I will give a talk about our xOperator project at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2008) on Tenerife next Wednesday. The xOperator is an agent for xmpp / jabber network which queries and shares trusted resources (using RDF/SPARQL) for you and your jabber friends. In addition to the full paper, we got good reviews for the demo session too. So I present the xOperator in a more technical way at the demo session on Tuesday.

Another project which we started here is RDFAPI-JS. I present this work at the Scripting for the Semantic Web Workshop (SFSW2008) which is co-located with the ESWC. RDFAPI-JS is used for RDFa widgets which can be used to modify embedded RDF models.

Thanks to Jörg, Martin and Seppl (and of course Haschek for the awesome poster) which helped me preparing the demo and the presentations. Sorry for this last week …

For more information about the projects, have a look at the following publications:

• xOperator - Interconnecting the Semantic Web and Instant Messaging Networks (Sebastian Dietzold, Jörg Unbehauen and Sören Auer)
• Using JavaScript RDFa Widgets for Model/View Separation inside Read/Write Websites (Sebastian Dietzold, Sebastian Hellman and Martin Peklo)

Sören will give a presentation “From DBpedia to OntoWiki - Emergent Data and Semantics from Social Collaboration” at this years LinkedDataPlaned Conference & Expo on June 18, 2008 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The presentation will cover AKSW’s current work regarding social semantic collaboration (i.e. DBpedia and OntoWiki) and light-weight technologies aiming to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem of the Semantic Web (such as Triplify). If you are at the East Coast in June consider joining us for the LinkedDataPlanet and meeting other LinkedData protagonists such as Tim Berners-Lee, Kingsley Idehen and Ian Davis. For those on a tight budget SWC is awarding a free conference pass (worth $1095) or email Sören (for a guest pass).