Ah, the word spreads. Excellent:

In the Semantic Web realm, dereferencable URIs offer the critical fabric that drive the giant global graph of interconnected data popularly referred to as Linked Data; a term also coined by Tim Berners-Lee in his Linked Data Design Note[1] and furthered by other articles such as "Cool URIs for the Semantic Web" by Sauermann and Cygniak[2].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dereferenceable_Uniform_Resource_Identifier

So, I hope the URI crisis is over now, lets see how it turns out in the next years.

CORDIS, a page managed by the EU, hosts an article about the results of the NEPOMUK project. Again, Ansgar Bernardi gave a great interview and brought it to the point.

Semantic desktop paves the way for the semantic web


“For example, I was taking notes at a summer school we recently held in Malta and I was writing the information into a wiki application on my computer. With Nepomuk installed, each time I mentioned a speaker’s name I was given the opportunity to link to contact details and other data about that person I already had stored on the computer,” Bernardi, a researcher at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), explains.

And the ancient myths of NEPOMUK, tales of the past that are worth passed on :-)
"The idea of building a semantic desktop arose from the fact that one of our colleagues could not keep track of the girlfriends of his friends because they kept changing," Bernardi says. “Social networking sites such as Facebook only go half way towards solving the problem because they do not provide an actual assessment of relations between people based on all the information available to you and your interpretation of it… Much of that information is hidden on your computer in files, emails, contact books, pictures, in the names and structures of your folders. Nepomuk provides a more efficient way of managing that information."

Well, recently I drank a beer with the friend who had so many girlfriends and it appeared that he also kept forgetting his girlfriend's names...

One spin-off company from coordinating partner DFKI is in the process of being established, and Bernardi says others may follow.
Ha, thats me!

Tomorrow I will be giving a talk at TU-Wien about: The Semantic Desktop - a new hope for Personal Information Management.

The presentations take place on 1st December 2008 from 17:00-19:00 in the Seminarraum Zemanek, Favoritenstrasse 9-11 (1040 Vienna), ground floor. The nearest underground station is U1 Taubstummengasse.

As usualy, there are mozartballs and time for questions, please come in masses, if possible, manic.

Abstract:
With today's operating systems it is possible to store a file to a folder, but not to a project or a person. Applications do not share concepts of persons or projects. In the Semantic Web effort, the W3C has proposed standards for the management of metadata.
This talk is about a merge of Semantic Web and Personal Computers resulting in the Semantic Desktop. Existing data sources are adapted to RDF, enabling integration across applications. Different projects aim at implementing the new paradigm, in the talk the open source frameworks published by the NEPOMUK project are presented.

Rainer Wasserfuhr talks about philosophy/new technology, in this episode of PieschenTv his mind circles around Semantic Web and Kissology.

German/in Deutsch.

10 minutes.

The part on kissing is at minute 7:00.

He wants to work on kissology and a semantic representation of kisses. Problems are privacy and the border between private / public sphere of kissing. In a time where everything goes public, can we only kiss people who are willing to upload the facts about it?

Keep on

Today, our Aperture project has had the 10.000th download!

Three and a half years after starting it, its alive and prospering!



Thanks to all the users who downloaded it, thanks to sourceforge for hosting it and great kudos to all the contributors in the team!

Lutz Heilmann verklagt deutsche wikipedia weil sein Artikel negative Information enthält. Deutsche wikipedia E.V. ist offline, er entschuldigt sich. Bürger, bekommst die Politiker die du wählst.



Laut Udo Schuklenk's Blog-Post ist er ein Ex-Stasi und zeugt von gewissem politischen Ungeschick.

Ok, erster Fehler: es ist ein Wiki, du kannst es editieren. Wenn du das nicht schaffst, überdenke nochmal deine Kapazitäten für die nächsten Schritte.

zweiter Fehler: er verklagt wikipedia. Ok, uh, er verklagt ein NGO das sich um Meinungsfreiheit und Zugang zu Bildung für alle kümmert, was sagt ein PR Berater wohl zu so einem Schritt?

dritter Fehler: er entschuldigt sich auf seiner Homepage:

Nachdem die... Inhalte weitgehend aus dem entsprechenden Artikel entfernt wurden, ... keine weiteren juristischen Schritte .... Ich bedaure außerordentlich, dass durch die von mir beantragte Einstweilige Verfügung des Landgerichts Lübeck die deutschen Wikipedia-Userinnen und -User in den letzten 24 Stunden keinen direkten Zugriff mehr auf die Wikipedia-Inhalte hatten. Mir ging es dabei keineswegs um Zensur, sondern schlicht um eine wahre Tatsachen-Darstellung. ... Das war nicht meine Absicht. Gemeinsam mit Wikimedia e.V. werde ich nach anderen Wegen suchen, um den offenen und freien Charakter von Wikipedia so weiter auszugestalten, dass Persönlichkeitsrechte gewahrt bleiben.
"Oh, ich dachte niemanden wird mein Versuch der Zensur auffallen, das hat mir keiner vorher gesagt. Bitte bloggt nicht über mich."
Ich Frage mich wie er Wikipedia helfen will.