Re: semantic technology solutions for multilinguall sites

2008-12-12 Thread Andraz Tori
Hi, an interesting case of using semantic web to provide some cross language functionality is Faviki bookmarking site. More about how they use it is described here http://faviki.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/faviki-is-featured-on-google-code/ just a few days ago a W3C SW case study was published

Deadline Extension, Semantic Web In Use Track, ESWC2009, Heraklion, Crete

2008-12-12 Thread Tom Heath
In response to a number of requests, the deadline for the ESWC2009 Semantic Web In Use track has been extended by 48 hours to: December 17, 2008 (11:59 pm Hawaii time) This will be reflected shortly on the ESWC2009 Web site at http://www.eswc2009.org/calls/semantic-web-in-use Cheers, Tom and

[ANN] News from the FlyWeb Project (Milestone 2)

2008-12-12 Thread Alistair Miles
Dear all, This is an update from the FlyWeb Project team on our second milestone release of cross-database search tools, data, web services and software, exploring Web-based data integration for the Drosophila research community. Highlights in this release include: * two new search

Re: [Ann] OSM Linked Geo Data extraction, browser editor

2008-12-12 Thread Bernard Vatant
Hi Sören Have you any plans to link those data with geonames.org data? Bernard Hi all, We were working in the last weeks on bringing geo data derived from the marvelous OpenStreetMap project [1] to the data web. This work in progress is still far from being finished, however, we would

Re: [Ann] OSM Linked Geo Data extraction, browser editor

2008-12-12 Thread Sören Auer
Bernard Vatant wrote: Have you any plans to link those data with geonames.org data? Yes and no ;-) Of course we want to interlink the OSM data with as many other data sources as possible. Candidates are Geonames, Wiki/DBpedia, Worldfactbook, OpenResearch [1] etc. Such interlinkages fit also

rdf:text - effect on linked data?

2008-12-12 Thread Seaborne, Andy
Hi, Has there been any thought given to the potential RDF change in the rdf:text proposal from OWL (and RIF)? It changes RDF so that there are two ways to write down literals with language tags: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rdf-text-20081202/ Old data still works, but new forms may appear.