BBC, LOD and the Music Ontology
Relaying this great news from Yves‘ blog (especially for planetrdf.com / planete.websemantique.org readers)
Just a couple of minutes ago on the Music Ontology mailing list, Nicholas Humfrey from the BBC announced the availability of linked data on BBC Music.
Integrating laconi.ca to SMOB
Gautier (aka lespetitescases) just hacked his SMOB client to make it post on identi.ca as well as on twitter. He’s using the new laconica API combined with the same method that SMOB uses at the moment to post on twitter (CURL + HTTP-Auth). As this feature was on the TODO list and some people were asking for it (a thread was also started by John recently on both SIOC and identi.ca mailing-lists) that was a really great news !
I just added those changes to the SMOB client (get it or update from svn) , so that it can now be used to post on identi.ca ! Moreover, I added the ability to post not only on identi.ca but on any laconi.ca based microblogging platform. You’ll see news parameter in the config_dist.php file, that let you set-up a list of servers with dedicated user / pass, as follows. Then, when publishing an update, you’ll be able to choose those servers as well as the previous ones (including twitter), and enjoy multiple-posting:
Then it’s browsable everywhere, but you still own it locally as RDF data so that you can re-use it later, etc.
Once again, merci Gautier !
Tags: identi.ca, laconi.ca, lespetitescases, microblogging, sioc, smob
Social Music meets the Semantic Web
No much time to blog at the moment, as I’m mainly concentrated on writing my PhD thesis (and so I wish best of luck - and motivation - to the ones in the same case !)
Yet, I gave a talk at a Center For Digital Music seminar last week, invited there by Yves Raimond. The goal was to showcase how the usual suspects of the Social Semantic Web (FOAF / SIOC / MOAT / LOD) can be used in the context of music-related services and can provide new ways regarding music recommendation. If you’re interested in music-related computing (not only from a SW point of view), you may also be interested in browsing the lab homepage and various projects they host (as the Giant Instrument and others like 3D-sound modeling, automatic mixing or human-synth beat-box)
Tags: foaf, lastfm, linkeddata, moat, sioc, socialmusic
SDoW2008 deadline extended
The SDoW deadline have been extended to the 4th of August, so that you have two additional weeks to submit your paper, demo or poster.
The 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2008) co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Media.
Complete details about the workshop can be found on its website. Also note that the poster and demo submissions can be up to 3 pages in LNCS format, while it was 2-pages only at the begining.
Tags: foaf, iswc2008, sdow2008, sioc
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