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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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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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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Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-05-12, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

Another burst of activity this week around the general area of DataPortability, with announcements from MySpace, Facebook and Google regarding the opening up of social network data. While it isn’t yet clear how much better these systems will at meshing with the Giant Global Graph, it certainly seems a step in the right direction.

In the Media

• Video: Semantic Technology in Enterprise Computing
• Video: Where does the time come from? (transcript)
• Podcast: Library 2.0 Gang 05/08: ILS API
• Podcast: Peter Mika talks about SearchMonkey and the Semantic Technology Conference
• Podcast: DataPortability: In-Motion
• Slides: Golem and CrystalEye - mashing up science data
• Slides: With or Without UIDs

Docs

• Proposed Activity for Video on the Web
• Should every web page be semantic-backed?
• Peter Mika offers bananas at Yahoo! Research
• SPARQL Update to Complete RESTful SOA Scenario
• Open Notebook Science–sensemaking
• Biological Taxonomy Vocabulary 0.1, discussion
• Describing Copyright in RDF, The Statistical Core Vocabulary (scovo) - also with spec in RDFa
• The Role of UMBEL: Stuck in the Middle with You . . .
• The Open Data licensing issue
• Explaining Web 1.0, Web 2.0 & Web 3.0
• XTech report
• Thoughts on DataPortability, The care and feeding of online relationships, DataPortability, SPARQL and the “Connect!” button
• MySpace joins the ’semantic’ web, Google to launch Friend Connect for the social Web (Press Release), Facebook to open the gates with ‘Facebook Connect’

Software News

• Powerset Wikipedia/Freebase search, (review at TechCrunch)
• Prototype for distributed / decentralised microblogging using semantics
• Owlgres 0.1 - OWL reasoner using Postgres
• Server-side storage of OWL syntax
• Introducing StraightWalker - WordPress theme with semweb hooks
• baby steps at linking library data
• Dbpedia Benchmark Revisited
• processing.js, the hidden value of processing.js
• webthumb - REST API for generating thumbnails from Mozilla
• Twitter Jabber PubSub

Events etc.

• Semantic Web Meeting, Austin, 13th May
• Evening beers with Music Ontology, MusicBrainz folks, London, May 14
• SearchMonkey launch party, Yahoo!, Bay Area, May 15
• Data Sharing Workshop/Summit, Mountain View, CA, May 15
• Semantic Web Challenge - “The data set for the Billion Triples Challenge has been posted”
• 1st NEPOMUK - Social Semantic Desktop - Summer School
• 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2008)
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• semantic-web@w3.org

Miscellany

• Teaching Kids Computer Skills and Programming
• SciSpace - social networking site for scientists
• Announcing xrdstype.net - service type registry
• The hard stuff - VRM Use Cases

Quote of the Week

the semantic web is already here if you know where to look

- Julian Higman

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Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-05-06, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

A little later and shorter than usual this week due to public holiday and rsi…normal service will be resumed next week.

In the Media

• Podcast: Christine Connors talks about semantic technologies at Dow Jones
• Podcast: Semantic Gang on Wikipedia for Data
• Podcast: Talking about WWW2008 on the BBC
• Podcast: 15th anniversary of CERN releasing the World Wide Web code for free
• Video: Chris Messina talks about his project DiSo
• Maling list: public-rdf-ruby@w3.org
• Class: Semantic Web 2.0 and Semantic HTML

Docs

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - Candidate Recommendation
• A Survey of Current Approaches for Mapping of Relational Databases to RDF
• Opening and closing like flowers (social platform roundupathon)
• Walled gardens: mapping the parties
• In Perpetual Pursuit of Context
• Perspective Applications
• Digg makes official its adoption of a ’semantic Web’ standard
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee addresses WWW2008 in Beijing
• Microformats test-suite concept
• London Gazette to use RDFa
• On Sem Web Search
• Linked Data enters state of Evoluation
• Linked Data Trip Report - Part 1, WWW 2008, Linked Data and Information Architecture, SPARQL at WWW 2008, WWW 2008 reports on Twitter
• XTech Talks covering Linked Data
• Semantic Web talks in Innsbruck
• Understanding Model-View-Controller

Software News

• SPARQLBot - “Your Semantic Web Command Line”
• SPARQLScript
• Building a Web 3.0 Address Book, The So(m)mer Address Book (aka Beatnik) - now available via Java WebStart, and showing at JavaOne
• Piglet - “a small RDF triple store written in C++”
• RDFohloh - RDF wrapper of Ohloh, open source directory, details
• Sonivis - social network/wiki analysis tool
• Distributed Twitter Client in 20 lines of code [it’s a Ruby Jabber client]
• XBRL Ontology group, first cut XBRL to RDF
• Ad hoc plumbing
• VRM with FOAF + OpenID
• DOLCE-UltraLite - upper ontology, OWL DL
• GraphPath - “a little-language for analysing graph-structured data, especially RDF”

Events etc.

