Category: SemWeb

http://www.fazit-forschung.de/trendseminar_semantic.html

Mittwoch, 05. November 2008
09:30 bis 14:00 Uhr
Haus der Wirtschaft Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart

“Semantic Technologies have a high potential for Enterprises” …. The event is in German, nice speakers. Tassilo Pellegrini from Semantic-web.at is probably talking about their company experiences, I would guess we hear some nice war stories here.

http://www.fazit-forschung.de/trendseminar_semantic.html

Jana Herwig from the Semantic-Web.at team blogged about Brian Davis and my talk at the webofdata.info practical semantic web workshop.

http://blog.semantic-web.at/2008/10/22/semantic-desktop-lifting-and-human-language-technology-wod-pd-session-2/

The next session at WOD-PD was given by Leo Sauermann (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI, Germany), and Brian Davis (DERI Galway, Ireland). Leo introduced the idea of the Semantic Desktop, and more specifically, the Nepomuk Social Semantic Desktop.

thx!

This was just forwarded to me by Andreas Dengel:
“A Malaysian government applied research agency wants the country to be recognized as the first Web 3.0 society in the world.
MIMOS is driving the semantic technology industry in the nation towards this goal.”

Read on at computerworld.ko.ke:

http://www.computerworld.co.ke/articles/2008/10/17/malaysia-aims-be-first-web-30-society-world

“Semantic technology is driving the next generation of the Web, the semantic Web, a machine-readable Web of intelligent data and automated services that amplify the Web far beyond its current capabilities,” said Dato’ Wahab, at the agency’s Semantics Symposium in Malaysia.

Java + Eclipse | Netbeans required!

download Aperture source or release from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/aperture

download NEPOMUK nightly build from
http://dev.nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/download/downloads/nepomukpsew-20081020-win.jar

download NEPOMUK_client from SVN

http://dev.nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/repos/trunk/java/nepomuk_client

Today in the morning, I had a sudden “insight” about one of the problems of RDF and Semantic Web: it misses some of the value that XML offers. This is what my daily commuting bike ride is for, thinking…

The adoption of Semantic Web rises and falls with the adoption of it in standardization bodies. For example the Oil&Gas industry of Norway is thinking about Semantic Web, and I have recently been talking with people from the automotive supplier industry about Semantic Web. To interchange data in a business-to-business environment you would expect that RDF has more features than XML, but in fact, it doesnt.

• RDF is less expressive than XML. One example: you can’t define pattern in RDF. Look in the XML spec, there is much more of it missing in RDF.
• RDF is not validated. Although in theory, it is possible to validate a file for semantic correctness, nobody does that because of the open world assumption. Hence, there is no validation of the XML in mainstream applications.

So, if you are an industry, you already havean XML based standard, moving to RDF without the expressiveness of XML and without the notion of validation is tricky. RDF should have more features, not less.

Also the stack of XML technologies must be embraced better, for example a XSLT-friendly RDF/XML serialization. Please, dear reader, solve these problems and make a company around it.

On Friday we received our author copies of Springers new masterpiece of Semantic Web books. Springer’s “Social Semantic Web” – Web 2.0 – was nun”

From left to right: M, Kinga Schumacher, Ansgar Bernardi, Leo Sauermann. We all were authors on the chapter on “Semantic Desktop”, Malte additionally contributed to the chapter on Semantic Wikis. As you see we are very happy about our complimentary author’s copy. Besides that – das buch ist gut.

Read it – in deutsch 🙂 . The authors (besides our small contribution) are the who-is-who of the German-speaking Semantic Web. Chris Bizer, Sören Auer, Sebastian Schaffert, Krötsch&Vrandecic, etc …

edited by Andreas Blumauer and Tassilo Pellegrini, it brings together many authors from the practical side.

A quick and fun tool to make nice calligraphically-good-looking tag clouds out of your own tags (works with delicious)

see mine
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/216762/leobards_delicious

via my pal Barbara Geyer-Hayden’s howknow blog, I would guess also reviewed on infosthetics.com

I attended the ESTC2008 conference.

micro-summary:

• I met Ivan Herman and shook his hand (I think for the first time, after working together with him a year on cool uris for the semantic web)
• I met many old friends, made new aquaintances and got intesting chances to continue working on the Semantic Desktop. To point out two, it was again a good location to talk about aperture, smila, aduna, and empolis, who cooperate with DFKI here
• I made some pictures

Heise also reported about the conference.

I am still at KI2008 conference (which is located on the ground floor of the building where I work, so not attending the conference is hard 🙂 and will go to ESTC2008 tonight.

As blogged before, I will be speaking at ESTC2008, on 25th September 2008 around 16:45 in the Rittersaal room.

The topics of my talk will be circling around Semantic Desktop, personalized Semantic Web, and how this is used or can be used in company settings

• Why is Semantic Web needed on the desktop?
• How does data fusion work on the desktop?
• What is a personal information model?
• How do existing user interfaces and user experience change?
• Which projects are active and what are their results?

A nice interface I stumbled upon: the JabRef editor for smart groups:

an interface for a complex task. To explain the outcome, it generates a description of how the software now behaves. nice!