Nodalities (blogs.talis.com) - May’s Semantic Web Gang show was just published, and features a good discussion with Dr Barney Pell, CTO of Powerset. Powerset launched a public beta at the start of this week, and Barney shares some of the company’s experiences of a week in the public eye. Have a listen; it’s a good’un. Bi ... More

Thinking Space (yihongs-research.blogspot.com) - As you may know, Thinking Space is a place we discuss World Wide Web related topics. Very rarely I post other topics beyond this theme. But this time, I have to do so for the recent massive 7.9-magnitude earthquake at SiChuan province, China. Tens of thousands people have been dead and more are inju ... More

TechnicaLee Speaking (www.thefigtrees.net) - I'll be heading to SemTech this weekend and am looking forward to meeting a lot of new people and seeing a lot of familiar, friendly faces. I'm particularly excited about the presentation that I'll be giving on Wednesday morning. In conjunction with Brand NIemann of the U.S. EPA, I'll be demonstrati ... More

Talking with Talis (talk.talis.com) - In our latest podcast I talk with Kingsley Idehen, President and CEO of OpenLink Software. We discuss OpenLink's approach, and the role that semantic technologies play in this, before turning to a broader discussion of Linked Data; a movement with which Kingsley has been closely involved. Listen N ... More

Nodalities (blogs.talis.com) - In our latest podcast I talk with Kingsley Idehen, President and CEO of OpenLink Software. We discuss OpenLink’s approach, and the role that semantic technologies play in this, before turning to a broader discussion of Linked Data; a movement with which Kingsley has been closely involved. During ... More

Kingsley Idehen's Blog Data Space (www.openlinksw.com) - Nova Spivack has just penned a post titled: On the Difference Between "Semantic" and "Semantic Web", where he covers the fundamental difference between "Semantic" (what I call "Semantics Inside") and "Semantic Web" applications. I would like to extend the distinctions further by adding the "Linked ... More

Minding the Planet (novaspivack.typepad.com) - This is a brief post with one purpose: to clarify the meaning of the term "semantic." It has suddenly become chic to label every new app as somehow "semantic" but what does this mean really? Are all... ... More

Semantic DataBase (semanticdb.blogspot.com) - Sounds like the most difficult question we faced so far? In Today's world we are relied on google so much that we are not in a position to think that we can have a day at work without using google search and also that there is a better search engine than google. Google has created so much hype aroun ... More

Minding the Planet (novaspivack.typepad.com) - Our present day search engines are a poor match for the way that our brains actually think and search for answers. Our brains search associatively along networks of relationships. We search for... ... More

Online Ontology Visualisation (ontologyonline.blogspot.com) - There is an update to the jOWL javascript library. Version 0.2 contains: A TreeView component (see jOWL page for a demo) in jOWL_UI.Numerous code improvements.Can be downloaded at the google project page for jOWL. jOWL is a jQuery dependent javascript library that loads and reasons over OWL documen ... More

BNode (www.bnode.org) - A couple of days ago I created an RDFa technology button, and I was asked to share it, so here it is: (PNG, GIF, SVG source file) Please see the W3C Semantic Web Logos and Policies page for license details. This button is derived from the original W3C ones. ... More

Thinking Clearly (clarkparsia.com) - Today we announced two big changes to our commercial support plans: We increased coverage to include several new productsWe decreased prices across all four support levels We’re expanding of our commercial support plans to include more C&P products, as well as some open source semweb pieces, too: ... More

Thinking Space (yihongs-research.blogspot.com) - The realization of Semantic Web becomes a chick-and-egg dilemma. Without Semantic Web applications, we can hardly build Semantic Web data. But without Semantic Web data, who are going to implement the useless Semantic Web applications? If Semantic Web really represents the future of the Web, we must ... More

Nodalities (blogs.talis.com) - Selected links related to Semantic Web technologies for the week ending 2008-05-12, all weeks. Also available in RDF as linked data or via GRDDL. Another burst of activity this week around the general area of DataPortability, with announcements from MySpace, Facebook and Google regarding the opening ... More

Raw (dannyayers.com) - After reading Eve Maler's The care and feeding of online relationships I wanted to point her to a mail I sent to foaf-dev which describes a low-budget approach to implementation, but unfortunately it got archived in hex. So below is the text. Also of relevance are Chris Messina's recent (excellent ... More

Talking with Talis (talk.talis.com) - Rachel Bruce of JISC and Anne Bell of SCONUL join me in the latest Talking with Talis podcast to discuss the recently published JISC & SCONUL Library Management Systems Study - An Evaluation and horizon scan of the current library management systems and related systems landscape for UK higher educat ... More

Geospatial Semantic Web Blog (www.geospatialsemanticweb.com) - According to the Web User News, MySpace plans to support Semantic Web technologies. From the article, it’s unclear exactly how the world’s largest social networking site plans to support RDF, RDFa or microformats. It may be still too early to celebrate. At the SocialDevCamp East, we talked about ... More

Thinking Space (yihongs-research.blogspot.com) - The past weekend I attended a special event organized by the Microsoft Live Search team. The Live Search team invited 28 up-to-graduate PhDs from US and Canada to come to an on-site interview. The uniqueness of this event is that nearly none of the 28 candidates have been telephone interviewed by th ... More

Nodalities (blogs.talis.com) - I’ve just been to XTech 2008 in Dublin, a great conference covering web development, open source, Web 2.0 and open standards. One of the main themes that emerged was that the semantic web is already here if you know where to look - it’s appearing in parallel with the existing web, with RDFa and ... More

AI3:::Adaptive Information (www.mkbergman.com) - Squeezed Between Two World Views at the Infocline I remember one of my formative jobs at the American Public Power Association when we were running all of APPA’s technical activities. While mostly a lobbying outfit, we were after all in Washington, DC, and were perceived by many to be near som ... More