This is an interesting work to utilize microformats and RDFa. Besides visualizing the embedded metadata it would be useful to offer structured forms to search arbitrary metadata formats. I am also using RDFa for my ongoing work, StYLiD. Hope I can microsearch data in my system with this. I am also looking forward to social software tools being available for anyone to author embedded metadata easily.
The ACCORD project is about development of methodologies, theories, mechanisms, and technologies which will allow for a meaningful interaction among information sources (databases, information systems, web sites, file systems, …) within World Wide Web.
The site has a great collection of resources about ontology matching, alignment, integration, etc.
10 Semantic Apps to Watch - ReadWriteWeb
This is an interesting and useful article showcasing 10 “Semantic applications” .. not necessarily Semantic Web applications.
3 great semantic applications were presented at the recently held Web 2.0 summit, Semantic Edge session - Freebase, Powerset and Twine. I have been recently working on ideas similar to Freebase, sharing structured information based on collaboratively shared concepts and schema.
This is the Finnish Semantic Web project. The site has a long list of publications.
REWERSE - Reasoning on the Web
Quite a big project. Lixto has also been used for wrapper generation.
Knowledge Media Institute : Projects : Hot
Many great interesting projects.
Open Mind
The Open Mind Initiative is a novel world-wide collaborative effort to develop intelligent software.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Free tool offers easy coding
Scratch is a cool visual programming tool. It would be interesting not only for kids but can be a tool to motivate any user to construct useful things and share their creations.
A free programming tool that allows anyone to create their own animated stories, video games and interactive artworks has been launched.
BibSonomy: A Social Bookmark and Publication Sharing System
I recently discovered this work related to my work SocioBiblog.
Social bookmark tools are rapidly emerging on the Web. In such systems users are setting up lightweight conceptual structures called folksonomies. The reason for their immediate success is the fact that no specific skills are needed for participating. In this paper we specify a formal model for folksonomies and briefly describe our own system BibSonomy, which allows for sharing both bookmarks and publication references in a kind of personal library.
