Archives for Category: Semantic Web
Interview: Paul Groth and Luc Moreau on Provenance
Paul Groth (VU University Amsterdam) and Luc Moreau (U of Southampton) co-Chair the W3C Provenance Working Group. The group has just published 12 documents to support the widespread publication and use of provenance information of Web documents, data, and resources....
Filed by Ian Jacobs on April 30, 2013 2:00 PM in Interviews, Semantic Web
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eBooks: Great Expectations Workshop, second day
After a successful start on Monday, the workshop on eBooks and W3C continued and concluded yesterday. The goal of the Workshop, as I explained yesterday, was to explore how the digital publishing community could work with W3C for a better...
Filed by Ivan Herman on February 13, 2013 1:14 PM in Accessibility, Digital Publishing, Open Web, Security, Semantic Web, Workshops
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A Week in Washington
Reflections and observations on a week of meetings about open data in Washington DC.
Filed by Phil Archer on February 1, 2013 4:54 PM in Semantic Web, eGov
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Open Data for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
The OD4D figures as an initiative aimed at producing further knowledge on Open Data and its potential to improve the quality of public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. In order to contribute to the body of knowledge on Open Data and its potential to improve the quality of public policies in the region, the OD4D website compiles articles, documents, videos and several data on the topic. In addition to the content produced through the project (manuals, guides, scientific articles, lectures, seminars, workshops), the website foresees collaboration from society to add to its content.
Filed by Caroline Burle on November 4, 2012 9:20 PM in Semantic Web
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Open Data Conference in Paris
W3C (and friends, like Nigel Shadbolt) will participate in the first edition of the Open Data Conference taking place on September 27, 2012 in Paris, France. This conference brings together an international set of experts to discuss current challenges as...
Filed by Daniel Dardailler on August 27, 2012 11:53 AM in Accessibility, Conference, Internationalization, Mobile, Open Web, Privacy, Security, Semantic Web, Social Networking, eGov
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Mapping Relational Data to RDF
Two documents from the RDB2RDF WG that prescribe a language for mapping Relational data to RDF have been published as Proposed Recommendations.
Filed by Ashok Malhotra on August 14, 2012 10:28 PM in Semantic Web
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Interview: Ora Lassila on Web Apps Powered by Linked Data
Ora Lassila (Nokia) is a long-time W3C participant and member of the W3C Advisory Board. He also is one of the early proponents of the Semantic Web. I spoke with him about getting the best that Web apps and...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on July 31, 2012 4:29 PM in Interviews, Semantic Web, Web Applications
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Conformance for Vocabularies?
How do you assess conformance to a vocabulary when the use of all terms is optional?
Filed by Phil Archer on July 27, 2012 8:20 AM in Semantic Web, eGov
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Implementing ADMS and the Core Vocabularies
The European Commission has been funding work on developing a number of vocabularies designed to help improve data interoperability, particularly in the public sector. Time to see those vocabularies in action and, in the vernacular of the day, eat some dog food.
Filed by Phil Archer on June 25, 2012 2:15 PM in Semantic Web, eGov
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The long journey to RDFa 1.1...
RDFa 1.1 Core, RDFa 1.1 Lite, and XHTML+RDFa 1.1 have just been published as Web Standards, i.e., W3C Recommendations, accompanied by a new edition of the RDFa Primer. Although it is “merely” and update of the previous RDFa 1.0 standard...
Filed by Ivan Herman on June 7, 2012 2:24 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Technology
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Interview: IBM on the Linked Data Platform
Shortly after W3C announced the launch of the Linked Data Platform Working Group, I spoke with Arnaud Le Hors about IBM's interest in linked data and their decision to co-chair the Working Group. IJ: Why did IBM get involved in...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on May 23, 2012 7:29 PM in Interviews, Semantic Web
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Interview: BBC on Publishing and Linked Data
I chatted recently with Olivier Thereaux, Yves Raimond (senior technologist in R&D), and Silver Oliver (data architect) of the BBC about the Web, publishing, and linked data. Ian: The BBC is prolific and large. How do you view yourselves? Silver:...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on May 16, 2012 8:06 AM in Interviews, Semantic Web
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Microdata to RDF Distiller
As reported in the Semantic Web Activity Blog, a new Interest Group Note has just been published, documenting the extraction algorithm from HTML5+Microdata to RDF. The algorithm replaces the one that was part of an earlier version of the Microdata+HTML5...
