Schedule: Open data sessions

By looking at how we can use sites like Wikipedia, Freebase and DBpedia as authoritative sources of content and meta-data and utilising services such as del.icio.us to provide a measure of popularity and currency (_what_ is being discussed at _this_ point in time) we can generate additional meta-data that can be used to provide new routes through existing content archives. Read more.

We motivate and propose using extensions to the well-known Trackback protocol to support the notification of citation information between repositories of research outputs, particularly academic publications and scientific data. Read more.

This presentation will look at the process of publishing open data and review issues surrounding stability of both data and vocabularies, as well providing some recommendations for how to publish open data. Read more.

The wider developer community is increasing its understanding of the "Web of Data," as users demand the right to own their data. Unanswered questions include how to fit this data into other structures and how to link across them. We will discuss what Linked Data is; what it tries to fix; hurdles in developing a Linked Data system; and how Linked Data fits with the Data Space philosophy. Read more.

Open Mashups is a complete tool suite empowering non-programmers to create their own applications by assembling existing functionnal components. Unlike existing solutions, the system is fully expandable and configurable: it uses code generators to target various platforms and devices (like mobile phones, web pages or desktop widgets) and provides a pluggable components model. Read more.

Real-time interaction is becoming a necessity on the ever-more dynamic Web. Jabber is a powerful established protocol, already used by over 10 million people worldwide, and ideally suited to web application development. Whether you're an API developer or writing client apps, this workshop offers real experience and practical advice. Read more.

OAuth is poised to be one of most important new standards in 2008 for anyone building with identity, social platforms, or APIs. Come find out why we designed OAuth the way we did, why it works, when it doesn't, and how to wrangle OAuth to fit your requirements. We'll cover considerations when designing an OAuth secured API including security implications, mobile user experience, and pitfalls. Read more.

Launched during the 2007 XTech keynote, AMEE has had an amazing year. Aggregating more than half a million users through clients such as the UK Government and Google, we'll outline our next hopes and steps for the project. AMEE has also demonstrated a potential model for the anonymous aggregation of personal data, bridging brand-equity and privacy issues. Read more.

Fire Eagle is a new service designed to make it safe and easy to build and use location-aware applications and services. It's a place for users to store information about their current location that trusted apps and sites can update or access. The talk covers how Fire Eagle works and how to use it to build a fire eagle client application oauth and RESTful web services to share user locations. Read more.

What does it take to add semantics to your website? The London Gazette, the UK government's Official Journal, holds a huge amount of information — statutory notices about decisions and changes at a local and national level. The government wants to expose this information using RDFa so that it becomes easy to re-use. But it takes more than just creating an ontology and changing a few lines of code. Read more.

Believe it or not, there are over 50 millions of semantically structured documents out there (in RDF.. the uppercase Semantic Web!). In this presentation i will show how to create applications that automatically locate them and process them to fulfill several use cases. Finally, i will highlight how to efficiently publish one's existing data and the extraordinary advantages that this brings. Read more.

Why Web 2.0 is harming the Web, and how we can fix it. Read more.

3 years after the Google Data APIs were first released, and a good year after Atom Publication was finalised, there are lessons to be learned. When you spearhead on a working draft, you are bound to take turns that with hindsight seem less than ideal, or could be solved differently now that the standard your work was based on is actually finalised. Read more.

overview of the architecture of SWSE, a Semantic Web Search Engine that scales to billions of RDF statements, and discuss in detail the necessary adaptations to traditional search engine components, in particular indexing, query processing, and ranking. Read more.

Data portability has become an important requirement on the Social Web. We demonstrate how data and social network portability can be achieved by building upon existing Semantic Web developments such as SIOC and FOAF. SIOC provides a common format for expressing user-generated content and tools for import/export of this information. FOAF provides a way to link users' social networks. Read more.

We might be standardising around a handful of web development frameworks but we're still re-inventing the wheel when it comes to the things we build. A vibrant ecosystem of commercial grade API providers, such as Amazon with their S3 and EC2 services, could change all that. But what needs to happen to make this web services dream a reality? And where are the potential pitfalls for successful apps? Read more.

We introduce our work on building tools to mine scientific literature. Using our Golem language/toolkit, we have inferred an ontology for, and extracted RDF metadata from, the tens of thousands of crystallographic datasets obtained automatically from journals as part of our CrystalEye repository. We then show some of the ways in which this enhances our ability to search and mine scientific data. Read more.