1. find out where you are

if you do not have a GPS mouse or tracker, use https://www.multimap.com, they show the current GPS position somewhere on the page during scrolling.

then enter this here and verify. Then mingle a little with lat/lon until you hit home.

2. Paste to your foaf file:
in the header:
xmlns:geo="https://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"

as data:
<foaf:Person
 foaf:firstName="Leo"
 foaf:nick="leobard">
 <foaf:based_near>
  <geo:point geo:long="7.7667" geo:lat="49.4412"/>
 </foaf:based_near>
</foaf:Person>

3. upload foaf file

4. add the lat/long to your homepage

<meta name="geo.position" content="49.4412;7.7667">
<meta name="geo.placename" content="Kaiserslautern">
<meta name="geo.region" content="DE-RP">
5. Ping geourl

read this: https://geourl.org/add.html

then go here: https://geourl.org/ping/
and enter your web url

6. Enjoy

when everything works, you should go to your foaf explorer and see your homepage as being near you, like here
which leads to a geourl link (below) and other nice map links.

If you installed the firefox nearby plugin then you see cool stuff on the geourl page...

the nearby plugin will open allthegoodness, which is another great site.

CALL FOR PAPERS 1st Workshop on
The Semantic Desktop

Next Generation Personal Information Management
and Collaboration Infrastructure

at the
International Semantic Web Conference
6 November 2005, Galway, Ireland

https://www.semanticdesktop.org
[Important Dates and Submission Details]

* Submissions due: August 1, 2005
* Notification for acceptance: September 1, 2005
* Camera ready due: October 7, 2005
* Workshop date: November 6, 2005

Please follow the style guides according the Springer LNCS format outlined at: https://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html Technical papers should have max. 15 pages including references, position papers should not exceed 5 pages. Papers can be associated with a demo. Please submit documents as HTML, PDF, or Word to

semdesk2005@semanticdesktop.org.

Authors of the selected best papers from the workshop will be asked to revise their papers based on feedback from the workshop, to appear in a Special Issue of the Journal of Internet Computing.


[Topics and Content]

The Semantic Web holds promises for information organization and selective access, providing standards means for formulating and distributing metadata and Ontologies.
Still, we miss a wide use of Semantic Web technologies on personal computers. The use of ontologies, metadata annotations, and semantic web protocols on desktop computers will allow the integration of desktop applications and the web, enabling a much more focused and integrated personal information management as well as focused information distribution and collaboration on the Web beyond sending emails. The vision of the Semantic Desktop for personal information management and collaboration has been around for a long time: visionaries like Vanevar Bush and Doug Engelbart have formulated and partially realized these ideas. Recently the computer science community has developed the means to make this vision a reality:

* The Semantic Web effort (https://www.w3.org/sw)
provides standards and technologies for the definition
and exchange of metadata and ontologies.

* Open-source software (like OpenOffice) make it possible to reuse and
build on top of existing sophisticated systems

* Collaboration, acquisition and dissemination infrastructures
like Wikis and Blogs are providing the foundation for joint
collaborative knowledge creation

* Social Software maps the social connections between
different people into the technical infrastructure.

* P2P and Grid computing, especially in combination with the Semantic
Web field, develops technology to interconnect large communities

The application of the mentioned technologies, especially in combination with the Semantic Web, to the desktop computer in order to improve personal information management and collaboration is the main topic of this workshop. Several systems have been created already to explore this field, e.g., the Haystack system at MIT, the Gnowsis system at DFKI, or the Chandler system by the OSA foundation.


[Areas of Interest]


The main focus of this workshop is on providing an overview of existing approaches and elaborating the next steps necessary in order to bring the Semantic Web to the desktop computer. More specifically, workshop topics include:

* Architectures and frameworks for integrating the Semantic Web into a Desktop environment
* Personal Information Management tools (calendar, address books,
email, documents, ideas) that interoperate with the Semantic Web
* Enhance searching and information retrieval on desktop computers using ontologies and metadata.
* Means to extract metadata from desktop applications (e.g., OpenOffice etc.)
* Knowledge Acquisition and Visualization tools for desktop applications
* Integration and exploitation of semantic social networks into a semantic desktop environment
* P2P models for distributed architecture enabling collaboration with Semantic Desktop nodes
* Applications of the Semantic Desktop, for e.g, eScience and eGovernment.


[Chairs]

* Stefan Decker (DERI, National University of Ireland , Galway, Ireland)
* Jack Park (SRI International, Menlo Park, USA)
* Dennis Quan (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
* Leo Sauermann (DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany)


[Program Committee]

* Andreas Abecker (FZI, Karlsruhe, Germany)
* Dan Brickley (W3C, Sophia Antipolis, France)
* David O'Sullivan (DERI, NUIG, Ireland)
* David Schwartz (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
* Dirk-Willem van Gulik (Apache Foundation, Netherlands)
* Doug Engelbart (Bootstrap Institute, USA)
* Gerald Reif (TU Vienna, Austria)
* Giovanni Tummarello (Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
* Gregoris Mentzas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
* Jeen Broekstra (Aduna BV, Netherlands)
* Manfred Hauswirth (EPFL, Switzerland)
* Pat Croke (Hewlett Packard, Galway, Ireland)
* Peter Mika (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
* Stéphane Laurière (Mandriva, France)
* Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S, Hannover)
* Wolfgang Prinz (Fraunhofer and RWTH Aachen, Germany)

I wondered "how does iTunes store cover images?" but was too lazy to use a conventional keyword search engine, so i searched for a natural language processing search engine and found brainboost.

ask brainboost about iTunes

it works. the returned documents did answer my question. I love the web.

previously I blogged about a hack by crschmidt. I have to add that crschmidt continued work of Masahide Kanzaki.

crschmidt did something that sounds interesting: glue code to bring together masahide ideas, XSLT and flickr. sounds very interesting.

have to look at it! :-)

someone said to me in amsterdam that I have good tourist karma. Today I have good web karma.

from boingboing.net I wandered to web zen which inspired me to go to leaveyourmessagehere.

the idea at this place is simple: a text-input box and a button "leave your message here".

under this creativity pressure I wrote this:
come to kaiserslautern. I am there and I miss you.

after pressing the hardest button, I saw the last message there (5 hours ago)
Thinking of you P........do you miss me?

web karma: your spirit is so in tune with the web spirit that you react to things you conciously cannot know.

https://www.leaveyourmessagehere.com/2005/05/22

michael notes that one could use http redirect and that clients should update their links when finding one of these.

After a permanent http redirect of a uri (hence also a semantic web uri) all triples and so should be updated.

some clients forget to do this and show the new data but keep the old uri.

practical rdf failure:

I moved my foaf file from gnowsis.com/leo/foaf.xml to https://www.leobard.net/foaf.xml - that has been a year ago.

still many foaf files have their seeAlso set to the old url. So I wrote to eaon/Michael Zeltner to update his foaf file at
https://zine.niij.org/data/foaf

he replied that his foaf file is now:
https://zine.niij.org/data/about-me

so we both moved our files. and crawlers / search engines like this here for eaon or this for me or that for me still have the outdated data.

*ohohohohrororogh-wookiegruntgoeshere*

a nice approach for identifying thigs with uris (known as the uri crisis) is the taguri.

https://www.taguri.org/

note that taguris are not wise to be used with things that have already a http:... uri. And in my opinion, using any existing wiki system to make a URI has the same outcome as taguri and is easier to handle for the lesser deamons. (we, the high arcane sorcerers of semweb, have a domain, know how to use a date and can live with a uri that points to nirwana on the http space. lesser demons enter uris into browsers)

but despite these flawbacks, taguri is a nice idea.

thanks to andy seaborne for mentioning it to me.

an interesting thing happening in Austria is the Semantic Web School. The aim of this school is to preach the gospel of the semantic web to the masses, especially industry, government and end users.

www.semantic-web.at

The website has information about the school (in german) and the offered curriculum. They offer a set of one day workshops about several topics. The events are spread over several months (see navbar on left) and can be booked seperately. Cost is ok, compared to the quality of the speakers it is surely worth it (and regarding the good connections you get to the other industry & govn attendees :-) At the moment, courses are ongoing.

A very nice thing about the website is the good collection of information about the semantic web at large, they collect much info. They also asked their speakers to contribute there, so expect a quite well kept library of semantic web stuff.

Look at the right side of the nav bars to find the good links.


and yes, I am also giving a workshop there, about the dirty and good RDF tools: redland, jena, sesame, protege, gnowsis. I am looking forward to this, its on 25th may, you can still book to watch me.