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Bloggers want... Blogging can be a business a hobby or a passion. Regardless of why you blog, it should be fun for you and engaging for your readers. Calais offers several tools that can improve your blog's tagging, incorporate great images and make your blog's contents more searchable. Calais for WordPress Meet Tagaroo, the Calais plugin for WordPress blogs. As you are writing your post, Tagaroo automatically analyzes it and suggests both tags and images from Flickr to enhance your post. You can select tags you like, incorporate them into your post, and then automatically search Flickr for images to complement your writing. Tagaroo has its own home, where you can read about it in more detail, download the plugin, and visit the forums. Calais for Drupal Drupal is clearly among the hottest content management systems out there. The folks at Phase2Technology have built a great Drupal module that makes Calais functionality available to the Drupal CMS platform. The module overview located in our Gallery will give you a quick overview of how to incorporate this tool into your Drupal installation. Riding the Semantic Wave with Yahoo If you're tuned in to the Semantic Web buzz, Yahoo's recent announcement that they will crawl websites and index semantic metadata is a big deal. Over time this will allow much more powerful and focused search capabilities - and we want you to be part of it. But there's a problem. Most bloggers don't have the tools or the time to create rich semantic metadata to identify the people, organizations, places and other items in their content. So we've built a simple tool that will do it for you.

The blogosphere is the most explosive social network you'll never see. Recent studies suggest that nearly 60 million blogs exist online, and about 175,000 more crop up daily (that's about 2 every second). Even though the vast majority of blogs are either abandoned or isolated, many bloggers like to link to other Web sites. These links allow analysts to track trends in blogs and identify the most popular topics of data exchange. Social media expert Matthew Hurst recently collected link data for six weeks and produced this plot of the most active and interconnected parts of the blogosphere.

The World's Foremost Symposium on the Business of Semantic Technologies. This Website Is Semantically Enabled! We are proud to announce two semantic-based conference tools: a Scheduler/Faceted Search and a Session Blog.

We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph - we call our piece of it Calais. Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.

"Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company) talked with Brian Donnelly about a new system on the market called "Semantic Discovery System" (SDS), which helps to do sophisticated queries across existing datasets. Also talking why complex scripts or triple stores should not be exposed to the end-users anymore."

"Ivan Herman discusses Semantic Web activity at the World Wide Web Consortium"

"While some people work heavily on the extension of the semantic web infrastructure, like Talis Connected Commons or OpenLink´s Amazon EC2 Instantiation others have started to bring the semantic web closer to the developers and therefore to a much broader audience: They offer search facilities or Linked Data Navigators like OpenLink´s Entity Finder or DERI´s VisiNav."

Topic: Semantic Web Recent Posts in this Topic 5Cs Dave Snowden revises and reprises his conditions of complexity. Including this one: "Constraint is key to understanding complexity, it governs the transition between the three ontologies. Increase constraint and you create an ordered system; do that inappropriately and you create the conditions for catastrophic failure; remove constraint and the system is chaotic. Lightly constrain the system, while allowing it to be modified by the actors within it and you enable evolution and the emergence of meaning. Managing constrains is one of the things you can train managers to do, and measure their capability and effectiveness." Do I agree with that? I don't know. How do you constrain them. Who does the constraining? With networks there can be natural limits, which prevents them from being scale free. But I don't think this is what Snowden means. Dave Snowden, Cognitive Edge, October 23, 2008 [Link] [Tags: Ontologies, Networks, Semantic Web] [Comment]

The "Social Semantic Web" is here - yay! The book of the same name, edited by Andreas Blumauer (right) and Tassilo Pellegrini, is now available in stores. Another contributor from SWC is Matthias Samwald (left), who, together with Holger Stenzhorn, discussed the relevance of the Semantic Web for biomedial research in their article for the book.

As JISC has recently announced an open call of funding for a study on Semantic Web technologies in teaching and learning we thought we'd use this opportunity to provide a bit of an update on Semantic Web developments. The JISC call seeks to fund a study which looks at pragmatic aspects of the actual use of semantic applications in real world scenarios. The successful applicant will review a number of case studies of real-world teaching and learning scenarios and look at the potential for use of semantic technologies. The key question they are asking is: "Can you convince us that semantic technologies offer one potential solution to some real problems?"