Read Write Web — Q2 Summary — 2015 [via Read Write Web Community Group]

Summary
Q2 was a relatively quiet, yet has seen quite a bit of progress.  Some work is
being done on the EU INSPIRE directive and ESWC took place in Slovenia with some
interesting demos.  One that caught the eye was QueryVOWL, a visual query
language, for linked data.

For those that enjoy such things, there was some interesting work and discussion
on deterministic naming of blank nodes.  Also a neat new framework called
Linked Data Reactor, which can be used for developing component based
applications.  The web annotation group has also published an Editor's draft.

Much of the work that has been done in this group has come together in a new
spec, SoLiD (Social Linked Data).  As an early adopter of this technology I
have been extraordinarily impressed, and would encourage trying it out.  There
has also been a proposed charter for the next version of the Linked Data
Platform.


Communications and Outreach
A few of this group met with the Social Web Working Group in Paris.  Over two
days we got to demo read write technologies in action, and also to see the work
from members of the indieweb community and those working with the Activity
Streams specification.


Community Group
Relatively quiet this quarter on the mailing list with about 40 posts.  I get
the impression that more focus has shifted to implementations and applications,
where I think there is starting to be an uptick in progress.  Some ontologies
have been worked on, one for SoLiD apps, and another for micrblogging.


Applications
The first release of a contacts manager on the SoLiD platform came out this
month.  Which allows you to set up and store your own personal address book, in
your own storage.  An interesting feature of this app is that it includes logic
for managing workspaces and preferences.  Import and export is currently
targeted to vcard, but more will be added, or simply fork the app and and your
own!

Lots of work has been done on the linkeddata github area.  General improvements
and some preliminary work on a keychain app.  One feature that I have found
useful was the implementation of HTTP PATCH sending notifications to containers
when something has changed.  This helped me create a quick demo for webid.im to
show how it's possible to cycle through a set of images and have them propagate
through the network as things change.


Last but not Least...

The Triple Pattern fragments client was released and is able to query multiple
APIs for data at the same time.  This is a 100% client side app and supports
federated SPARQL queries.  Another great open source app, you can read the
specification or dive into the source code here.



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