Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-02-25, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

Happy 9th Birthday, RDF…Happy 100th Birthday Axiomatic Set Theory

In the Media

• Video: DataPortability and me, JB
• Podcast: A Chat with Uldis Bojars
• Blog: The Semantic Web at ZDNet
• Survey: HowPeopleExportSIOC
• Leaflet: Semantic Web Vision – Reality (PDF)
• Newsletter: February’s Talis Platform News
• Flashback: Innovators of the Net: Ramanathan V. Guha and RDF
• Flashforward: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web

Docs

• RDFa Syntax – Last Call Working Draft, Primer, Test Harness, see also RDFa Syntax LC is out
• SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) Primer, Working Draft
• Semantic Bar Camp London and Flue
• Codecs, Metadata, and Addressing: Video on the Web Workshop Report
• So, What Might The Web’s Subject Backbone Look Like?
• 99 Wikipedia Sources Aiding the Semantic Web
• Semantic Web for Dummies, Semantic Web…in a nutshell?
• XFN encoding, extraction, and visualizations
• Managing digital rights in the publishing world
• oai-ore and the shadow web
• Potential RDF use cases for Drupal
• Google’s Social Graph API, RDFa and the future of web search
• OURSE – “an ontology for OODBMS/RDF mapping”
• PRESTO – A WWW Information Architecture for Legislation and Public Information systems
• A solution to the RDF publishing dilemma
• Beyond Redirection: Rich and Active PURLs
• Some thoughts on resources, information resources and representations, Resource, Resource! Wherefore art thou Resource?, (TAG thread)
• Why RFC 2616 Is To Blame
• Search on “RDF” at Microsoft Research Labs
• Some goals for a better wiki system
• Tissue Parade

Software News

• microsearch, Building on top of microsearch
• Semantic Radar, now with RDFa support
• RDFa Distiller
• Setting up an RDFa file with apache
• SPARQLBot – “the Semantic Web command line”
• xOperator 0.1 – Semantic XMPP / Jabber Agent, Playing with SPARQL and XMPP
• digging into XMPP/Jabber pubsub again, for micropublishing
• Beatnik Address Book
• Phenny, the Python IRC bot
• Bookmarklet
  Bootloader Generator
• Rena – Ruby RDF library
• Semantic Conference Scheduling Application
• hAudioRSS
• Semantic
  Web Search Engines
• Rules for HTTP Inferences
• Addressing fragments in REST
• ConceptualTopology
• UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository
• Google Static Maps API
• Higgins Project 1.0 Takes OpenID to the Next Level
• CDATA in XHTML
• mozillaOS vs dillo
• Radar Networks Raises $13M for Twine
• Ian’s on the Web of Data

Events etc.

• One day left to register online for BlogTalk 2008!
• RDFa-outreach dinner at SXSWi
• Linked Data Planet – Conference & Expo, 17-18 June 2008, , New York
• Scripting for the Semantic Web (SFSW) at ESWC 2008
• First International Workshop on Secure Semantic Web (SSW’08), April 7-12, 2008, Cancun, Mexico
• W3C Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development, 2-3 June 2008, São Paulo, Brazil
• See also : Semantic Web Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• CfPs – see recent semantic-web@w3.org archives

Miscellany

• Pakistan removed from the Internet
• The street as platform
• Google Health Pilot Program, Top Health 2.0 Web Apps,
• Rethinking Recommendation Engines, 10 Recommended Recommendation Engines
• The Personalized Homepage War: Who Matters
• Facebook Targets FriendFeed; Opening Up The News Feed
• Nearly a million users, and no spam or trolls, Diapers that Twitter when they are dirty…
• Yahoo! Launches World’s Largest Hadoop Production Application
• Time to rewrite DBMS, says Ingres founder
• Wanted: One new computing paradigm : preferably an old one that is known to work but newly packaged up as a shiny new thing
• Euphonic rules for naming
• How “View Source” Broke the Web
• Spectral clustering rocks!
• Adobe
  Blurs Line Between PC and Web
• Your Brain Is In 10 Kinds of Trouble

Quote of the Week

It is of course required by law that the very last thing in every presentation be a URL

