Category: FOAF
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Book launch for "The Social Semantic Web"
We had the official book launch of “The Social Semantic Web” last month in the President’s Drawing Room at NUI Galway. The book was officially launched by Dr. James J. Browne, President of NUI Galway. The book was authored by myself, Dr. Alexandre Passant and Prof. Stefan Decker from the…
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Open government and Linked Data; now it's time to draft…
For the past few months, there have been a variety of calls for feedback and suggestions on how the US Government can move towards becoming more open and transparent, especially in terms of their dealings with citizens and also for disseminating information about their recent financial stimulus package. As part…
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BlogTalk 2009 (6th International Social Software Conference) – Call for Proposals – September 1st and 2nd – Jeju, Korea
BlogTalk 2009 The 6th International Conf. on Social Software September 1st and 2nd, 2009 Jeju Island, Korea Overview Following the international success of the last five BlogTalk events, the next BlogTalk – to be held in Jeju Island, Korea on September 1st and 2nd, 2009 – is continuing with its…
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"The Social Semantic Web": now available to pre-order from Springer and Amazon
Our forthcoming book entitled “The Social Semantic Web”, to be published by Springer in Autumn 2009, is now available to pre-order from both Springer and Amazon. An accompanying website for the book will be at socialsemanticweb.net.
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Tales from the SIOC-o-sphere part #9
It’s been another exciting six months in terms of SIOC-related developments. Here’s a summary: In today’s blog post entitled “Obama?s Groundbreaking use of the Semantic Web“, David Peterson references a recent presentation by George Thomas about recovery.gov at Transparency Camp where he details a variety of Semantic Web technologies (including…
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Nice video shows how hidden structured data from the Drupal content management system can lead to semantic search
(Cross-posted at socialmedia.net.) Via Drupal creator Dries Buytaert‘s post entitled RDFa and Drupal and St?phane Corlosquet‘s post about RDFa and Drupal examples and use cases, there is a really cool video that demonstrates how the structured data that is available in many Drupal deployments (but is difficult to leverage due…
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Presentation slides on the Social Semantic Web (from last night's IET/CompSoc talk)
Here are my slides from last night’s joint talk for the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Computer Society… The Social Semantic Web View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: socialweb semanticweb)
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Prize winners visualise Irish online life in the boards.ie SIOC Data Competition
The winners of the SIOC (pronounced “shock”) data competition being run by DERI at the National University of Ireland, Galway have been announced. The competition ran from September to October 2008, and the brief was to produce an interesting creation based on a data set of discussion posts reflecting ten…
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"The distributed social web"
I read an interesting Gartner talk summary by Ross Dawson about the distributed social web, via another blog post by Chris Saad. Building blocks like OpenID, oAuth and microformats are mentioned in both posts, and I wanted to pipe up on behalf of the Semantic Web (if I may)… A…
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Upcoming events of interest…
For those in Ireland or abroad who are interested in the Semantic Web, the 2nd Vocabulary Camp (VoCamp Galway for short) will be held in Galway on the 25th and 26th of November in DERI. VoCamp is an informal (free) event where people can learn about or create lightweight vocabularies…
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