Alexandre Passant

The program of SDoW2008 has just been published on the workshop website. In addition to the 7 full papers, 2 short papers and 2 demos, there will be two keynotes: the first one by Peter Mika on "Semantic Search and the Social Web" and the second one by Harry Halpin entitled "Beyond Walled Gardens: Open Standards for the Social Web". Attending TPAC this week, I can tell that the second one is really a hot-topic: there were some discussions yesterday in the SWIG group meeting, two related lightning talks today, and an upcoming "Workshop on the Future of Social Networking" lead by the W3C Mobile Web Initiative.

The SDoW proceedings were also officially published today on CEUR-WS, volume 405:
http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-405. If you're attending the workshop, consider reading it before, as it might help Q/A and discussions. There will also be a lightnight talk session, so that any attendee will be able to present his works / ideas regarding Social Web and the Semantic Web.

Just sent that to sioc-dev, but I guess it worth a larger announcement :

We just made some changes to the SIOC Core ontology and to the related modules:

- Added OWL-DL compliance statements for SIOC Core and the Types / Access / Services modules
- Edited owl:disjointWith statements for some classes of SIOC Core
- Removed domain of sioc:note
- Removed domain of sioc:has_owner and range of sioc:owner_of
- Defined sioc:account_of as inverse property of foaf:holdsAccount
- Defined sioc:avatar as a subproperty of foaf:depiction

So, SIOC is now OWL-DL !
This change was motivated by the current SWANSIOC integration project that will be introduced during the upcoming ISWC tutorial on Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences.

The SIOC Core Ontology Specification has been updated according to the changes.

The other good news regarding SIOC is that Yahoo! SearchMonkey now supports (and recommends !) it in its developer documentation. Moreover, in case you did not already read it, John published the Tales from the SIOC-o-sphere #8 about two weeks ago.

More generally, if you want to join the SIOC community, by developing new applications or APIs, or if you request some help regarding implementing SIOC in your existing tools, feel free to come on #sioc on irc.freenode.net or ask on the sioc-dev ML.

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.

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.  

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As you may have already read, the 1st workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2008) will be held at next ISWC, at the end of October in Karlshrue and I'm really glad to co-chair it with Uldis, John and Sergio.

If you work on a related field, eithe