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The semantic web is about URIs, and every idea needs a URI. Each of my blog posts already got one, but now also in printed form. Look to the lower right, a mobile-phone readable QR code.

Technically this all is age-old and I loved it already years ago when semapedia had its “uh-ah”. The Nipponese, in the meantime, went for the full monty and covered their island coast-to-coast with QR codes, so we have to catch up.

For my mother of all cell phones E70, I use the i-nigma reader (ha, another enigma pun) because it was listed on Nokias page on barcode apps.

To hack twoday.net to render them I added a table after the blogposts in the “manage” menu – change template (html) – story.display – add somewhere this code (generated using i-nigma generator):

<!– barcode –>
<img style="float:right" src="http://212.179.113.209/QRCode/img.php?d=URL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fleobard.twoday.net%2Fstories%2F<%
story.id %>&c=blogcode&s=4" alt="QR barcode linking to this story. Useful when
printed." />

The leobard.twoday.net part needs to be replaced. It can probably be simplified by replacing the whole uri with <%
story.href %> but then I feared that the URL-encoding would break.

Next task for all Semantic Web lovers: print out and clue barcodes to all physical things that deserve a URI. And don’t fuck it by picking an uncool URI, pick a cool uri for the semantic web.

Wir vergeben einen

HiwiJob/ Praktikum: Ein Wiki für den Semantic Desktop.

Der Semantic Desktop erlaubt dem Benutzer, Dokumente seines Arbeitsplatzes (Dateien, Webseiten, Adressen, Termine…) beliebig zu
verknüpfen und mit weiten Informationen zu versehen. Als Schnittstelle
zum Benutzer dient dabei ein persönliches Wiki, das entsprechend
erweitert wird.

Die Arbeit erfolgt in Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Entwicklern und ist
größtenteils praktischer Natur. Die Fähigkeit zum selbständigen
Implementieren sowie zum schnellen Einarbeiten in existierende
Frameworks ist Voraussetzung. Zur Koordination der Entwicklung
wird ein Softwareentwicklungsportal benutzt. Die erstellte Software ist
größtenteils Open Source.
Anforderungen

• Erfahrung mit Java, JSP, JavaScript, Tomcat
• Erfahrung mit Open SourceProjekten (Dokumentation etc.)

Kontakt
Leo Sauermann
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz
Forschungsbereich Wissensmanagement
Trippstadter Straße 122, Raum 3.04
Tel.: +49 631 20575-116
sauermann@dfki.unikl.de

Walter Rafelsberger who runs the meta portal of media polemic has blogged about His Holy Grail of PIM.

Excerpt:
One thing I have in mind would be a microformats/AJAX/xmlrpc/API/etc. powered Wiki with focus on ease of use and service integration. The SemanticWiki implementations are heading in the right direction, but they still feel more like proofs of concept and not really usable in terms of usability.

That said, for the moment I decided to switch from one evil to many small little devils. Here’s what I use for PIM for now.

Yep! read on ….
link

lim (nerdness)>1 when Austrians art dada fluxus group monochrom hit the topic of social networking, facebook, myspace, youtube, etc and mash it up in a live musical performance at the big brother awards 2007.

The experienced and award-winning group hit again the musical genre.
Here is the video, you need to scroll to about half-length to come to the actual musical (the beginning is 10 minutes of gamejew boredom, scroll it), I would bet that there is a version of this video on youtube. Well, and if you don’t understand my outmost appreciation of this: I am a fan.

http://s1.video.blip.tv/1010000946590/Gamejew-GamejewSeason2Ep4326p.mov

naturally, via monochrom blog.

What is SOA? Software oriented architecture! That is a accidentially mixed up meaning of the acronym just said in a talk of a speaker at this years “Akademische Jahresfeier” at the TU Kaiserslautern.

“service oriented architecture” is the buzzword that really drives the techies at the moment, but often software oriented architecture is the outcome.