-Bryan Alexander, via David
Weinberger

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Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-02-18, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Video: The Talis Platform: A Generic Infrastructure for Next Generation Web Applications
• Video: Making Sense of the Semantic Web
• Podcast: Stefano Mazzocchi on SIMILE and the Semantic Web
• Podcast: Phil Windley on Online Reputation Frameworks
• Slideshow: Automatically indexing science using natural-language processing, RDF and SPARQL
  (background)
• Slideshow: RDF for Beginners (pdf)
• RWW: 11 Things To Know About Semantic Web
• SemanticReport – new issue

Docs

• RDF and XML Q&A: Which should I use?
• RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing – new editor’s draft : “A collection of attributes and processing rules for extending XHTML to support RDF”
• RelExtensions
• Genealogy and Computers
• One Semantic Application, One Semantic UI?
• Stats of the FOAF-o-sphere
• Proof: Data Portability requires Linked Data
• XMLSemanticWeb
• SALT – Semantically Annotated LaTeX
• Editing ‘Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)’
• Media type centralization is a feature, not a bug
• How To Do RESTful Partial Updates – [except this approach isn't RESTful, check the links in the updates] – Roy suggests PATCH see also: Delta: an ontology for the distribution of differences between RDF graphs, ChangeSet Vocabulary
• Roy’s blog

Software News

• Back from SemanticCamp London, Yay for SemanticCamp!
• RDF API for Drupal 6.x
• MOAT, Sindice and the Tag Ontology
• FOAF hacks of the day
• SparlPress and foaf:openid, owl:sameAs reciprocity with OpenID
• New version of the SPARQL Python wrapper
• JQbus: social graph query with XMPP/SPARQL
• Testing TBD with RDF VM
• Perl RDF/Atom/REST Server work-in-progress
• URI Play “is a name service for video content, giving it URIs and simple descriptions”
• Citeseer Semantic Repository
• AOL Announces New Open Source Mobile Software Platform
• ufXtract demo – “portable social network parser”
• Relationship Update Stream
• Linked Data Community system, Linked Data Solution for Exposing OpenLink Product Portfolio
• asyncorg – “Asynchronous Network Peer Programming in Java”
• Super GreaseMonkey (a.k.a GreaseMonkey with JQuery)

Events etc.

• Social Network Portability WebCamp
• BarCamp Web Sémantique à Paris
• Semantic Scripting Challenge at ESWC2008
• Oxford SWIG meetings
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• See also : Semantic Web Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• CfPs – see recent semantic-web@w3.org archives

Miscellany

• A funny thing happened on the way to the forum
• If content isn’t king, what is?
• Crowdsourcing Software QA
• Engineering Challenges
• Non-evil links for musicians
• Rules of Thumb
• Spatial Displays for Information
• The Open Sauce

Quote of the Week

[any suggestions?]

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Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-02-11, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Screencast: Playing with Linked Data, Jamendo, Geonames, Slashfacet and Songbird (background)
• Video: The Social Cloud
• Podcast: After Foo
• Slashdot: Semantic Web Getting Real

Docs

• POWDER (Protocol for Web Description Resources) WG decides final format
• The Self-Describing Web – draft TAG finding
• My [Jim Hendler's] ideal OWL
• PubMed Central ready for the Semantic Web and Open Data?
• Decentralizing Media Types, Decentralizing Gensyms
• BATCH / HTTP/1.0
• OpenAjax Metadata Specification Properties Datatypes
• Birthdays – XML is 10 and RDF/XML is 9
• XML 1.0 (Fifth Edition)
• DocBook V5.0
• Developing SGML DTDs: from Text to Model to Markup

Software News

• public-rdf-ruby@w3.org
• RDF in Ruby revisited
• NASA’s First Semantic Web App
• Outbox FOAF crawl: using the Google SG API to bring context to email
• Public Skype RDF presence service
• Browsing your FOAF social graph
• Graph URIs in SPARQL: Using UUIDs as named views, Venn diagrams for Groups UI
• Small databases, loosly joined
• Hercules RDF Library in JavaScript: SPARQL Engine Demo (announcement)
• PyProfile – “a test-driven Python tool for social network portability”
• Oort – “a Python toolkit for accessing RDF graphs as plain objects. It has RDFLib under the crust.”
• Catalog of types of SPARQL extensions
• GWT-Ext (2.0) – “a powerful widget library”
• @semantics new generation of feed aggregators, BBC – MemoryShare
• replacing ant with rdf
• 10 Reasons to use OpenLink Data Spaces, Additional OpenLink Data Spaces Features
• What’s Wrong With LUBM?
• Hypertable 0.9 alpha

Events etc.