Filed by Ivan Herman on March 8, 2012 4:03 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, Web Applications
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Interview: Roger Cutler on W3C and Chevron use of Semantic Web Technology
On the eve of his retirement, I spoke with Roger Cutler, longtime W3C participant from Chevron. IJ: Roger, since you have been participating in W3C for some time, can you describe how Chevron's interests have changed? RC: In 2000...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on November 28, 2011 5:16 PM in Interviews, Semantic Web
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RDFa 1.1 meets JSON-LD in the Distiller…
I have blogged recently on the update of the RDFa 1.1 Distiller. I have just added a cool new feature. Up to today, the possible serializations were RDF/XML, Turtle, and N Triples. Although not yet final, I decided to add...
Filed by Ivan Herman on November 24, 2011 4:12 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Technology, Tools
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New release of the RDFa 1.1 Distiller and Validator
Back in May I have already blogged on the release of a new, RDFa 1.1 version of the distiller code. Many things have happened since May, however, with changes in RDFa, introduction of RDFa 1.1 Lite, etc. I have also...
Filed by Ivan Herman on November 15, 2011 12:30 PM in HTML, Semantic Web
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Schema.org and RDFa 1.1 Lite: how does it look now?
In his latest blog entry on the Schema.org, Dan Brickley announced that Schema.org would also process RDFa 1.1 Lite as an alternative syntax to encode Schema.org terms. As he emphasized: This work opens up new possibilities also for developers...
Filed by Ivan Herman on November 12, 2011 9:12 AM in HTML, Semantic Web, Technology, Web Applications, Web Design
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Impressions on the Schema.org Workshop
(This blog should have gone out about a week ago. By an unlucky clashes in my agenda, the trip to Mountain View was immediately followed by another trip, which made it difficult to publish this in a really timely...
Filed by Ivan Herman on September 30, 2011 6:06 AM in HTML, Meetings, Semantic Web, Web Applications
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Proposing two new SW Interest Group Task Forces
One of the exciting events of the past few months was the joint announcement of schema.org from three major search engine providers (Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft). It was a major step in the recognition that structured data, embedded in Web...
Filed by Ivan Herman on September 20, 2011 3:57 AM in HTML, Semantic Web, Web Applications, Web Design
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RDFa 1.1 distiller and validator (beta)
The distiller for RDFa 1.0 has been around for quite some time now, and has been widely used. With the advance of RDFa 1.1, I have made a fairly extensive re-write of the distiller, though, which is now available...
Filed by Ivan Herman on May 31, 2011 5:10 PM in Semantic Web, Tools, Web Design
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Semantic Web? It's Not Rocket Science. Except at NASA.
I met Jeanne Holm last week during the W3C Advisory Committee meeting. Jeanne is the Chief Knowledge Architect at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, and leads the Knowledge Management Team at NASA. When we started talking...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on May 27, 2011 2:34 PM in Interviews, Semantic Web
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RDFa 1.1 with a rich snippet example
With RDFa 1.1 making its way out of last call, I looked at the examples from Google’s Webmaster Central to see what RDFa 1.1 brings to those. A typical example is the one on reviews; here s where it...
Filed by Ivan Herman on May 23, 2011 10:39 AM in HTML, Open Web, Semantic Web, Technology 101
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HTTP Protocol for RDF Stores
Last week the W3C SPARQL Working Group has published a number last call working drafts for SPARQL 1.1. Much have been already said on various fora on the new features of SPARQL 1.1, like update, entailment regimes, property paths; I...
Filed by Ivan Herman on May 17, 2011 7:44 AM in HTTP, Publications, Semantic Web, Technology, W3C・Resources
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RDF Interfaces published…
The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of the RDF Interfaces specification. The goal of this specification is to provide a common development environment for Web Applications that utilize structured data and RDF. A...
Filed by Ivan Herman on May 10, 2011 5:17 PM in Semantic Web, Technology
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New RDF Working Group, RDF/JSON, RDF API…
After long discussions the call for votes on a new RDF Working Group has been sent to W3C members; the goal is to set up a new W3C Working Group taking care of some technical issues around RDF. It was...
