I just had the pleasure of being a guest on DataPortability: In-Motion Podcast - Episode 7. Trent has show notes over there. It’s got quite a bit of discussion about the role of Semantic Web technologies in DataPortability, some argument about the role of microformats (a transitional technology, or an end in themselves?), some stuff on business aspects of the Web (not exactly my forte) a little handwaving about Talis (should have been better prepared for that - but I often forget we’re a commercial entity

Notable quote (not from me, more’s the pity):

Doesn’t matter how big you are, the Web is always bigger

The interview part is preceded by a segment on some legal aspects to DP, along with the news of MySpace and others announcing they are further opening up their systems. The news came after the interview was recorded, in case it seems strange it wasn’t mentioned.

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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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 tags “semweb weekly” - thanks!