The CERES Thesaurus Effort includinig RDF Thesaurus descriptor standard

developerWorks: XML zone : Tip: Using generators Streamlining DOM XML processing with Python.

Uche Ogbuji says (on xml-dev) "...Python 2.x has continuations (somewhat hidden, but they're there, aka a non-LIFO control regime). No other language in non-research use has that except Scheme...Generators+XML rock the park".

Lexonomy | A Taxonomy Primer Amy J.Warner.

If you want just want something a bit more colourful involving trees, see the Sopranos Family Tree in Flash. This should be SVG...

anil dash - archives - Blogger has been hacked Semantic Weblog panics...

xml-dev archive Semantic Web verse...

This is a website about SVG Scalable Vector Graphics. Robert A. DiBlasi, motto "We all learn by sharing what we know". Includes Getting Batik to work.

A Reptuation Systems (RDF) for the Web, RSS, and P2P Networks Kevin Burton. A work in progress, currently (in the writeup) at the specification stage. seeAlso: Decentralized Meta-Data Strategies.

hmm - seeAlso is handy in blogs, what would be a neat way of entering it manually that would be easy to machine read/scrape...

Glass Bead Game "... is a (Nobel prize winning) novel by HermannHesse. It is also the key image in that novel: a game played by associating ideas around which an entire society is built." (c2.com wiki entry)

This phrase/title seems to be cropping up more and more frequently, so I thought I'd have a closer look.

"There were for a while a few attempts to use the web as a medium for game playing: a "move" would be a URL, more or less..."

seeAlso : Hip Bone Games, played on, like, a circuit board...

Letters to Dr. Dobb's Online Jan Theodore Galkowski : "...to me, it seems that without Semantic Web, or something very similar, XML and its kin will have a brief day in the hot sun and come crashing to the ground..."

JOHO - June 26, 2002 - David Weinberger, Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization. A skeptic! - "The basic problem with the Semantic Web is that it doesn't scale...as a social phenomenon."
(Just below this piece there's a hand signal for 'sorry!' - nice idea ;-)

The Next Killer App in EducationAn Interview with Michigan's Carl Berger. Currently researching, but expect wireless, semweb, collaboration. Useful phrase used : "WINWINI" means "what I need when I need it."

Amygdalais open-source software for simulating spiking neural networks. spiking NNs more closely model the behaviour of biological NNs. Neural Nets FAQ - from comp.ai.neural-nets, in 7 parts.

Judge: Disabilities Act doesn't cover Web - Tech News - CNET.com A federal judge ruled Friday that Southwest Airlines does not have to revamp its Web site to make it more accessible to the blind. "To expand the ADA to cover 'virtual' spaces would be to create new rights without well-defined standards...".
So can we ignore all this 'virtual' copyright theft stuff then?

Folding@Home publications - research papers from the folks that have just had success using SETI-like distributed computing to work out molecular biology problems. The results page has some nice pictures, but journal embargo rules mean that their latest results aren't yet available online.

Search engine blog "...the world is now chock full of search engine blogs...". Heh.

A know thyself article linked from there : self-googling, but on this topic semwebber sbp takes the biscuit : 100 Greatest Britons According to Google - "If I had been nominated [note to self: more business cards needed], I would have been 84th, between King Edward I and Steven Redgrave. ". I really hope he used a script for that...

Seb's Open Research - KM related blog, emphasis on communities, social aspects, found on Seth's blog.

Promising looking list Group Forming has just been set up by Seb and others : "...we're having a stab at reverse-engineering the process of social clustering and we'll try to invent dream tools to make it ridiculously easy...".

ERCIM News No.51, October 2002 Special edition : Semantic Web. Great cover.

Check out the survey responses to timbl & em's piece.

Acknowledge Shake Hands system nice foaf-based system from Masahiro Hamasaki.

RSS Validator from Mark Pilgrim & Sam Ruby is up and running, I think Mark had a couple of very intensive days correcting not-obvious problems (like commas in URLs) after they went live. Today only Vote for your favorite "Valid RSS" banner!

Ps. Not sure where the logo went, but a bit additional info : the code's open source, written in Python & will run locally - see
about. Also - SOAP is on the way (woo-hoo!!).

Job! in the Knowledge Media Institute (uk) for a Research Fellow: Semantic Web Technologies.

