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Semantic Web Company Newsletter July 29, 2009 EDITORIAL Summer Greetings! Dear Subscriber! Wherever you are at the moment - on the beach, in the woods, on the mountain, in the desert or your office - we hope you enjoy the summer and we are looking forward to give you more detailed and hand crafted news from August on. Avoid sun burn and stay tuned! With best regards, The Semantic Web Company P.S.: In the meanwhile check out Sig.ma, a cool and user-friendly linked data browser from DERI Galway.
VOICES ReadWriteWeb Interview With Tim Berners-Lee on Linked Data & beyond
SWC UPDATE First Austrian Semantic Web Meetup big success
SWC UPDATE I-SEMANTICS / I-KNOW 2009 - Call for Participation
SWC UPDATE Triplification Challenge 2009
MARKET SCAN Sig.ma - Live views on the Web of Data
MARKET SCAN New open source Semantic Web store from Garlik capable of enterprise scale
TECHNOLOGY SCAN AP Test Pilots Universal, Free-Use News Resource
TECHNOLOGY SCAN New Rule Interchange Format (W3C RIF) Standard Published
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Semantic Web technology to get update
TECHNOLOGY SCAN Edit OWL 2.0 Ontologies With New Protege 4.0
BLOG SCAN Juicing up your web pages can be sweet
BLOG SCAN Semantic Magic—Infusing Web Content With Meaning
BLOG SCAN Does Linked Data Need RDF?
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Scripting Intelligence: Web 3.0 Information, Gathering and Processing While Web 2.0 was about data, Web 3.0 is about knowledge and information. Scripting Intelligence: Information Gathering, Processing, and the Semantic Web offers the reader Ruby scripts for intelligent information management in a Web 3.0 environment including information extraction from text, using Semantic Web technologies, information gathering (relational database metadata, web scraping, Wikipedia, Freebase), combining information from multiple sources, and strategies for publishing processed information. This book will be a valuable tool for anyone needing to gather, process, and publish web or database information across the modern web environment.
Event Tip VLDB2009: 35th International Conference on Very Large Databases Monday, 24. August 2009 - Friday, 28. August 2009 VLDB is a premier annual international forum for database researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers, and users. VLDB 2009, the 35th conference in the series, will be held in Lyon, France. The conference will feature research talks, tutorials, demonstrations, and workshops. It will cover current issues in database and information systems research. Databases remain one of the technological cornerstones of emerging applications of the twenty-first century.
Event Tip Semantisches Web: Nischenprogramm oder bevorstehende Revolution? - APA ebusiness community Thursday, 27. August 2009, Vienna /Austria Die Vorteile von Semantic Web liegen auf der Hand: Inhalte werden besser strukturiert und damit leichter auffind- und kombinierbar. Auch für digitale Werbung bieten sich neue Chancen. Wie können heimische Betriebe bereits jetzt vom Semantic Web profitieren? Welche Vorbereitungen sind zu treffen, um hier mitzumischen? Wie könnten neue Ökosysteme und Geschäftsmodelle aussehen? Darüber diskutieren Expertinnen und Experten am 27. August bei einem Event der APA-E-Business-Community in Wien.
Event Tip I-KNOW: 10th Int. Conference on Knowledge Technologies Wednesday, 02. September - Friday, 04. September 2009, Graz/Austria I-KNOW '09, which is co-located with I-SEMANTICS, brings together a continuously growing community of researchers and practitioneers in knowledge management and knowledge technologies. I-KNOW ‘09 offers a forum to share innovative ideas, to learn from each other and to jointly find promising ways ahead for the future. The topics of I-KNOW ‘09 will cover most relevant aspects of knowledge management and knowledge technologies.
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The first “semantic web meetup” attracted 55 attendees
to join in for presenting, talking and socialising. Approximately
one year after the series of semantic web meetups started in NYC,
there is now also a vital community gathering in vienna. Beside
an inside view on brandnew ideas and developments of austrias semweb-labs
in presenations and lightning talks, Steve Sandhouse of New York
Times joined in via webmeeing to give an insight on NY-Times’s
Semantic Web - efforts, which have a back-history of about 100 years
now - as he explained.
Sig.ma could turn out to be the first Linked Data application for
end users. It aggregates semi-structured data from multiple sources
in an easy to browse and user-friendly way. Sig.ma is an output
of the 
An oft-repeated concern in discussing large-scale deployment of
Semantic Web ideas is that of ’scale.’ With many of
the better known data stores upon which the Semantic Web depends
capable of storing only tens or at best a few hundreds of millions
of RDF triples, it can be difficult to argue that the technology
is fit for real-world deployment at scale.
Today the Associated Press launched a digital news "microformat,"
whose objective is to synopsize the content and metadata of online
news stories. The system was developed in tandem with AP and The
Media Standards Trust. It shall be open-source, non-proprietary
and free to use by any news content producer.
The W3C Working Group working on W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF)
has recently launched a new standard for the interchange of rules.
The standard will allow systems to interoperate whether they use
different varieties of rule based languages and technologies.
With the semantic Web, more refined groupings of data is enabled.
SPARQL, considered the query mechanism for the semantic Web, has
been used in applications such as complicated mashups that query
data, said Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity lead. SPARQL Query
1.1 is part of a proposal put forward by W3C earlier this month.
The new version of SPARQL is anticipated for release in the fall
of 2010.
If you regularly run into words like "ontology" and acronyms
like OWL, then you'll be pleased to hear that Protege 4.0 has been
released. Those who aren't deeply involved in the semantic web may
not quite run to learn more, but semantic web technologies are coming
faster than you think. It's a good idea to pay at least some attention.
Richard Wallis is an inventive cove. He works for software company
Talis which is, itself, deeply into the semantic web. It describes
its team as “revolutionaries taking part in the mass liberation
of data.” It’s best known historically for its library
applications and services. Wallis has spent a few months working
on an open source project which enables anyone to slip a few lines
of source code into their web pages in order to massively widen
their access to additional information.
Razorfish is very interested in the semantic Web and the opportunities
it provides to our publishing clients. The term semantic technology
can be confusing as it includes a growing range of developments
that attempt to use structure and context to discern meaning from
content in an effort to have computers better understand data and
the relationships between the data. My colleague Rachel Lovinger
attended the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose a few weeks
ago. She sees three developments in semantic technologies (autotagging
tools, semantic search and Linked Data) that warrant publisher’s
attention right now.
The problem, I contend, comes when well-meaning and knowledgeable
advocates of both Linked Data and RDF conflate the two and infer,
imply or assert that ‘Linked Data’ can only be Linked
Data if expressed in RDF. This dogmatism makes me deeply uncomfortable,
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