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I hoped to have a mini reports done day-by-day, but a restricted Internet service at my hotel and the venue meant that I wasn’t as able to as I wanted. So here it is, a bigger report. I’ll do it in an interview style.
What was XTech 2008 generally about?
XTech 2008 was about “The Web on […]

So I have talked about how RDF is really simple, and why Linked Data are the roots of the web… but we need a way of serving this data in a meaningful way, this is where the Data Server steps in!
The allegory continues……

Here we see our home-grower digging up some potatoes.
The potatoes are Linked […]

OK, so in my last post (”RDF: Simpler if you look at it in a different way“) I said that RDF is a modeling framework to link data together in the form of object to object relationships, I briefly mentioned some “vocabularies” (aka ontologies) and some formats (e.g. Notation3, RDF/XML). I want to mention again […]

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 […]

An interesting discussion is occurring on the Linking Open Data mailing list about whether Linked Data is an application or a capability. This is a tough question, and I would actually say both, here are my reasons:
Linked Data: The Application
Linked Data uses Semantic Web technology to link one object to another object over knowledge domains. […]

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 […]

[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.
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