• Semantic Spring
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Miscellany

• Ian Hixie and Mark Nottingham on Web Architecture
• The Guardian takes a stab at Web 3.0
• Reuters gets a very clever CEO
• Google Social Graph API, privacy and the public record
• Interactive Linux Kernel Map
• Android Hands-On Video: It’s Fast, It’s Still Not There

Quote of the Week

Of course you can’t trust what people tell you on the web anymore than you can trust what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants.

- Douglas Adams, via Kevin Marks

~

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Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-02-03 or thereabouts, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Podcast: Inigo Surguy Talks with Talis about 67 Bricks and the Semantic Web
• Podcast: A Chat with Benjamin Nowack
• Video: The Existential DiSo Interview
• Twine in the New York Times
• Data Portability: Reasonable Goal or Impossible Dream?
• More Semantic Web coverage out in venture capital land
• Reuters Calais: free text to Semantic Web services

Docs

• Linked Data Comes of Age
• Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies Working Draft
• SKOS Reference Working Draft
• Bee Node: A FOAF Tale, Bee Node Deconstructed
• SPARQL Recipes
• hAudio-RSS – “Hypertext Playlist using the hAudio Microformat” (on the GRDDL!)
• The future of RDFa - “Think Big.”
• Data Spaces, User Identity, and Data Portability
• Microformats, CSS and Amaya
• DataPortability Use Cases
• Self-Description for Service Connection
• FOAF-ing Linked Data is quite SIOC-ing
• Desert Museum use case in N3
• OWL is the SGML of the Semantic Web, Who Uses OWL for the DL?
• Chris Messina on OpenID, Simon Willison on OpenID
• Developer incentives in social networking platforms
• Resources not Services
• Semantic Web on Mahalo (community recommender system)
• rdf web ring idea: co-depiction (2001)
• PLING – W3C Policy Languages Interest Group, Wiki
• Policy-controlled dynamic spectrum access

Software News

• riese – RDFizing and Interlinking the EuroStat Data Set Effort – “first linked-data set
  deployed in XHTML+RDFa; riese offers links to other LOD datasets and introduces a new interlinking method, called User Contributed Interlinking“
• Billion Triples Challenge Intro
• Google Social Graph API ,SocialGraph Node Mapper see also URNs, Namespaces and Registries
• Accidental Friendships, The Google Social Graph API: the good and the bad
• Tabulator RDF browser – new release of Firefox Plugin
• SIOC reader (universal) widget
• Falcons enhanced – “a search engine for the Semantic Web”
• Find a friend
• Foaf Groups and Bloom Filters
• Accumulators come to MovableType, see also WP: Venus
• LUBM and Virtuoso 5.5, Latest LUBM Benchmark results for Virtuoso, LUBM results with Virtuoso 6.0
• CouchDB Catchup
• Jaql – “is a new query language being developed for JSON data”
  (includes a jaqlGet() function that can retrieve JSON data from a URL – there’s an example query of Freebase in the Overview)
• Taggle, a TagSoup in C++
• A namespace for MySQL function identifiers
• lcsh, thesauri and skos
• RDF Schema for LV2 [digital audio] plugins
• LinkingOpenData
  news

Events etc.

• The LinkedData Planet conference
• 4th Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web
• 3 semantic web talks for JavaOne 2008
• Open Knowledge Foundation and Conference
• ISCB Conference on Semantics in Healthcare & Life Sciences
• See also : Semantic Web Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants
• CfPs – see recent semantic-web@w3.org archives

Miscellany

• Overhaul of net addresses begins – ipv6
• The ACID3 Race
• Developing an improved online environment for educating computer users
• Can a Bayesian spam filter play chess?
• The password anti-pattern, Foo
  fighting
• Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous…
• A tale of two business models
• IFPI Forces Danish ISP to Block The Pirate Bay
• HTML/PoeticSemantics
• Delver – “is a socially connected search company; a next-generation web search engine”
• The Industry Standard – tech business opinion site, has novel community vote-by-bet
  system
• Twine – for
  cats (thanks Laurian!)

