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Semantic Web Company Newsletter May 25, 2010 EDITORIAL Open Knowledge Foundation launches German chapter Dear Reader! At this year's Semantic Web Day in Leipzig the German chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation has been launched. Its main objectives are to promote the idea of open knowledge by organizing events and setting up projects that deal with the availability and accessibility of open data and corresponding sources. One of their current initiatives is to provide the German version of CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network), an open registry for data and information provided mainly by governmental bodies. We wish OKF Germany all the best for its future activities and are looking forward to give you regular updates about its progress and initiatives. With best regards, Your Semantic Web Company
VOICES Eric A. Franzon: "Semantic Technologies are becoming mainstream."
VOICES Adrian Pohl: "We believe the Semantic Web plays an important role for the future of libraries."
SWC UPDATE Triplification Challenge 2010 - Extended deadline till June 14, 2010
SWC UPDATE I-SEMANTICS 2010 - Earlybird Registration has started
MARKET SCAN White House data trove celebrates first birthday
MARKET SCAN Facebook's Like button ages Google overnight
MARKET SCAN IBM Analyzes Social Network Sentiment With SPSS Modeler Upgrade
TECHNOLOGY SCAN What is Open Graph?
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Jinni Is Building A Smart ‘Taste Engine’ For Google TV!
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Chem2Bio2RDF: a semantic framework for linking and data mining chemogenomic and systems chemical biology data
BLOG SCAN The free digital lunch is over. Now we pay with our lives
BLOG SCAN Evri Shutters Twine, Launches Evri Thing Tech Android App (iPhone Is Next)
BLOG SCAN Tim Berners-Lee: new Web tech will open new opportunities
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Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies After years of mostly theoretical research, Semantic Web Technologies are now reaching out into application areas like bioinformatics, eCommerce, eGovernment, or Social Webs. The need to leverage the potential of combining information in a meaningful way in order to be able to benefit from the Web will create further demand for and interest in Semantic Web research.
Event Tip EuroITV 2010 Thursday, 09. - Saturday, 11. June 2010, Tampere / Finland
EuroITV is the leading international conference for media related to video and television. EuroITV is attended by academia and professionals from all over the world to discuss latest advances and research of media technology, HCI, media studies, and the content creation community.
Event Tip Semantic Technology Conference 2010 Monday, 21. - Friday, 25. June 2010, San Francisco
SemTech 2010 features five days of presentations, panels, tutorials, announcements, new company/product launches, and conversations. It is the only event focused on the commercialization of semantic technologies, bringing the most recognized people, knowledge, thought-leadership and innovation from the semantic community together at one location. The SemTech conference draws together over 1,000 forward-thinking technology and business leaders from around the world, representing the entire marketplace of vendors, developers, researchers, start-ups, investors and customers.
Event Tip I-Semantics 2010 - 6th Int. Conference on Semantic Systems Wednesday, 01. - Friday, 03. September 2010, Graz/Austria
With more than 400 participants every year I-SEMANTICS is one of the largest conferences in Europe in the field of semantic systems and the Semantic Web. The confernce is held concurrently with the I-KNOW Conference on Knowlede Management and Knowledge Technologies. The combination represents a unique approach bridging the gap between highly affiliated communities and complementary research fields.
Event Tip TMRA 2010 - 6th Int. Conference on Topic Maps Wednesday, 29. September - Friday, 01. October 2010, Leipzig / Germany
TMRA 2010 will be the sixth event in the annual series of international conferences on Topic Maps Research and Applications. TMRA is the advanced scientific and industrial forum whose main object is connecting the key players in the Topic Maps community.
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in 2005 the 
A group of Cologne-based libraries has taken a big step towards
open data. In an concerted action they have relased their catalogue
data for reuse on the web. Project manager Adrian Pohl comments
on the initiative and what role the Semantic Web will play for libraries
in the future.
The Triplification Challenge awards the most promising application
demonstrations and approaches built upon Linked Data. The submission
deadline has been extended till June 14, 2010. 
There may not be cake and balloons, but today marks the first anniversary
of the White House's online data retrieval system, 
Facebook's decision to change the “Fan” button to a
“Like” button, and to roll out the capability of placing
these buttons on ordinary non-Facebook web pages, has instantly
transformed the web. In the process, it has left Google's search
looking very vulnerable
IBM has just released an upgrade to the SPSS predictive analytics
tool that will enable users to analyze text gathered from social
media sources, including Twitter, Facebook, blogs, wikis and RSS
feeds. The upgrade represents a considerable advance in the SPSS
Modeler data mining and text analytics solution with abilities that
stretch as far as detecting the context of the words used. Data
from the social web can also be merged with internal data to create
even more accurate intelligence about consumers, IBM says.
Social networking site Facebook's latest API update, dubbed "Open
Graph," is generating diverse debate — about its genuine
"open"-ness, its impact on other web services, and (like
other Facebook initiatives before it) it's privacy and security
approach for users. Those issues can get conflated if not properly
addressed, however, so it is vital to take a close look at what
Open Graph is in order to make a solid critique.
By now, I’m sure you’ll be aware that Google yesterday
introduced Google TV, a platform with the potential of moving us
closer to real integration between television and the Internet.
In the blog post announcing the new platform, Google mentioned that
it has already started building strategic alliances with a number
of TV technology companies, specifically naming Jinni and Rovi in
the process.
Recently there has been an explosion of new data sources about genes,
proteins, genetic variations, chemical compounds, diseases and drugs.
Integration of these data sources and the identification of patterns
that go across them is of critical interest. Initiatives such as
Bio2RDF and LODD have tackled the problem of linking biological
data and drug data respectively using RDF
I'm an inveterate oversharer. I tweet what I eat, I blog my baby
photos, I check in on foursquare. It is second nature to me now.
But even early adopters didn't start out this way. Most of us are
resistant to new technology, and pick it up a few months, or years,
down the line, when it seems more mainstream and relevant –
and when friends seem to be using it. That never happened more dramatically
than with Facebook, which credits this "network effect"
for an exponential increase in users after its launch in 2004 to
the 500 million it is about to announce.
Linked Data is a W3C-backed movement that is all about connecting
data sets across the Web. It can be viewed as a subset of the wider
Semantic Web movement, which is about adding meaning to the Web.
However, there is some confusion in the Semantic Web community about
the crossover. To add to the confusion, there is a term called 'Open
Data' that is being bandied around too. This commonly describes
data that has been uploaded to the Web and is accessible to all,
but isn't necessarily "linked" to other data sets.
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