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Semantic Web Company Newsletter 19 November, 2008 EDITORIAL Web Awareness Barometer 2008 - please particpate! Dear reader! This year, which is already beginning to draw to a close, has seen many exciting developments on the Semantic Web, in particular in the area of Linked Data. But, as past technological evolutions have shown: many innovations that researchers and experts get excited about today, won't even have entered the market the day after tomorrow. This is why we would like to know how you feel about the state of the Semantic Web in 2008: Please participate in our survey "Web Awareness Barometer 2008" - this is not only an excellent opportunity to give feedback to science and development, but also your chance to win a set of two tickets for the i-Know / i-Semantics conference which is going to take place in Graz in September 2009 (value: about € 700). The survey is conducted by the Semantic Web Company in cooperation with Know-Center Graz and the work group Corporate Semantic Web at the Dept. of Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin. Please take the survey - your participation contributes to gaining a better understanding of the potentials and barriers for the application of new web technologies. With best regards, The Semantic Web Company
VOICES DYONIPOS: "Using server AND client-side resources for building a knowledge-base.
VOICES Mike Bergman & Sören Auer: "DBpedia, UMBEL & the Future Web’s Ecology"
SWC UPDATE Web Awareness Barometer 2008: collaboration Partners
SWC UPDATE "Towards a personal, decentralised web"
SWC UPDATE Short Semantic MediaWiki Tutorial
SWC UPDATE SWC is hiring!
MARKET SCAN Twine is now open to the public
MARKET SCAN AdaptiveBlue launches 'Glue'
MARKET SCAN ReFind - ResearchGATE's next generation search engine
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Freebase launches RDF service
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Winners in the Semantic Web Challenge
TECHNOLOGY SCAN RDFa now a W3C Recommendation
BLOG SCAN Wittgenstein and the fundamental error of most "semantic" technologies
BLOG SCAN Tired of Google's Shell Game?
BLOG SCAN Cross-Pollination: Science and Design
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This volume contains the proceedings of I-SEMANTICS ’08, a forum for the exchange of latest scientific results in the areas of semantic systems research, social software, knowledge engineering, semantic content engineering, folksonomies and Semantic Web for collaboration. 25 high quality papers were accepted for inclusion in the conference proceedings of I-SEMANTICS, which has now been published as a free download.
Event Tip USAB 08 - Usability & HCI for Education and Work THU, 20 NOV - FRI, 21 NOV 2008, Graz, Austria The 4th Usability Symposium of the Austrian HCI "UE Group in Graz (Austria) seeks to promote closer collaboration between engineers, researchers and teaching professionals.
Event Tip VoCamp Galway 2008 THU, 25 NOV - WED, 26 NOV 2008, Galway, Ireland VoCamp is a series of informal events where people can spend some dedicated time creating lightweight vocabularies/ontologies for the Semantic Web/Web of Data. The emphasis of the events is not on creating the perfect ontology in a particular domain, but on creating vocabs that are good enough for people to start using for publishing data on the Web.
Event Tip International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2008) MON 1 - FRI 05 DEC 2008, Sydney, Australia Service oriented computing is an emerging cross-disciplinary paradigm for distributed computing that is changing the way software applications are designed, architected, delivered and consumed. ICSOC'08 builds on the success of previous conferences in this series, establishing bridges between established and new service research and applications communities and fostering cross-community scientific excellence.
Event Tip WI2008: Web Intelligence Conference TUE, 9 DEC - FRI, 12 DEC 2008, Sydney, Australia The 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-08) has been recognized as a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence and advanced Information Technology (IT) on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities. It is one of the most important as well as promising IT research fields in the era of Web and agent intelligence.
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In September 2008, Austrian research project '
The Linked Open Data infrastructure is in a rapid process of maturing - the recent release of UMBEL’s webservice and
DBpedia's incorporation of UMBEL classes are yet another confirmation of this exciting process. Andreas Blumauer
In spring 2008, Know-Center Graz and the Semantic Company offically
became competence partners. Now, in autumn, SWC and Know-Center
have joined forces with the work group Corporate Semantic Web, Freie
Universität Berlin, in the realization of the Web Awareness Barometer
2008, a survey which aims to uncover the current state of information
and awareness regarding the uses and areas of application of Social
Software and Semantic Web technologies. The 
On the occasion of the recent publication of our book, Social Semantic Web, we have created an 
Radar Networks' social knowledge community 
What used to be a semantically-rich web application providing contextual
information, AdaptiveBlue, has now been made into a browser plugin
and renamed '
As a scientific network, 
At this year's International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in Karlsruhe,
Metaweb Technologies' co-founder John Giannandrea announced the
launch of an RDF service on 
This year's 
XHTML or RDF? Don't think of these as two irreconcilable options:
RDFa was developed as a means to annotate XHTML with semantics,
in order to be able to extract RDF from XHTML. On October 14, RDFa
officially became a W3C recommendation, and its syntax is now 
Inspirational and insightful for those who seek to get the message of the Semantic Web out into the world,
Jürgen Geuter discusses what he considers the "
Is Google going to support the Semantic Web or not? Getting tired
with what he considers a "shell game", David Provost's
approach to figuring out what is going to happen is scanning Google's
hiring pages: "My take is that the search terms have either
been scrubbed from the posting results, scrubbed from the job descriptions,
or Google just isn't hiring anyone with competencies in the nine
areas searched on above. I find this last point unlikely for any
forward looking company whose reason for being is the Web itself."
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