Quote of the Week

A rule of thumb to promote here might well be: if you find your thinking on some topic can almost be fully captured in OWL statements about categories, hierarchies and logical membership rules, … you’re not thinking hard enough.

– danbri, Re: post-structuralistm and (formal) ontologies

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Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-01-28, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Podcast: Jon Udell interviews Richard Wallis on libraries, the Talis Platform and the Semantic Web (and libraries), see also: What is it with all this Library stuff?
• Podcast: Andreas Harth Talks with Talis about the Semantic Web Search Engine and SIOC
• Podcast: SIMILE and the Semantic Web
• Podcast: Scott Kveton on OpenID, OAuth etc

Docs

• Building the Core of the NextGen Web
• Why SPARQL?
• The Semantic Web and Industry Standards
• W3C Publishes HTML 5 Draft, Future of Web Content
• SKOS System Reference (First Public Working Draft)
• OWL Safe Rules
• Tabulator Redux: Writing Into the Semantic Web
• SA-REST: Semantically enhancing REST services
• DCMI term declarations represented in RDF schema language
• Towards the Active Web
• Bobbing Heads and the IE8 Meta Tag, X-UA-Combustible, Best Standards Support, Microsoft: Fish, or Cut Bait
• TSTTCPW
• Doctrine of Minimum Necessary Disclosure
• REST Describe & Compile for WADL vs. Six months later and we still don’t need WADL, On Web Service Definition
• Among the dynamos, My Data and advice for startups - *aaS
• There’s Grid in them thar Clouds

Software News

• JRDF 0.5.3 released – see also Nodes by type
• jOWL
  - a javascript library for traversing OWL-RDFS documents
• Grawiki – “a Wiki (and aggregator) for graph-shaped data”
• BBC Programmes Ontology
• SchemaCache (in development)
• SPARQL Recipes
• Large-scale RDF Graph Visualization Tools
• MOAT plug-in for Drupal 5, see also The Meaning Of A Tag
• Embedding queries in RDF – FOAF Group example
• Waving not Drowning? groups as buddylist filters
• Star This – “Think of it as a decentralized del.icio.us / twitter combination that uses XMPP instead of SMS”
• Wordnet in RDF/OWL
• RDFizers

Events etc.

• 5th International Conference on Social Software, co-located workshop on social network portability – BlogTalk
  2008, Cork, Ireland, 3-4th March 2008
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

For Calls for Papers, see semantic-web, OWL Dev mailing lists

Miscellany

• Midwest Web Sense
• Open IDiomatic? Dada engine hosting as OpenID client app
• Defining a perfect blogging tool
• Microsoft Joining DataPortability.org – so that’s everyone except Microsoft + Microsoft…
• 2008: The Year Web 2.0 Hits the Enterprise, Says Forrester
• 100% Accuracy in Automatic Face Recognition
• Validating XML documents with PUBLIC identifiers and catalogs
• Scaling MapReduce
• SICP Reading
• On FOAF & SW – “…it’s like if MySpace was irradiated with XML-Rays and mutated into a complete XML-based social network specification…”

Quote of the Week

The people who are building real applications, and deriving real benefit, don’t give two hoots about RDF and triple stores. They just want the effects.”

- Richard Wallis

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Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-01-21, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Video: DataPortability – Connect, Control, Share, Remix
• Video: First steps with nepomuk
• Podcast: Mathieu d’Aquin Talks with Talis about Networked Ontologies and the Semantic Web
• Podcast: A conversation with Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg about Many Eyes
• Semantic Web takes big step forward
• Semantic Wave 2008
• Business Case for Semantic Web Technologies
• Web 3.0: Chicken Farms on the Semantic Web
• Planet RDFoffsite facility

