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Initiative organised collectively by the Outreach officers of REMEDI, NCBES, Applied Optics, ECI & DERI.

Release of SuRF version 1.0.0 Beta

Read the announcement in the previous post

TPAC 2009

The World Wide Web Consortium TPAC 2009 took place at Santa Clara, California, USA from 2 November - 6 November.

"The Combined Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week brings together W3C Working and Interest Groups, the Advisory Board, the TAG and the Advisory Committee for an exciting week of coordinated work. The highlight of the week is the Plenary Day, Wednesday, 4 November, for all to attend."

Visit http://www.w3.org/2009/11/TPAC/PlenaryAgenda and find slides, pdf, demos of the following sessions:

• Decentralized Extensibility in HTML5
• Maintaining a Healthy Internet Ecosystem -- Challenges to an Open Internet Infrastructure
• Lightning Talks (I)
• DCCI, by Rotan Hanrahan (MobileAware)
• Rich Web Application XG Report, by Steven Pemberton (W3C)
• Opera Unite - a Web server for your whole family, by Charles McCathieNevile (Opera Software)
• W3C cheatsheet for developers, by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux (W3C)
• Semantic Web in the Oil & Gas Industry, by Roger Cutler (Chevron)
• United we(b and net) stand!, by Arnaud de Moissac (SFR)
• Privacy on the Web of Applications -- Challenges and Opportunities
• Web Apps vs App. Stores
• Future of the Social Web
• Lightning Talks (II)
• Multimodality in Enterprise Applications, by Raj Tumuluri (Openstream) and Tom Underhill (Microsoft)
• If MacGyver was a spec editor: simple tools, unbelievable results, by Marcos Caceres (Opera Software)
• ReSpec.js — A Fresh Specification-Writing Tool, by Robin Berjon (Robineko)
• Privacy and Data Governance, by Rigo Wenning (W3C)
• XML Test Assertions on Steroids - with TAMElizer, by Jacques Durand (Fujitsu)
• The End of the Beginning, by Daniel Glazman (Disruptive Innovations).

SuRF 1.0.0 Beta

We are pleased to announce release of SuRF 1.0.0 Beta. This version includes some significant changes and improvements in interface, thus the major version number shift.

SuRF is an Object - RDF Mapper based on the popular rdflib python library. It exposes RDF triple sets as sets of resources and integrates them into the Object Oriented paradigm of Python in a similar manner as the ActiveRDF does for Ruby.

New features in 1.0.0 Beta version:

• Improved resource querying. Can mix any of these features together:
• filter resources by attribute values
• filter resources using SPARQL filter expressions
• limit, offset, order ascending/descending
• specify graph/context where resources should be loaded from and later saved to
• eager-load resource attributes
• Improved attribute querying. All the querying features available at resource level are also available at attribute level.
• Growing amount of documentation and examples. Still big gaps there but the situation is improving.

Project Google Code site: http://code.google.com/p/surfrdf/
Documentation: packages.python.org/SuRF/

You are very welcome to try it out, tell us about your experiences, report bugs and participate!

contact: Peteris Caune