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Calais developers have built some great stuff - please make sure it doesn't break when we roll out Release 3!

Visit the R3 Technology Preview page to see what's coming and to learn how to test your application with R3. It's as easy as changing the domain name you point your application to.

R3 will go into production this coming week. 

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The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Group Note of Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. This document describes best practice recipes for publishing vocabularies or ontologies on the Web (in RDF Schema or OWL). It is intended for the creators and maintainers of vocabularies in RDFS and OWL (vocabulary and ontology are used interchangeably in the context of this specification). It provides step-by-step instructions for publishing vocabularies on the Web, giving example configurations designed to cover the most common cases.

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The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference. This document defines the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), a common data model for sharing and linking knowledge organization systems via the Web. The SKOS data model provides a standard, low-cost migration path for porting existing knowledge organization systems to the Semantic Web. SKOS also provides a light weight, intuitive language for developing and sharing new knowledge organization systems. It may be used on its own, or in combination with formal knowledge representation languages such as the Web Ontology language (OWL). Comments are welcome through 03 October. The group has also published an update of the companion SKOS Primer.

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Our book widgets are especially popular with authors who are releasing a book due to the ability of the widget to offer a single promotion and transaction point. We’re constantly in communication with these authors and a recent email from Laurel Snyder had me thinking that the release of a book is similar to a product launch.

Here are some similarities that I noted:

1) Hard work and perseverance are required to reach the release date. 

Laurel spent eight years “writing and revising and submitting and re-revising and workshopping and copyediting and agonizing.” Good things take time to create and hard work to polish. Transitioning from idea to release date requires a deep passion for realizing the outcome.

2) The work before the release expands beyond the core task.

Hard and required: writing the book or coding the program. Also hard and also required: editing, securing a publisher, marketing plans, tour itinerary, jacket art, … and debugging, marketing plans, UI designing, testing, …

3) The release date is only the start of the hustle.

The NextNY mailing list is constantly discussing best practices on landing press coverage, collecting end-user feedback, and any number of other data points following the launch of a product. There are bugs to correct, features to implement, and a business to be built. There are just as lively mailing lists for authors that offer advice on a wide range of tasks that need to be completed after the book’s released. The release date is simply a milestone and much work remains.

4) There’s an overwhelming sense of joy the moment it’s released.

The release date brings a joyous feeling that, as Laurel says, has you “dancing around in pajamas.”

[note: we’re still working towards the release and are happy for more individuals who want to see a preview of the product. If you want to, drop me a line fraser@ourcompanyname.com]

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I have been thinking about the situation in the Middle East and also the rise of oil prices, peak oil, and the problem of a world economy based on energy scarcity rather than abundance. There is, I...

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This is a five minute video in which I was asked to make some predictions for the next decade about the Semantic Web, search and artificial intelligence. It was done at the NextWeb conference and was...

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I do admit that I am probably a bit picky here but I whole-heartedly HATE the process of having to read my way through conference schedules, in particular through the ones that have four or more parallel tracks running. Me and my colleagues have been looking forward to the TRIPLE-I for quite a while, and my adhoc resolution for the NEXT i-Semantics (which is one of the three parts of the TRIPLE-I) is to initiate the development of an end-user oriented conference planning tool supported by faceted browsing: something that would allow me to sift through the pile of conference events quickly, changing perspectives as I wish, fading in and out not only tracks, but also topics, institutions and people.

Perspectives I’d apply would be for instance:

• What are talks or presentations that discuss visualization in an industry-applied context?
• The same thing in a scientific context?
• Which talks are addressing knowledge management and web 2.0 at the same time?
• Which talks are in English?
• Which presenters are Austrian/from the University of Trier/ from Overseas?
• Which are relevant for the Linked Data scope?
• etc. pp.

Such a tool would be a nice showcase for the conference itself, and - using Exhibit - shouldn’t be that difficult to put together (I think). In the meantime, I’ll have to keep studying the three pages Excel to PDF export of the detailed conference schedule (and yes, I am probably underestimating the cognitive value and more sustainable side-effects that studying such finely printed pages has:-). At first glance, these are the top three talks on each day that interest me most - for now, and disregarding German language presentation (results might change if I study the program again on Tuesday, which I will, so don’t be offended if you’re not on it:-)

Wednesday, 3rd of September:
- Semantic Search and Visualization of Time-Series Data
- Community Rating Service and User Buddy Supporting Advices in Community Portals
- Harnessing Wikipedia for Smart Tags Clustering

Thursday, 4th of September
- Seeding, Weeding, Fertilizing - Different Tag Gardening Activities for Folksonomy Maintenance and Enrichment
- A Model for Document Processing in Semantic Desktop Systems
- Non-linear Story-telling in a Mobile World
Friday, 5th of September
- Collaborative Knowledge Engineering via Semantic MediaWiki
- Building Ontology Networks: How to Obtain a Particular Ontology Network Life Cycle
- Improving Recommendations by Using Personality Traits in User Profiles

For more about the conference, go to the conference website.

