Best Tweets Of The Week From The Semantic Web 100

By Bernard Lunn on June 30, 2010 3:24 PM

Back in May we published the Semantic Web 100, our list of the people tweeting interesting stuff about the Semantic Web.

That’s a lot of people to follow and a fair amount of noise obscuring the signal – lots of tweets about the World Cup or where to eat/meet/drink as well as useful but repetitive retweets.

We look through a lot of tweets so you don’t have to. But we keep that job almost manageable by restricting our tweet-cruising to people in the SemanticWeb100.

By interesting we mean a) relevant to the Semantic Web b) something original, not simply a copy of some other content.

We did this via old-fashioned “curation” (ahem, its called “editing” to ye olde publishers). We read the tweets to identify the ones that look interesting to us. Call it Filter # 1. You can do your own Filter # 2 (what we used to call “reading”) after the break.

What A Week Of Tweets That Was – Just In Our Little Semantic Web Corner Of The Universe

Andraz Tori, Zemanta

Semantic web user interfaces – Do they have to be ugly?

View more presentations from Andraz Tori.

Why? User Experience is key to Semantic Web breaking out of academia into the commercial world. Andraz gives some great examples of good and bad.
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Henry Story for linking to this workshop in Salzburg on an open source semantic CMS platform.

Why? Making semantic web accessible to millions of webmasters who use CMS is critical. It is why we cover Drupal. Great to see other CMS attention to semantic web.

good news: initial #ruby implementation of #foaf+ssl available
Why? Ruby = easy way to create UX
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Bryan Trogdon shared:
Semantic Web and The Age of Infinite Interconnectedness (Presentation) – http://slidesha.re/acdoii

Manuel Lima_Network Visualization

View more presentations from EOI Escuela de OrganizaciÃ³n Industrial.

Why? Visualization is key to UX when data is complex.

More from @trogdon on visualization
Outstanding resource for visual design examples of the Semantic Web -
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lin clark is also into visualization:
A Benchmark of Social Visualization Tools with Minard’s Graphic
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stefano bertolo
Palantir CEO (via @stefanomaz) surprisingly sophisticated link between epistemology (justification) and civil liberties
Why? 20 minute Charlie Rose interview, great example of complex technology moving from academia to government and maybe from there to consumer.
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Steve Harris
Woot, CMU + MusicBrainz to improve MusicBrainz RDF support
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Raymond Yee
datachick +1 RT @dmccreary: I hope we have > sessions next year on how web deVs can perform CRUDS operations on triples w/o learning SPARQL #semtech

@linclark is demoing SPARQL integration within Drupal 7 #semtech
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Evan Sandhaus
How quickly a good idea gets traction on Twitter (these 3 tweets in a few minutes make a deal happen):

In a talk about Wikimedia, what I would give for Wikipedia to make there info boxes available as RDF. It’d save so much work.

@tfmorris absolutely that’s true, I want to get the info from Wikipedia because of their capacity and high probability of ongoing support

Wikimedia foundation wants to build a Data Commons, and they want our help in doing it. This could be big.

Plus NYT News:

EXTRA EXTRA: NYT publishes 500 Descriptors as Linked Open Data, Over 10,000 tags now available, details

And from another great news organization, the BBC, Evan showed us this cool use of semantic web by BBC to build community around topics
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Tom Tague

RT: @robynlgreen Wow, OpenCalais just worked like a dream on an in-development Drupal site, without any configuration and on the first try. 5:53 AM Jun 17th via web from North Waltham, Waltham

Yikes! Day before yesterday OpenCalais hit a peak of 200 txns per second for about an hour. Nothing melted. Yeah!

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Seth Grimes

He gives us the Tweet 101 version of text analytics for your site:

I should write a paper, “How to build text analytics into your solution/Web site.” I get enough request for advice. 11:09 AM Jun 24th via web

For Web site text analytics, I’m not a huge fan of browser plug-ins: limited audience, focus limited to page content, limited usefulness. 11:16 AM Jun 24th via web

To build text analytics into a solution/Web site, three best choices: API to a Web service, GATE/LingPipe/UIMA & OEM license. 11:12 AM Jun 24th via web
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FranÃ§ois Scharffe
#datalift : a catalyser for the Web of data
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jay myers

@daveman692 i’m hoping that we can advance rdfa beyond meta for FB opengraph, worried it could turn into something like html meta keywords

Uploaded #semtech slides to slideshare:

Increasing product and service visibility through front-end semantic web
View more presentations from Jay Myers.

