Special! down under)

FOAFlets of the Caribbean

No blurb, just links.

In the Media

• Print: Nodalities Magazine of the Semantic Web latest issue (pdf or printed, free)
• Podcast: A Chat with Michael Hausenblas
• DevX: Relational Database Integration with RDF/OWL
• Podcast: HTML 5 news, Web Workers, W3C Selectors, and Dojo happenings
• Videos: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (new to me)
• Web of Data News: Linking Open Data on ESW Wiki
• Fun Thread for Logicians: Intersection of properties?
• Interview: Google Open Sources Protocol Buffers
• Podcasts: Talking with Talis Aggregator

Docs

• W3C Public Newsletter – one link to find them…
• Make your Data Web Friendly
• RDF as self-describing data
• Europe discussing the business of the Semantic Web at ESTC
• Putting Semantic Technology to work at BT
• CrunchBase Interview
• Crunchbase & Semantic Web Interview (Remix)
• Thoughts on Linked Data and Closed Source APIs
• Proceedings of the WWW2008 Workshop on Linked Data on the Web
• Using the ontology editing tool SWOOP to edit taxonomies and thesaurii
• Captcha, Turing Test, and Semantic Web – you the dog
• Clark and Parsia: Our OWLED 2008 EU Plans
• Is the Semantic Web necessary (and feasible)?
• The Gap between the Web 2.0 and Semantic Web Community
• The Incomplete Web – in case anyone didn’t see it yet
• RDFa in HTML5?
• HTML4ever or: the next logical step
• OpenSocial RESTful spec
• Putting Together A Personal Conference Schedule
• Semantic Web in Government – Wiki page, “This page needs development! Please expand it!”
• UMBEL as a Coherent Framework to Support Ontology Development
• Virtuoso, Linked Data, and Linq2Rdf
• Not another mapping markup language!
• Dave Raggett’s blog
• Changing my mind about XBRL again
• Zach Beauvais Online

Software News

• Freebase Parallax – “a novel browsing interface designed for freebase”
• Connecting Freebase, Wikipedia, DBpedia, and other Linked Data Spaces
• Sheaflight – “is an experimental Linked Data Browser which uses Microsoft’s Silverlight technology…”
• Get sophisticated – RDF in Ruby stuff
• DBpedia 3.1 now live, release notes
• Semantic Discovery System for Excel, see also The Semantic Desktop? SDS Brings Semantics To Excel
• Berlin SPARQL Benchmark (BSBM), see also BSBM With Triples and Mapped Relational Data
• RDFStats for SPARQL endpoints
• Atomojo Server 0.11.0 supports SPARQL
• SPARQL Implementation Coverage Report
• RDFa implementations in Javascript
• Ubiquity – a must-see
• FOAF Ubiquity – with write-up
• ubiquity – a collection of commands for the web of data
• Ubiquitus CrunchBase
• CrunchBase Twitter Bot
• How to use CBbot
• Sun Intranet FOAF Experiment
• [Playlist] libSpiff 1.0.0rc2 released
• Google Music – with reusable artist IDs..?

Vocabs/Ontologies

• ontologymatching.org
• GoodRelations – The Web Ontology for E-Commerce
• SCOT (Social Semantic Cloud of Tags) Ontology – new spec
• Describing the content of RDF datasets – voID
• Online Presence Ontology (OPO) see also MeNow
• The Statistical Core Vocabulary (scovo)
• FRDCSA – “Our goal is to assemble the most comprehensive ontology of FLOSS [free/libre/open source software] applications, and make packages available for every free operating system, distribution and hardware platform”

Events etc.

• One World – One Web Day
• Boards.ie SIOC Semantic Data Competition starts September 1st
• BarCampLondon5, September 27-28, 2008.
• Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG) F2F, October 20-21, Cannes, France
• Web of Data Practitioners Days (WOD-PD 2008), Vienna, Austria, Oct 22-23, 2008
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Miscellany

• My Life With Tim
• Embrace Change
• Rummble – YASN, but with mobile, recommendation and geo feature
• OneGeology – “Making Geological Map Data for the Earth Accessible“
• Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed: The Power Of Audience
• Ants, Overlays and Open Data
• Mail Art : a predecessor of global online social networks
• End of Life for PHP 4
• Tim Bray: Tab Sweep – Technology
• Nancy Pelosi, URI on Watchdog.net site – “try it with Tabulator“, says timbl
• WhatLanguage: “Ruby Library To Detect The Language Of A Text”
• My pager smaller than yo’ iPhone!

Quote of the Week

…fighting the web is like holding back the ocean; it will route around you or it will wear you down, but will never go away, and it will never tire or give up.

- DeWitt Clinton, On Fighting the Web Itself

Summer Bonus Quote of the Week

“Language-independent” just means they invented a new language.

- Kevin Reid

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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!