Docs

• SPARQL Recommendations: SPARQL Query Language for RDF, SPARQL Protocol for RDF, and SPARQL Query Results XML Format – press release,
  testimonials, 14
  implementations. See also: Polishing that SPARQL, so you can all see it shine, SPARQLing Services, W3C’s SPARQLing Data Access Ingenuity, photo of Sparql
• Notation3 (N3): A readable RDF syntax, W3C Team Submission
• Turtle – Terse RDF Triple Language, W3C Team Submission
• SIOC-ing the Semantic Web
• What is RDF and what is it good for?
• DCMI Recommendation: Expressing Dublin Core metadata using the Resource Description Framework, also Major update of DCMI Metadata Terms documentation
• Watching WADL
• Using GRDDL and/or RDFa to annotate REST services
• Semantic
  Web Services, Part 2
• RESTful Identity Services, parts 1, 2, 3
• Atom as Registry / Repository
• Semantic Data Web Epiphanies: The Semantic Web, What the Semantic Web IS, The Strange Secret of the Semantic Web
• Data Referencing, Data Mobility and the Semantic Web
• Towards the Active Web
• Web 2.0 project: privacy in genealogy
• Wondering about ontologies for resumees
• “Easy Keys” (aka, inverse functional datatype properties) proposal to the OWL WG
• DataPortability thread re W3C involvement

Software News

• SPARQL Demo (on Talis Platform)
• RDF Tools – An RDF Store for WordPress
• ARC2 Preview Release – “Easy RDF and SPARQL for LAMP systems”, see also Tabulator-happy Data Wiki
• DOAP from the Bazaar
• MOAT (Meaning Of A Tag) – “provides a Semantic Web framework to publish semantically-annotated content from free-tagging”
• RDFizing and Interlinking the EuroStat Data Set Effort – a LinkingOpenData project
• RDF Store Benchmarks with DBpedia, see also RdfStoreBenchmarking
• RDF and the Semantic Web in Drupal
• Flickcurl 1.0
• Raptor/JSON
• The FOAFnaut widget
• theinfo.org – “a site for large data sets and the people who love them”, Aaron’s intro
• Some Datasets Available on the Web
• No Google Analytics API? No Problem!
• OpenSearchFox – fsdl-powered
• The Open Source Business Management Ontology (BMO)
• image-regions ontology

Events etc.

• Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008) at WWW2008 (submission deadline 28th Jan)
• XTech 2008, May 6-9th 2008, in Dublin, Ireland (submission deadline 25th Jan)
• Scripting For the Semantic Web workshop at ESWC2008
• Course : Social Web Technologies, UMBC, Spring 2008, MW 7:10pm
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Miscellany

• OpenID and Wireless sharing
• OpenSocial API roadmap
• In a vortex buying MySQL
• Database gods bitch about mapreduce, Not even wrong
• Safeguarding our data
• Telegraph to become OpenID provider
• UK Government revisiting net censorship
• </war>
• Internet Hierarchy of Needs

Quote of the Week

Trying to use the Semantic Web without SPARQL is like trying to use a relational database without SQL

– Tim Berners-Lee(in announcement)

Snippet of the Week

include_once(‘path/to/arc/ARC2.php’);

$ep = ARC2::getStoreEndpoint(array(…));

$ep->go();

- a SPARQL Enpoint in 3 lines of PHP with ARC,, see also: ARC Plugins)

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Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-01-14, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Podcast:
  Eyal Oren Talks with Talis about Sindice and tagging on the Semantic Web
• Video: RDFa Basics
• Talis Platform News, Jan 2008
• What will 2008 mean for the Semantic Web?
• 2008: The Rise of Linked Data

Docs

• First Public Working Draft of Web Ontology Language (OWL) 1.1 specifications: Structural Specification and Functional-Style Syntax, Model-Theoretic Semantics, and Mapping to RDF Graphs – Working Drafts Arrive – please review!
• It’s Fun to Pun
• Will I need to understand the Semantic Web in 2008?
• Scraping and linked data
• Semantic Web: What Is The Killer App? – Semantic Web Killer Application? – “The Semantic Web is the killer app.”, timbl, 2001
• SemTech 2008 Talks; and Some Thoughts about OWL-based Policy Management
• One FOAF fits all
• Retrospective and Outlook for 2008
• DataPortability.org Workgroup is still born, Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org, LinkedIn, SixApart and Flickr People Join DataPortability.org: Is This Stuff For Real?
• Have you seen Mark Zuckerberg parading around totally stark naked?
• Shouting about the Semantic Web on Social Networks
• inkdroid
• Tucana’s Fate Sealed
• Semantic Web Company
• The global graph
• RDF in a…database?
• What’s in a list?
• Graph Farming (pdf)