And anyone who is planning to attend TRIPLE-I: I have just registered Semantic Web Company account on 12seconds, a platform for micro movies and I am looking for interview partners - it won’t take more than 12 seconds:-)

Uncategorized Building Ontology Networks, Community Rating Service, conference planning tool, Knowledge Management, Semantic Desktop Systems, Semantic Web Company

This is a brief post with one purpose: to clarify the meaning of the term "semantic." It has suddenly become chic to label every new app as somehow "semantic" but what does this mean really? Are all...

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I highly recommend this new book on Collective Intelligence. It features chapters by a Who's Who of thinkers on Collective Intelligence, including a chapter by me about "Harnessing the Collective...

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UPDATE: I posted some further notes on the fact that Twine is in beta, and what "beta" actually means and why we are in beta here. Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote a critical review of Twine today that...

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There has been a lot of hype about artificial intelligence over the years. And recently it seems there has been a resurgence in interest in this topic in the media. But artificial intelligence scares...

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This article sheds some light on the history of attempts to find a resolution between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government. I found it to be quite educational. There have in fact been numerous...

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The Beginning of the Mainstream Semantic Web? It is being reported that Yahoo will be indexing a wide array of structured metadata, including Semantic Web metadata. This will make Yahoo's search...

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I've been thinking lately about whether or not it is possible to formulate a scale of universal cognitive capabilities, such that any intelligent system -- whether naturally occurring or synthetic --...

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El título viene de la frase tan conocida de “papa noel (o los reyes magos) no existe, son los padres“.

La evolución que ha tenido la Web desde su creación hasta nuestros tiempos ha sido lineal en cuanto al destino: el usuario. Hemos pasado de una web completamente estática a la evolución que traía consigo generar contenido. La Web 1.0 ya era una web dinámica, cambiaba de contenido para informar, y ahora el dinamismo se ha extendido hasta llegar a un complejo sistema de interacción entre generadores y receptores.

Y dicen  que esto seguirá evolucionando. La Web 3.0 se avecina, o no.

Yo creo que aún no hemos llegado al tope de la web en su versión “beta”, la 2.0. Cada día se crean nuevos servicios desconocidos para este tipo de web. Creo que como mucho llegaremos en un breve periodo de tiempo a algo llamado Web 2.5, donde todos los servicios llegan a su punto álgido de consumo por parte de los usuarios de la web.

La Web 3.0 será la aplicación del concepto de Web Semántica a todos estos servicios. Haciendo una analogía con la frase del principio, la Web Semántica será el padre/madre de la Web 3.0 en sus inicios.

No sé que opináis vosotros sobre estos temas, y este sería un buen punto de encuentro para comentarlo.

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I want to remind everyone, TWINE IS A BETA. It is only a beta. Beta means not finished, under development, work in progress, construction site, imperfect, open to feedback, undergoing testing,...

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Melissa Pierce is a filmmaker who is making a film about "Life in Perpetual Beta." It's about how people who are adapting and reinventing themselves in the moment, and a new philosophy or approach to...

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I have been thinking a lot about social networks lately, and why there are so many of them, and what will happen in that space. Today I had what I think is a "big realization" about this. Everyone,...

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I got this picture from a friend who received it from a friend who is on the ground in Lhasa right now. Please redistribute, especially to the news media. Things are much worse for the Tibetans than...

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This is a video of me giving commentary on my "Understanding the Semantic Web" talk and how it relates to Twine, to a group of French business school students who made a visit to our office last...

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This video in support of Obama is the best piece of political advertising I've ever seen. And here is a funny parody of a response from the McCain camp (via Bram)

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I am pleased to announce that my company Radar Networks, has raised a $13M Series B investment round to grow our product, Twine. The investment comes from Velocity Interactive Group, DFJ, and Vulcan....

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I had an interesting thought today about the long-term preservation and transmission of human knowledge.The Wikipedia may be on its way to becoming the one of the best places in which to preserve...

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Here is the full video of my talk on the Semantic Web at The Next Web 2008 Conference. Thanks to Boris and the NextWeb gang!

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