<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html lang="en-EU" xml:lang="en-EU" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/Standard.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" --><head><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" --><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/><title>captsolo weblog</title><!-- InstanceEndEditable --><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="head" --><base href="http://captsolo.net/info/skins/fplanque2002/"/><meta content="CaptSolo weblog" name="description"/><meta content="" name="keywords"/><meta content="b2evolution 1.10.2" name="generator"/> <!-- Please leave this for stats --><link href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php?tempskin=_rdf" rel="alternate" title="RSS 1.0" type="text/xml"/><link href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php?tempskin=_atom" rel="alternate" title="Atom" type="application/atom+xml"/><!-- <link rel="pingback" href="" /> --><link href="blog.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/><!-- InstanceEndEditable --><link href="basic.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/><link href="fpnav.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/></head><body><div class="pageHeader"><div class="pageHeaderContent"><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="NavBar2" --><div class="NavBar"><a class="NavButton2" href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_all.php" title="CaptSolo :: All Blogs"><span class="small">All</span></a><a class="NavButton2Curr" href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php" title="captsolo weblog"><span class="small"><img alt="[Selected]" border="0" class="top" height="12" src="http://captsolo.net/info//img/down_small.gif" title="" width="14"/>captsolo</span></a><a class="NavButton2" href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_b.php" title="link-z"><span class="small">link-z</span></a></div><!-- InstanceEndEditable --><div class="NavBar"><div id="Logo"> </div><div class="pageTitle"><h1 id="pageTitle"><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="PageTitle" -->captsolo weblog<!-- InstanceEndEditable --></h1></div></div><div class="pageHeaderEnd"></div></div></div><div class="pageSubTitle"><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="SubTitle" -->about semantic web, software architecture and life in general<!-- InstanceEndEditable --></div><div class="bPost" id="archived_blog_notice"><h3>This is an archived version of my blog.<br/>See also <a href="http://captsolo.net">my homepage</a>.</h3></div><div class="main"><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Main" --><div class="bPosts"><h2></h2><!-- =================================== START OF MAIN AREA =================================== --><h2>2009-10-06</h2> <div class="bPost" lang="en-EU"><div class="bSmallHead"><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/10/06/2nd_social_data_on_the_web_sdow_2009_wor" title="Permanent link to full entry"><img alt="Permalink" class="middle" height="9" src="img/icon_minipost.gif" width="12"/></a> 00:39:27, Categories: <strong><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php?cat=3" title="Browse category">Semantic Web</a></strong>, <a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php?cat=77" title="Browse category">Technology</a>, <a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php?cat=82" title="Browse category">Social Software</a> <img alt="English (EU)" class="flag" src="http://captsolo.net/info/rsc/flags/h10px/eu.gif"/> </div><h3 class="bTitle">2nd Social Data on the Web (SDoW 2009) workshop</h3><div class="bText"><blockquote><p><a href="http://sdow.semanticweb.org/2009/" title="2nd Social Data on the Web (SDoW 2009) workshop">2nd Social Data on the Web (SDoW 2009) workshop</a></p><p>Date: October 25, 2009<br/>Location: Washington, DC (USA)</p><p>The workshop, co-located with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (<a href="http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/" title="8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009)">ISWC 2009</a>), aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Web.