Checkout http://isolatr.com/, who are bad bad contra-revolutionists of the web 2.0 revolution. They clearly missed the picture, or perhaps they are already web 3.0 or web 2.1 or something arcane.
via Martin who read spreeblick
RDF/A Embedding RDF in HTML
A draft has been published of RDF/A.
This is a really simple way to embed RDF into html. Example:
<html>
<head>
<title>Jo Lambda's Home Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Hello. This is <span property="foaf:name">Jo Lambda</span>'s
home page.
<h2>Work</h2>
If you want to contact me at work, you can
either <a rel="foaf:mbox" href="mailto:jo.lambda@example.org">email
me</a>, or call <span property="foaf:phone">+1 777 888 9999</span>.
</p>
</body>
</html>
from W3C:
2006-03-14: The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of the RDF/A Primer 1.0. Produced by the groups’ RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification. This document introduces syntax for expressing RDF metadata within XHTML and explains the use of the XHTML metainformation modules. Read about the HTML Activity and the Semantic Web.
see you at CeBit
See you at CeBit 9.-12.3. Halle 009, Stand B45
This year we present current DFKI projects, I am showing these:
- computational culture
- gnowsis
- epos
- city guide mobile
- task navigator (old homepage)
If you like Semantic Web, hop by and walk up to me and ask for a hot demo of the gnowsis beta. It is not finished yet, but I have the latest code on my laptop and am happy to give you an exclusive back-room demo, complete with coffee and candy.
So, see you at CeBit 2006
gnowsis 0.9 technology preview
The knowledge management lab at DFKI, Kaiserslautern releases the Gnowsis Beta 0.9 Technological Preview today!
Gnowsis is a tool for realising the Semantic Desktop – a desktop where all your data is inter-linked and related. Gnowsis gives you a tool for structuring your data as well as your thoughts!
Gnowsis 0.9 is a brand new release of Gnowsis. The Beta 0.9 Technological Preview is a first release for other developers to look at the technolocigal changes. For End-Users, this release does not offer much. The core idea of Gnowsis remains but most of what goes on underneath the interface has been re-engineered. In the new Gnowsis we have thought longer and harder about our use of ontologies, our use of desktop applications as RDF datasources, and the separation of a user’s data and his mental model of the same. The result is a new cleaner, faster and happier Gnowsis!
Some of the new features of Gnowsis 0.9 include:
- Integration with Aperture for easy integration of the data in the applications you already use on your desktop!
- A new approach to personal information management. We call it your PIMO
- Integration with Kaukolu Wiki.
- Quick and easy full-text searching of all your data using Lucene.
Download:
Documentation:
Gnowsis 0.9 runs on Windows, Linux and Macosx. Download zip, or MacOSX image here: downloadlink.
gnowsis-beta-wiki
the first screenshot of gnowsis in combination with the semantic wiki.
This screenshot shows how kaukoluwiki and the gnowsis-beta work together.
A wiki-page just created using the JSP-wiki clone kaukoluwiki shows up in the gnowsis swing gui and vice versa.
The trick behind: both graphical user interfaces access the same data, stored using the PIMO-ontology and available in a sesame2 store.
semantic web rocks, semantic desktop rolls!
sesame2-1
re-launched my website using rdfhomepage
I re-launched my website using rdf-homepage, our cuper-cool rdf hack of DFKI to generate homepages using RDF and php.
See yourself the beauty of my new website, that is generated from about 10 different rdf files, including:
- my foaf file
- our organisational rdf model (DFKI organisational structure as rdf)
- an rdfhomepage config file
- my bibtex file
- my bibtex file as RDF/bibtex
to make this magic work yourself, checkout our big-hack at
rdfhomepage.
Mandriva joins the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop!
So here it is official . Mandrive Linux, with Cognium System as Partner has joined the Nepomuk Social Semantic Desktop project.
This project will rock the world, changing the way people interact with computers and socialise.
Basically, this is the thing we have been working on for years and I am happy to also be part of this project.
Read the webpages at http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/ and checkout the people involved with it.
semantic desktop bits and pieces: leaftag
Just forwarded to my by Frank Osterfeld:
http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=154
Announcing Leaftag, our desktop tagging framework. This is an evolution of the original prototype we created, originally named fstaglib (isn’t leaftag just so much better?).
The main part of Leaftag is a library called (oddly enough) libleaftag, which interfaces with the tag database. It’s GObject-based, and the API is quite small. It can tag anything with a URI.
There’s tagutils, a small app used for working with tags and files. It is able to tag and untag files, list all known tags, list all files with a specified tag, and manipulate tag properties (such as icons and descriptions). It also includes some symlinks that provide shortcuts to common tagutils functions (tag, untag, tagls, tags, and tagprop).
leaftag-python contains Python bindings for libleaftag. It simplifies the already simple libleaftag library.
why “secondlife” is not cyberspace
One of my scientific goals is to be part of cyberspace, to make this possible. Cyberspace means for me, that the world as we know it extends seamlessly into the information world, and things I do here and there are mixed. I go order a pizza by walking (in cyberspace) to the pizza people and doing it, the pizza itself comes here real life.
So let us look at products like Second Life.
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by nearly 100,000 people from around the globe.
- From the moment you enter the World you’ll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity. Once you’ve explored a bit, perhaps you’ll find a perfect parcel of land to build your house or business.
- You’ll also be surrounded by the Creations of your fellow residents. Because residents retain the rights to their digital creations, they can buy, sell and trade with other residents.
- The Marketplace currently supports millions of US dollars in monthly transactions. This commerce is handled with the in-world currency, the Linden dollar, which can be converted to US dollars at several thriving online currency exchanges.
I see that the technics are nice, but its not immersive. At the end, Ultima Online may be more immersive than Second Life (compared to interaction possibilities).
Key here is the business department: What kind of business we see in Second Life. There is no real life business there – Where is the sneakers shop in second life that has real life sneakers on the store window? You have this kind of shop in the cyberspace described in the book Otherland, and thats useful.
So – we learn that the 3d technologies are here and the community and customers do exist, but the cyberspace product misses.