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Redland 0.9.14 -5 in Debian unstable/sid - a small packaging fix for the redland perl api.

Linux Kernel Traffic 2003-10-24

IBM execs ponder technology plans (Infoworld) by Paul Krill.

One goal is to boost support of the semantic Web via modeling capabilities in the Rational Rose and Rose XDE (eXtended Development Environment) tools, said Grady Booch, an IBM Fellow. The semantic Web involves a Web that is more intelligent and intuitive and links related data without manual [...]

The proceedings of the Practical and Scalable Semantic Systems workshop held at the ISWC conference on 2003-10-20 are now online. Picking a few interesting ones:

3store: Efficient Bulk RDF Storage, Stephen Harris and Nicholas Gibbins Application-Specific Schema Design for Storing Large RDF Datasets, Luping Ding, Kevin Wilkinson, Craig Sayers and Harumi Kuno Prolog-based Infrastructure for RDF: Scalability and Performance, Jan Wielemaker, [...]

Proceedings (Warning: 11M PDF) of First International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases, Co-located with VLDB 2003, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany, 459 pages, 2003-09-07 / 2003-09-08 (Jena2 paper Efficient RDF Storage and Retrieval in Jena2 is pages 131–151).

South Africa launches an Open Source software (OSS) centre called the CSIR Open Source Centre (via LWN)

Wired News: The Great Library of Amazonia (Wired News) by Gary Wolf. Fascinating story of efforts on digitising books. Today (2003-10-23) amazon.com has opened a full-text search service for 120,000 books it sells. You can also browse the images of the pages of the books (some fees required). The article also mentions the other efforts such [...]

LWN.net Weekly Edition 2003-10-23

A busy week, another addition to my semantic weblogs list:

Metadatos.cl Blog by the Group Metadatos de la Universidad de Chile - in Spanish, which I don’t read. I’m guessing from the links and babelfish translation that it looks relevant. Welcome.

ISWC 2003 blogging from Neil Ernst

Thursday a.m. Thursday a.m 2 Thursday pm Next ISWC: Hiroshima, Tim Berners-Lee Keynote

Tim’s keynote slides are Status and Direction of the Semantic Web (to appear at this date).