(Via Danny Ayers.):
This Week’s Semantic Web:
"Ok, my first attempt at a round-up (in response to Phil’s
observation of Planetary damage).
Thanks to the conference there’s loads more here than there’s
likely to be subsequent weeks, although it’s still only a fairly
random sample and some of the links here are to heaps of other
resources…
Incidentally, if anyone’s got a list/links for SemWeb-related
blogs that aren’t on Planet RDF,
I’d be grateful for a pointer. PS. Ok, I forget… are there any
blogs that aren’t on Dave’s list
yet..?
Quote of the week:
In the Semantic Web, it is not the Semantic which is new, it is
the Web which is new.
- Chris
Welty, IBM (lifted from TimBL’s slides)
Events
Docs etc
- Conference highlights on the #swig chump: 2005-11-06,
-07,
-08,
-09,
-10; Ian’s
notes; John’s
resources;
Leo’s stories; Uldis’
call to action; del.icio.us/iswc2005;
flickr/iswc2005;
foaf-moblog.
- Slides from Sir TimBL’s conference keynotes: Semantic Web for the
Industry, Putting the Web back
in Semantic Web
- Daniel Weitzner’s keynote: Privacy,
Provenance, Property and Personhood
- Long-time SW researcher Stefan Decker now has a blog,
inspirationally entitled Stefan Decker on the Semantic
Web. (Stefan’s one of the head honchos at DERI). Sample snippet:
I just noticed the article from Dan Zambonini ‘Is
Web 2.0 killing the Semantic Web?‘. From my perspective the
article shows a misconception that people seems to have around the
Semantic Web: the Semantic Web effort itself is not provide
applications (like the
Web 2.0 meme indicates) - it rather provides standards to
interlink applications.
- Leigh Dodds has two pieces demonstrating neat facilities
offered by ARQ the
SPARQL query API for Java: parameterised
queries and extension
functions.
- A new W3C Working Group has been chartered: Rule Interchange Format
WG - ’ to produce a core rule language plus extensions
which together allow rules to be translated between rule languages
and thus transferred between rule systems.’. As noted by
dajobe, phase 1
includes making a new XML syntax for RDF…
-
UMBC
Semantic Web Reference Card - if you only print one thing
this year…or did you already do the SPARQL Reference
card..?
-
WebDescription - root
wiki page for collecting notes on web description languages (ESW
Wiki,
announcement)
-
Bot - IRC/Jabber chat
bots that are either in use by Semantic Web developers or use
Semantic Web technologies (ESW Wiki)
-
microformat
FAQs for RDF fans (ESW Wiki)
- W3C working draft : WSDL 2.0 - RDF Mapping
- SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System) updated drafts:
SKOS Core
Vocabulary Specification, SKOS Core
Guide
- working draft: SPARQL
Protocol for RDF Using WSDL 1.1
-
A
relational algebra for SPARQL, Note on
database layouts for SPARQL datastores (PDFs, Richard Cyganiak,
HP)
-
Amateur Fiction
Online - The Web of Community Trust A Case Study in Community
Focused Design for the SemanticWeb (PDF)
-
Building a Semantic Wiki - IEEE article. See also: SemperWiki - Semantic Personal
Wiki, WikSAR - Towards a
Semantic Wiki Experience
Software and stuff
-
Semantic Web
Challenge applications (winner: CONFOTO - congrats bengee!)
-
Piggy Bank
2.1.1 released.
-
IRIS is a semantic
desktop application framework that enables users to create a
‘personal map’ across their office-related information objects.
IRIS includes a machine-learning platform to help automate this
process. It provides ‘dashboard’ views, contextual navigation, and
relationship-based structure across an extensible suite of office
applications, including a calendar, web and file browser, e-mail
client, and instant messaging client.
(open source release due Jan 2006)
-
MKSearch - ‘A
new kind of search engine’ - RDF-backed (Sesame) with Web
crawler, extracts and indexes metadata.
-
FOAFRealm - Our goal is
to design and implement D-FOAF, a distributed authentication and
trust infrastructure without a centralised authority. D-FOAF will
be a backbone for trust applications based on social relationships
and will establish identity of users similar to the way we
establish identify and trust in real life.
- Perl Net::Flickr::RDF
- WordPress SIOC
(Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) plugin updated (just
copy wp-sioc.php
into the root of your WP install and it just works)
-
OntoMedia is
intended for the representation of heterogenous media through
description of the semantic content of that media. The
representation may be limited to the description of some or all of
the elements contained within the source or may include information
regarding the narrative relationship that these elements have both
to the media and to each other.
-
mSpace is an interaction model
to help explore relationships in information - ‘Imagine Google
on iTunes’
Blog post title of the week:
Don’t give me
that monkey-ass Web 1.0, either
- Uche Ogbuji
Also…a new threat to Semantic Web developers has been
discovered: typhoid!,
and the key to the Web’s full potential is…Tetris."
About this entry:
Author: Kingsley Uyi Idehen
Published: 11/14/2005 19:44 GMT-0500
Modified: 06/22/2006 08:56 GMT-0500
Tags: webservices , web2.0 , web20 , rdf , xml , semanticweb , foaf , sioc , skos , sparql , socialnetworking , dynamic_languages , .net
Categories: SQL , Semantic Web , Programming , Web Services (Web 2.0) , Content Syndication , XML , Web Services , Social Networking , Database Technology
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