1st Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web at WWW2010

Although knowledge processing on the Semantic Web is inherently language-independent, human interaction with semantically structured and linked data will remain inherently language-based as this will be done preferably by use of text or speech input – in many different languages. Semantic Web development will therefore be increasingly concerned with knowledge access to and generation in/from multiple languages, i.e., in:

• multilingual querying of knowledge repositories and linked data
• multilingual knowledge and result presentation in semantic search
• multilingual verbalization of ontology structure in ontology engineering
• ontology-based information extraction from multilingual text and semi-structured data
• ontology learning from multilingual text and semi-structured data

Multilinguality is therefore an emerging challenge to Semantic Web development and to its global acceptance – across language communities around the world. The workshop will therefore be concerned with discussion of new infrastructures, architectures, algorithms etc. that will enable easy adaptation of Semantic Web applications to multiple languages, addressing issues in representation, extraction, integration, presentation etc.

Screencast: The Semantic Web and Drupal by Lin Clark

A brief overview of the Semantic Web and a review of the features that Drupal users can expect in Drupal 7 core and contributed modules, with a look at features on the horizon. This talk was first delivered at DrupalCamp Vienna in November of 2009.

The Semantic Web and Drupal, part 1 of 2

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The Semantic Web and Drupal, part 2 of 2

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The Irish Times: The new smarter web by Karlin Lillington

INTERNET TECHNOLOGY: Coming soon to an internet connection near you: the semantic web, writes KARLIN LILLINGTON

To read the article: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/innovation/2009

Breakfast seminar in Dublin last week with the ISA (Irish Software Association), Mason Hayes & Curran

Over 100 people attended this event. Below are the pod cast of the event. The breakfast was a result of a paper published in September titled "The Semantic Web: Legal Challenges" by Brian Harley, Philip Nolan, Liam ó Móráin and Mark Leyden.

Podcast Part 1 - The Semantic Web: Commercial Prospects and Legal Challenges

Philip Nolan, Partner and Head of Commercial, Mason Hayes+Curran speaks on the legal issues relating to the semantic web.

Podcast Part 2 - The Semantic Web: From Research to Reality

Liam Ó Móráin is a Business Development Consultant with DERI an internationally recognised institute in Semantic Web research, education and technology transfer speaks on the topic of The Semantic Web from a Reseach to Reality perspective.

Information Technology Association Galway (ITAG) Annual Industry Awards

Each year, ITAG rewards the achievements and encourages further success of its outstanding members through the ITAG Industry Awards.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Decker, director of DERI won the award of the Academic Contribution to ICT in Galway. "The company members of ITAG greatly value their strong relationship with the academic institutions in Galway and the western regional. This award goes to an individual or group within an academic institution who has made a notable contribution to Information and Communication Technology in Galway."

All of the winners of the 2009 ITAG Annual Awards are listed on http://www.itag.ie

DERI Outreach Schools & Community Projects are Winners at Galway County Heritage Awards 2009

DERI Outreach-supported projects won 3 Awards at the annual Galway County Heritage Awards that took place in a packed Claregalway Hotel on Wednesday night.
Special recognition was also given on the night by all of the main speakers on the important ongoing work that DERI is undertaking with schools and communities in creating digital archives designed to preserve the heritage of the west of Ireland for future generations.

• Fohenagh National School won Best School Award for 'Upstairs, Downstairs' about life in baronial Clonbrock, once one of the largest aristocratic estates in Ireland. The project consisted of a series of podcast interviews with former members of staff. The mansion itself lies now sadly in ruins.
• Craughwell National School won Special Merit Award for their digital movie heritage production. The children told the story of life in the locality in former times through focusing on different implements used in different walks of life such as the farm, the shop, office and pub.
• Ballinasloe Active Retirement Association won an Award for their digital archive website (Fadó Fadó) and a series of podcasts on life on rural Ireland in days gone by as told through the stories of their own members.

These projects and many more from other Galway schools and community groups will be available within a matter of weeks on our special digital archive websites www.irishbeo.ie and www.irishbeo.ie.

Ballinasloe Active Retirement Association:



Craughwell National School:



Fohenagh National School:

All Infrastructure systems are back online

This week, due to excessive rainfall, part of the ground floor of DERI was flooded. As a precaution all electrical equipment on the ground floor has been turned off, including all equipment in the DERI server room. This equipment is now turned back.

Please, accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Sigma explained in the latest issue of Talis' Nodalities magazine

Sig.ma is developed by Szymon Danielczyk, Richard Cyganiak, Michele Catasta and Giovanni Tummarello. In the latest issue of Talis' Nodalities magazine, Michael Hausenblas and Richard Cyganiak explained Sigma "a visual Web Data aggregation and querying platform targeting entity visualisation and consolidation."

