As already during the last 4 years we again organize this year a workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web, co-located on June 1st with European Semantic Web Conference in Tenerife, Spain. Scripting languages as PHP, JavaScript, Ruby etc. will play a crucial role for getting the Semantic Web out on a large scale and most of the really deployed Semantic Web applications (e.g. Semantic MediaWiki, DBpedia, Tabulator etc.) are implemented in scripting languages. The deadline for submitting papers to the workshop is March 7th. The workshop will also include a challenge, which awards an (iPod or the equivalent in cash) to the most promising lightweight Semantic Web Application developed in a scripting language. Details can be found at: http://www.semanticscripting.org/SFSW2008

Today, Sören presents OntoWiki at the Open Source Meets Business conference (22. – 24. Januar 2008 in Nürnberg). In preparation for this talk, I’ve prepared a new screencast, which showcases an OntoWiki demo session, which is interrupted by some explanatory bubbles …

Sören presented today the paper “DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data” at International Semantic Web Conference in Busan, Korea. You can view the slides here.

Two days of presentations, demos and discussions about Social Semantic Web approaches, tools and benefits are over. We had more participants than expected - social semantic collaboration seems to be indeed a hot topic. Kingsley Idehen’s keynote about the Data Web did not just excite CSSW participants but visitors of other SABRE conferences as well. We were very happy to incorporate some late breaking additions to the program, among them Santtu Toivonen’s talk about “Web on the Move - Landscapes of Mobile Social Media” and Marc Fleischmann’s inspiring sMeet presentation “sMeet - Bringing a Rich and Realistic Communication Experience to the Global Virtual Society”. CSSW concluded on Thursday with a panel discussion about obstacles and benefits of the Social Semantic Web and a come together in the restaurant Pier1 at lake Cosupden.

Today is the second day of the Triple-I Conference in Graz / Austria. Thomas presented the SWORE Ontology for Requirements Engineering which is part of our Softwiki project and I will present the LDAP 2 SPARQL project tomorrow.

Graz is really a nice city with many cultural places of interest and a great old city center with small alley and this castle hill.