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w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/" title="W3C - Tim Berners-Lee">Tim Berners-Lee was very kind to participate in a podcast interview about the Semantic Web and future of the Web. He is the inventor of the World Wide Web and one of the people behind the vision of the Semantic Web.

Read more on Wikipedia - Tim Berners-Lee.

It was a very interesting interview and experience - talking with him about the Semantic Web, it's history, present and future. If you want a short intro into the Semantic Web and it's role in the scheme of things, listen to this interview. And tell us what you think!

Thanks, Tim!

Who we are

This podcast was prepared and brought to you by Ina O'Murchu and Uldis Bojārs. The original blog posts for this podcast are located at:

• Semantic Bits [Ina]
• CaptSolo Weblog [Uldis]

Thanks

Thanks to folks at #joiito for help with podcasting related questions and vmarks in particular for help with audio processing.

And big thanks to Ina for having the ISWC 2005 podcasting idea and implementing it.

If you mirror this interview or put it on BitTorrent - please let us know so we can link to it.

Antigravity device patented

A space vehicle ... propelled by the pressure of inflationary vacuum state is provided ...

... comprising a hollow superconductive shield, an inner shield, a power source, a support structure, upper and lower means for generating an electromagnetic field, and a flux modulation controller ...

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Whom Do Anti-Virus Companies Work For?

Bruce Schneier has a great editorial on Wired News that asks why anti-virus companies -- who would normally address a rootkit or similar piece of software within hours -- didn't notice Sony's rootkit, which had been in place since mid-2004? Also: why did they initially refuse to patch against it?

Who do these companies work for -- us, or the entertainment industry?

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Konference (ISWC 2005) bija ļoti traks laiks.

Milzum daudz iespaidu un satiktu cilvēku.

Priecājos, ka Viesturs (Extropy) atbrauca uz šejieni un piedalījās konferencē.

Domu apmaiņa un jaunu kontaktu veidošana arī ir tie spilgtākie iespaidi un lielākais ieguvums. Mums bija tā izdevība nedaudz parunāties ar weba "tēvu" Timu Berneru-Lī - tā ir fantastiska sajūta cik erudīts un ideju pilns cilvēks var būt.

Intervijas audio podcasts drīzumā sekos.

Cenšos tagad tos visus (iespaidus) apkopot, kas nemaz nav viegli. Kad tas būs darīts, uzrakstīšu šeit kādu kopsavilkumu. Iesākumam variet apskatīt dažas bildes (Flickr), drīzumā būs vēl.

Vienam varu piekrist - pat ja Semantiskā weba "sniega pika" vēl nav pati sākusi velties no kalna lejā, nu jau ir ļoti daudz cilvēku, kas to veļ. Un rezultāti liek savi manīt.

Papildus info:

• Semantiskais webs
• Trešdienas semināri MII

The ISWC 2005 conference has ended and now is the time for action!

"Publish the data! Annotate! Be there!" - these are some of the most motivating memes circulating in the air. And Eric Miller, the Activity Lead for the W3C Semantic Web Initiative, was one of the hottest proponents of some action [that fits his title well ].

Here is just a part of what you can and should do:

1) Generate SIOC! [shock]

Grab a WP SIOC plugin and drop it into your WordPress directory. It will instantly start to produce metadata describing your online community site = your blog.

" Danny installed the SIOC plugin and suddenly there's so much more information for the PiggyBank to use! " - EricM

For SIOC Developer discussions go to SIOC Forums or the mailing list.

2) Use PiggyBank!

Install PiggyBank / Use It!

PiggyBank is an exciting application presented at the ISWC 2005. It is a FireFox extension that turns your browser into a "Semantic Web browser", letting you make existing information on the Web more useful.

It can both make a good use of RDF data out there and use the data from regular web pages. You can then combine information from several web sites and use it all together.

3) Put Your Data Online!

Your papers, presentations, photos and videos - put them all online. Then annotate them and let people know.

Put them on the ISWC'2005 Semantic Bank!

Please let me know (just comment!) if you know the URLs or tags of the photos, videos and audio recordings that people took at ISWC 2005. Some photos can be found on Flickr tagged with 'galway' or 'iswc2005', but locating all your cool videos is not that easy unless you tell about them.

It would be especially good to find the audio recordings of keynote presentations - if everybody was recording dances at the Gala Dinner, maybe you also recorded those speeches?

Note: You can now add those links to the ISWC 2005 Media Index wiki page.

Thanks to John who blogged a very good set of ISWC 2005 resources.

Putting the Web back in Semantic Web - keynote presentation by Tim Berners-Lee at the wrap-up ISWC 2005 and start of RuleML 2005 - Galway, November 2005.

Has anyone recorded it?
(audio/video)

ISWC is in full action now and one of the today's events is the Industry Day with participation of blue chip company CEO's and a keynote talk by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

One of my colleague who was there says - the talk was very good and within a 30 minute timeframe TimBL gave a clear understanding about what the Semantic Web is. The slides are here:

• Semantic Web for the Industry - Tim Berners-Lee, Director, W3C - ISWC 2005 Industry Day

Latv: Rīt, 6.novembrī sāksies Starptautiskā semantiskā weba konference (ISWC 2005).

ISWC 2005 - the 4th Internation Semantic Web Conference will begin tomorrow in Galway. It starts with 2 days of workshops and tutorials, followed by the official conference opening on Tuesday, November 8 and three days of the conference sessions.

Schedules of interest:

• 06.11 - Semantic Desktop Workshop :: programme
• 06.11 - 10.11 - ISWC 2005 Conference :: timetable

More information:

• About ISWC 2005 workshops
• About ISWC 2005 tutorials
• List of papers - Industrial Track
• List of papers - Research/Academic Track

There will also be a special industry-oriented event:

• Information Juggernaut [industry day]

Related posts: ISWC 2005 - Research Papers in RDF [captsolo.net]

This little Perl program converts the list of ISWC 2005 Research track papers into RDF. Hope you find this info useful.

• ISWC-2005 Research Track in RDF
• Screen-scraper for ISWC data

The screen-scraper uses RDF::Simple by Jo Walsh and HTML::TableContentParser. There is space for improvement, especially in how to express the list of papers in RDF. Yet, this will be OK for the first attempt.

P.S. If the tool does not produce any result check if the original HTML page is online.

See also: Knud has created an RDF version of ISWC 2005 schedule.