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BoF at Drupalcon - RDFa, Semantic Web and Distributed Social Networks

Submitted by david on Tue, 04/20/2010 - 02:44

I am holding a BoF on RDFa, Semantic Web and Distributed Social Networks. It will be at Drupalcon SF on Monday the 19th of April at 11am, Room 200.

Here are some of the links that I talked about.

Semantic Web

Drupal, the semantic web and search

Web of Things

Giant Global Graph - "It's not the documents, it is the things they are about which are important". Obvious, really.

W3C's New Marketing for the Semantic Web

Submitted by david on Fri, 10/12/2007 - 00:00

The W3C has a new set of icons for the Semantic Web. About time. Marketing and looks are important and for the Semantic Web to begin to sink in a re-branding was/is necessary. I congratulate the W3C on a smart move. Although I do question the box theme? The logo makes me thing small, I know it has an upturned corner to invite, but to me, box = closed. Anyway, it was a good move.

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ISWC2007 - All in order...

Submitted by david on Thu, 10/11/2007 - 00:00

Finally booked at the Seacloud. It is amazingly tough to find ratings or unbiased information on places to stay in South Korea. I know they are one of the most connected countries in the world so that is what makes it so odd.

Seacloud looks great and it has 100mbs connections free in-room.

SmugMug supporting FOAF and other open standards

Submitted by david on Sat, 10/06/2007 - 00:00

Just read this on their blog, it has been in place for a few weeks now. Great news, I have a develop account so plan on using this new feature in the Linking Open Data kind of way. Here is a quote from the blog:

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Getting travel arrangements for ISWC2007 in order

Submitted by david on Wed, 09/19/2007 - 00:00

Spent too many hours last night finding the best prices on flights to Busan, South Korea for

the The 6th International Semantic Web Conference. I think I found it, flying JAL out of Cairns. The only downside is staying over one night in Tokyo. Well, actually that should be pretty cool. I have never been to Japan so one evening will be nice.

URIs - Actually Creating Useful Links for Everyone, not just SemWeb geeks

Submitted by david on Fri, 06/29/2007 - 00:00

There is a bit of a debate going on in the linking-open-data list about what are the best practices for creating useful URIs for use in the Semantic Web. I believe that the current best practice is that any URI should be dereferenceable so therefore they need to be transported via HTTP.

I have invites (5) for Freebase, anyone interested

Submitted by david on Thu, 06/28/2007 - 00:00

I just got an email from Freebase letting me know that I have 5 (make that 11 now!) invites to hand out. Anyone intersested? Let me know, just drop a short comment with a tiny note on what interests you in the Freebase technology or Semantic Web or just what you had for lunch...

SemTech 2007 - Day 2

Submitted by david on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 00:00

The Tutorials were not that great, but the people I have met have more than made up for it. Coming from Townsville Queensland, there are not a whole lot of other people working within the Semantic Web (at least I have not found them yet, but I am sure they are out there).

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Semantic Technology Conference 2007 San Jose - Day 1

Submitted by david on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 00:00

Just flew in from Australia and I am exhausted. It has been about 30 hours straight of flying and pretty much no sleep. My baby boy was sick so he didn't sleep so I didn't sleep either. Hopefully will get a good nights sleep in San Jose.

This is the first time I have been to San Jose. It was great to see all the buildings and logos. I have worked on the web for over 12 years so it is a bit of a pilgrimage.