BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//librdf/rss2ical Version 1.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Planet RDF X-WR-RELCALID:http---planetrdf.com-index.rdfry X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20060326T020000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20061029T020000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---hyperdata.org-blog-2008-07-25-where-to-start-r SUMMARY:Where to start… ATTENDEE;CN="Danny Ayers":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080725T181033Z DTSTAMP:20080725T181033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080725T181033Z DESCRIPTION:General Inbox (9399 unread) Internal mail - 303 in the pas t week or so (including “ice cream van has arrived”) URL;VALUE=URI:http://hyperdata.org/blog/2008/07/25/where-to-start/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.lassila.org-blog-archive-2008-07-fulbright_no_mo.htmlG SUMMARY:Fulbright no more... ATTENDEE;CN="Ora Lassila":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080725T144620Z DTSTAMP:20080725T144620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080725T144620Z DESCRIPTION:Over the past year\, we have had Mr. Mikko Perttunen from the University of Oulu visiting my group. Mikko is being funded by the Ful bright Program . He is now returning to Finland to continue his studies. It has been an interesting year\, with many interesting discussions on cont ext-awareness\, Semantic Web\, pervasive computing\, etc. Mikko's work on \"audio contexts\" is quite cool. We have an upcoming paper in UBICOMM 2008 . URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.lassila.org/blog/archive/2008/07/fulbright_no_mo.h tml CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---tw.rpi.edu-weblog-2008-07-25-towards-webtop- SUMMARY:Towards Webtop ATTENDEE;CN="Tetherless World Constellation group RPI":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080725T073915Z DTSTAMP:20080725T073915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080725T073915Z DESCRIPTION:by Jie Bao Some of our Tetherless World researchers including m e have just written a short paper to sell the idea of constructing a “web top” using semantic technologies. In short\, a webtop is a desktop on the web\, that does similar jobs such as managing files\, doing word processin g\, managing contacts\, scheduling tasks\, emailing\, etc. Please see some examples of webtops with pretty GUIs. Almost one decade ago\, there has bee n hot for a while for the concept of “network computer”. At that time\, a network computer means some low-end computer with limited storage and co mputational capacity that relying on ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://tw.rpi.edu/weblog/2008/07/25/towards-webtop/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---iswc2008.semanticweb.org-2008-07-25-iswc-2008-tutorial-program-a nnounced-X SUMMARY:ISWC 2008 tutorial program announced ATTENDEE;CN="International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008)":invalid:nom ail DTSTART:20080725T041441Z DTSTAMP:20080725T041441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080725T041441Z DESCRIPTION:ISWC 2008 has selected a strong program of eleven tutorials tha t includes two full-day and nine half-day tutorials to be held on October 2 6 and 27. Introduction to Semantic Web (full day special tutorial) Reasonin g for Ontology Engineering and Usage (full day) Formal Concept Analysis for the Semantic Web A Semantic Multimedia Web: Create\, Annotate\, Present an d Share your Media Working Modularly with OWL Knowledge Representation and Extraction for Business Intelligence RDFa–Bridging the Web of Documents a nd the Web of Data RSWA 2008 - Realizing a Semantic Web Application How to Publish Linked Data on the Web Semantic Web for ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/2008/07/25/iswc-2008-tutorial -program-announced/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---ebiquity.umbc.edu-blogger-2008-07-24-iswc-2008-tutorial-program- set- SUMMARY:ISWC 2008 tutorial program set ATTENDEE;CN="Ebiquity research group UMBC":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080725T030840.03 DTSTAMP:20080725T030840.03 LAST-MODIFIED:20080725T030840.03 DESCRIPTION:The tutorial program for the Seventh International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) has been announced. It includes includes two full-d ay and nine half-day tutorials to be held on October 26 and 27 in Karsruhe. Introduction to Semantic Web (full day special tutorial) Reasoning for Ont ology Engineering and Usage ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/24/iswc-2008-tutoria