The Technical University of Vienna has a blogging service for its students.

https://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/

it was done by https://www.knallgrau.at the company that also hosts the weblog that you are reading here.

according to the press release:
https://www.tuwien.ac.at/pr/pa/pa_04_40.shtml

they plan to enable 15000 students und 2500 Scientific People to start blogging. The project should be accompanied by research initiatives. They are inspired by other universities that also allow blogging.

looks like a good idea to me to generate Semantic Web content.

I made many changes to gnowsis in this prerelease phase. Today i focussed on updating my foaf file. To do it right, I made some hacks:

* Written a Jena Model accessed another Jena Model through XML/RPC. Great to have models remote with a fingersnip.

* Written a ExoBot, that takes some Jena commands (liststatements, query, etc) and executes the commands to build a new model. Fine to do recursive queries and sub-queries.

* exo-foaf, my foaf file creator now talks to the gnowsis server through XML/RPC.

Result is a foaf file that finally looks like all the other foaf files out there.

https://www.gnowsis.com/leo/foaf.xml

17 work days left unti release...

I plan to publish the gnowsis alpha on 28th September, 12:00 berlin time.

So I still have 20 workdays to go, to ....

write the documentation, test it, build tarballs, write an installer, test it, drink coffee, hate my computer, write ontologies, hire new employees, obfuscate the dirty hacks, work on my todo lists, create new todos, hate todo lists, talk to developers, talk to my people, get the website running, get the website looking decent, test the website, use gnowsis, integrate our research project, write papers, love god + my neighbor + myself ...

So the time is not enough, but something will be done.

I will post updates here from time to time (probably daily) to keep you udpated and to keep myself on track.

We have the answer to ABBA:
how to save a kiss?

use the Kissology, the definite ontology for people who kissed each other.

simple, plain, kissology.

https://www.gnowsis.org/ont/kissology.html

RDFS:
https://www.gnowsis.org/ont/kissology

a good thing to ánnounce:

Jim Ley and me integrated www.foafnaut.org and www.gnowsis.com. a little foafnaut now runs here on my local dekstop and shows me my foaf network,

https://foafcamp.asemantics.org rules!

see more at this announcement
https://rdfweb.org/topic/FoafCampGnowsisAndFoafNaut

and the screenshots:

https://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~sauermann/2004_08_21_foafcamp/foafnaut_gnowsis.png

https://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~sauermann/2004_08_21_foafcamp/monochrom.png

yeah, foaf camp. Jip

cannot describe him, you have to check his site:
https://www.kwark.org/x/lsgfx

we are actually doing something here. at least getting friends of friends.

https://foafcamp.asemantics.org/

see the pics, I will get some up...



after I finish my beer....

The future is the paperless office.

Actually, we have a project in our institute, which is exactly about this. The Virtual Office of the Future. Paperless office. So no libraries needed anymore?

But libraries where great, I will tell you why. In my office room, there is a shelf with old File Folders, hundreds of documents and contracts are there. My office (which I share with Lars) has been the secretary office a while ago, and they left-over these folders here. I never saw anybody come here to get them, so the contents is probably dead. A look at the backs of the folders shows titles like "project proposals" or the like.

Imagine the time when these where still at a central place: Project reports, project proposals, accounting stuff. And another place has been the library, where all the books where - "PHP cookbook", "Stroustroup", "Peopleware", etc... . Libraries have this special smell, it is not generated by the books, it is the sweat of anticipation of finding a book. It also smells when you peek over the shoulder of other people in public libraries, to see what they read (to get inspired to lend the book when they returned it).For thousands of years we had to walk there to get to the information. This means, you meet people there, that search for the same stuff as you do. These people are interested in the same stuff as you. You may like to meet them.

Now imagine a virtual office of the future, paperless, with an Organisational Memory. Today, you just browse a website. Not in the future: I would like to walk to the library. I want to walk to our shared file folders on the file server. I want to see the other people that are commiting to CVS at the moment. I want to see who browses at this blog at the moment, I want to see who else browses at planetrdf.

That would be a nice facet of cyberspace. The smell of libraries.

I tried to get an overview of calendaring but got an headache instead.

There are several authorative documents about getting iCal to work in RDF, but the schema is not consistent and some use other dialects, so pity me.

the mailing list
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/

the wiki:
https://esw.w3.org/topic/RdfCalendar

the webpage
https://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/

the good presentation
https://esw.w3.org/topic/RdfCalendarPresentation

this is the official test-case collection
https://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/test/

the example by Masahide Kanzaki
https://kanzaki.com/works/2004/cal/concerts-tokyo.rdf

some of the cases use other ways to note dtend and dtstart, uff.

my Timezone...
https://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/tzd/Europe/Vienna#tz

https://randomseed.org/sevenmileboots/

woah, walking around with leather boots in chatrooms. CRAZY STUFF. I like it.