Aaron Straup Cope’s NYTimes Widgets

One of the most interesting talk we had at SWIG’04 was “Design Issues and Technical Challenges Making the Eatdrinkfeelgood Markup Language RDF” where Aaron showed why it was hard to use RDF in a XML project. I think it all boils down to the fact that we have no good widespread way of serializing RDF to XML. In any case, Aaron finally sent me a link to his NYTimes Widgets.

It lacks sufficient documentation for me to grok it quickly, but from what I understand, Aaron tried to create a useful and innovative RDF application. Here’s what he says about his widgets:

The New York Times includes a large amount of topical metadata with each article it publishes. These are widgets that, having harvested the data, try to do something interesting with it.

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SWIG’04, Montréal, Nov. 19th 2004

SWIG’04 program is now available:

SWIG04 (in conjunction with LORNET i2LOR event)

Canadian Semantic Web Interest Group'04
Friday afternoon 19 November 2004
Université de Quebec a Montreal,
Pavillion Judith Jasmin (405 rue Ste. Catherine Est), Montréal, Canada

You must register.
Including food, the day event costs $40 for students, $120 for SWIG
members and $200 for the public.

Opening Panel: The
Semantic Web: When, Where and How Will It Have
Impact?

14h00-15h00
Auditorium MGL
J-M400

Bruce Spencer, National Research Council (Chair)
Fred Popowich, Axonwave Software/ Simon Fraser University
Daniel Lemire, TELUQ
Olga Marino,LICEF

Parallel
Sessions

Tutorial 1: Introduction au web sémantique (en francais)

15h00-17h00
DS-M220

Michel Gagnon, Département de génie informatique
École polytechnique de Montréal

Tutorial 2: Constructing Ontologies for Semantic Web Application

15h00-17h00
DS-M560

Ms Jurika Shakya, Dr Vive Kumar, and Dr Marek Hatala
School of Interactive Arts and Technology,
Simon Fraser University Surrey

Paper Track 1: Short Papers

15h00-17h00
DS-M280

Title: Applying Semantic Web Technologies to Matchmaking and Web Service Descriptions
Authors: Amer Al Shaban and Volker Haarslev, Concordia University

Title: OntoXpl - Intelligent Exploration of OWL Ontologies
Authors: Volker Haarslev
 and Ying Lu and Nematollah Shiri, Concordia University

Title: Ontologies, semantic web and intelligent systems for genomics
Authors: Christopher J. O. Baker, Greg Butler, Volker Haarslev, Concordia University

Title: The Fungal Web Ontology
Authors: Arash Shaban-Nejad, Christopher J. O. Baker,
Greg Butler, Volker Haarslev,
 Concordia University

Title: Une approche d'apprentissage multi stratégique intégrant le contexte
 pour le mapping sémantique desources de données
Authors: Youssef Bououlid Idrissi,
Julie Vachon DIRO, Université de Montréal

Paper Track 2:
Short Papers

15h00-17h00
DS-M440

Title: Use of Text Analytics and Taxonomies for Fraud and abuse detection in Medical Insurance
Author: Fred Popowich Axonwave/ Simon Fraser University

Title: A Service-Oriented Architecture for Creating Customized Learning Environments
Authors: Tony Bailetti, Michael Weiss, Carleton University and
Glen McInnis, ICHU Learning

Title: Mixing semantic web services and agents: a research issue for the semantic web agenda
Author: Sergio Castillo, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Columbia

Title: Design Issues and Technical Challenges Making the Eatdrinkfeelgood Markup Languge RDF
Author: Aaron Straup Cope

Title: Toward a semantic web site for an academic department
Author: Michel Gagnon, Mona Kardoost, Changshan Sun, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

Plenary Session: The future of the Semantic Web in Canada: Research, Applications and Community (Forum)

17h00-18h00
Auditorium MGL
J-M400

Griff Richards, Chair

Closing Reception
and Presentation of Awards

18h00-19h00
Foyer STAL

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Aaron Straup Cope’s NYTimes Widgets

SWIG’04, Montréal, Nov. 19th 2004

SWIG04 (in conjunction with LORNET i2LOR event)

Opening Panel: The Semantic Web: When, Where and How Will It Have Impact?

Parallel Sessions