But the speaker looks into the future and his talk is very good. semantic web is the next thing, web 2.0 is it, web of things, international communication, business software is at the beginning of a Kondratiev cycle, etc. Nice overview. flattering was a slide that linked to Nepomuk and the article by technology review about me.

here is a moblog pic from that slide, pointly before the talk ends (yes nokia e70 makes the moblogger extatic)

http://m.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=1747446165&

W3C has published new Semantic Web Logos (as blogged before) and with them, rules how to use them. One of the rules, which caused uproar in some blog posts and questions in mailinglists, was:

• The logo may not be used to disparage W3C, its Member organizations, services, or products.

Also, the logo is not so distinctive as the triples.

The phrase alone triggers free minded web enthousiasts to do the right thing, namely, to question the other rules about photoshopping the logo 🙂

by burningbird Shelley Powers

by Danny Ayers

“the gladiator” by Danny Ayers

update (22.10.2007)
by gridinoc

We have a visual identity now! SWEO and the W3C communications team worked on different designs for a Semantic Web logo, to the right you see the nicely colored result.

They are available in different colors and tastes, like this:

The three sides of the tri-color cube in these logos evoke the triplet of the RDF model. The peeled back lid invites you to Open Your Data to the Semantic Web!

W3C anticipates using the Semantic Web cube in conjunction with other imagery related to the Semantic Web. However, until the imagery is more widely recognized, it should not be used on its own. Please use the full logos above rather than the cube alone.

So, could someone please photoshop a picture of my head “opened up” instead of the triple on my forehead?

All the other logos here:
www.w3.org/2007/10/sw-logos.html

In an easily overlooked Press release by Intellidimension, an interesting statement about RDF is done.

Read the interesting part first:
“We chose to integrate the Intellidimension solution based on the strength of its technology and the company’s semantic web expertise,” said John Deutscher, group program manager of Industry Solutions at Microsoft Corp. “We needed a robust and scalable RDF repository with tight integration into SQL Server 2005 to meet our goals for housing extensible metadata in Interactive Media Manager, and RDF Gateway addressed our requirements.”

Well done! Managing media with this setup is probably very clever.
Intellidimension is the company that does RDFGateway, a compact, good-performaning RDF application building platform (store + gui).

The whole press release:
Brattleboro, VT, USA, May 21, 2007 – Intellidimension announces that Microsoft has integrated Intellidimension RDF Gateway in their new product, Microsoft Interactive Media Manager. Interactive Media Manager is a server-based solution which enables organizations to better manage the complexity inherent in the digital content lifecycle, from content creation to management to distribution. The solution, an extension of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, is specifically designed for organizations in the media and entertainment industry, including film, television & postproduction studios, broadcasters, game developers, publishers and advertising and marketing agencies.

We’re excited about our work with Microsoft, which combines Intellidimension technologies with their recently introduced Interactive Media Manager solution,” said co-founder and CEO of Intellidimension Geoff Chappell. “It’s inline with our business goals and is an important vote of confidence in our technology. It’s also a great sign for the semantic web in general that a technology leader such as Microsoft is embracing semantic technologies.”

As part of this integration, Intellidimension enhanced RDF Gateway to support Microsoft SQL Server 2005 as a storage engine for its RDF deductive database. This integration with SQL Server will be available widely with the next release of RDF Gateway, providing Intellidimension enterprise users all of the capabilities of RDF Gateway with the added reliability and manageability of SQL Server for their mission critical data.

“We chose to integrate the Intellidimension solution based on the strength of its technology and the company’s semantic web expertise,” said John Deutscher, group program manager of Industry Solutions at Microsoft Corp. “We needed a robust and scalable RDF repository with tight integration into SQL Server 2005 to meet our goals for housing extensible metadata in Interactive Media Manager, and RDF Gateway addressed our requirements.”

About RDF Gateway

RDF Gateway is a high-performance, scalable semantic web server with a RDF deductive database at its core. Its dynamic scripting environment, rules-based inference, and host of other powerful features enable rapid development and deployment of semantic web applications. Its scalable architecture and proven performance keep applications running as data requirements grow.

About Intellidimension

Intellidimension, founded in 2000, provides solutions to satisfy today’s demands for richer information. The company supports the vision of a Semantic Web in which information is easily shared and re-purposed, and where a new generation of tools offer increased information automation by harnessing the power of networked, intelligent data. Its technologies enable the development of practical applications incorporating this vision.

Thanks to Intellidimensions CEO Geoff Chappell to point me to the press release.