Announcement:

The Semantic Desktop Hands-on Workshop will be an opportunity to learn about ongoing research and development effort in the area of Semantic Desktop, Semantic Web, and Personal Knowledge Management. It will consist of a scheduled program of talks, presentations and demos, and self-organized phases of active software development in small teams, going into hands-on development on concrete projects together.




Participants are practitioners, researchers, and interested IT persons; it is encouraged to contribute by presentations or demos of your work. Deadline for registration and submissions is March 28th.

Date & Place
April 12th - 14th, 2007,
Freie Universität Berlin,
Takustr. 9,
Berlin,
Germany



This is the perfect opportunity to meet Semantic Web people, visit Berlin, learn and do Semantic Web things. Registration, participants list, more details are all on the wiki page. Feel free to add your contributions there.
* http://www.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Wiki/SemDeskHandsOn2007April

Kingsley Idehen, Uldis Bojars and John Breslin have published some ideas on how to link data from various web 2.0 sites.

Thats exactly what we wanted to implement in gnowsis 0.9.2, although we missed the great looks for it :-) look here!

Here are the blog posts about it

• Personal URIs & Data Spaces
• Linking personal posted content across communities

The idea is to use URLs from OpenID to identify people, a good approach.
Some things have to be thought of:

• It should be connected with the required 303 redirects (a person is not a document, the URL must not return a web document but instead a 303 redirect).
• Not only to aggregate the data, but also to aggregate the ideas. We need to create a personal tag cloud, like we have done in the PIMO

If you dig Java, checkout the aperture.sourceforge.net project to find code that reads flickr, can and should be extended.