Filed by Ivan Herman on December 8, 2010 8:37 AM in Semantic Web, Technology
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A toucan describedby data
An intense discussion on the Linked Open Data mailing list has lead to at least two distinct outcomes: a proposal for a new way to resolve URIs identifying non-information resources without losing the important distinction from information that describes them; and a correction to an ambiguity in the specification of wdrs:describedby.
Filed by Phil Archer on November 8, 2010 4:38 PM in Semantic Web
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Lessons from Harvard's Kennedy School on Technology and Governance 2.0
Unlike political campaigns in this year’s US election cycle, it was refreshing to observe for a change, personal and institutional vulnerability being treated openly and respectfully in a political context. The context was an event I attended last week titled...
Filed by Karen Myers on September 27, 2010 9:41 PM in Semantic Web, Social Networking, eGov
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Augmented Reality: A Point of Interest for the Web
Last month's Augmented Reality on the Web workshop in Barcelona has sparked a good deal of debate within and around W3C. As the final report shows, the workshop brought together many different companies and organizations working on or with a direct interest in the field of Augmented Reality — but how can W3C help in this area?
Filed by Phil Archer on July 22, 2010 9:20 AM in Mobile, Semantic Web, Workshops
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New opportunities for linked data nose-following
For those of you interested in deploying RDF on the Web, I'd like to draw your attention to three new proposed standards from IETF, "Web Linking", "Defining Well-Known URIs", and "Web Host Metadata", that create new follow-your-nose tricks that...
Filed by Jonathan Rees on July 6, 2010 6:12 PM in Semantic Web, Web Architecture
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Point of Interest Working Group
Following the successful W3C Workshop: Augmented Reality on the Web in Barcelona last week, work is now underway to establish a Working Group to develop one or more Recommendation Track documents to encode data about Points of Interest.
Filed by Phil Archer on June 24, 2010 3:27 PM in Mobile, Semantic Web, Workshops
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Thanks for a great 15 years at W3C
After 15 years working with all of you all around the world on Web technologies and standards, I'm taking a position as a Biomedical Informatics Software Engineer in the department of biostatistics at the University of Kansas Medical center. The...
Filed by Dan Connolly on June 2, 2010 7:04 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, W3C Life, Web Architecture
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Linked data: it's is not like that; it's like a bag of potato chips
We've been trying to explain partial understanding since at least as far back as the 1998 Extensible Languages note, but the The Fate of the Semantic Web report from Pew still reflects the perception that the Semantic Web will never...
Filed by Dan Connolly on May 28, 2010 7:53 PM in Semantic Web, eGov
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Truly W3C Community building at WWW2010 (Part 1)
The WWW2010 conference that just took place in Raleigh is now over and it's a good time to report on some of the outcomes from the event, and most specifically about the W3C track that I had the pleasure...
Filed by Marie-Claire Forgue on May 3, 2010 11:49 AM in Meetings, Semantic Web, Social Networking, eGov
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RDFa 1.1 version of the pyRdfa distiller
W3C has just published a First Public Working Draft for RDFa 1.1 Core and XHTML+RDFa 1.1. Yay! I did have an RDFa Distiller software and service for RDFa 1.0. Well, I did spend some time in the past few weeks...
Filed by Ivan Herman on April 22, 2010 3:02 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Technology
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Submission deadline for the RDF Next Workshop close...
This is just a gentle reminder: the submission deadline for the W3C “RDF Next Steps” Workshop is close: April the 4th. There is still time, of course, but not that much…...
Filed by Ivan Herman on March 24, 2010 11:01 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Workshops
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Microsoft, Bring OData to a W3C Incubator
A couple of days ago, Microsoft announced their OData API. In the first blog post at odata.org, they wrote: At the same time we are looking to engage with IETF and W3C to explore how to get broader adoption of...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on March 18, 2010 1:05 PM in Semantic Web
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Venue details for the RDF Next Steps workshop published
As I announced a few weeks ago, the RDF Next Steps Workshop will take place at NCBO, in Standford, US. A separate page has now been published on the details of the location, especially on hotels. Let me also use...