l-program-set/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.w3.org-QA-2008-07-reading-tech-blogs.htmlM@ SUMMARY:Pleasure of Reading Tech Blog Posts ATTENDEE;CN="W3C QA Blog Semantic Web News":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080724T070900Z DTSTAMP:20080724T070900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080724T070900Z DESCRIPTION:Some technical blogs are usually interesting\, but there are so me which really push the limit and helps you to analyze and understand. Rea ding these blogs\, it just feels good. A sample of interesting blog posts I have read lately: Robert O'Callahan on SVG Applying SVG Effects To HTML Co ntent SVG Paint Servers For HTML Using Arbitrary Elements As Paint Servers SVG Filter Performance Improvements In Gecko 1.9.1 John Resig on HTML\, CSS and Javascript JavaScript Micro-Templating Implementing a Selectors API Te st Suite Michael Sperberg-McQueen on XML and RDF analysis Eleemosynary RDF Enrique on what RDF gets us RDF\, Topic Maps\, ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/07/reading-tech-blogs.html CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---iandavis.com-blog-2008-07-links-for-2008-07-23M@ SUMMARY:links for 2008-07-23 ATTENDEE;CN="Ian Davis":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080723T233130Z DTSTAMP:20080723T233130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080723T233130Z DESCRIPTION:Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Freebies B onanza Cool giveaway from Tor books - ebooks + cover artwork (tags: b ooks fantasy free ebooks ) URL;VALUE=URI:http://iandavis.com/blog/2008/07/links-for-2008-07-23 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---apassant.net-blog-2008-07-23-social-music-meets-the-semantic-web -P SUMMARY:Social Music meets the Semantic Web ATTENDEE;CN="Alexandre Passant":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080723T174955Z DTSTAMP:20080723T174955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080723T174955Z DESCRIPTION:No much time to blog at the moment\, as I’m mainly concentrat ed on writing my PhD thesis (and so I wish best of luck - and motivation - to the ones in the same case !) Yet\, I gave a talk at a Center For Digita l Music  eminar last week\, invited there by Yves Raimond .  he goal was to showcase how the usual suspects of the Social Semantic Web (FOAF / SIOC / MOAT / LOD) can be used in the context of music-related services and can provide new ways regarding music recommendation. If you’re interested in music-related computing ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://apassant.net/blog/2008/07/23/social-music-meets-the-se mantic-web/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---apassant.net-blog-2008-07-23-sdow2008-deadline-extended-H SUMMARY:SDoW2008 deadline extended ATTENDEE;CN="Alexandre Passant":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080723T170649Z DTSTAMP:20080723T170649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080723T170649Z DESCRIPTION:The SDoW  eadline have been extended to the 4th of August\, so that you have two additional weeks to submit your paper\, demo or poster. The 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2008) co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) aims to bring together res earchers\, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites\, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Media. #160\; C omplete details about the workshop can be found on its website . Also note that the poster and demo submissions can be up to 3 ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://apassant.net/blog/2008/07/23/sdow2008-deadline-extende d/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.semergence.com-2008-07-22-qotd-twitter-learning-scala- SUMMARY:QOTD - Twitter Learning Scala ATTENDEE;CN="Seth Ladd":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080723T070302Z DTSTAMP:20080723T070302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080723T070302Z DESCRIPTION:Several of us engineers at Twitter\, Inc. are learning Scala as the language in which to develop new components for our system. From Graceless Failures: Hello World URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.semergence.com/2008/07/22/qotd-twitter-learning-sc ala/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---iandavis.com-blog-2008-07-links-for-2008-07-22-tutori SUMMARY:links for 2008-07-22 ATTENDEE;CN="Ian Davis":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080722T233351Z DTSTAMP:20080722T233351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080722T233351Z