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<div>Ok, my first attempt at a round-up (in response to Phil's
observation of 
<a href="http://weblog.philringnalda.com/?p=1008">Planetary
damage</a>). Thanks to the conference there's loads more here than
there's likely to be subsequent weeks, although it's still only a
fairly random sample and some of the links here are to heaps of
other resources…
 
Incidentally, if anyone's got a list/links for SemWeb-related
blogs that aren't on 
<a href="http://planetrdf.com">Planet RDF</a>, I'd be grateful for
a pointer. PS. Ok, I forget… are there any blogs that aren't
on Dave's 
<a href="http://journal.dajobe.org/journal/2003/07/semblogs/">list</a>
yet..?
Quote of the week:
<blockquote>
 In the Semantic Web, it is not the Semantic which is new, it
 is the Web which is new.
</blockquote>
- 
<a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/people/w/welty/">Chris
Welty</a>, IBM (lifted from TimBL's 
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Talks/1110-iswc-tbl/">slides</a>)
<h4>Events</h4>
<ul>
 <li>
 <a href="http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/">4th International
 Semantic Web Conference</a> - happened this week, see : 
 <a href="http://simile.mit.edu/conference/iswc2005/">ISWC2005
 Semantic Bank</a></li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://www.gnowsis.org/Events/HackBerlin2005">Semantic
 Desktop Workshop</a>, 9-13 December 2005, Berlin</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://trinity.dit.unitn.it/vikef/swap2005/">Semantic
 Web Applications and Perspectives/Workshop</a> (SWAP2005), 14-16
 December, 2005</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://jena.hpl.hp.com/juc2006">Jena User Conference</a>
 - May 10-11 2006, Bristol UK</li>
</ul>
<h4>Docs etc</h4>
<ul>
 <li>Conference highlights on the #swig chump: 
 <a href="http://swig.xmlhack.com/2005/11/06/2005-11-06.html">2005-11-06</a>,
 
 <a href="http://swig.xmlhack.com/2005/11/06/2005-11-07.html">-07</a>,
 
 <a href="http://swig.xmlhack.com/2005/11/06/2005-11-08.html">-08</a>,
 
 <a href="http://swig.xmlhack.com/2005/11/06/2005-11-09.html">-09</a>,
 
 <a href="http://swig.xmlhack.com/2005/11/06/2005-11-10.html">-10</a>;
 Ian's 
 <a href="http://internetalchemy.org/tag/iswc2005">notes</a>;
 John's 
 <a href="http://www.johnbreslin.com/blog/2005/11/06/iswc-2005/">resources</a>;
 Leo's 
 <a href="http://leobard.twoday.net/topics/SemWeb">stories</a>;
 Uldis' 
 <a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2005/11/12/iswc_2005_do_the_right_thing">call
 to action</a>; 
 <a href="http://del.icio.us/tag/iswc2005">del.icio.us/iswc2005</a>; 
 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/iswc2005/">flickr/iswc2005</a>;
 
 <a href="http://www.foaf-project.org/2004/media/date/2005/11/">foaf-moblog</a>.</li>
 <li>Slides from Sir TimBL's conference keynotes: 
 <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Talks/1107-iswc-tbl/">Semantic
 Web for the Industry</a>, 
 <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Talks/1110-iswc-tbl/">Putting the
 Web back in Semantic Web</a></li>
 <li>Daniel Weitzner's keynote: 
 <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Talks/1110-p4-semweb-iswc/">Privacy,
 Provenance, Property and Personhood</a></li>
 <li>Long-time SW researcher 
 <a href="http://www.stefandecker.org">Stefan Decker</a> now has a
 blog, inspirationally entitled 
 <a href="http://www.stefandecker.org/blog/">Stefan Decker on the
 Semantic Web</a>. (Stefan's one of the head honchos at 
 <a href="http://www.deri.ie/">DERI</a>). Sample snippet:
 
