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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 ;)

RDFa news

mhausenblas — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:41:21 +0200

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 ;)

CfP: Media Semantics Workshop at the SAM...

mhausenblas — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:09:54 +0200

Just to let you know - in case you do research in the field of media semantics, multimedia ontologies, annotation and extraction, you might want to contemplate submitting your work to one of the following workshops (collocated with SAMT07):

Knowledge Acquisition from Multimedia Content Workshop (KAMC)
Workshop on Multimedia Annotation and Retrieval enabled by Shared Ontologies (MAReSO)