Software News

• Semantic Radar – Firefox extension
• Named Graph Exchange
• Your AudioScrobbler data as Linked Data
• LV2 Audio Plugin Standard – “separates the static data into RDF
  files in the easy to read and hand-write Turtle syntax”
• SemanticCampProfileDiscoveryServlet.java
• Flickr (Yahoo) upcoming support for OpenID
• RDFa Bookmarklets
• AtomOWL on ESW Wiki – work is recommencing, as an offshoot from GRDDL WG
• The W4 Project – “aims at developing Standard Prolog interoperable tools for
  supporting distributed, secure, and integrated reasoning activities in the Semantic Web”
• Skippr: “The RDF Navigation Server” (proposed)
• Where is Neno/Fhat?
• Rapid Semantic Web Prototyping (and Portability)
• google-feedserver – tools for publishing legacy data with Atom Publishing Protocol
• See also : 10 Semantic Web Applications to Watch, 650 Sweet Tools

Events etc.

• SemanticCamp London, Feb 16-17 2008 at Imperial College
• 5th International Conference on Social Software and BlogTalk
  2008 – 3-4 March 2008 cool keynotes, and oor Paul
• Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval Workshop (ECIR’08), March 30th, 2008,
  Glasgow, Scotland
• Call for Demos: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, August 4th-7th,
  2008, Santa Clara, California, US
• Call for System Demos : 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC’08), 1-5 June 2008, Tenerife, Spain
• Call for Participation: 2008 IEEE International Services Computing Contest (SCContest 2008)
• Call for Book Chapters : Emergent Web Intelligence
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Calls for Papers

• Linked Data on the Web (LDOW 2008) at WWW2088, April 22, 2008, Beijing, China
• Semantic Search 2008 Workshop, June 1st 2008, Tenerife, Spain
• 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web Architectures for Enterprises (SWAE08), Turin, Italy 1-5 September 2008
• The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2008), July 13-15, 2008, Las Vegas, USA
• 21st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL’08), May 13-16, 2008, Dresden, Germany
• Social Web and Knowledge Management Workshop at WWW2008, April 22nd, 2008, Beijing, China
• International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics and
  Engineering (SOCASE), Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16, 2008
• 8th International Conference on New Technologies of Distributed Systems (NOTERE 2008), June 23-27 2008, Lyon, France
• Fifth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
  (ArgMAS 2008) Estoril, Portugal, May 12 or 13, 2008
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Part C: Applications & Reviews
• 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments (WaGe08), May 25-28, 2008, Kunming, China
• MULTICONF-08 : International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern
  Recognition (AIPR-08), Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-08), Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and
  Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08), Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08), High Performance Computing, Networking and
  Communication Systems (HPCNCS-08), Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-08), Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer
  Science (TMFCS-08)

Miscellany

• NLP finding mass audience
• Continuous context off the Shelf
• Falcons concept search for “real time control”
• Lifestreaming: a ReadWriteWeb Primer
• NewsGator, NetNewsWire and FeedDemon feed readers now free
• Bloom filters in Perl
• 1 letter taxonomy
• Command line processing with the DITA Open Toolkit
• How Google processes 20 petabytes of data each day
• Speaking of, “lying through their teeth…”
• diagrams of the day

Quote of the Week

Is it part of some deep human instinct that we take an organism as open and wild and free as the internet, and wish then to divide it into
citadels, into closed-border republics and independent city states?

– Stephen Fry, Social networking through the ages

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Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-01-07, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Video: RDFa Basics
• Podcast: Troy Lane Williams Talks with Talis about PeoplePad, Questia, and the Semantic Web
• Book: TheBig Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
• ImageMap: FOAFSpec
• Web3.0 and medicine
• following your nose to the web of data
• 2008: The Rise of Linked Data
• XML Outlook for 2008 – “The Semantic Web Becomes Real”
• Help us Win! Twine is a Finalist in the Crunchies!