Science Spin - Semantic Web, What's it all about? with Prof. Dr.Stefan Decker

Science Spin is broadcast every Thursday afternoon at 3:30pm to 4pm on Dublin City FM, 103.2FM. The show is written and presented by Seán Duke, science writer and editor.

Stefan Decker, Director of DERI NUI Galway, was interviewed about the semantic web. What it is? How does it work? Why is it important?...

Survey: How Semantic Web researchers use Web 2.0 to communicate about their work?

This survey is established as part of a research MSc. at DERI, NUI Galway. Our aim is to study the habits and motivations of the Semantic Web researchers community to publish and share contents online using Web 2.0 services. Thus, if you are researching Semantic Web technologies, we would really appreciate if you can take the survey.

Andreas speaks to Talis

" In our latest Talking with Talis podcast I talk with Andreas Harth of DERI in Galway, Ireland. We talk about Andreas' work on the Semantic Web Search Engine ('swizzy'), before discussing DERI's involvement with the evolving SIOC project."

You can listen to the  MP3

" Kevin is one of the public faces of the OpenSocial project at Google in his role as a developer advocate.  Before coming to Google, he was a principal engineer at Technorati and one of the driving forces behind micro-formats.

In this episode, we focus on the state of the OpenSocial project and also highlight some of the work around opening up activity streams which is one of the features I feel has been overlooked in the conversation around OpenSocial."

Read/Write Talk Kevin Marks Developer

John Breslin gives plenty of reasons as to why Blogtalk is being held in Cork.

"So why is BlogTalk 2008 coming to Cork, Ireland? You may not know it, but there are a lot of connections between the “People’s Republic of Cork” and the world of Web 2.0 and social software.

• Tom Raftery, BlogTalk 2008 co-chair, social media consultant, and the person behind the hugely successful Thought Leaders podcast series <small>(interviewing the likes of Ross Mayfield, Loic Le Meur, Dave Sifry, Thomas Vander Wal, Chris Messina, Vint Cerf, Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble amongst many other luminaries)</small> is from Cork.
• Conor O’Neill, founder of Argolon (known for their LouderVoice service), editor of blognation Ireland and Web 2.0 Ireland, and co-ordinator of the Cork OpenCoffee Club (we should organise one to co-occur with BlogTalk) is based in Cork.
• Pat Phelan, founder of Cubic Telecom (whose services include MAXroam), and a proponent of Web 2.0 and telecommunication crossovers, has his headquarters in the city of Cork.
• Web 2.0 guruTim O’Reillywas born in Cork.
• Sxoop Technologies, the company (Walter Higgins et al.) behind the Pixenate online photo editor, are located in Cork.
• Donnacha O’Caoimh, co-founder of Automattic and lead programmer for WordPress MU (on which WordPress.com is based) is in Cork.
• Blackrock Castle is home to Ireland’s first “social software” cinema, allowing an audience to influence the design of a space mission so as to divert a comet from colliding with the Earth.
• Damien Mulley, organiser of the Irish Blog Awards, winner of the 2007 IIA Net Visionary award for technology journalist, and former chair of IrelandOffline, is from Cork.
• And there’s a bunch of other companies in this space from Cork: waveson, eWrite, Lukulu, Comhar, Beecher Networks and CIX."
  

"In this latest Talking with Talis podcast, Paul Miller talks with Brigham Young Ph.D candidate and active blogger, Yihong Ding. In their wide-ranging conversation, they talk about Yihong's Ph.D research and explore some of his ideas about ways in which the Web's evolution toward semantic technologies may be compared to the development of children. "

Communities, a podcast with Sean O' Driscoll found here via Paul Dunay's blog.

"Reboot 9.0 is a community event for the practical visionaries who are at the intersection of digital technology and change all around us...
2 days a year. 500 people. A journey into the interconnectedness of creation, participation, values, openness, decentralization, collaboration, complexity, technology, p2p, humanities, connectedness and many more areas.
Applied towards us as individuals, citizens, teachers, culture workers, entrepreneurs, creators and change makers."

Reboot

Nova Spivack talks with Talis about Web 3.0 and more

"In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Radar Networks' Founder and CEO, Nova Spivack.

Radar Networks is a stealth-mode Bay Area technology startup closely associated with the pragmatic implementation of the Semantic Web popularly referred to as 'Web 3.0.' During our conversation, we cover some of Nova's background before exploring his views on the Semantic Web, the way in which it is currently perceived, and the opportunity for companies such as his to deliver its potential in the mainstream Web of today."

Talk with Talis

Picture courtesy of Nova Spivack