Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-09-08, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

A day later than planned, and somewhat shorter than usual (blame Chrome and Ubiquity!), but hopefully there’ll be something to catch your eye.

In the Media

• Slides+Audio: Building Secure, Open and Distributed Social Network Applications

Docs

• Powdering logos (again)
• Enabling Semantic Infrastructure for Collaborative Systems
• dooit - a live Getting Real experiment
• Writing Functional Code with RDFa
• semantic search thoughts
• Exploding DBpedia’s Domain using UMBEL
• Epistemology of the Sponger, or How Virtuoso Drives a Web Query
• Transitivity and Graphs for SQL
• Requirements for Relational to RDF Mapping
• TRIPLE-I 2008: First Day Filled by Commonsense Knowledge
• TRIPLE-I 2008: The Wild vs The Orderly: Folksonomies and Semantics
• TRIPLE-I 2008: Triplification Challenge Winners - Linked Movie Data Base, DBTune, Semantic Web Pipes Demo
• TRIPLE-I 2008: ends with a bang, not a whimper
• TRIPLE-I 2008: Measuring the size of a fact, not of a fiction
• Call for Review: RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing Proposed Recommendation

Software News

• LDAP 2 SPARQL - “Accessing RDF Knowledge Bases via LDAP Clients”
• OpenID ID selector
• UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository
• oEmbed - ” is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites”

Events etc.

• Social Data on the Web (SDoW2008), Karlsruhe, Germany
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Miscellany

• The 3 Laws of Platform Adoption: Why Developers Choose Platforms and What it Means to You
• The SOA world begins considering Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) in earnest
• History of the browser user-agent string
• OpenSocial Overview
• Programming the Universe - book review
• I Am Trying To Believe (that Rock Stars aren’t Dead)

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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 me or use the del.icio.us tag “TWSW” - thanks!

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