Docs

• Reinventing Academic Publishing – Part III
• Data is a Commodity, or How Not to Revolutionize…, Data And The Future Of The Web, Information wants to be expensive,
• Debayeser,Scoble, Facebook, Plaxo, open data; time for change?, 2008, Facebook Data Portability, and the Giant Global Graph of Linked Data, Privacy in the Cloud, Data Portability: Scoble Right or Wrong and beyond, Told Ya So, Data Licenses for Social Network Services
• DataPortability.org, web standards, SIOC and FOAF
• Open social networks: bring back Iran
• Eventually Consistent, Eventual Consistency Is Not That Scary
• Your Data in the Cloud – URL-based computing, SimpleDB, Astoria, etc, Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008, 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008
• Resource-Type Revisited – how to refer to the IRs that URIs 303 to
• Web design 2.0 – it’s all about the resource and its URL
• It’s high time we moved to URL-based identifiers
• permalinks reloaded
• Uniqueness of Entities
• Association for Logic Programming Newsletter
• Semantic Annotation with RDFa: a simple experiment

Software News

• Sesame 2.0 final released
• JFresnel, Fresnel – displayvocabulary for RDF, Alibaba – presentation ontology and framework
• mod_sparql, Apache TripleSoup
• JenaMulgara – a bridge between the Jena API, a Java-based framework for writing Semantic Web applications and Mulgara, an RDF database, written in Java – also Jena-Mulgara: example of implementing a Jena graph
• RDF and Perl,RDF::Query updates
• Ruby client for querying SPARQL REST services
• Commandline PHP for loading RDF URLs into ARC (and Twinkle for query UI)
• OpenOffice.org, SPARQL, and the Linked Data Web
• Querying across’social graph’ fragments
• SPARQL results in spreadsheets
• Twinkling the Platform
• WordPress, FOAF, OpenID – updated
• Imagemap magic, RDFa and HTML imagemap
• Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit – libraptor for parsing and serializing RDF syntaxes (latest release 2007-10-01)
• Rasqal RDF Query Library – librasqal for executing RDF queries (latest release 2007-11-17)
• Redland RDF Library – librdf providing the RDF API and triple stores (latest release 2007-12-24) includes Raptor and Rasqal
• Redland Language Bindings for language APIs to Redland in Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby (latest release 2007-12-28)
• redland-utils (Ubuntu)
• Hoosgot exploits the wisdom of the Blogosphere crowd – LazyWeb reborn
• What’s Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008, also some RDF
• Interworking – SIP & XMPP

Calls for Papers

• Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments (WaGe08) – deadline Jan 15, 2008 – 25-28 May 2008, Kunming, China
• 3rd Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI2008), 5-6 June, 2008, Torino, Italy
• 6th European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and The Semantic Web (SSSW-2008), 6-12 July, 2008, Cercedilla (near Madrid), Spain
• Call for Workshop Proposals for IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC’08) and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce
  and E-Services (EEE ’08), July 21-24, 2008, Crystal City, Washington, DC USA
• Fifth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2008), Estoril, Portugal, 12 or 13 May 2008

Miscellany

• SNePS
• MapReduce info
• Urban Geometry
• Smart classification using Bayesian monads in Haskell
• Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster
• Microblogs and the monolingual
• Politics, Old Media, and Linked Data
• Amazon EC2: My 131 cents
• Meta Content Framework : A Whitepaper
• HTTP POST in PHP5
• Porn, Ning, and the Internet
• Hashtags Wikia Search
• Bill Gates at CES: No Web Fridges, But You Can Watch TV on Your Xbox 360

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 tags “semweb weekly” – thanks!

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Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-12-31, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL.

In the Media

• Video: The Semantic Web in 6 minutes
• Movie: Steal This Film II

Docs

• Media Types Issues for Text RDF Formats
• Federating Social Networks – The Technology
• WebFS A Fuzzy RDF Semantics to Represent Trust Metadata (pdf)
• Recommendation Based on Personal Preference (pdf)
• Web 2.0 project: RDF and uncertainty
• FIPA Communicative Act Library Specification
• GetSemantic.com – Jena
• Law and the Semantic Web
• The µ Web

Software News

• Building a Food Ontology
• Another RDF Syntax
• Announcing Hoosgot: Resurrecting the Lazyweb
• JsonT, JSONPath

Miscellany

• Australia to mandate Internet censorship
• Internet World Stats
• Don’t overestimate the power of versions
• Email And Cellphone Contacts Are The Real Social Graph
• Deconstructing Google: Chapter 4, After The Google Breakup
• Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike
• Why the Eiffel Forum License?

