Tiger Search Technology.

Looks like a hit into a Longhorn's bullface. Right time to do it :-)

Like
Andrew Newman did already blog, this is good stuff.

I just mention it here as we are going to look at it for gnowsis. love that.

Dieter Fensel gave a talk at Vienna, on June 21, which I attended.
Talk: http://wit.tuwien.ac.at/events/fensel/index.html

Michael Zeltner joined me and we wore funny t-shirts (have a look).

Dieter spoke about his vision of Semantic Web Services, adapted to the quite mixed audience, it was also a Semantic Web introduction. Beeing the chef of www.deri.org he gave much information about what projects they do and what goals they have.

I liked this List for "Semantic Web is an enabler for":

• eCommerce
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Knowledge Management

btw, Download his slides

A big thing at the moment is the wsmo -www.wsmo.org. Big in funding is also lion.deri.ie. He also mentioned an older thing from www.ontoknowledge.org, the OntoWrapper, this could be interesting for gnowsis. And also the sekt project, which I was interested in before.

Hm, knowledgeweb.semanticweb.org is open for new members, perhaps interesting.

A nice part of the talk was about visions. Dieter sketchs two ways to a Semantic Web Service world: one through the Web Service approach, enhancing Web Services with Semantic Web tech (RDF and so on, UDDI enhancing etc) and the other by having Semantic Web applications like FOAF or so and add web services. I like the second thing.
The future may be a kind of global triple space. This leads me back to my ideas of uri-based routing and using URIQA for worldwide distributed database. We WILL have something like it, don't know yet how.
- whoa, just this moment two links popped up for Michi: deri paper, blogged in #rdfig.
I asked, "when will it be" - 5 years or 10 years? Nice answer: "5 years, we have funding for 5 years now". Or was it "I plan to retire in 5 years" - forgive me, I didn't remember.
But the good news is that Dieter thinks that smaller services will be available quite soon, surely in the next 3 years and that we will have a decent growth, not an instant revolution.

Michi and me had our moment when during the talk Dieter did stop, looked at us and asked: "Where have you got this t-shirt from?". We did answer correctly, "L....M.....".

So it was a meet and greet of Vienniese Semantic Web guys, I met also Gerald Reif and Hannes Lischka and Elke Michlmayr.

The happiest day in my life: My girl and me got married! Ingrid and I are deeply in honeymoon right now and enjoy every day of our life like never before.

We had a marvellous day and god blessed us on every way, good weather, good spirit, we felt great and were Queen and King for a day.

Interesting for the RDF community: a friend wrote a RDF representation of the wedding and dedicated it to us as a present.

ingrid_und_leo1 (rdf, 1 KB) - RDF
ingrid_und_leo (emf, 24 KB) - Visual Rendering

We are now away to honeymoon on kohsamui, expect more about mozilla&rdf after our return.

In between, watch some photos of our wedding and wish us best.

Part II of the seriesdiving into Mozilla.

Simple XUL example

To get going with RDF in Mozilla, it is good to make a Hello World-kind of Application. I did this by the way of "jslib", a javascript library that helps Mozilla developers.

Step1 - Download and Install jslib
from http://jslib.mozdev.org/downloads/index.html
and install it in your mozilla (it is a XPI, so no problem there)
Test the library by opening this url: chrome://jslib/content/
see also installation doc.

Step2 - write a XUL file to test
I did it with this ugly file that extracts the firstname from my public FOAF file: rdflib_hello (xul, 1 KB).

Step3 - configure it to run
The problem is that the XUL file must be placed where XUL files are usually placed. If you know how to do this, fine. If you don't, you have to configure jslib so that it accepts files outside the chrome. This may be a security risk. Description to use jslib from local XUL files.

Step4 - run rdflib_hello.xul
Start Mozilla, go to "open file" and open the XUL file (or use chrome:// if you managed to put it in your chrome).
You should see a single button. Press it and the String "Leo" should come.

What it does:
It loads my foaf file from my public homepage and extracts a literal property from a resource. To do this, there are fine XPCOM objects in Mozilla. But the XPCOM are hard to use, so the jslib guys made this system of Javascript helper objects to handle RDF. The script loads these jslib functions. Then, in the function testresult(), it uses an RDF object to get the RDF data from the homepage, select a resource from it and query an attribute of the resource.

You can also use the XPCOM RDF objects directly. So, at first glance Mozilla proves to be RDF-capable.

Just found PIKII on Planet RDF. Here is the original post.

Looks like an interesting approach that can be leveraged.