So it begins…

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000527.html

With the announcement that Yahoo is to support microformats, the semantic web (if not the Semantic Web) enters the mainstream. RDF still doesn’t have a killer app, but the ability to extract context from metadata is with us now. The sector can begin to see where it can use/advance these standards for its content. Perhaps hList is a start.

Semantic digital library work

Sebastian Kruk asked me to distribute the following:

Thanks again for the opportunity to meet with you all.

Could you, please, send around a couple of links?

JeromeDL: http://www.jeromedl.org/
Corrib: http://www.corrib.org/

Irish Digital Libraries Summit (wiki page)- April 20th:
http://semdl.corrib.org/IrishDLSummit
(I would be very happy if someone from your group could participate).

Best,

Sebastian

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JeromeDL 2.0 is out - Grab your copy [http://blog.corrib.org/?p=4]

from one who is close to the ‘action’

Danny Ayers in his ‘raw’ blog: ‘It’s my opinion that only a tiny proportion of the web needs to have rich Semantic Web capabilities for the web as a whole to gain significantly. A handful of superpeers could make a huge difference.’ He also advocates lots of small, local knowledge domain approaches.

Google investigating semantics…

http://code.google.com/p/swecr/

Early days, but its Google - can’t ignore it.

Dublin Core 2007

The call for papers for DC2007 (http://dublincore.org/workshops/dc2007/cfp/) shows concern with lots of the stuff that’s preoccupied us at the workshops so far, particularly the mapping of knowledge domains through formal SW means and how social tagging can fit in.

Jeremy

Semantic community tagging for ‘power users’

One thing which concerned us for some time in Newcastle was the ‘interface’ or possible relationships for users and staff between contextualities built by folksonomy and those more formal structures built by domain experts such as curators.  We’re not at the answers stage yet I think, apart from an agreement that both approaches are valuable and can complement each other. Maybe its simplistic but I like to see the ‘formal’ side acting as semantic glue sticking folksonomies together.

Things are moving along elsewhere. DBin looks interesting: http://dbin.org/ RDF semantic tagging of discussions by domain experts. Danny Ayres (Raw) has been blogging about SWAP 2006 in Pisa and this among other things, raised his interest.

Mike

DERI - John Breslin

SWUI 2006 - Semantic Web User Interaction

One of the most difficult things about the SW has been the question ‘what will it look like?’ - many of us being such visual beasts. There’s a conference on exactly this topic happening next week in the USA. Our friend and collaborator Paul Shabajee is on the Programme Committee, so, Paul, we’ll be expecting a report!

http://swui.semanticweb.org/swui06/

This is also sponsored by Tim BL’s latest initiative ‘The Web Science Research Initiative’, focussing on the social implications of the ongoing revolution…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6108578.stm

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/1047 

Something we need to find out more about

http://www.brickscommunity.org/prj

BRICKS is a Framework Six large scale European project with the stated goal of pulling digital heritage resources together into a single coherent global digital library. There are a number of semantic strands to it, focussing on digital library projects.

‘Data Webs’ hosted by the Research Information Network

A day of discussion and presentations on the use of ’lightweight semantic web’ approaches to research informatics (bioinformatics, physics etc). Also includes a talk from David Karger, creater of Haystack and more recently, Piggy Bank. Presentations are available:

http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-webs