Science Friday - Tim Berners-Lee. TV Channel? what's a TV? is there a Semantic TV ?

0xDECAFBAD: What the frell is the Semantic Web

Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit version 0.9.6 released. "Raptor is the RDF Parser Toolkit for Redland and currently consists of two parsers: RDF/XML and N-Triples. Raptor is designed to work efficiently when used with Redland but is entirely separate. " It's in C, but interfaces are available from all the usual languages.

El Planeta Accesible William Loughborough's Semantic Web-based Accessible Planet material, en Espa�ol.

Open Content Syndication directory format for describing available channels. Tidied up last month to make it valid RDF and closer to RSS 1.0. hmm - just wanted to check how big XMLTree had got, it has an OCS list but it appears to be down

Grit Denker is apparently working on a DAML tab for Protege which was due any time now. In the meantime there are some interesting, diverse papers available from her page.

seeAlso: SRI's DAML Project, which links to more research resources and a time ontology expressed as first order logic with textual exposition textual exposition = annotated! and a RDF Schema.

seeAlso: quite a bit of material on DAML-S and a pile of other ontologies, including stuff that looks like a DAML representation of foaf terms.

Web Services Description Requirements - last call for review - period ends on 31 December 2002.

XML.com: Make Your XML RDF-Friendly, by Bob DuCharme & John Cowan.

BuddySpace - Enhanced Presence Management for Collaboration, Learning, and Gaming. Jabber-based. They're also working on the semantic side : "...the actual meaning of a person s presence status is a topic of great interest."

Claimaker knowledge modeling tool from Scholarly Ontologies "ClaiMaker enables you to model the claims made by research documents, and the arguments/debates about those claims. Initial visualization and analysis tools enable you to navigate and analyse the claims network." Executive Summary.

seeAlso: Visualizing Internetworked Argumentation, preprint of a forthcoming book.

BrownSauce RDF Browser another wondertool from Damien Steer.

The Semantic Dead



I guess the biggest database of dearly departed will be the Latter-Day Saint's :
LDS Resources: Genealogy

International Symposium of Visualisation of the Semantic Web, July 2003, University of London.

A Guide to SNARK "SRI's New Automated Reasoning Kit, is a theorem prover intended for applications in artificial intelligence and software engineering ... an automated theorem-proving program being developed in Common Lisp. Its principal inference rules are resolution and paramodulation."

Now open source (Mozilla license) - download.

Suggested Upper Merged Ontology, including browser & DAML version.

AmphetaDesk News Agrregator/Reader 0.93.1 release. Quite a lot of improvements/fixes (maybe should have been v0.94?) - "... works on Windows 95 and Macintosh OS 7-9", "AmphetaDesk can now optionally parse the 'coffee mug' icon that is often shown on Radio Userland produced websites".

Security Update : "URLs are now checked for funny business."

Interview with Andrew Watt on SVG, XForms, XQuery etc.

Googlism - nice use of the API :

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  semantic web is not html web
  
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  semantic web is metadata web"
  
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  semantic web is not artificial intelligence
  
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  semantic web is the abstract representation of data on the world wide web
  
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  semantic web is really data that is processable by machine
  

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SIGMOD Record Special Issue Dec 2002 Semantic Web, Database Management and Information Systems (downloadable)

Latest on DAML Rules. See also presentations on RuleML, material from Benjamin Gosof & Harold Boley. See also...Description Logic Programs, Combining Logic Programs with Description Logic, (with Ian Horrocks) which provides in particular KR theory for RuleML rules on top of OWL/RDFS ontologies.

Plenty of weekend reading...what day is it?

SVG Demos (using servlets, ASP, JSP, XSLT) from SVG Unleashed

Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus - very nice!

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | The next stepTimBL in the Guardian.

dynamicobjects spaces PIM

mozdev.org - jslib: libraries/rdf/rdf Javascript RDF classes for Mozilla.

seeAlso Jim Ley's RDF Javascript, including parser & graphical editor (using SVG).

Web Ontology Language (OWL) Test Cases Working draft.

Seasonal stuff : Halloween Documents Microsoft's leaked analysis of Open Source from 1998.

HttpAndTheSemanticWeb on the RESTwiki. Among plenty of other good material, Jeff Bone's piece on LindaAndTheWeb is certainly worth a look.

The REST folks talk of a small number of verbs (GET, POST etc) and a large number of nouns (URLs). What effect will a large number of adjectives & adverbs (rdf:Property etc) have?

Freenet version 0.5 released. "Freenet is a large-scale peer-to-peer network which pools the power of member computers around the world to create a massive virtual information store open to anyone to freely publish or view information of all kinds."

Find - search tool for local machine & web, in beta.

JADE the Java Agent DEvelopment Framework. Middleware that follows the FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents) specs. An RDF codec for JADE has been available for a year or so, but I can't find any recent developments in this direction.

Also from Parma University amongst quite a lot of other interesting things COMMA (Corporate Memory Management through Agents) - merging multi-agent systems, XML, RDF formats, machine learning techniques.

ZedneWeb: Thread Description Language an RDF vocabulary for describing threaded discussions. Somewhat related to the IBIS vocabulary I'm currently working on...