• Data Portability with SIOC and FOAF at XTech 2008
• Support for US students attending ISWC 2008
• 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2008)
• Semantic Web Interest Group f2f meeting proposal (in France, during week of Oct 20-24 2008)
• CFP Semantic Web Challenge and Billion Triples tracks
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Miscellany

• freeourdata.org.uk
• Rapping About Proper HTML
• Adobe Opens the FLV and SWF Formats
• Web Inspired Terrestrial Radio
• Please yo-yo the rrm
• Restarter martyr: sounds of Firefox 3b5

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Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-04-28, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

This week was dominated by WWW2008 in Beijing, an interesting location as the WWW2008 photos on Flickr attest. There are tons of resources available via the WWW2008 site, and individual workshops like Linked Data on the Web and the W3C Open Your Data! session. Not surprisingly the Semantic Web Interest Group IRC Scratchpad was rather busy - only a tiny selection of the material from these sources linked below.

One interesting aspect, to quote Ivan Herman: “Huajun Chen gave an overview [pdf] on what is happening in the Semantic Web area in China. In two words: a lot.”

I don’t think it’ll be very long before I can retire these manually-compileded posts, in favour of something more comprehensive and better faceted. An indicator is Twine, despite still being in (genuine) beta has rapidly become a key source for info on Semantic Web developments, either in the anglo Web 3.0 - Semantic Web or if vous preferons, un twine Web sémantique. (I have a few Twine invitations, mail me if you’re interested).

In the Media

• Wiki: semanticweb.org
• Blog: n²
• Podcast: A conversation with Deepak Singh about science in the web 2.0 era
• Podcasts: The
  Library 2.0 Gang
• Slides: SIOC tutorial at WWW2008
• Slides: UMBEL Web Services
• Video: Nova Spivack at DigitalNow
• Video: Linking to DBpedia with TopBraid
• Videos: SemanticCamp Paris 1
• Jobs: Want to Work at Talis?
• Science 2.0 — Is Open Access Science the Future?

Docs

• Linked Data on the Web, WWW2008, Update from WWW2008, Attending WWW2008, Semantic Web W3C Track at WWW2008, A Semantic Multimedia Web - Create, Annotate, Present and Share your Media, Nadeem’s reports
• For review: HCLS Knowledgebase - “a biomedical knowledge base that integrates 15 distinct data sources”, Experiences with the conversion of SenseLab databases to RDF/OWL
• Understanding SPARQL - “create journaling micro-blogs with the semantic Web” (IBM developerWorks)
• The economic case for Open Science
• Tying FOAF identity with the identity semantics of OpenID
• LForum - Linked Discussion Forums on the Web of Data
• Why I Migrated Over to Twine (And Other Social Services Bit the Dust)
• Semantic Web in the Startup School
• Web 3.0 just around the corner?
• MIME types and library metadata
• The original FOAF images
• FOAF & SSL: creating a global decentralised authentication protocol
• Authoring RDFa from within a Wiki
• Setting up an RDFa file with Apache (second)
• APML-RDF
• openData Definition, ???
• Linked Data are the roots for the Future Web
• The Freebase Blog
• Nouns and Resources
• Hubjects on Twine
• XForms, Dyslexia and the Right Brain
• Owlgres, DL-Lite and Selectivity Optimizations
• Important New Jersey Supreme Court decision in Internet privacy
• Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
• It’s a big planet…, +1

Software News

• dbpedia mobile, Social, mobile, semantic
• Sesame 2.1
• QuASAR SW services validator
• Open Anzo - Semantic Application Middleware
• Cyparkler 1.0 - “implements a query factory for SPARQL and SeRQL”
• SPARQLScript
• SemWebParlParse - “takes XML data about the UK Parliament and re-publishes it in
  semantic web format”
• Online Semantic Community Framework
• Optimus: Microformats data transformer
• Fenfire Linked Data browser
• Cadbury World - “is an adventure into the world of chocolate” (Talis Engage demo)
• Friends In Feed - “is an experiment in secure distributed social networking”
• RDFa-”enhacked” validator add-on for Firefox
• So(m)mer Address Book home page
• linqtordf - LINQ Query Provider for Semantic Web Applications

Events etc.

• Upcoming deadlines
• Support for US students attending ISWC 2008
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Subtle Promo

Miscellany

• debategraph
• ProofWiki
• Collective Intelligence Book
• BBC joining OpenID Foundation
• New
  business models for life science content
• Interview
  with Donald Knuth
• Cloud Security
• Another
  week (or two) in CouchDB
• Top
  10 Reasons to Avoid the SimpleDB Hype
• Happy
  spamiversary! Spam reaches 30
• IdeaScale
  - Crowdsourcing R&D
• Wii remote
  projects

Quote of the Week

Linked Data is the Semantic Web done as it should be. It is the Web done as it should be.

