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Events

• XTech call for participation closes today
• Workshop Reasoning on the Web (RoW06) at WWW2006, Scotland, May 22nd, 2006
• Grid Asia 2006, 16-19 May, Singapore
• IEEE Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2006), September 18-22, USA
• International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2006), collocated with International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2006), UK, June 2 to 5, 2006
• International Workshop on Inconsistency and Incompleteness in Databases (IIDB), March 26, 2006, Germany

Docs etc

• Turtle - text syntax for RDF, new version 2006-01-02, see also public-cwm-talk@w3.org
• Tutorials on Semantic Web Ontology Languages from Enrico Franconi (presented at SWAP2005) : Formalising Ontologies, Using Ontologies (PDF slides), see also : earlier course material (lots of references), ICOM modelling tool, Google " lav gav"
• OpenURL COinS : A Convention to Embed Bibliographic Metadata in HTML
• Will everyone have to learn OWL? Must We Mean What We Say (In OWL)?
• Let the controversy commence: Wikipedia: Description Logic
• NewsML and the Semantic Web, newsml-2 mailing list
• Logic on MySpace? Must be dmiles new blog
• Everyone's probably noticed the DIG blogs, also Danny Weitzner has a blog of his own: Open Internet Policy
• Reto Bachmann-Gmuer's Weblog and Planet
• getting the semweb exactly wrong (note Abby Normal-ized)
• International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems - calling for papers
• Short explanation of punning
• Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0 specs gone to Candidate Recommendation
• Search engine enhancement using the XML WordNet server system - Also, use XSLT to create an RDF/XML representation of the WordNet data

Software and stuff

• Firefox Navibar Extension 0.10 - sitemap-based navigator, includes a RDF/XML sitemap format
• rdf-utils - graph diff, leanify and now patch
• Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit 1.4.8 ( announcement) - parses the following syntax into RDF triples: RDF/XML, N-Triples, Turtle, GRDDL and RSS tag soup for many RSSes, Atom 0.3 and Atom 1.0. and serializes RDF triples into the following syntaxes: RDF/XML, RDF/XML abbreviated, RDF/XML XMP, N-Triples, Atom 1.0 and RSS 1.0
  
  (now also available through Subversion, see install)
• Swoop v2.3 beta - "A Hypermedia-based Featherweight OWL Ontology Editor"
• ARQ 1.1 - SPARQL/RDQL/ARC query engine for Jena ( jena-announce blog
• Spiral 0.34 — a .NET/Mono library providing foundation parsing and writing for RDF
• Description Logic complexity navigator
• List of Description Logic reasoners (7 actively supported, 3 of which are open source)
• web.py - microlight framework for web apps
• FuXi - 4RDF (N3/Versa) Reasoner using Pychinko Rete engine

Oddments

• Podcasts containing the phrase "semantic web" (according to Podzinger, a speech recognition-powered search engine)
• The Concept-Oriented Portal
• Database Systems course papers
• Microformats, 2005 year in review
• 300 Web 2.0 mashups
• Planet RDF subscribers at Bloglines (doesn't look like it's been updating since 2005-12-21), related feeds
• retrievr - search by sketch
• TimBL keynote video (from 2004)

Sources include Planet RDF, Semantic Weblogs, Semantic Web Interest Group IRC Scratchpad, W3C Semantic Web Activity, various emails etc - thanks!

other weeks

[I'm sure I saw a link to a recent TimBL keynote video, not sure where - anyone got it?]

[Danny]