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frank olken
ORES-2010 Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web

The Semantic Quilt, Contexts, Co-occurrences, Kernels, and Ontologies by Ted Pederson, Univ. Minnesota

Gremlin, A Graph-based Programming Language (slides) by Marko A. Rodriguez

W3C Workshop â€” RDF Next Steps – Presentations

Cool URIs for the Semantic Web

Facet Graphs: Complex Semantic Querying Made Easy by Heim, et al. http://bit.ly/dbc6K2
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Manu Sporny
RDFa API not only supports RDFa, but Microformats and Microdata as well

bsletten Cool! Good find. RT @bobdc chow.com (chowhound) has OpenGraph RDFa on restaurant pages. No rating data, but address, lat & long are nice.

@gkellogg Unofficial results from RDF Next Steps Workshop: http://bit.ly/rdf-poll-results #rdf #w3c #semweb /via @kidehen @sandhawke

Good piece on the current political state of HTML5 – growing pains, overruling and rebalancing the Web:

Woo! RDFa for HTML5 – new Heartbeat Working Draft – now supports RDFa 1.1

@kansandhaus So when is NYT going to start publishing RDFa? Sooner than later, I hope.

300,000 web sites now using RDFa via Facebook Open Graph #semtech #rdfa /via @fabien_gandon 11:58 AM Jun 24th via HootSuite in reply to fabien_gandon

ConnectorKaren #semtech FaceBook’s David Recordan keynote presentation at SemTech, San Francisco: “We like that RDFa gave us a consistent syntax.” +1W3C 11:46 AM Jun 24th via web Retweeted by manusporny and 6 others

@hsivonen best not to be single-minded about these things. Did you see that the latest RDFa API spec supports Microdata? http://ht.ly/22ELO 8:22 AM Jun 24th via HootSuite in reply to hsivonen

@hsivonen It’s a complex world & the Web is a messy place – RDFa warts to some are RDFa gems to others. #rdfa puts authors first & foremost. 8:18 AM Jun 24th via HootSuite in reply to hsivonen

@hsivonen Nobody has to love all of RDFa – just use the bits you like, don’t use the bits you don’t like – #rdfa gives authors the choice. 8:05 AM Jun 24th via HootSuite in reply to hsivonen

@hsivonen Microdata is a full subset of RDFa 1.1 at this point – you can do anything in RDFa (and more) that you can do in Microdata. http://twitter.com/manusporny/status/16927438989
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li ding
#rdfn http://n2.talis.com/wiki/RDF_JSON_Specification

semantic data catalog at #data.gov
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Carl Malamud
Here’s @timoreilly doing 9 minutes with no notes on #lawgov. John Podesta, sitting next to me, was totally blown away, as was I.

In addition to Law.Gov workshops, I’ve asserted fair use on a series of court-sponsored workshops and posted them.

UK open data principles out for comment.

slaw.gov is an idea, an idea that cabbage belongs to the people and every hamburger yearns to be free. maybe time to stop writing, get food.

Take a look RT @DirDigEng: Transparency Board: Draft Public Data Principles for comment and improvement on data.gov.uk

Excellent first meeting of the Government Transparency Board – #datagovuk #linkeddata #opendata

Interesting talk from Michael Fanning on the challenges of government open data in Germany – makes UK look agile – come on data.gov.de

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Tim Berners Lee
When you have N3, you get namedgraphs for free. Why reinvent them? #rdfn #n3

RT @Thayer: [UK] Treasury’s *free* COINS seminar > sign up fast if you want a place! pls RT

RT @ajslaghu: The UK’s public data tsunami gathers speed
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Sandro Hawke
Simple (unofficial) results from RDF Next Steps Workshop

#semtech slides on why the #SemanticWeb needs #RIF

Can we bring JSON and RDF together, please? Here’s one plan, maybe you have a better one?
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Ja Hendler
@fabien_gandon I wrote a poem about this a while back http://youtu.be/Pv9fpW6bhdo #semweb #rdfn

Wishing #rdfn was willing to consider RDFS extensions – no need for me to come since they decided not to.

