Moving Around

• A better spreadsheet, Resolver "...data and formulae you enter into cells are actually turned into code."


• How to Publish Linked Data on the Web Share structured data on the web today.


• The joys of RDF/XML and it's inability to have literals in lists. A possible solution was suggested that would also allow literals as subjects.


• An RDF DB shootout complete with TestSuite. Hopefully, JRDF's use of BDB will have better results.


• An extension to SPARQL to support federated queries.


• Radar Networks Progress Update "We're on track for a invite only launch in the fall timeframe as planned...Several of the world's big media empires have started approaching me...They are interested in the potential of the Semantic Web for adding new capabilities to their content and new services for their audiences."


• Snoggle "...a graphical, SWRL-based ontology mapper to assist in the task of OWL ontology alignment. It allows users to visualize ontologies and then draw mappings from one to another on a graphical canvas."

The Killer Demo

What a relief there's a demo that can turn someone onto the “semantic” Web, this has obviously been a long time coming. As long as you believe the hype, the way you get the Semantic Web is one A-list blogger at a time.

Other comments: "Scoble Gets the Semantic Web", "Scoble Gets the Semantic Web", "Nova Spivack sees to it that Robert Scoble finally gets the Semantic Web", "You say Tomato...", "Describing the Semantic Data Web (Take 2)" and "QOTD : Scobleized".

Scaling to Hundreds of Billions of Triples

Nova Spivack Talks with Talis (in MP3 format) talks about the recent work by Radar Networks and how they require a triple store to scale to hundreds of billions (from about 45 minutes in). Mentions an interesting business opportunity (48 minutes in) to build a scalable triple store (mentions Tucana and Kowari and how it disappeared) that handles lots of writes and federated queries.