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Speaking of Elias, it would be remiss of me not to mention he's done it again. The SparqlCalendarDemo he and Lee Feigenbaum put together was a great demonstration of Ajax+SemWeb. Now he, with Wing and Ben (great write-ups!) are covering Atom Protocol+SemWeb in Queso (with James Snell around somewhere with Apache Abdera).

This is all cutting-edge Web 2.0 stuff, and the application of SemWeb tech in the more general arena is getting noticed. It's a good touchstone when Sam Ruby asks " Can it do this?" and a few hours later in comments Elias posts a query that does it. Bonus points to Adam Constabaris for post title The Atoms! They SPARQL!

The outreach angle here is elegantly trojan - anyone looking for an Atom Protocol implementation has one in Queso, plus it's got all this extra functionality out of the box, "ooh, I wonder what that does, let me try this..."

[Incidentally, coming from a different direction, 1060 NetKernel has interesting coverage of REST and RDF, OpenLink Virtuoso is what they call a Universal Server (check the features - it's not such a wild claim - seriously broad coverage - SQL, XML, LDAP, RDF etc), and their press release says: " OpenLink Releases Technology to Accelerate Exploitation of Web 2.0 and Semantic Web". (Open source too, btw).]

Meanwhile, the W3C have announced a new Education and Outreach WG as part of their SemWeb initiative, but details don't appear to be available yet. I do have other suggestions on this front, but above all I'd recommend watching what Elias & associates are showing and telling. Way cool.