</p></blockquote><p>The list of accepted papers is published at the workshop webpage and is also available as RDFa (<a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/extract?uri=http://sdow.semanticweb.org/2009/">RDF data extracted from the SDoW 2009 page</a>). </p><p>The list includes:</p><ul><li>Continuous Queries and Real-time Analysis of Social Semantic Data with C-SPARQL</li><li>FOAF on Air - Context-aware User Pro?les for the Social Web</li><li>Folksonomy Resources as a Data Source for the Social Data in Semantic Web</li><li>Freemix: Social Networking Meets Data</li><li>Mapping between Digital Identity Ontologies through SISM</li><li>Multiple Personalities on the Web: A Study of Shared Mboxes in FOAF</li><li>Reactivity and Social Data: Keys to Drive Decisions in Social Network Applications</li><li>Semantic History: Towards Modeling and Publishing Changes of Online Semantic Data</li><li>SiocLog: Providing IRC discussion logs as Linked Data</li><li>Social Networks of an Emergent Massively Collaborative Creation Community – Case Study of Hatune Miku Movie on Nico Nico Douga</li><li>The Mobile Wine Agent: Pairing Wine with the Social Semantic Web</li><li>The NoTube Beancounter: Aggregating User Data for Television Programme Recommendation</li></ul><p>Looks like this is going to be an interesting workshop. <img alt=":)" class="middle" src="http://captsolo.net/info/rsc/smilies/icon_smile.gif"/></p><p>Note: I am one of the organisers of the workshop, along with <a href="http://apassant.net/">Alex</a>, <a href="http://johnbreslin.com/">John</a> and <a href="http://www.wikier.org/">Sergio</a>.</p><p>Related:</p><ul><li><a href="http://sdow.semanticweb.org/2008/">1st Social Data on the Web (SDoW 2008) workshop</a> - incl. full proceedings in PDF</li></ul></div><div class="bSmallPrint"><a class="permalink_right" href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/10/06/2nd_social_data_on_the_web_sdow_2009_wor" title="Permanent link to full entry"><img alt="Permalink" border="0" class="middle" height="14" src="img/chain_link.gif" width="14"/></a><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/10/06/2nd_social_data_on_the_web_sdow_2009_wor#comments" title="Display comments / Leave a comment">Leave a comment</a></div></div><h2>2009-03-24</h2> <div class="bPost" lang="en-EU"><div class="bSmallHead"><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/03/24/social_semantic_web_where_web_2_0_meets__0" title="Permanent link to full entry"><img alt="Permalink" class="middle" height="9" src="img/icon_minipost.gif" width="12"/></a> 01:34:16, Categories: <strong><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php?cat=3" title="Browse category">Semantic Web</a></strong> <img alt="English (EU)" class="flag" src="http://captsolo.net/info/rsc/flags/h10px/eu.gif"/> </div><h3 class="bTitle">Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0</h3><div class="bText"><blockquote><p>SSS’09 is taking place in Stanford, CA starting from today (March 23) until Wednesday, March 25.</p><p>More information: <a href="http://tw.rpi.edu/portal/Social_Semantic_Web:_Where_Web_2.0_Meets_Web_3.0/program">Program of the AAAI Social Semantic Web (SSS’09) symposium</a></p><p>See also: <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=sss09+OR+%22aaai+sss%22+OR+%23sss09">Twitter messages about SSS’09</a></p></blockquote><p>Web 2.0 (aka. social web) applications such as Wikipedia, LinkedIn and FaceBook, are well-known for fast-growing online data production via their network effects. Meanwhile, emerging Web 3.0 applications, driven by semantic web technologies such as RDF, OWL and SPARQL, offer powerful data organization, combination, and query capabilities.</p><p>The social web and the semantic web complement each other in the way they approach content generation and organization. Social web applications are fairly unsophisticated at preserving the semantics in user-submitted content, typically limiting themselves user tagging and basic metadata. Because of this, they have only limited ways for consumers to find, customize, filter and reuse data. </p><p>Semantic web applications, on the other hand, feature sophisticated logic-backed data handling technologies, but lack the kind of scalable authoring and incentive systems found in successful social web applications. As a result, semantic web applications are typically of limited scope and impact. We envision a new generation of applications that combine the strengths of these two approaches: the data flexibility and portability of that is characteristic of the semantic web, and the scalability and authorship advantages of the social web.</p> </div><div class="bSmallPrint"><a class="permalink_right" href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/03/24/social_semantic_web_where_web_2_0_meets__0" title="Permanent link to full entry"><img alt="Permalink" border="0" class="middle" height="14" src="img/chain_link.gif" width="14"/></a><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/03/24/social_semantic_web_where_web_2_0_meets__0#comments" title="Display comments / Leave a comment">Leave a comment</a></div></div><h2>2009-03-06</h2> <div class="bPost" lang="en-EU"><div class="bSmallHead"><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/03/06/irish_internet_blackout" title="Permanent link to full entry"><img alt="Permalink" class="middle" height="9" src="img/icon_minipost.gif" width="12"/></a> 01:57:58, Categories: <strong><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php?cat=83" title="Browse category">Online Rights</a></strong> <img alt="English (EU)" class="flag" src="http://captsolo.net/info/rsc/flags/h10px/eu.gif"/> </div><h3 class="bTitle">Irish Internet Blackout</h3><div class="bText"><p>Activities of Irish recording industry association are putting online freedom in danger. The Internet is one of the most important tools that people have access to these days and it keeps us informed, can be our workplace and can help people get support when it is needed. Governments are claiming that we should lessen the digital divide that separates people into those who have access to the Internet (and computers) and those who do not.