yesterday I gave a talk on Semantic Desktop in e-learning scenarios.
At the "e-learning day der TU Kaiserslautern"

It was a short presentation and a little demo, and although I have a cold, Martin Memmel said it was a good talk. That was a nice thing to hear, because I never know if my talks are good or not. What kind of quality function can you use anyway?

He also made this photo of me:


Tomorrow I will give a talk on Semantic Desktop as such at a Semantic Web Congress at Darmstadt's ZGDV, and I am looking forward to do this because the other presenters are quite famous. One hacker you might know is Benjamin Nowack, others are CEOs of SemWeb companies in Germany like Hans-Peter Schnurr or Holger Rath, and there are many interesting speakers about applied Semantic Web.



http://www.zgdv.de/zgdv/zgdv/Seminar/Darmstadt/Kongresse/3_SemWeb

Recently I found the problem of embedding "dynamic" data from the semantic web to the semantic desktop, namely data that cannot be crawled efficiently.

Also, to annotate web resources in gnowsis, it is good to know as much about them as possible. A key to this vision is to respect the current best practices of publishing RDF data. Luckily Tim Berners-Lee has concentrated them alltogether in Tabulator.

And for us, we can use this by building on a library that the witty Chris Bizer, Tobias Gauß, and Richard Cyganiak did:

The Semantic Web Client Library

sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/ng4j/semwebclient/

The Sematic Web Client Library represents the complete Semantic Web as a single RDF graph. The library enables applications to query this global graph using SPARQL- and find(SPO) queries. To answer queries, the library dynamically retrieves information from the Semantic Web by dereferencing HTTP URIs and by following rdfs:seeAlso links. The library is written in Java and is based on the Jena framework.