DESCRIPTION:Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): The Death of Google’s Patents US Patent Office is changing its rules to disallow patenting of processes unless they “result in a physical transformation of an article” or are “tied to a particular machine” (tags: software patents law ) Park Place An Amazon-S3 Clone in Ruby. Clones the API but stores th e data on your own machine (tags: s3 ruby amazon ) URL;VALUE=URI:http://iandavis.com/blog/2008/07/links-for-2008-07-22 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---tw.rpi.edu-weblog-2008-07-22-owl-or-old-8 SUMMARY:OWL or OLD? ATTENDEE;CN="Tetherless World Constellation group RPI":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080722T213343Z DTSTAMP:20080722T213343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080722T213343Z DESCRIPTION:I just noticed the “ OWL 2 Web Ontology Language: Requirement s ” document from the OWL Working Group. Interestingly\, while the “W in OWL stands for “Web”\, I didn’t see any use case from web applic ations in the usual sense. As the leading requirements are from the need fo r domain knowledge bases\, I would suggest the name of the new language\, i nstead of OWL 2\, to be Ontology Language of Domains (OLD) — Just kidding . OWL claims to be needed by common web users\, but such users are surpris ingly under-represented in the specification process. We have already seen many specially ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://tw.rpi.edu/weblog/2008/07/22/owl-or-old/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---ebiquity.umbc.edu-blogger-2008-07-22-google-maps-walking-directi ons-from-nyc-to-la- SUMMARY:Google Maps walking directions from NYC to LA ATTENDEE;CN="Ebiquity research group UMBC":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080722T170903.29 DTSTAMP:20080722T170903.29 LAST-MODIFIED:20080722T170903.29 DESCRIPTION:\"Use caution when walking in unfamiliar areas\" warns Google a s if ask for walking directions in Google Maps. That's always good advice I suppose. Google Maps now gives directions for getting from one place to an other in three modes: by car\, by public transit and by walking. After expe rimenting ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/22/google-maps-walki ng-directions-from-nyc-to-la/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---iandavis.com-blog-2008-07-links-for-2008-07-21s-the-s SUMMARY:links for 2008-07-21 ATTENDEE;CN="Ian Davis":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080721T233242Z DTSTAMP:20080721T233242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080721T233242Z DESCRIPTION:[Standards] Google Androïd SDK not XMPP compliant ? Explana tion from Google of why they dropped XMPP support in Android. Cost of sessi on initiation is too high\, bandwidth usage is too high (and compression ea ts more battery power)\, massive variety of carrier network issues. (tags : google jabber xmpp mobile ) URL;VALUE=URI:http://iandavis.com/blog/2008/07/links-for-2008-07-21 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---norman.walsh.name-2008-07-21-oneOfThoseDays SUMMARY:One of those days… ATTENDEE;CN="Norm Walsh":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080721T200330Z DTSTAMP:20080721T200330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080721T200330Z DESCRIPTION:How many things can go wrong on the way to the airport? Let me count the ways… URL;VALUE=URI:http://norman.walsh.name/2008/07/21/oneOfThoseDays CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---hyperdata.org-blog-2008-07-21-getting-back-to-a-new-normal-s @P SUMMARY:Getting back to a (new) normal ATTENDEE;CN="Danny Ayers":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080721T153750Z DTSTAMP:20080721T153750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080721T153750Z DESCRIPTION:As Ian kindly explained a few days ago\, I recently lost my wif e Caroline. She didn’t have much of a Web presence\, but at least I can p oint to some of her photos and Wikipedia entry (grr\, with notability under question). Many thanks to everyone who has expressed their condolences\, a pologies if it’s a while (or even never) that I respond in person - I’m also a little overwhelmed in the usual sense right now too. I’m feeling ok\, coincidentally recently began the process of stopping drinking. I do w ish the uppers the doctor prescribed for now were as effective ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://hyperdata.org/blog/2008/07/21/getting-back-to-a-new-no rmal/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---ebiquity.umbc.edu-blogger-2008-07-19-proposals-sought-for-hostin