While working on my PhD, I use my breaks wasting time on youtube, this video I found at the end of a longer waste:


They do a mix of capoeira, futbol, parkour and I don't know what. One commenter says its a fake - I don't know, either they invested their training into video-editing or sport training, I hope the latter.

Tom Heath recently wrote about RDF Browsers in the IEEE Internet Computing Journal.

It's at the level of "things" that browsers for the Web of data should operate. Providing simple browsers for RDF triples, and the documents in which they’re published, is one option for enabling people to interact with this information space. We saw this trend with some of the earliest Semantic Web browsers, but it rather misses the point. The one-page-at-a-time style of browsing, which we know well from the Web of documents, would make nothing of the potential we now have for integrated views of data assembled from numerous locations.

Right, I agree.
The core class in OWL and PIMO is called Thing for a reason.
Also this reminds me of our user interface abstractions used on the semantic desktop:


Which we published in Leo Sauermann, Ansgar Bernardi, Andreas Dengel: Overview and Outlook on the Semantic Desktop. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on The Semantic Desktop at the ISWC 2005 Conference. https:// CEUR-WS.org/Vol-175/.

Ah, the word spreads. Excellent:

In the Semantic Web realm, dereferencable URIs offer the critical fabric that drive the giant global graph of interconnected data popularly referred to as Linked Data; a term also coined by Tim Berners-Lee in his Linked Data Design Note[1] and furthered by other articles such as "Cool URIs for the Semantic Web" by Sauermann and Cygniak[2].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dereferenceable_Uniform_Resource_Identifier

So, I hope the URI crisis is over now, lets see how it turns out in the next years.

CORDIS, a page managed by the EU, hosts an article about the results of the NEPOMUK project. Again, Ansgar Bernardi gave a great interview and brought it to the point.

Semantic desktop paves the way for the semantic web


“For example, I was taking notes at a summer school we recently held in Malta and I was writing the information into a wiki application on my computer. With Nepomuk installed, each time I mentioned a speaker’s name I was given the opportunity to link to contact details and other data about that person I already had stored on the computer,” Bernardi, a researcher at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), explains.

And the ancient myths of NEPOMUK, tales of the past that are worth passed on :-)
"The idea of building a semantic desktop arose from the fact that one of our colleagues could not keep track of the girlfriends of his friends because they kept changing," Bernardi says. “Social networking sites such as Facebook only go half way towards solving the problem because they do not provide an actual assessment of relations between people based on all the information available to you and your interpretation of it… Much of that information is hidden on your computer in files, emails, contact books, pictures, in the names and structures of your folders. Nepomuk provides a more efficient way of managing that information."

Well, recently I drank a beer with the friend who had so many girlfriends and it appeared that he also kept forgetting his girlfriend's names...

One spin-off company from coordinating partner DFKI is in the process of being established, and Bernardi says others may follow.
Ha, thats me!

Tomorrow I will be giving a talk at TU-Wien about: The Semantic Desktop - a new hope for Personal Information Management.

The presentations take place on 1st December 2008 from 17:00-19:00 in the Seminarraum Zemanek, Favoritenstrasse 9-11 (1040 Vienna), ground floor. The nearest underground station is U1 Taubstummengasse.

As usualy, there are mozartballs and time for questions, please come in masses, if possible, manic.

Abstract:
With today's operating systems it is possible to store a file to a folder, but not to a project or a person. Applications do not share concepts of persons or projects. In the Semantic Web effort, the W3C has proposed standards for the management of metadata.
This talk is about a merge of Semantic Web and Personal Computers resulting in the Semantic Desktop. Existing data sources are adapted to RDF, enabling integration across applications. Different projects aim at implementing the new paradigm, in the talk the open source frameworks published by the NEPOMUK project are presented.

Rainer Wasserfuhr talks about philosophy/new technology, in this episode of PieschenTv his mind circles around Semantic Web and Kissology.

German/in Deutsch.

10 minutes.

The part on kissing is at minute 7:00.

He wants to work on kissology and a semantic representation of kisses. Problems are privacy and the border between private / public sphere of kissing. In a time where everything goes public, can we only kiss people who are willing to upload the facts about it?

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