Filed by Ivan Herman on March 9, 2010 9:24 AM in Meetings, Semantic Web, Workshops
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W3C Track@WWW2010: LOD and HTML 5
At this year's 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010 - Raleigh, NC, USA), W3C will organize two "camps": the "HTML 5 camp" and the "Linked Open Data (LOD) camp" (29 and 30 April 2010). The "camp" format of the...
Filed by Marie-Claire Forgue on March 3, 2010 6:13 PM in HTML, Meetings, Mobile, SVG, Semantic Web, Social Networking, Video, eGov
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Date and place of the 'RDF Next Step' Workshop settled
A few weeks ago W3C announced the organization of an "RDF Next Steps" Workshop. At the time of the announcement the dates and the place of the Workshop were not settled yet. They are now... The Workshop will indeed take...
Filed by Ivan Herman on February 10, 2010 1:41 PM in Meetings, Semantic Web, Workshops
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Small add-ons to the RDFa distiller
A small addition has been made on the RDFa distiller service (pyRdfa): there is now a possibility to upload an XHTML file to be distilled, beyond referring to a URI or copying a text to a text box. This feature...
Filed by Ivan Herman on February 8, 2010 2:55 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools
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SWSWiki
A few days ago W3C opened a new wiki on Semantic Web Standards: … It is not the goal of this wiki to supersede other community wikis […] instead it is to provide a “first stop” for more information on...
Filed by Ivan Herman on January 18, 2010 1:15 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools
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RIF and OWL
The W3C RIF Working Group has just published the RIF specification as a Candidate Recommendation. As a coincidence, the OWL 2 Working Group published the OWL 2 specification as Proposed Recommendation just a few days before. Ie, two major sets...
Filed by Ivan Herman on October 6, 2009 3:39 PM in Publications, Semantic Web, Technology, W3C・Resources
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Linked Government Data
Last week, I jumped into my new role as eGovernment lead by attending a pair of gatherings in Washington. They left me pleasantly shocked at the enthusiasm in the US Government for both social software and open data, and wondering...
Filed by Sandro Hawke on September 14, 2009 12:26 AM in Semantic Web, Social Networking, eGov
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Ecosystem for investors, upcoming workshop
As the W3C Team lead for financial data and the Semantic Web, I am looking at how the Web is changing the way investors assess the value of companies. Public companies worldwide are required to file regular reports setting out...
Filed by Dave Raggett on August 7, 2009 1:01 PM in Semantic Web, Workshops
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Data in the City
On Monday of this week I attended a hearing in New York City organized by the Technology and Government Committee of the New York City Council. On the agenda was a proposal (Int. No. 991) regarding the use of open...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on July 1, 2009 10:09 PM in Semantic Web, eGov
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Reflections on SemTech 2009
SemTech 2009, along with W3C's significant participation in it, is now behind us. Besides catching upon on emails, I have spent the past week reflecting on the enthusiasm, presentations, and flurry of activities that constituted this year's event in San...
Filed by Karen Myers on June 30, 2009 1:06 PM in Semantic Web
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W3C team at SemTech
Some of us on the team had a pretty busy last week: indeed, Karen Myers, Sandro Hawke, Dave Raggett, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Ralph Swick, and I were at the Semantic Technologies 2009 conference in San Jose. Dave (together with Dianne Mueller...
Filed by Ivan Herman on June 25, 2009 2:25 PM in Semantic Web, Technology
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Search Engines take on Structured Data
Structured data on the web got a boost this week, with Google's announcement of Rich Snippets and Rich Snippets in Custom Search. Structured data at such a large scale raises at least three issues:SyntaxVocabularyPolicyGoogle's documentation shows support for both microformats...
Filed by Dan Connolly on May 13, 2009 4:18 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Web Architecture, eGov
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Data interchange problems come in all sizes
I had a pretty small data interchange problem the other day: I just wanted to archive some play lists that I had compiled using various music player daemon (mpd) clients. The mpd server stores playlists as simple m3u files,...