g-iswc-2010- SUMMARY:Proposals sought for hosting ISWC 2010 ATTENDEE;CN="Ebiquity research group UMBC":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080720T050849.10 DTSTAMP:20080720T050849.10 LAST-MODIFIED:20080720T050849.10 DESCRIPTION:The Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) has begun the proce ss of selecting a site for the 9th International Semantic Web Conference to be held in 2010. Since ISWC'08 will be located in Karhsruhe Germany and IS WC'09 in the DC area in the US\, locations in Asia and Australia are ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/19/proposals-sought- for-hosting-iswc-2010/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---tripletalk.wordpress.com-2008-07-19-short-article-on-semantic-se arch-7X SUMMARY:Short article on Semantic Search ATTENDEE;CN="Peter Mika":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080719T125114Z DTSTAMP:20080719T125114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080719T125114Z DESCRIPTION:I’ve written a short article on Semantic Search for the Seman tic Web zone of DevX.com \, a developer’s site run by Jupiter Online Medi a\, the folks behind semanticweb.com . I begin with some argumentation as t o why we need semantics in search. I talk about what I see as an interestin g complementarity between recent advances in automated semantic tagging of natural text and other approaches to bringing metadata to the Web (such as exposing databases and APIs as RDF). Lastly\, I went into a bit of detail a s to how Yahoo’s SearchMonkey has been benefiting from Semantic Web techn ology in ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://tripletalk.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/short-article-on-s emantic-search/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---iandavis.com-blog-2008-07-links-for-2008-07-18 SUMMARY:links for 2008-07-18 ATTENDEE;CN="Ian Davis":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080718T233324Z DTSTAMP:20080718T233324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080718T233324Z DESCRIPTION:Desktop Flickr Organizer for Gnome (tags: flickr linux gnome photography ) URL;VALUE=URI:http://iandavis.com/blog/2008/07/links-for-2008-07-18 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.w3.org-blog-powder-2008-07-18-title_26 SUMMARY:F2F Meeting Summary 14 - 15 July 2008 ATTENDEE;CN="POWDER WG blog":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080718T144329Z DTSTAMP:20080718T144329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080718T144329Z DESCRIPTION:The group took the opportunity to go through several of its doc uments in detail over the course of the 2 days\, beginning with the Groupin g of Resources document. There was a fairly brief discussion about some of the features that have been removed from earlier versions: grouping by prop erty and CIDR block\, for example\, and the section on redirection. The cha nges have come about through a series of discussions with their resolution largely driven by practicality and ensuring that POWDER processing remains manageable. One action item not yet completed is an addition to the POWDER processor section of the DR ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.w3.org/blog/powder/2008/07/18/title_26 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---ebiquity.umbc.edu-blogger-2008-07-18-wikipedia-experiments-with- trusted-editors-to-approve-revisions- SUMMARY:Wikipedia experiments with trusted editors to approve\nrevisions ATTENDEE;CN="Ebiquity research group UMBC":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080718T130831.48 DTSTAMP:20080718T130831.48 LAST-MODIFIED:20080718T130831.48 DESCRIPTION:The NYT Bits blog has a post\, Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages on Wikipedia's proposed Flagged revisions/Sigh ted versions policy. This policy is currently being used in the German vers ion of Wikipedia. \"Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism. ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/18/wikipedia-experim ents-with-trusted-editors-to-approve-revisions/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.openlinksw.com-weblog-oerling-?id=1392WC SUMMARY:Virtuoso 5.0.7 Release, Now With Jena and Sesame\nAPIs ATTENDEE;CN="Orri Erling":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080717T171619Z DTSTAMP:20080717T171619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080717T171619Z DESCRIPTION:Improvements Full operation with Jena and Sesame RDF Frameworks . This fully replaces any previous attempts at interop\, and introduces sam ples and test suites. Better support for alternate RDF indexing schemes Par allel operation of the RDF Sponger\, importing multiple sources concurrentl y. New data formats supported for on-demand RDF-ization in the Sponger More efficient support for inference of subclass and sub-property\; now capable of efficiently handling taxonomies of tens of thousands of classes OWL equ ivalentClass and equivalentProperty support. Dynamic IRI host part support for mapped data and for metadata of local resources. Renaming the host or u sing multiple virtual hosts will accept ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.openlinksw.com/weblog/oerling/?id=1392 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---tw.rpi.edu-weblog-2008-07-16-human-and-the-semantic-web- SUMMARY:Human and the Semantic Web ATTENDEE;CN="Tetherless World Constellation group RPI":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080716T235305Z DTSTAMP:20080716T235305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080716T235305Z DESCRIPTION:“The Semantic Web is mainly serving machine agents” has bee n dominating my mind for many years. Now human users may also want to explo re the big mass of RDF data not just for debugging purpose. Semantic Web us er interaction is becoming an important part of Semantic Web layer cake and research direction (see SWUI workshops ) in ISWC. As a “web of data”\, the Semantic Web\, boosted by Linked Data efforts\, presents web users a m aze of RDF graph with billions of arcs (triples). To explore the maze\, bel ow are some html browser approaches I came across: Hyperlink based RDF ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://tw.rpi.edu/weblog/2008/07/16/human-and-the-semantic-we b/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---clarkparsia.com-weblog-2008-07-16-pellint-predicting-reasoner-pe rformance- SUMMARY:Pellint: Predicting Reasoner Performance ATTENDEE;CN="Clark and Parsia":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080716T150023Z DTSTAMP:20080716T150023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080716T150023Z DESCRIPTION:This week we released Pellint 0.1\, an ontology lint tool for d etecting and fixing performance problems in ontologies. In this post\, I’ ll explain what kind of problems Pellint detect and why. Predicting Reasoni ng Performance is Hard Predicting the reasoning performance for an ontology is not an easy task\, and what we do in Pellint is to define patterns that will detect some patterns known to be problematic. Unlike the traditional lint tools\, the problems found by Pellint do not necessarily indicate a mo deling error in the ontology. It just means that Pellet is probably going t o be slow when reasoning ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://clarkparsia.com/weblog/2008/07/16/pellint-predicting-r easoner-performance/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---realtech.burningbird.net-danny-ayers-with-sadness@ SUMMARY:With Sadness ATTENDEE;CN="Shelley Powers":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080716T133604Z DTSTAMP:20080716T133604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080716T133604Z DESCRIPTION:I was incredibly shocked and saddened to read about Danny Ayer s' wife Caroline passing away Saturday . They were such a happy couple\, and so content in their lives. My most heartfelt sympathies to Danny\, an d Danny and Caroline's friends and family members. He and they are in my th oughts. URL;VALUE=URI:http://realtech.burningbird.net/danny-ayers-with-sadness CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---bnode.org-blog-2008-07-16-sparqlscript-semantic-mashups-made-eas yP SUMMARY:SPARQLScript - Semantic Mashups made easy ATTENDEE;CN="Benjamin Nowack":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20080716T130000Z DTSTAMP:20080716T130000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20080716T130000Z DESCRIPTION:What is a scripting language without loops\, or a Web language without a template mechanism? Not really usable. Yesterday\, I finally adde d the two missing core features to my SPARQLScript processor\, and I'm exci ted about eventually being able to test the whole thing. This is just the b eginning (there is no string concatenation yet\, and no WHILE blocks)\, but with the basic infrastructure (and documentation ) in place\, it's time to start gathering feedback. I'm going to upgrade SPARQLBot in the next coupl e of days which should be a fun way to explore the possibilities (also\, it were the bot's ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://bnode.org/blog/2008/07/16/sparqlscript-semantic-mashup s-made-easy CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR