News, articles and podcasts about linked data, semantic technologies, databases and software. http://www.LinkedDataSummit.com Copyright 2008 KNComputing, LLC scribe@LinkedDataSummit.com scribe@LinkedDataSummit.com Amidst the crowd in Silicon Valley at four co-located events (SOAWorld/Cloud Computing Expo/Virtualization Conference/ DataServices World) event, a number of enthusiasts gathered for the Data Access, Data Quality and Data Services Workshop on November 20, 2008. The workshop, moderated by Peter Coffee of saleforce.com, included instruction by Dr. Stefanos Damianakis of Netrics, Dr. carlo Innocenti of DataDirect Technologies. Tom Tague, VP of Solutions at Thomson Reuters, was also one of the workshop instructors. He gave a presentation about semantic metadata, use cases and tagging with Calais. http://www.LinkedDataSummit.com/index.htm The DataServices World conference in Silicon Valley runs November 20, 2008. It is co-located with SOAWorld, Clouds Computing Conference and Expo and Virtualization Conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. Speaking about services modeling will be Dr. Michael Carey, an ACM Fellow voted one of the 50 most influential computer scientists. Other speakers include Geoff Brown (m2mi), Peter Coffee (saleforce.com), Dr. Stefanos Damianakis (Netrics), Dr. Carlo Innocenti (DataDirect), Susan Malaika (IBM), Peter Vroom (Adobe Systems), Eric Samson (DataDirect),and Tom Tague (Thomson Reuters). http://www.LinkedDataSummit.com/events/DSWorldFall2008.htm The Web of Data Practitioners Days, an event that highlights Semantic Web applications, will run 22-23 October, 2008 in Vienna, Austria. Richard Cyganiak, a researcher at DERI, will discuss the similarities between the Linked Data initiative and the original Semantic Web concept. http://www.LinkedDataSummit.com/news.htm Andreas Langegger announced a new RDFStats beta version is available. RDFStats is a freely-downloadable tool for generating statistics about datasets behind SPARQL endpoints. http://www.LinkedDataSummit.com/news.htm The Mulgara Project has produced several minor updates for version 2.0, with the latest being version 2.0.5. Mulgara is an open source semantic store, programmed in Java, that's available with the Open Software License version 3.0. http://www.LinkedDataSummit.com/news.htm Anant Jhingran, Distinguished Engineer, VP and CTO of Information Management at IBM delivered a keynote presentation to the LinkedData Planet conference in New York. He discusses Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and information management issues. The presentation is available in MP3 (podcast) format (duration 42:29). http://www.LinkedDataSummit.com/People/AJhingran.htm At the recent LinkedData Planet conference in New York, Ontotext's Atanas Kiryakov delivered a keynote presentation on June 18. The presentation focused on semantic technologies and scalable semantic solutions, such as RDF triples data stores . The presentation is available in podcast format (duration 52:41). http://www.LinkedDataSummit.com/People/AKirykov.htm At the LinkedData Planet conference in New York, m2mi CEO Geoff Brown demonstrated meshing two Apple iPhones without using an ISP or telco. The iPhones were running software developed by m2mi Corporation. Brown's presentation discussed grid computing, cloud computing and semantic technology as being enablers for (fifth-generation) 5G networks. The presentation is available as an MP3 podcast, duration 56:10. http://www.GridSummit.com/Articles/5GNetwork.htm MySpace has announced the launch of its data portability initiative. The MySpace Data Availability Project includes application program interfaces (APIs) and documentation that enables web site developers to use social data outside the MySpace domain. The MySpace APIs support REST services that comply with OpenSocial and OAuth authentication. http://www.LinkedDataSummit.com/news.htm The LinkedData Planet conference had a successful 2-day launch at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City on June 17-18, 2008. The conference attracted thought leaders among the linked data and semantic technologies communities. Panel discussions, presentations and keynotes provided insight into the future of web and database technology. Keynote speakers Ian Davis, Kingsley Idehen, Anant Jhingran, and Atanas Kiryakov delivered informative and entertaining keynotes. On June 17, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, originator of the World Wide Web, delivered a keynote address about the Web of Data. http://www.LinkedDataSummit.com/news.htm