Sunny Side of the Street

This is a long time since I have not posted here but I must admit I spend the last weeks (maybe the last month) away from that blog.

Indeed, I moved from Paris to Galway at the end of August, and so was packing / traveling and then started my new job. As you can guess when reading Galway in a semweb-related blog, I’m now in DERI, where I will keep working - mainly - on the Social Semantic Web, i.e. federating distributed online communities, augmented tagging, linked-data, etc.

Some interesting (well, I hope) stuff will come soon, especially the first public release of LODr, unfortunately a bit later that I expected because of this moving and as I wanted to clean up some parts of the code before publishing it. You may have already heard about it either on my ESWC poster about MOAT or by reading the SDoW program, but in a few words, this tools uses the MOAT principles to let you re-tag your existing Web 2.0 content with URIs, i.e. loading all you social data into the Semantic Web and interlinking with the (freshly-updated) LOD cloud. Thus, queries like “Please give me all the bibsonomy items linked to a topic related to dbpedia:Semantic_Web” of “Can I see Flickr pictures linked to one of my foaf:knows connection” will have an answer !

Regarding SDoW, Yves Raimond (you know, the BBC guy ;) ) and myself will present a paper about music recommendations and the Semantic Web, extending some ideas of my previous talk about the topic (Yves will also be a guest speaker at the Web of Data Practitioners Days and was recently interviewed about those relationships between music and the SW). There is a total of 12 accepted paper (long, short and demos) from 24 submissions for this full-day workshop. We were really happy to get that much submissions, and we guess it will be a really interesting event regarding the different topics covered by the papers. Harry Halpin will give a keynote there, introducing the upcoming Social Web Incubator Group, and the second speaker is to be confirmed. BTW, if you consider attending it, ISWC early registration deadline is tonight.

Finally, after spending last week at RWSS, I’ll be in Oxford next week for the fist VoCamp, which should be a really productive event according the the schedule and topic ideas. Let’s hope that new vocabularies will emerge, but I have no doubt about this.

September 18, 2008 | Filed Under Personnal, Semantic Web, Social Software & Web 2.0 |  

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2 Responses to “Sunny Side of the Street”

  1. Uldis Bojārs on September 18th, 2008 8:07 pm

    Welcome to Galway, Alex! :)

    Looking forward to work together on some interesting stuff. And, indeed, it was exciting to see this number of high-quality submissions to the SDoW 2008 workshop.

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