Quote of the Week

The true idiocy of the RIAA is that they’ve made DRM simple enough for everybody to understand why they don’t want it.

- Marc Hedlund

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Sources include Planet RDF, variousother 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 tags “semweb weekly” – thanks!

Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2007-12-24, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL. Includes some overlooked older items recommended via del.icio.us.

In the Media

• Screencast: DriftR Linked Data Browser and Editor
• Video: Fedora Commons
• December 2007 issue of the SemanticReport

Docs

• Cool URIs for the Semantic Web – Working Draft, see also Cool for cats
• W3C’s Device Description Repository Core Vocabulary Draft
• New IETF Internet-Drafts for HTTP/1.1bis (charter):
  • HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing
  • HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics
  • HTTP/1.1, part 3: Message Payload and Content Negotiation
  • HTTP/1.1, part 4: Conditional Requests
  • HTTP/1.1, part 5: Range Requests and Partial Responses
  • HTTP/1.1, part 6: Caching
  • HTTP/1.1, part 7: Authentication
• Yanel (CMS) FOAF Architecture Specification – “A decentralized unified messaging and data exchange project based on FOAF profiles“
• Ratings Ontology
• Hyperdata in Sao Paulo
• How Distinguished is Your Variable?
• Extracting and Re-using Structured Data from Wikis (pdf)
• Embedding OWL-RDFS syntax in XHTML with RDFa
• Named RDF Graphs – A Warning
• Avoid talking about mechanics
• Retrospective and Outlook for 2008
• What will 2008 mean for the Semantic Web?

Software News

• Twinkle 2.0 – SPARQL desktop GUI tool, now twinkly!
• Mozilla Weave – sharing browser data “in the cloud”
• OSocial.net – Meta Social Network
• xOperator“combines advantages of social network websites with instant
  messaging”
• rdfbus“Middleware for enabling RDF publish/subscribe payloads over XMPP and
  Stomp, based on the RDF.rb librar.”
• Fedora 3.0, beta 1 – digital object repository system
• Beatnik, picture and description
• Semantic Web Pipes
• Column-Oriented RDF Storage
• RDF export of Flickr profiles with FOAF and SIOC, Binding your flickr profile to foaf
• Colombian SPARQL Client for Python
• PHOAF – The SemNum Prototype
• Second version of Yago: more facts and entities
• LINQed Data

Events

• NLP to the rescue (SDforum event) 8th Jan, Palo Alto
• Protege-OWL Short Course, March 24-26, 2008, Stanford University
• Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2008), April 22, 2008, Beijing
• 4th Intl Workshop on Context-Aware Proactive Systems (CAPS 2008), June 16th-17th 2008, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France
• See also : Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Calls for Papers

• Eleventh International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2008), Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2008
• 6th International Workshop on Agent-Based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration (ACEC-08), Emphasis on Agent-Oriented Workflow and Services, June 23-25, 2008, Rome
• Fifth International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Oct 31st-Nov 3rd, 2008, Saarbrücken, Germany

Jobs

• R&D Position for Experienced Java Programmer, Clark and Parsia
• European Master in Computational Logic – scholarships for non-European and European students
• Research Position: Semantic Web Technologies, Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute
• Two PhD Positions on Ontology Reasoning, University of Aberdeen
• PostDoc Position on Ontology Reasoning, University of Aberdeen

Miscellany

• GraphSync challenge (RDFification required!)
• MonetDB
• Nirvanix – competitor to Amazon S3
• CommentAnywhere
• Asterpix educational videos
• FreeCulture.org – powered by Semantic MediaWiki

Quote of the Week

If you stay within RDF world, though, things seem fine.

– Tim Berners-Lee on XML namespaces and RDF

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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 tags “semweb weekly” – thanks!