Daniel Lewis

I’ve just heard about the Open Data Definition (ODD), its a good idea, but it has already been done in the form of Semantically Interconnected Online Communities (SIOC)….
SIOC (pronounced “Shock” <– its Irish) “can [also] be used as a syndication format, like RSS”. Plus SIOC has already been deployed in many web systems, and it […]

I might consider doing a longer post later, but I wanted to highlight this to all my fellow SemWebbers.
The Semantic Web (and/or “Data Web” and/or “Web 3.0“) is seeing increasing coverage in the media (with varying amounts of accuracy):

“Web 3.0 is all about Rank and Recommendation” by Jemima Kiss of the The Guardian (doesn’t […]

I found out some good news today:
I will be presenting at XTech 2008 (Dublin, Ireland), my presentation is titled “Linked Data Deployment” (tags: linkeddata, linkingopendata, deployment, webofdata, webofdocuments, dataportability, semanticweb) and will be at 14:45 on Wednesday 7th May 2008 in the Goldsmiths 2 room of the Radison SAS Royal Hotel.
(p.s. the URI for XTech […]

The Linking Open Data Community had some awesome news today, Drupal version 7 will run on an entirely RDF base, will expose that RDF and be able to import RDF. This is awesome news, but it gets even better! Drupal 7 will be Linked Data enhanced too! <insert-big-smiley-face-here>.
This has been documented in some detail on […]

[Note]This is an adapted version of a comment that I wrote responding to the mentioned blog article. I copy it here in case my comment doesn’t get approved, I have also embedded semantics into this copy and changed a few bits[/Note]
Ian Davis posted “Web 3G: The Third Generation of the Web” at 2:19am this morning. […]

What DataPortability Is:
I just spent my Sunday evening (from about 6pm GMT until 9:30pm GMT) having a discussion about what data portability is exactly. Here is my first informal definition, which seems to fit the general idea that was being talked about.
First things first. DataPortability is a brand… its a kind of un-organisation (a bit […]

Here is my DataPortabilityAndMe video
John Breslin’s DataPortabilityAndMe Video is also good, and so is Ian Forrester’s DataPortabilityAndMe Video.
Technorati Tags: DataPortabilityAndMe, dataportability, semanticweb, web

Some people have written up about SemanticCamp on their blog posts, here are the ones that I know of (in no particular order):

Daniel Lewis : “SemanticCampLondon - Quick Review“
Yves Raimond: “Yay for SemanticCamp!“
Frances Berriman: “SemanticCamp London“
Jeremy Keith: “Semantopoly“
Tom Heath: “Saturday and Sunday at SemanticCamp“
Benjamin Nowack: “Back from SemanticCamp London“
Andrew Walkingshaw: “Semantic Camp London“
Glenn Jones: “Semantic […]

DataPortability - The Pros
If you were not aware there is a movement going on at the moment called the DataPortability initiative. This initiative has been set up to try to:

show users of web systems (in particular Social Networking systems) that they currently don’t have full control over the information that they put onto systems
assist developers […]

Hello,
I was at Oxford Geek Night 5 last night to announce BarCampOxford stuff, except I kinda messed it up:

(photo taken by Alex Blok of O’Wonder)
The messing up was probably due to a number of reasons:

My co-organiser (Pete Cooper) not being there because of illness, and being told about that a couple of hours before […]