What could you build if the entire web was your database?

A hackathon has been added to the agenda of the Semantic Technology & Business Conference. Semantic Hack, organized by SemanticWeb.com and Diffbot, will be an opportunity for developers and designers to work with RDF, SPARQL, OWL, entity extraction, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, newly available datasets, and other semantic technologies that help make the web more readable, accessible and dynamic for humans and more interpretable by machines. Semantic Hack is free to attend and prior experience with semantics is NOT required to participate.

Registration is open, but space is limited. Hackathon organizers are currently seeking coaches and sponsors; those interested in either role should contact the organizers.

• Who: Developers, designers, and others interested in semantic technology
• What: A day-long hackathon to build applications that help further expand the semantic web, or demonstrate the power of accessible web data
• Where: Hilton San Francisco Union Square
• When: Saturday, June 1, 2013, 9am – 9pm

Current sponsors include Bosatsu Consulting, The National Center for Biomedical Ontology, Protégé, and Stardog.

http://SemanticHack.eventbrite.com

SemanticWeb.com is pleased to announce that we are sponsoring a Web Mining Hack Day, Saturday, June 25, 2011 in Palo Alto, California. More details below after the jump.

Hosted by AOL, and organized by Diffbot and StartX (the Stanford University incubator), the Hack Day promises to be a great opportunity for back-end coders and UI/UX design experts to get together with the goal of building exciting semantic applications. The organizers suggest that participants will be able to:

1. Meet and network with other web mining experts, hackers, and students.
2. Learn about new semantic technologies and open web APIs.
3. See the new the AOL West Coast Headquarters, StartX, Stanford University’s startup accelerator.  Have some pizza on us.
4. Hack on new ideas and show off your projects.

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Garlik, maker of the U.K. born-and-bred semantic-enabled online identity service DataPatrol, is taking another dip into American waters. The company, which counts among its founders semantic web leading light Professor Nigel Shadbolt, today released a free, try-it version of its Garlik Angel service. The full Angel product monitors social networks, public websites and illegally traded data sites to help users keep their personal information from being found by online criminals.

The app – one of the first to hit the Google Chrome store when it opened in December – originally was available for $3.99 per month. “Basically we are trying to tell you if any of your information is in the public domain, on public sites, traded in botnet networks or on the public web, and tell you if there is too much information out there about you, and inform you about what best you can do,” says Mischa Tuffield, semantic web developer at Garlik.

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