Filed by Dan Connolly on May 8, 2009 9:10 PM in HTML, Opinions and Editorial, Semantic Web, Web Architecture
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SemTech 2009 conference program public
The program of the 2009 Semantic Technologies conference is now public. Just as last year, it promises to be a busy and interesting week! The conference is on Semantic Technologies in general, but a large percentage (majority?) of the papers...
Filed by Ivan Herman on April 7, 2009 9:26 AM in Semantic Web, Technology, W3C Life
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Food, agriculture, and SKOS
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has a number of (online) publications (e.g., “Food, Nutrition and Agriculture”). As all such sites, they also have to offer an easy way to search through the articles, find the right papers based...
Filed by Ivan Herman on March 20, 2009 8:42 AM in Publications, Semantic Web, Technology, W3C・Resources
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Semantic Data Extractor
Every so often, someone writes to me or to the public-qa-dev mailing list to report bugs, or simply to give thanks on the semantic data extractor. I'm always pleasantly surprised when I hear that, what started as a 10 minutes...
Filed by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux on February 12, 2009 10:27 AM in Semantic Web, Tools
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RDFa and SVG Tiny (and the RDFa distiller)
W3C has just published the SVG Tiny 1.2 recommendation. Others are much more experts than me to describe the changes in the core functionality compared to the 1.1 version, so I let them do that. However, there is an interesting...
Filed by Ivan Herman on December 23, 2008 9:16 AM in SVG, Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・Resources
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Small update of the RDFa distiller sofware
I have made a small update on the pyRdfa Python package that drives the RDFa distiller. The main differences between this version and the previous are: via a private communication Dan Brickley made me think on the following: what is...
Filed by Ivan Herman on December 19, 2008 1:05 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・Resources
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Amaya Also for RDFa
Irène Vatton has just announced the availability of the latest Amaya version, namely Amaya 11. (For those who may not know what Amaya is, it is an open source (X)HTML browser and editor in one.) The interesting point in this...
Filed by Ivan Herman on December 17, 2008 1:36 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・Resources
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A Few Predictions for 2009
Last week I asked my colleagues on the W3C staff to predict Web trends in 2009. I compiled (with some editing) a few of the predictions I received. Naturally, these informal utterances are not endorsements and do not represent W3C...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on December 12, 2008 7:28 PM in Mobile, Semantic Web, eGov
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The W3C will host a Workshop for the Oil & Gas Industry on 9-10 December 2008 in Houston, Texas....
Filed by Karen Myers on November 18, 2008 7:16 PM in Semantic Web
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Workshop on future of social networking
We have just announced a call for participation to a workshop on the future of social networking that will take place in Barcelona (Spain) on January 15 and 16 2009. A W3C workshop is an event organized by W3C where...
Filed by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux on October 14, 2008 3:25 PM in Mobile, Semantic Web
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Semantic Web Applications
It so happens that, in a short time, several entries appeared in the blogosphere on Semantic Web applications. David Provost published a report, Richard MacManus published a blog in ReadWriteWeb or, in the last issue of Talis’ Nodalities, Ian Davis...
Filed by Ivan Herman on October 2, 2008 9:24 AM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools, W3C・Resources
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Powdering logos (again)
Quite a while ago I wrote a
short blog
on how to use the upcoming POWDER spec. The example was to create RDF triples expressing copyright information on Semantic Web logos. Lot has happened with POWDER since, and most of what I wrote in that blog is now technically outdated:-( So here is the updated example.
Filed by Ivan Herman on September 5, 2008 8:54 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Technology 101, W3C・Resources
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Make your Data Web Friendly
What does it mean to make your data Web friendly. A very simple introduction and a few links to explore and understand RDFa, a technology to easily create hyperlinked data.
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 27, 2008 4:04 AM in Semantic Web, Technology 101, Tools
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The details of data in documents: GRDDL, profiles, and HTML5
GRDDL, a mechanism for putting RDF data in XML/XHTML documents, is specified mostly at the XPath data model level. Some GRDDL software goes beyond XML and supports HTML as she are spoke, aka tag soup. HTML 5 is intended to...
Filed by Dan Connolly on August 22, 2008 7:45 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Web Architecture, XML
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The Digital Stakhanovite
Designing a technology that will accomodate our social contexts of the digital Stakhanovite is a big challenge, far to be simple to solve.
