Daddy, Are We There Yet? A Discussion with Alan Kay

The Computer Revolution [still] Hasn't Happened Yet

RestaurantRecommendation(ESW Wiki) "Many people see Restaurant Recommendation as a classic SemanticWeb use case - building community around food!"

KSL Wine Agent, a very nice Semantic Web demo which will suggest wines to go with your meal.

Includes :

• a DAML+OIL wines and food knowledge bases (soon going to
  OWL)


• DQL query language for asking questions about information
  in the knowledge base


• JTP inference engine for deducing conclusions


• Inference Web for explaining answers

Movable Type Plugin Directory

rdfds RDF Datasource Library in JavaScript (for Mozilla)

W3C Suomen toimisto Semantic Web-Web Services seminar (in Finnish, the event is in Finland)

SVG-OWL Viewer "...is a Java Application used to display OWL Ontologies using the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Format. The idea is to use the dynamic interactive nature of SVG to display ontologies so as to help understand their structure and inherent relationships better."

Google as a Knowledge Operating System - Microdoc news returns to this theme, noting Microsoft's statement of intent to compete with Google.

ps. try a search for "worst search engine" on Google (from boingboing)

O'Reilly Network: Developing Movable Type Plug-ins (Timothy Appnel)

Semantic Web for Military Users Conference "...scheduled for the 7th and 8th of May in the Washington DC area." (HotDAML Newsletter)

WAR log:implies MISERY

Common Sense Problem Page "...is a resource page for researchers who are interested in logical formalizations of commonsense reasoning. It consists primarily of a list of benchmark problems in commonsense reasoning."

esigler.2nw.net: mt-foaf - A FOAF Profile plugin for Movable Type

probably blogged before

CakeML

CogNexus Institute - paper on Wicked Problems and various Visual Argumentation material including Compendium software.

KM Summer School 2002 Review - 26 Sep 2002 Proceedings and Supplementary Proceedings available as PDFs.

W3C Semantic Web The Web Ontology Working
Group has released six Working Drafts, five in Last Call, for the OWL
Web Ontology Language 1.0, including the:

OWL

• Guide


• Overview


• Use Cases and Requirements


• Semantics and Abstract Syntax


• Reference


• Test Cases

Comments are welcome through 9 May.

c'mon Blogger!! push!!!

Mapping relationships - the next step in knowledge management? by John McDowall, who has also built a blog map visualisation tool.

Notes on logic grammars and XML Schema (C. M. Sperberg-McQueen)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine

OWL Tutorial (MS PowerPoint, zipped)

RDF3514 - foolproof security using a flag in the IP header (the evil bit).
seeAlso: whitespace programming language
Matt's Free Perl CGI Scripts (at cpan.org)
Joy of being Ito

mini-review of Content Syndication with RSS by Ben Hammersley (Dave Beckett) "In summary, it is a good introduction to the RSS technologies that I'd recommend if people are looking to get up-to-speed with RSS."

TUNES vs the WWW - "Some technologies predating the Web that W3C is trying to reinvent (badly)"

DotGNU Execution Environment release 0.1.4 : "...provides support for multi-language Virtual Machines, multi-protocol support (XML-RPC/SOAP/Jabber etc), a complete XML-RPC implementation and improved configuration and resilience."

RDF Process Profile - "...is a lightweight extensible description format for processes."

a mudman spec I put together before DAML-S came along, may be worth revisiting