There's some really good work being done there, loads of semweb-related project on the site.

As We May Think by Vannevar Bush, the classic from 1945. ""There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things."

Do you care about thinking? - "Minciu Sodas" (apologies, I don't know how to do Lithuanian characters). Remarkable.

Weaving Meaning: The Semantic Web slides from Eric Miller's presentation at DC2002.

A mighty fine presentation it was too! I've still not had chance to type up my minimal notes from the day I had there, but in the meantime I'll point to some of the key references in the next few days.

XSV - XML Schema Validator, new release. Either use online or download (Python, GPL). "The basic framework of schema checking and instance schema-validation is implemented. Many details of both are not yet filled in."

Haystack - still no sign of a download for this RDF-based PIM, but there are quite a few new docs, and a promising-looking screenshot (on the front page).

SW Wiki - still empty :-(

Benjamin Grosof's home page colleague of TimBL on DAML, bringing RuleML into the semweb equation. Projects include "Rules Knowledge Representation Technologies, especially for Semantic Web Services" and "Business Implications of Semantic Web Service". Not a great deal to read about these here yet, but there is a paper "Representing E-Business Rules for the Semantic Web: Situated Courteous Logic Programs in RuleML".

"Situated Courteous Logic Programming" (SCLP) - declarative logic programs with negation-as-failure, (limited) classical negation, prioritized conflict handling, and disciplined procedural attachments for queries and actions.

In practice? Sweetjess : DamlRuleML inference using Jess (Semantic WEb Enabling Technlogies for Jess, the Java Expert System Shell).

What, Exactly, Is XDocs? - Mary Jo Foley : "XDocs is a forms application and soon-to-be new member of the Microsoft Office family"..."the company's trial balloon Web services client"..."a smart client is the fat PC desktop revisited"...

Blogitors note:I've got the archives back, link on right, so I've reduced the number of posts currently visible to ten. Also tidied up a bit, but still not got valid HTML. Any opinions on this (or anything else) please mail me.

blue sky: miscellaneous Intertwingle notes @ mozilla, "Intertwingle can be seen as a unification of a search tool and an address book. It is not, however, a mail reader."

Nexist Wiki is an engineering prototype that couples the salient features of two technologies: WikiWiki and IBIS (Issue Based Information Systems, which is a way of mapping conversation based on questions, ideas, and arguments. See Dialog Mapping)

Ftrain: Semantic Web 44 links and 3 sub-categories. FTrain : RDF 5 links and 2 sub-categories. Great stuff from Paul Ford, worth seeing just for the site navigation. Strangely, some his pages are dated Monday, 1 Jan 2001, and his intro post says "Sunday, 11 Aug 1974. I have much to learn.".

Yahoo! Search Results for "Web Blog" heehee - just noticed this in the referrals. Well of course this blog is more significant than Boing Boing, Scripting News, Movable Type, Eatonweb etc etc...

Open Source Applications Foundation "The product, which is central to the whole undertaking, is a new take on the Personal Information Manager. It will handle email, appointments, contacts and tasks, as well as be used to exchange information with other people, and do it all in the spirit of Lotus Agenda..." only using Python & RDF. some familiar names involved. (Quote from Mitch Kapor's blog, link down on the right).

They aim to take on Outlook ;-)

Querying and transforming RDF RDFPath etc, a year or so old, from Stefan Kokkelink (it seems I'm already subscribed to the mailing list, but I don't recall this material)

ABC Metadata Model Constructor"...is a pure java RDF based tool that allows construction of, storage of, and experimentation with ABC models."

Semantic Web for Austrian Research and Technology Information Systems : Multimedia Extended. (Seems a little out of date).

Guardian Unlimited - Noam Chomsky very brief web-related interview.

FRAMEWORK 6 - some info on the European research funding programme that I believe certain semweb groups are hoping to take advantage of.

www.xmethods.net another WS (mostly SOAP) hub with RSS 0.91 feed.

salcentral web service directory/brokerage that operates peer-to-peer. Links to DTDs for their hub & node xml docs. There is also an hourly updated RSS 0.91 feed for new (WSDL & SOAP) services. Why not RDF?!

Xopus.org "Xopus is a browser based in-place wysiwyg XML editor. Xopus allows users to edit their XML data in an intuitive word processor alike way."