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SPARQL out!
SPARQL, the query language for the Semantic Web is a W3C Proposed Recommendation, finally.
Kudos to Eric, Kendall, Lee, Elias and everybody who made it possible :)
RDFa news
As Mark pointed it out on his blog: RDFa is about to lift-off! Quick links:
- The RDFa Primer, and
- The RDFa Syntax
Take a look at it and start playing around ;)
GRDDL is a Recommendation!
Congrats to Dan Connolly and the GRDDL WG. Today the Semantic Web Activity News announced the GRDDL Recommendation status; see also:
- GRDDL TR (http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-grddl-20070911/)
- GRDDL Test Cases (http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-grddl-tests-20070911/)
- GRDDL service (http://www.w3.org/2007/08/grddl/)
Semantic Web tutorial
RDFa applications
Two new RDFa applications are available:
- Ben has announced a new Bookmarklets and RDFa Web Clipboard;
- I've put an alpha version of a FOAF-RDFa generator, called FOAFr, online.
Check it out ;)
RDFa news
W3C: Questionnaire on JavaScript-RDF APIs
W3C prepares for Scripting for the Semantic Web:
The W3C Semantic Web Activity is considering whether to propose further work specifying a standard Applications Programming Interface (API) for people writing Semantic Web applications in Javascript running in browsers. Before engaging, possibly, in drafting a charter to be then submitted to W3C members, W3C would like to solicit input from the developers' community. An interactive questionnaire was therefore set up at:
http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/semweb-js-api/
to collect community input. W3C would appreciate if interested developers filled the questionnaire to promote consensus on this issue.
BTW: The 3rd Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web is colocated with ESWC 2007. June 6 or 7, 2007 Innsbruck, Austria.
Call For Participation: Programmers interested in SW project...
Quoting Kjetil Kjernsmo from the W3C SWEO IG
Many of you probably know allready, but I hope to spread this as widely as possible:
In the Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group, we decided that an important part of spreading SW is to create useful applications that can make a difference to a lot of people, and so, we came up with this:
http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects
The goal is to gather programmers allready interested in semweb
technology around a few projects. It is not a competition, like the Semantic Web Challenge, we just want to get the great minds together.
Please propose projects and spread the questionnaire to others that may be interested.
RDF in HTML and Microformats
When Seth states that "[...] Microformats have succeeded here, allowing me to very easily embed metadata into XHTML.", I'd like to reply: You can virtually embed RDF into (X)HTML using RDFa; just as easy as that + you get: multiple Vocs in one place via namespaces, one-tool-for-all-formats, etc.
Want to try out? Go have a look at RDFa bookmarklets.
RDFa Use Cases
In the W3C RDF-in-HTML task force, we now establish use cases for RDFa.