</p><p>It is this time when the record companies say: “hey, we want to be both judge and executioner in cutting people off the Internet". That is what the “3-strike disconnect” demands are about. To let private companies cut someone off the Net for indefinite time without due process and without a way to clear the accusations.</p><p>Even in court cases the “evidence” (which would be enough to disconnect users in Ireland) of record company investigators has been proven wrong. They have accused people who are disabled (and they may suffer the most if disconnected from the Net) and people who don’t even own a computer. If their evidence is courts is questionable, how can we trust what they do together with ISPs behind closed doors and without any transparency?</p><p>To protest against this threat, join <a href="http://www.blackoutireland.com/">Blackout Ireland</a>. <br/>Make your avatar black showing support for Irish Internet users. </p><ul><li><a href="http://blog.blackoutireland.com/">Blackout Ireland blog</a></li><li>follow <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23blackout-irl+OR+%23blackoutirl+OR+%23blackoutireland">#blackoutirl on Twitter</a></li></ul><p>In press:</p><ul><li>EFF: <a href="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/03/irish-blackout">Irish Blackout: Why Irish ISPs Should Stand with Their Customers</a></li><li>Ars Technica: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/blackout-ireland-rallies-support-against-p2p-disconnections.ars">Blackout Ireland rallies support against P2P disconnections</a></li></ul></div><div class="bSmallPrint"><a class="permalink_right" href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/03/06/irish_internet_blackout" title="Permanent link to full entry"><img alt="Permalink" border="0" class="middle" height="14" src="img/chain_link.gif" width="14"/></a><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/03/06/irish_internet_blackout#comments" title="Display comments / Leave a comment">Leave a comment</a></div></div><h2>2009-02-27</h2> <div class="bPost" lang="en-EU"><div class="bSmallHead"><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/02/27/blackout_the_fight_for_online_rights" title="Permanent link to full entry"><img alt="Permalink" class="middle" height="9" src="img/icon_minipost.gif" width="12"/></a> 14:06:49, Categories: <strong><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php?cat=83" title="Browse category">Online Rights</a></strong> <img alt="English (EU)" class="flag" src="http://captsolo.net/info/rsc/flags/h10px/eu.gif"/> </div><h3 class="bTitle">Blackout = The Fight for Online Rights</h3><div class="bText"><p>Irish recording industry is <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/0217/1224241279708.html">forcing ISPs into disconnecting Internet users and censoring the Internet</a>. This blog posts describes the problem and tells why it is a very bad idea:</p><ul><li><a href="http://andyaz.ie/blackout-ireland/">http://andyaz.ie/blackout-ireland/</a></li></ul><p>These threats have led Internet users to start a protest movement called Blackout Ireland:</p><ul><li><a href="http://blog.blackoutireland.com/">Blackout Ireland blog</a></li><li><a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23blackout-irl+OR+%23blackoutirl+OR+%23blackoutireland">#blackoutirl Twitter conversations</a> - live updates <img alt=":idea:" class="middle" src="http://captsolo.net/info/rsc/smilies/icon_idea.gif"/></li></ul><p>Blackout Ireland follows in the footsteps of the original #blackout<br/>in NZ. They are fighting against a controversial censorship law that was<br/>about to be introduced:</p><ul><li><a href="http://creativefreedom.org.nz/blackout.html">New Zealand Internet Blackout</a> - protests against the <i>Guilt Upon Accusation</i> law ‘Section 92A’</li><li><a href="http://www.mohawkmedia.co.nz/nzblackout">NZ #blackout timeline</a> shows a prime example of citizen activism</li></ul><p>You may think that turning your Twitter avatar black may not have much effect. You may be wrong. Imaging the awareness that can be raised by such high-profile twitter users as <a href="http://twitter.com/stephenfry">@stephenfry</a> when his >200′000 readers were wondering why his avatar was black (during NZ #blackout).