Woot! RT @fabien_gandon: Dan Brickley working on an open source reference parser of Open Graph for Facebook #semtech /via @songschris

I’m liking OpenGraph Protocol more and more each time I hear David discuss it – got the URI idea right #semtech

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Michael Hausenblas

@roessler right, thanks. sorry for being pushy, but I really think it would be a big loss if FOAF+SSL has no slot at this event …

#Java #library providing a simple interface for querying the Semantic Web index #Sindice

Would you like to see #RDF support in #OData? If so, how? Check out and share your preferences …

@dret not surprising to me honestly, the RDF core shouldn’t be touched … did you read @cygri position paper http://bit.ly/csZya0 …?

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Martin Hepp
44,000 RDF resources include empty literals (“”) – fix it if your graph is in the list:

presentation on using #opengraph and #goodrelations for #semantic #seo hits more than 2,000 people views: http://bit.ly/bUIFi3 #rdfa #loc

Web Page Optimization for Facebook
View more presentations from Martin Hepp.

eventually, people will understand: authoring good global schemas is a form of art, like conceptualizing reality in oil on canvas @kidehen

@dmccreary re “should only bots see #rdfa” – browsers should see it, too, because 1. browser extensions need it, too 2. it would be cloaking

my slides from #semtech talk on #goodrelations use case are now at http://bit.ly/91nEUr #semantic #seo #rdfa @BarbaraStarr @jaymyers

Goodrelations Presentation from SemTech 2010
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Marco Neumann
Breakout Groups for RDF next steps #rdfn Syntaxes, Semantics, Graph Metadata, Linked Data

#semtech 2010 in San Francisco was a very successful event. What did we learn? Where do we go from here? What are the next steps?

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Kingsley Idehen
@marcedavis on the #web serendipity is about #linkeddata meshes with high #SDQ (Serendipitous Discovery Quotient).

Here is the #RDF based #LinkedData catalog for data.gov:

Latest New York Times Concept Scheme additions to their burgeoning #linkeddata space:

@SethRussell a #URN doesn’t need to resolve to anything. Its just a name reference, so why can’t this be used in place of literal subjects? 10:57 AM Jun 29th via Tweetie for Mac in reply to SethRussell

@SethRussell why go through all that pain just to undo the nature of network oriented data object identifiers. Why not use a #URN instead?

Interesting #API for #SPARQL based Virtualization of #RDF data access. See: http://bit.ly/bzZTHN . #linkeddata #sparql_fed

@SethRussell: re. what is “provenance autism” ? #linkeddata that’s published without associated provenance data (who, where, when etc..)

@dret poor state of provenance data in current #web of #linkeddata has more to do with practice than essence of Linked Data etc..

@dret increasingly the #lod cloud will be comprised of dynamically updated & replicated data. #linkeddata Warehouses not norm anymore

Personal Data Store, yet another moniker for Personal Linked Data Spaces #webid #foaf_ssl #linkeddata

Verifiable, Unambiguous, Self Managed Identity is what #foaf_ssl based #webids are about. Data can be anything hence, #linkeddata concept.

@marcedavis introduces: Personal Data Banking Exchange. Yet another moniker for Personal Data Spaces #linkeddata #webid #foaf_ssl

@chrismessina basically tells @_dsiegel that “Locker” is problematic. Got to fix #WebID issue i.e., #identity! #linkeddata #openid_foaf_ssl

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John Breslin

Nice demo of how NYT LOD can be mashed up – great to see this, triple counts=good, demos=better

scorlosquet slides of the RDFa and Drupal tutorial at SemTech by @scorlosquet, @linclark and @terraces #semtech

How to Build Linked Data Sites with Drupal 7 and RDFa
View more presentations from scorlosquet.