 <blockquote>
 I just noticed the article from Dan Zambonini "
 <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8013?CMP=OTC-TY3388567169">Is
 Web 2.0 killing the Semantic Web?</a>". From my perspective the
 article shows a misconception that people seems to have around
 the Semantic Web: the Semantic Web effort itself is not provide
 applications (like the 
 <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html">Web
 2.0 meme</a> indicates) - it rather provides standards to
 interlink applications.
 </blockquote></li>
 <li>Leigh Dodds has two pieces demonstrating neat facilities
 offered by 
 <a href="http://jena.sourceforge.net/ARQ">ARQ</a> the SPARQL
 query API for Java: 
 <a href="http://www.ldodds.com/blog/archives/000251.html">parameterised
 queries</a> and 
 <a href="http://www.ldodds.com/blog/archives/000252.html">extension
 functions</a>.</li>
 <li>A new W3C Working Group has been chartered: 
 <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/charter">Rule
 Interchange Format WG</a> - 
 " to produce a core rule language plus extensions which
 together allow rules to be translated between rule languages and
 thus transferred between rule systems.". As noted by 
 <a href="http://journal.dajobe.org/journal/">dajobe</a>, phase 1
 includes making a new XML syntax for RDF…</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/94/">UMBC
 Semantic Web Reference Card</a> 
 - if you only print one thing this year…or did you
 already do the 
 <a href="http://www.dajobe.org/2005/04-sparql/">SPARQL Reference
 card</a>..?</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/WebDescription">WebDescription</a>
 - root wiki page for collecting notes on web description
 languages (ESW Wiki, 
 <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-http-desc/2005Nov/0000.html">announcement</a>)</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/Bot">Bot</a> - IRC/Jabber chat
 bots that are either in use by Semantic Web developers or use
 Semantic Web technologies (ESW Wiki)</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/faqs-for-rdf">microformat
 FAQs for RDF fans</a> (ESW Wiki)</li>
 <li>W3C working draft : 
 <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20-rdf/">WSDL 2.0 - RDF
 Mapping</a></li>
 <li>SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System) updated drafts: 
 <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-spec">SKOS Core
 Vocabulary Specification</a>, 
 <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-guide">SKOS Core
 Guide</a></li>
 <li>working draft: 
 <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/sprot11/">SPARQL Protocol for RDF
 Using WSDL 1.1</a></li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2005/HPL-2005-170.html">A
 relational algebra for SPARQL</a>, 
 <a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2005/HPL-2005-171.html">Note
 on database layouts for SPARQL datastores</a> (PDFs, Richard
 Cyganiak, HP)</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11042/">Amateur Fiction
 Online</a> - The Web of Community Trust A Case Study in Community
 Focused Design for the SemanticWeb (
 <a href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11042/01/case_study.pdf">PDF</a>)</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/0511&file=x5sem.xml&xsl=article.xsl">Building
 a Semantic Wiki</a> - IEEE article. See also: 
 <a href="http://www.semanticdesktop.org/SemanticDesktopWS2005/final/27_oren_semperwiki_final.pdf">SemperWiki
 - Semantic Personal Wiki</a> (PDF), 
 <a href="http://www.semanticdesktop.org/SemanticDesktopWS2005/final/22_aumueller_semanticwikiexperience_final.pdf">WikSAR
 - Towards a Semantic Wiki Experience</a> (PDF)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Software and stuff</h4>
<ul>
 <li>
 <a href="http://challenge.semanticweb.org/">Semantic Web
 Challenge</a> applications (winner: 
 <a href="http://www.confoto.org/">CONFOTO</a> - congrats
 bengee!)</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/">Piggy Bank 2.1.1</a>
 released.</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://www.openiris.org/">IRIS</a> is a semantic desktop
 application framework that enables users to create a "personal
 map" across their office-related information objects. IRIS
 includes a machine-learning platform to help automate this
 process. It provides "dashboard" views, contextual navigation,
 and relationship-based structure across an extensible suite of
 office applications, including a calendar, web and file browser,
 e-mail client, and instant messaging client.
 
 (open source release due Jan 2006)</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://www.mksearch.mkdoc.org/">MKSearch</a> - 
 "A new kind of search engine" - RDF-backed (Sesame) with
 Web crawler, extracts and indexes metadata.</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://www.foafrealm.org">FOAFRealm</a> - Our goal is to
 design and implement D-FOAF, a distributed authentication and
 trust infrastructure without a centralised authority. D-FOAF will
 be a backbone for trust applications based on social
 relationships and will establish identity of users similar to the
 way we establish identify and trust in real life.</li>
 <li>Perl 
 <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Flickr-RDF-1.1/">Net::Flickr::RDF</a></li>
 <li>WordPress 
 <a href="http://rdfs.org">SIOC</a> (Semantically-Interlinked
 Online Communities) plugin updated (just copy 
 <a href="http://sw.deri.org/svn/sw/2005/08/sioc/wordpress/wp-sioc.php">wp-sioc.php</a>
 into the root of your WP install and it 
 just works)</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://ontomedia.ecs.soton.ac.uk/">OntoMedia</a> is
 intended for the representation of heterogenous media through
 description of the semantic content of that media. The
 representation may be limited to the description of some or all
 of the elements contained within the source or may include
 information regarding the narrative relationship that these
 elements have both to the media and to each other.</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://mspace.fm/">mSpace</a> is an interaction model to
 help explore relationships in information - 
 "Imagine Google on iTunes"</li>
</ul>
Blog post title of the week:
<blockquote>
 
 <a href="http://copia.ogbuji.net/blog/2005-11-12/Don_t_give">Don't
 give me that monkey-ass Web 1.0, either</a>
 
</blockquote>
- 
<a href="http://copia.ogbuji.net/blog/">Uche Ogbuji</a>
Also…a new threat to Semantic Web developers has been
discovered: 
<a href="http://planb.nicecupoftea.org/archives/001309.html">typhoid</a>!,
and the key to the Web's full potential is…
<a href="http://www.foaf-project.org/2004/media/2005/11/07/3448">Tetris</a>.

 
 <a href="http://dannyayers.com/archives/category/virtual-world/semantic-web/sw-weekly/">other
 weeks</a>
 
[Danny]
</div>