Filed by Karl Dubost on August 18, 2008 2:18 AM in Accessibility, HTML, Opinions and Editorial, Semantic Web
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Pleasure of Reading Tech Blog Posts
Tech blog posts offer sometimes gems for reading. Here a selection of articles, I have been reading, by Robert O'Callahan, John Resig, and Michael Sperberg-McQueen.
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 24, 2008 7:55 AM in CSS, HTML, Opinions and Editorial, SVG, Semantic Web
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RSS 1.0 and RDFa
How do you express a feed using RDFa in a plain XHTML page? A proposal…
Filed by Karl Dubost on July 15, 2008 3:32 AM in Semantic Web, Tools
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The War of the Worlds
Some people are amazing, they are creators. They make complex things, beautiful and simple. They make the world a place of exploration and discovering.
Filed by Karl Dubost on June 27, 2008 7:27 AM in HTML, Opinions and Editorial, Semantic Web, W3C Life
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Update of the RDFa distiller
Published of a new version of the pyRdfa software (i.e., RDFa distiller) with new features, most notably the ability to parse “tag soup” HTML and/or HTML5.
Filed by Ivan Herman on June 23, 2008 10:44 AM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools
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Semantic Desktop in KDE 4.0 on Linux
Semantic Web based desktop system in Linux using KDE 4.0…
Filed by Ivan Herman on May 27, 2008 12:28 PM in Semantic Web, Technology
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We, Robots Like Music Too
BBC is offering their data under many forms. Their Radio Labs just released a new way to access to their schedule in many formats.
Filed by Karl Dubost on May 14, 2008 5:24 AM in Opinions and Editorial, Semantic Web
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How to add RDF information to a page using RDFa?
The Semantic Web Activity home page has a number of information that might be of interest for the Semantic Web (eg, for data integration). These should be made these available in RDF, too. How to do that without duplicating information? RDFa is your friend…
Filed by Ivan Herman on May 1, 2008 10:00 AM in Semantic Web, Technology 101, Tutorials
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Proposed Activity for Video on the Web
W3C organized a workshop on Video on the Web in December 2007 in order
to share current experiences and examine the technologies (see report) and is now following up with a proposal for a Video on the Web activity.
Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on April 15, 2008 3:29 PM in Accessibility, HTML, HTTP, Semantic Web, Technology, Video, W3C・Resources, Web Architecture
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Telephone Game about the Semantic Web
I'm no Mark Twain, but reports of Google's demise are greatly exaggerated. Today Tim Berners-Lee pointed me to this headline in the Times Online: "Google could be superseded, says web inventor." This, in turn, has morphed into more ominous restatements...
Filed by Ian Jacobs on March 13, 2008 7:30 PM in Opinions and Editorial, Semantic Web
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Open data, you and me
Data portability and open data are hot topics these months. The multiplication of social network sites has increased the aggregation of these data in silos. The Semantic Web activity encourages to open your data with a new series of cute logo. Geographical data such as the Open Street Map initiative, government budget such as USA are the trend. But when it comes to our personal data, we need more granularity.
Filed by Karl Dubost on January 7, 2008 1:04 AM in Opinions and Editorial, Semantic Web
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RDFa and HTML imagemap
RDFa is a way to enrich your Web pages with local data. The clear benefit is that your data are in context and then easier to manage. Yesterday, on the RDFa mailing list, Dan Brickley asked how we could use RDFa to extract the information of an HTML imagemap.
Filed by Karl Dubost on January 6, 2008 8:57 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Technology 101
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Semantic Web is a lot of fun
W3C released new Semantic Web logos, with a rather restrictive policy. The Web community let us know about it in the best possible way: humor and parody. W3C smiles and listens.
Filed by Karl Dubost on October 22, 2007 1:08 AM in Opinions and Editorial, Semantic Web, W3C Life
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When to standardize, especially an RDF API
The HTML 4.01 specification has an IMG element, but there is no normative dependency on the PNG or GIF or JPEG specifications. "What good is an HTML user agent that doesn't support GIFs?!?" you might ask. And you wouldn't be...
Filed by Dan Connolly on March 2, 2007 12:47 AM in Opinions and Editorial, Semantic Web, Web Architecture
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