IWIPS 2003 5th Annual International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems, 17-19 of July in Berlin.
(call for papers deadline is 20th Jan - be quick!)

Yet Another FOAFspace Navigator, Julian Bond :
- Based on the work Paul Baranowski did on a FOAF parser for PHP
- There's a link to the source
- The source is GPL
- It uses a fairly dumb DOM parser
- It handles all the Person properties in the http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
spec but makes only token attempts at handling other RDF
- It requires MHASH, XML-DOM, CURL extensions in PHP
- Feel free to publicise it
- Don't expect it to get fixed or even to be there at any time in the
future.

w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org from January 2003: Minutes RDF Core telco RDF Core publishes last call Working Drafts (from e-sw blog).

Image Gate "...is The New York Public Library's first full working version of its new digital image database. Image Gate provides free and open access to thousands of The New York Public Library's digitized images, taken from the Research Libraries' collections. At its inception, the Image Gate database contains approximately 80,000 images spanning a wide range of subjects."
No obvious mention of metadata, but it is searchable so there must be some somewhere...

Syndication Subscription Service : "A general syndication subscription service for RSS content consumers, RSS content producers and their middle agent: An aggregator."

No Zero Match search/browse (University of Bristol): "No Zero Match (NZM) search is a novel technology for browsing hierarchically organised information such as those found in Web directories, catalogues or any database front-end.

The NZM user interface includes a tree structure against which documents, files or database records can be associated. By allowing these documents to be associated with any number of nodes in the tree, the system provides a means of browsing a faceted classification."

Web Services Choreography Working Group Charter : "...describing linkages and usage patterns between Web services...The Choreography Working Group is strongly encouraged to provide a semantic mapping using the RDF and OWL technologies. Such a mapping will allow the information described by the choreography language to be easily combined with that of other applications."

SWAD-Europe Weblog
"A weblog for the SWAD-Europe (Semantic Web Advance Development) project, tracking work in progress and events and items of interest."

OpenCyc FAQ new draft (long), starts with:
"OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology, the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine."

Sesame RQL: a Tutorial Sesame RQL: a Tutorial
"RQL is a query language for RDF and RDF Schema, loosely based on the syntax of OQL. The idea is that if we look at one or more RDF models and schemas, we can think of them as forming a set of connected graphs. RQL offers features for navigating through that graph and selecting specific edges and nodes for retrieval."

Apache Agora - Stefano Mazzocchi (new release), relationship visualization - "The basic idea is that every time you reply to somebody's message, you are creating a social relationship between you and that person."

There's a demo applet on this site showing 3 months of traffic on various Apache mail lists, graph layout with people as nodes.

AsTMa [ AsTMa? Language Definition ] - a Topic Map query language (only a Perl CPAN module implementation so far).

TM4J, the Topic Map kit for Java, new release featuring RDB support.

oc4ware - "...provides Web community portal software in the scope of the Semantic Web initiative, making possible distributed context-sensitive online publishing and retrieval in self-organised groups of interest. It is currently useful for distributed content management and online publishing systems (Web services, online journals, etc.)."
GPL'ed.

been around a while, but don't think I've blogged it before

Graph Theory Tutorials (dated 1995, so may be some dead links)

Dynamic List (Alpha) - "Dynamic List is excellent for storing and sharing information. Create lists and outlines on the web using a web browser."

My other blog is a Raw Blog
at dannyayers.com, my new home domain

OpenMechanics.org - "...a home for Open Source projects developing business information systems infrastracture software and technologies"
- notably -
"MetaCat is a set of server application components providing services like corporate ontology storage and access and business process automation based on the corporate ontology. It's early release is scheduled in the 4th quarter of 2002." (sourceforged)

The Internet Topic Exchange - "This is the first public implementation of the Ridiculously Easy Group Forming concept. It's a central server to host TrackBack-powered channels. It's designed to let anyone effortlessly create a channel to archive pointers to information on a given topic."

PersonalWebProxy from 0xdecafbad, built around Twisted in Python, uses rdflib for metadata handling.

Guardian Unlimited - Ben Hammersley on FOAF & other cliques...

An Outsider's Guide to the W3C - FAQ - Simon St.Laurent.

fyuze search: semantic web

GEOnet Names Server "...provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature names. The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (US BGN). Approximately 20,000 of the database's features are updated monthly. "
Download Complete Files of Geographic Names for Geopolitical Areas from GNS ( ISO/IEC 10646 [UNICODE] Compliant as of 18 July 2002 )

Attack Of The Killer Web Robots - magazine article on "captchas" (completely automated public Turing tests to tell computers and humans apart)