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Semantic Web Company Newsletter 18 September, 2008 EDITORIAL Web of Data - now and in 2009 Dear reader! About 500 participants from 22 countries made their way to this year's TRIPLE-I conference in Graz, which we had jointedly organized with Know Center Graz. Semantic web and semantic technologies were of course a big topic in the I-SEMANTICS track - yet I was pleasantly surprised about the high awareness of the Linking Open Data Movement in the general audience. Tom Heath from Talis gave a brilliant key note about Humans and the Web of Data. It was also a prelude to the announcement of the winners of the Triplification Challenge, which was personally patroned by Tim Berners-Lee and the W3C. First prize winner Mariano Consens from the University of Toronto took the opportunity to present the Linked Movie Data Base which he and fellow researcher Oktie Hassanzadeh had created as a practical application of Linked Data on the web. Next year's event is going to take place on September 2-4, 2009 and is going to feature the second edition of the Triplification Challenge. If you don't wish to wait that long. join us on October 22-23, 2008 in Vienna for the Web of Data Practitioners Days, where further information about the Challenge and the Linked Data initiative will be provided. With best regards, The Semantic Web Company
VOICES Yves Raimond: "Finding vegetarian music using the web of data"
VOICES Richard Cyganiak: "A growing data commons from meaningful bits and pieces"
SWC UPDATE SWC Open Seminars start mid-October
Open Seminars in October (Language: German) English seminars are offered exclusively as inhouse seminars. Please contact us to discuss your needs.
SWC UPDATE TRIPLE-I Blog- and Vlogathon
SWC UPDATE SWC sponsors Web of Data Practitioners Days
MARKET SCAN A World Wide Web Foundation to separate rumours from science
MARKET SCAN Will Google users have a voice in search?
MARKET SCAN Cogito: the next rumoured Google killer
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Fotonauts a "gorgeous Photopedia"
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Largest semantic map of English language released?
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Metadata bring order to digital chaos
BLOG SCAN Giving the Semantic Web a good name
BLOG SCAN The Semantic Web will arrive, says educator
BLOG SCAN What the Semantic Web can learn from Open Hypermedia
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Event Tip Digitale Soziale Netze MON 8 - SAT 13 SEP 2008, Munich, Germany This workshop on digital social networks will have a look at new form of collaboration enabled by social software and examine issues such as privacy, data protection and identity, ubiquitous access, interoperability and data exchange, media presence in open and semi open forums and related sociological phenomena.
Event Tip KI 2008 THU, 23 SEP - FRI, 26 SEP 2008, Kaiserlautern, Germany KI 2008 brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The technological track of KI 2008 comprises paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and tutorials and is highlighted by a number of invited talks from different research areas.
Event Tip WOD-PD 2008 | Web of Data Practitioners Days WED, 22 OCT - THU, 23 OCT 2008, Vienna, Austria The Web of Data Practitioners Days is a new application-oriented event for Semantic Web practitioners and interested newcomers. In a cooperative effort, four major Austrian institutions, which have actively been conducting research in that area throughout the past years, will set the stage for this event.
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One strand of Yves Raimond's research is dedicated to metadata for
musical resources and music retrieval on the web of data. In our
interview, he explains why it is now crucial for music labels to
open up their catalogue, and how music recommendation sites like
Last.fm could benefit from Linked Open Data. Together with Keith
Alexander from Talis, he is going to host the introductory session
of the 
Richard Cyganiak, a researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research
Institute (DERI) in Galway, talks about the benefits of semantic
web indices, data dictionaries and the Linked Data initiative, which
he sees as a "return to what the Semantic Web should have been
about all along - facilitating exchange and re-use of data on a
world-wide scale."
The Semantic Web Company's Open Seminars give participants a head-start
on using Social Web, Semantic Web and text mining in business environments,
e.g. in the implementation of search engines, expert finders, knowledge
management and recommender systems. 
As a mediator between the industry and the world of academia, the
Semantic Web Company is proud to be a sponsor of the 
At the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation, its co-creator,
founder of the WWW and ideator of the Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee,
expressed his concern about the increasing difficulty to separate
rumours from science. Berners-Lee's specifically adressed the use
of the web to propagate fear that CERN's Large Hardon Collider could
create a Black Hole that would swallow the planet. Part of the 
PC World reports about a test run by Google last year that let people
re-rank and remove search engine results and comment on them: "Implementing
these features permanently would be a major step for Google in giving
more participation to its users in influencing the process of ranking
and evaluating search results." Is Google ready for the big step?
Whenever a semantic search engine draws the attention of IT media,
the first question is: "Will it beat Google?" - see 
A private beta version of photo sharing platform 
Svetlana Gladkova reports that Cognition, creators of a Natural
Language Processing (NLP) technology, have released a semantic map
of the English language said to be the largest such map at the moment,
comprising more than 536,000 word senses. Semantic maps are the
foundation of any NLP system. 
Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology
(IDMT) in Ilmenau presented three technologies to generate and manage
meta data for multimedia content at the International Broadcast
Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam. The "Digital Music Finder"
retrieves and recommends music based on track properties; a technology
for Voice/music distinction allows to assess the amount of musical
content, e.g. in a TV program; the "VideoID Manager" helps
tidying up video collections. 
Greg Boutin has many missions: One of them is to redeem the Semantic
Web of the "strange name" it has acquired in the industry. To do
so, he put together a portfolio of things to learn or to look at
in order to "
Jason
Ohler, a technology educator from Alaska, writes about the possible
impact of the Semantic Web on three different areas within the eductional
arena: knowledge construction, personal learning network (PLN) maintenance,
and personal educational administration. Will the Semantic Web fully
arrive? "Absolutely, not due to forces of digital determinism, but
because of what MIT computer scientist Michael Dertouzos called
'the ancient human in each of us'.” 
Dave Millard is a Lecturer of Computer Science at the University
of Southampton, UK. Considering the failure of Open Hypermedia (OHP),
he takes stock of the lesson to be learned for the Semantic Web:
"Like Open Hypermedia, many Semantic Web developers have fallen
into the trap of forcing their model down into the system implementation
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