- Tim Berners-Lee
(via Paul)

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Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-04-21, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

- source: danbri on Flickr, CC
license

A fairly random mix this week. Above you can see Dan Brickley’s revision of the imagery that first saw light in Tim Berners-Lee’s slides in 1994. The original slides showed the connection between Web documents and things in the real world. Danbri’s added a nice twist in the thoughts of the people in the diagram - they don’t necessarily see the world in the same way. Fortunately Semantic Web technologies offer ways of saying things which allows for differing perspectives, and means to make use of coincidences between things different people have said. In recent months DBpedia has played a key role in the Linking Open Data cloud by providing common reference points derived from Wikipedia (check the podcast with Richard Cyganiak). This week sees the announcement of a set of new services around UMBEL, an upper-ish ontology which aims to provide a similar role.

There are a few more offerings for further up the Semantic Web stack from the W3C, and to demonstrate that such things aren’t necessarily incompatible with regular RDF development, Jim Hendler points to an OWL 2 profile that should be of interest to even the most web-fetishist audience: Towards RDFS 3.0 (or OWL 2 R Full).

A little trivia: subscribers to Planet RDF (one of the main sources for material here) may have noticed my personal blog hasn’t appeared recently, I’ve still got a few things to fix up after a bad server crash. This blog may not appear over there either for a little while as the Talis blogs are migrated over to being
WordPress-based. So the only conduit from Talis to Planet RDF this week is Ian’s blog, latest offering: The Terrible And Tragic Tale Of Brian The Snail. I suppose there’s always the magazine…

In the Media

• Print: Nodalities Magazine of the Semantic Web (pdf or printed, free)
• FT: World-wise web?
• Slides: UMBEL Semantic Web Services
• Diagram: How it works: The Web (see above)
• Howstuffworks: How Semantic Web Works, see also - Teaching a Six Year Old About Triples
• On the road to the Semantic Web

Docs

• RIF WG Publishes long awaited working drafts
• Delivery Context Ontology - from W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications WG
• Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web - W3C XG Report
• Proposed W3C Activity for Video on the Web
• Towards RDFS 3.0 (or OWL 2 R Full)
• Open Science Directory
• The Semantic Web – none of Public Relations’ business?
• Creating a HTML “friends” page from a Google Reader subscription list, GRDDLing DeWitt’s Friends
• Simple “Semantification” of Wordpress
• Identifying Spatial and Temporal Media Fragments on the Web (pdf)
• The RDF Virtual Machine
• Resource Description Framework on Citizendium Wiki
• General Formal Ontology, Wikipedia entry
• The OpenId Sequence Diagram
• The Difference Between OpenID and OAuth
• FOAF & SSL: creating a global decentralised authentication system
• A complete beginner’s guide to starting a Jena project in Eclipse
• Understanding the power of communities - even when you do not have a critical mass of users…
• Dreaming away about a user centric web
• semantic camp paris - short report
• Namespacing & Context - ramifications for the semantic web - semweb without URIs?

Software News

• Exploding the Domain: UMBEL Web Services by Zitgist
• Yago resources now retrievable on the Web
• Really cool SIOC widget from Sindice
• KiWi: Knowledge in a Wiki
• Eculture project demo
• Talis Platform client (RubyForge)
• Fuzzbot support RDFa (Firefox plugin)
• OwlSight Update: v.51 - bugfixes
• pydataportability 0.1
• cells: triple-cells/read-me.lisp
• PubMed search URL
• Another Do-It-Yourself Framework (Python)

Events etc.

• LOD Triplification Challenge
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Miscellany

• Web Architecture: Extensible Languages
• Morph Application Platform
• Ready for Live Mesh?
• Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Bloggers - “half pregnant”
• Twubble - Twitter friend-of-friend finder
• How Hypertable works
• It’s Just Gone - with no Internet, South Park cannot learn what happened to the Internet
• China vaults past USA in Internet users
• ISPs’ Error Page Ads Let Hackers Hijack Entire Web
• Elements or attributes?
• Jevons paradox
• Why My Blog Is Dangerous
• TitanURL.com - “making URLs unusable!”
• New pet

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Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-04-14, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL

Most of the visible activity around Semantic Web technologies for the last year or so has been around the lower regions of the layer cake, in other words on the Giant Global Graph. This Web side of the Semantic Web has made strong steps forward recently thanks largely to the availability of the SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language alongside initiatives around Linked Data. But work has been continuing on the semantics further up the stack, away from the glitz of Web 2.0. A marker point was reached in those regions this week with the announcement that the work around revisions to the Web Ontology Language (OWL) would be rebranded from OWL 1.1 to OWL 2. This coincided with the p