So, this was MY question today: as in, I wanted to re-post a tweet about moonshine arts & literary magazine. I couldn't quite remember what I wrote and I didn't use a #hashtag. So what to do? How do you search your own twitter feed? There are lots of cool trending tools out there, but those are very limited in terms of timeframe. I personally like trendtastic.Per my usual M.O. I tweeted, buzzed, & facebook'd my request --even before I google'd, now what does that tell ya?

http://dlib.org/dlib/january10/hillmann/01hillmann.htmlAbstract"The Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, due to be released this coming summer, has included since May 2007 a parallel effort to build Semantic Web enabled vocabularies. This article describes thateffort and the decisions made to express the vocabularies for use withinthe library community and in addition as a bridge to the future oflibrary data outside the current MARC-based systems.

“RDA is being developed as a new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world.”

A webinar/presentation about RDA, which the cataloging world has been abuzz about is located here http://tinyurl.com/yexxlynAlso, a couple of demos out (just demos, not product):A small demo example for what "open development" could do:http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/wtr/content.htmVery no-frills browsing by rule number, rule title, core elements, and keyword (al

Well, this would seem to be a match made in heaven for the goals of the semantic web -- because regardless of the schema and mapping, I think there is going to have be some kind of established form/identity.... and considering my cataloger tendencies (lol), well, I can't help but love this project.... ---------------The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) has moved to beta phase and is available for all tosearch at: http://viaf.org/The VIAF can be used as a reference for identifying and resolving conflicts and disambiguation of personal names.

Well, this is interesting... some thoughts on a new tool in the google webmaster's toolbox.... Just goes to show that mining content doesn't always tell you relevance. Sometimes controlled vocabularies (subject headings) and taxonomies (categories) are a GOOD thing... Sigh...

Here is what Google says the keyword significance list is for: Below are the most common keywords Google found when crawling your site.

Arches @ noon. Nov.

I am so excited about this NYT project -- just the kind of thing needed to start moving the semantic web forward ... By the way, DBPedia is an attempt to take Wikipedia data and semanticize it... I am kind of in love with linked in data at the moment.Article athttp://tinyurl.com/yhdayvr "Over the last several months we have manually mapped more than 5,000 person name subject headings onto Freebase and DBPedia.

So, Google announced that:

Google uses numerous sources to find new webpages, from links we find on the web to submitted URLs. We aim to discover new pages quickly so that users can find new content in Google search results soon after they go live. We recently launched a feature that uses RSS and Atom feeds for the discovery of new webpages.

Oh you people with crappy design, content and metadata, in theory, if you can generate a RSS, Google can find you.

Well, this is a pretty unwieldly subject to pack into a 1 hour presentation (and I didn't go very far into the details of the mechanics of the semantic web, at all)....[googleapps domain="docs" dir="present/embed" query="id=dkcxvp2_12299fxpzchq&interval=15&autoStart=true" width="410" height="342" /]

Some of you have seen this (I am sure).[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsNcjya56v8&hl=en&fs=1&]