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Incomplete Web ... Wrap-Up

mhausenblas — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:26:08 +0200

Earlier today I posted over on O’Reilly’s net regarding the current Web being incomplete without the Web of Data. Quite a couple of people commented on it (thanks, btw) both on the blog and on #swig. Ah. And not to forget: The issue really was about that the Web of Data is a fundamental part of the Web and hence I don't worry too much what label we put on the jar ;)

RDFa is Candidate Recommendation

mhausenblas — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:26:09 +0200

So, yesterday it became reality ;) XHTML+RDFa is finally a W3C Candidate Recommendation (CR) - more details available from the W3C news page.

In case you have an RDFa implementation ready, please let us know.

Semantic Multimedia Web Tutorial at WWW0...

mhausenblas — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:31:13 +0200

Raphael and Lynda (both CWI) gave a nice tutorial at the WWW08: A Semantic Multimedia Web - Create, Annotate, Present and Share your Media.

RDFa Wiki available

mhausenblas — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:34:27 +0100

http://rdfa.info/wiki/RDFa_Wiki is online - check it out! Many thanks to Ben and CC ;)

Tom on uF authoring

mhausenblas — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:16:46 +0100

Tom Heath has written on uF authoring. Really good points, there ;)

The Semantic Web Command Line

mhausenblas — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:28:14 +0100

Ever have wondered if there is something around like a command line for the Semantic Web? An online tool that allows you load and query a range of data sources? Well, peradventure Benjamin Nowack has developed a tool, called SPARQLBot, that does all this. It is really great. You launch your favourite IRC client (I use Hydra IRC) and then you (or a SPARQL geek near to you) defines a command that does something useful. Pull in some data, query it, smush it, etc.

Check it out! Play around with it. Experience how to instant-integrate data source on an RDF-basis. You will enjoy it. An example may better illustrate it: Imagine you've joined the #sparqlbot channel at irc:irc.freenode.net; you query for news (from an RSS channel):

mhausenblas>sparqlbot, load <FEEDURI>
mhausenblas>sparqlbot, news about XXX

What happens in the background is that the feed gets loaded into the store, and the command triggers a SPARQL query:

SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?o WHERE {
?item a rss:item ; ?p ?o .
FILTER REGEX(?o, "$1", "i")
}

Isn't that great? I experienced it today. It really rocks :) You can add your own commands (given some basic SPARQL knowledge) and extend the bot's intelligence. Not to mention that this nice tool (being based on ARC2) even understands RDFa - very nice, indeed (try also the 'sw faq command'). However, the name SPARQLBot is to modest, IMHO. It is THE Semantic Web command line!

riese launched!

mhausenblas — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:20:19 +0100

So finally we did it: Today we released the alpha version of riese, the 'RDFizing and Interlinking the EuroStat Data Set Effort'. Deploying linked-data using XHTML+RDFa is quite a new idea. We combined it with what we call User Contributed Interlinking, i.e. let user add semantic links in a Wiki-style manner. Check it out!

Btw, thanks Danny for your nice post on riese :)

A great RDFa video tutorial ...

mhausenblas — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:42:43 +0100

... by Manu Sporny (CEO Digital Bazaar, Inc.), available at YouTube: RDFa Basics. Thanks a lot!

Linked Data Browser + Screencast

mhausenblas — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:37:30 +0100

Bengee has announced the Linked Data Browser/Editor (along with a great screencast)- another important piece in knowee, available soon. Check it out!

Interactive Videos

mhausenblas — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:26:10 +0100

Check out http://www.asterpix.com/!

Cool RDFa Tutorial

mhausenblas — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:54:45 +0100

Fabien, you're simply the best: Your RDFa tutorial rocks!

Linked Data on the Web Workshop @ WWW08

mhausenblas — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:14:27 +0100

The goal of the LDOW08 workshop (at WWW08, April 22, 2008
Beijing, China) is to provide a forum for the Linked Data community, in which participants can:

present and discuss approaches to publishing Linked Data on the Web;
showcase innovative applications that consume Linked Data;
shape the agenda and identify upcoming research issues for the next development stage of the Web of Data.

Deadline: 2008-01-28

SPARQL out!

mhausenblas — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:45:19 +0100

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 :)

The Need for Semantics in Social Network...

mhausenblas — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:54:02 +0100

John Breslin and Stefan Decker have written an excellent article: The Future of Social Networks on the Internet: The Need for Semantics (in IEEE IC) - check it out!

Microsoft, RDF & OWL

mhausenblas — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:25:11 +0200

Thanks to Danny I learned today that Microsoft and RDF have (from now on) more than the literal 'r' in common: In their Interactive Media Manager MS starts to utilise RDF and OWL ... I really gotta figure out what for ;)