</p><blockquote><p>Update: Canada is emerging as another battlefront for online rights:</p><ul><li>Canada’s Quebecor (ISP) <a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3706/125/">wants a three strikes approach that would terminate its own subscribers</a></li></ul><p>Michael Geist writes in the article linked above: </p><p>“That any ISP could demonstrate such <i>hostility toward its own customers</i> provides a clear indicator of the utter lack of broadband competition in Canada and serves as a warning that the New Zealand fight could eventually make its way here.”</p></blockquote> </div><div class="bSmallPrint"><a class="permalink_right" href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/02/27/blackout_the_fight_for_online_rights" title="Permanent link to full entry"><img alt="Permalink" border="0" class="middle" height="14" src="img/chain_link.gif" width="14"/></a><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/02/27/blackout_the_fight_for_online_rights#comments" title="Display comments / Leave a comment">1 comment</a></div></div><h2>2009-02-24</h2> <div class="bPost" lang="en-EU"><div class="bSmallHead"><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/02/24/redland_python_bindings_on_mac_os_x" title="Permanent link to full entry"><img alt="Permalink" class="middle" height="9" src="img/icon_minipost.gif" width="12"/></a> 15:43:51, Categories: <strong><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php?cat=3" title="Browse category">Semantic Web</a></strong> <img alt="English (EU)" class="flag" src="http://captsolo.net/info/rsc/flags/h10px/eu.gif"/> </div><h3 class="bTitle">Redland Python bindings on Mac OS X</h3><div class="bText"><p>If you need to install Redland Python bindings on Mac OS X then one of the ways is to use <a href="http://www.macports.org/">MacPorts</a>:</p><p><code>sudo port install redland-bindings +python25</code></p><p>It is just one command and all dependencies will be installed automatically. (Though I usually install python25 with a separate command)</p><p>There is a cost to this because MacPorts would compile its own version of Python and as a result the installation might take a while. This is due to <a href="http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#WillMacPortslinktosystemlibrariesratherthanitsown">MacPorts policy</a> to install all the prerequisites.</p><p>Context: I was having issues installing Redland Python bindings on Mac OS X and it seemed that nobody around me had them working either. MacPorts turned out to be the easiest way to do this.</p><p>See also:</p><ul><li><a href="http://librdf.org/docs/python.html">Redland RDF library - Python bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=redland">redland ports on MacPorts</a></li></ul> </div><div class="bSmallPrint"><a class="permalink_right" href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/02/24/redland_python_bindings_on_mac_os_x" title="Permanent link to full entry"><img alt="Permalink" border="0" class="middle" height="14" src="img/chain_link.gif" width="14"/></a><a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/02/24/redland_python_bindings_on_mac_os_x#comments" title="Display comments / Leave a comment">8 comments</a></div></div><p class="center"><strong> :: <a href="http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php?blog=2&page=1&paged=2">Next Page >></a></strong></p></div><!-- =================================== START OF SIDEBAR =================================== --><!-- InstanceEndEditable --></div><table cellspacing="3" class="wide"><tr><td align="center" class="cartouche">Page served in 0.331 seconds</td></tr></table><p class="baseline"><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><img alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" class="middle" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px"/></a><a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/"><img alt="Valid CSS!" class="middle" src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss" style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px"/></a><a href="http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php?tempskin=_rss2"><img alt="Valid RSS!" class="middle" src="../../img/valid-rss.png" style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px"/></a><a href="http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php?tempskin=_atom"><img alt="Valid Atom!" class="middle" src="../../img/valid-atom.png" style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px"/></a> <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Baseline" --><!-- InstanceEndEditable --></p><script async="" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-7GE6HQBMDT"></script><script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-7GE6HQBMDT');</script></body><!-- InstanceEnd --></html> 