Call for Papers – The 3rd Workshop for Social Data on the Web at ISWC 2010

Tales From the SIOC-O-Sphere #10 | The coinciding with #semtech 2010 edition! Latest round-up of all news @sioc-related
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Ivan Herman
HTML+#RDFa 1.1 (new #HTML5 heartbeat document, synching with RDFa 1.1!)

SemTech2010 summary:
Ed: Great summary of the conference. His closing point is great:

“The way I feel it the biggest challenge is not technical. Yes, of course, there are technical issues, but those will be solved, eventually. The issue is outreach, to get to those new communities who may understand the value of a Web of Data in general but have not enough guidance on how to start doing something. How to publish the data, how to link it to other data, how to consume it, use it, mash it upâ€¦ How to talk to “C-level” people, how to reach out to them. There are books, of course, but not enough; there are tutorials and guides, of course, but not enough; there are experts around but definitely not enough. As one of our discussion partners put it: if I go to any better bookshop, there are rows of books on, say, XML (good or bad, but they are there). But books on RDF, on Linked Data, on SPARQL, on SKOS, on OWL: only a few here and there (comparatively, that is), and some of them are actually quite old. Let alone the problem of trying to hire experts that could do the job. I really feel that this is the biggest challenge our community faces. I say “community” and not only a single organization like W3C or other; the challenge is too great to be solved by one group only. We have been fighting with this issue for a while now, but it is still a challengeâ€¦ And a challenge for us all who care about that stuff!”

BigOWLIM 3.3 implements #OWL 2 RL 10:28 AM Jun 24th via bitly

For journal publishers, automated tagging, categorization simplified the most tedious part of the work for editors. L Scagliarini,

SKOS, RDFa, and the SPARQL XML result encoding, the most understandable #semanticweb technologies for publishers (Bob DuCharme, #semtech)

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FrankVanHarmele

+1: RT @cygri Trying to fix RDF/XML : we end up with two crap XML serialisations instead of one. #rdfn << do Jason instead

J. Carroll at RDF Next Steps: "let's do nothing: RDF 1.0 has no showstopper bug" #rdfn #w3c << quite right! Do named graphs, then stop.

@cygri at the RDF nextsteps workshop #rdfn http://richard.cyganiak.de/2010/06/rdf-next-steps.pdf << he's right: don't upset the applecart 1:22 AM Jun 27th via TwitBird

RT @junszhao presentation about providence requirements for RDF

RT@semwebcompany 15 Business models for linked data and web 3.0: << up from 7 last year

From @andraz: “not constraining yourself to a specific use-case is the greatest SemWeb User Interface design sin ever”

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Fabien Gandon

frighten by vision of lecturing on #semweb in 3 years from now: 3 versions of RDF, 2 versions of OWL, OWL2, RIF, SPARQL, 4 syntaxes #rdfn

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Deborah McGuinness

“data transparency = brand credibility” also from elbaz at #semtech.. strong theme on provenance and transparency here.

Contexts and Importing in RDF
View more presentations from Jie Bao.

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Christine Connors

Components of a Semantic Enterprise
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Benjamin Nowack
Visionary AND pragmatic #rdfn paper by @chrismessina & @harryhalpin: Atom+Streams+Triples=DataWeb 2.0.

Is RDFa the new RSS 1.0? Featuritis leads to dumbed-down flavors, those to single-flavor parsers, those to .. RSRDF? #semtech #ogp

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What Did We Learn?

1. The Semantic Web is buzzing with activity

2. Lots of people use Twitter for real, professional content

3. We need better filters (looking for automation in this area)

4. Geeks love soccer but cannot agree on which team to support (a bit like geeks battling about standards)

Big Themes We Spotted

1. RDFa momentum is the big driver

2. RDF 2.0 – enough already, it works

3. User experience matters and visualization tools may help

4. Gov data is in full flood

5. Identity is the big question and consensus is hard

6. Lets get the commercialization phase and transition to mainstream in top gear, the academic budgets are stretched.