📢 Call for Tutorials – ISWC 2026
A great opportunity to share knowledge and teach practical skills in Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies, Linked Data, and AI.
🔗 Details & submission:
https://iswc2026.semanticweb.org/#/calls/tutorials
#LinkedData
RE: https://w3c.social/@w3c/116216070362563670
FWIW, I have been storing Linked Data (including ActivityPub) in an INI like format — because I find INI-like formats more human-friendly (to both read and write) than JSON.
YAML is probably better than JSON, too, in that respects. But I think INI-like formats are better than YAML.
#ActivityPub #ActivityStreams #JSONLD #LinkedData #RDF #YAML #YAMLLD
The JSON-LD Working Group published today a First Public Working Draft of YAML-LD 1.0. [JSON-LD11] is a JSON-based format to serialize Linked Data. In recent years, [YAML] has emerged as a more concise format to represent information that had previously been serialized as [JSON], including API specifications, data schemas, and Linked Data.
#LinkedData #MachineReadable #WebStandards
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/first-public-working-draft-yaml-ld-1-0/
CBOR-LD 1.0
"CBOR is a compact binary data serialization and messaging format. This specification defines CBOR-LD 1.0, a CBOR-based format to serialize Linked Data. The encoding is designed to leverage the existing JSON-LD ecosystem, which is deployed on hundreds of millions of systems today, to provide a compact serialization format for those seeking efficient encoding schemes for Linked Data. By utilizing semantic compression schemes, compression ratios in excess of 60% better than generalized compressi..."
https://w3c.github.io/cbor-ld/
#json-ld #linkeddata #webdev
📢 HMC FAIR Friday Seminar
More than a decade after the FAIR Principles were introduced, a key question remains:
👉 What value has FAIR actually delivered to researchers?
In this talk, Sebastian Hellmann and Jan Forberg explore the microeconomics of FAIR adoption and present open-source tools #Databus and #MOSS from the #DBpedia Association ecosystem.
📅 27 March 2026 | Online
🔗 Register here: https://helmholtz-metadaten.de/events/fair-reality-check
RE: https://sigmoid.social/@semantics/116137733902950322
⏳ The clock is ticking!
Got an idea for a workshop session at the #SEMANTiCS 2026? We want to hear it! One week left to submit your workshop proposals.
📅 Deadline: March 13, 2026
🔗 Submit here: https://2026-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_workshops_tutorials
Hacking the DROID Signature File for Characterization
by @beet_keeperIdentification of a format can be approached from many angles. Often a magic
number will be used at the beginning of a file. This may be strengthened by the addition of similarly consistent bytes at the end of a file or indeed any part of the bitstream inbetween. Using the sample file format we created last week the magic number to identify it is specified
#Characterization #DigitalPreservation #DROID #FileFormats #LinkedData #MagicNumbers #PRONOM #SPARQL
YAML-LD brings the power of JSON-LD’s #LinkedData to YAML, using YAML’s more compact and expressive syntax #timetogiveinput #FPWD
▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/yaml-ld-10/
The @w3c specification "YAML‑LD 1.0" offers more data types and flexible structure than #JSON, while ensuring compatibility with #JSONLD syntax, semantics, and #APIs.
Feedback wlc! https://github.com/w3c/yaml-ld/issues
Browsing your data using PodOS is great, but nothing compares to an app that is tailor-made for the task. That's why PodOS Brower now allows you to open a resource in another app. We also have some exciting new features for dashboards builders.
https://pod-os.org/blog/2026/03/04/podos-202603-open-with-conditional-rendering-and-reactivity/
📍#SEMANTiCS 2026 is coming to 🏰 #Ghent 🇧🇪!
From medieval roots to #Belgium’s tech capital, #Ghent is where history meets the future of #LinkedData and #AI. Join us 15–17 Sept 2026.
Discover SemWeb.Pro 2021 — Smart Data for Smart Industry! Dive into how semantic web, linked data and smart datasets power Industry 4.0, IoT and digital twins. Perfect for curious researchers and engineers. #SemanticWeb #LinkedData #Industry4_0 #IoT #DigitalTwin #SmartData #SemWebPro #Science #Tech #English
https://peertube.semweb.pro/videos/watch/ea2a94af-6cf5-4067-a21c-f28ab6c2faa2
@strypey @FinchHaven @naturzukunft2026
For the sake of further clarity I should point to your starting post and this text:
> we need domain-specific applications that leverage ActivityPub’s full semantic potential
And remark that in my opinion and by observation, tapping the sign "Reminder: #ActivityPub is #JSONLD, folks!" isn't enough. Much more is needed than pointing to the #OpenStandards to win back developers minds to adopt #LinkedData. There is a high reluctance and resistance to adoption that must be overcome.
Referring again to that adoption chart I drafted the other day - which is about #SolidProject, but this is where LD is strong(est?) today - "build open standards, and they will come" isn't going so well. I hope that changes, as I have always been a fan of the *notion* of the semantic web. Yet in role of a technology decision maker, not ready to bet on it for a social networking environment.
With quote posts we are able to shape our own micro #wiki's within our timelines and those of others, buld social graphs (technosphere) and navigate social fabric (socioshere) ..
What might we be be able to weave if the #ActivityPub #LinkedData aspects were used to their full extent and benefit?
Social semantic fabrics.
A new snapshot release of the #dblp data set has been published. #opendata #linkeddata #knowledgegraph
https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/collection/dblp
https://doi.org/10.4230/dblp.rdf.ntriples
https://doi.org/10.4230/dblp.xml
The March 2026 release of the Between Our Worlds dataset with anime metadata is available now! https://
betweenourworlds.org
#linkeddata #rdf #opendata #anime #metadata
I checked the number of followers of the @PartijvoordeDieren on #Mastodon and #X on #wikidata and added also the current numbers:
X:
2025-02-12: 63,992
2026-02-26: 62,256
⬇️: 1,736 (2.7%)
Mastodon:
2025-02-12: 2,674
2026-02-26: 3,859
⬆️ : 1,185 (44%)
The #PartijvoordeDieren is the Dutch political party with most followers on Mastodon.
For all Dutch parties on Mastodon see:
https://www.politici-op-mastodon.nl/#partijen
Really looking forward to reading this! An attempt to seriously tighten conceptions of #data #quality. Agreement on a model or a definition has been elusive, until now, it seems.
Quality of Descriptive Information on Cultural Heritage Objects: Definition and Empirical Evaluation https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.21249 #GLAMR #metadata #LinkedData #LOD #OpenData
It's a pleasure to participate in this year's DHd-conference in Vienna! The editorial team of the ZfdG is listening in.
Die Redaktion der ZfdG lässt es sich nicht nehmen, den zahlreichen interessanten Vorträgen an der #DHd2026 zu lauschen. Erste Station: Digital Soundscapes im Hörsaal 5. #digitalHumanities #rdf #mei #metadata #linkeddata
The JWT ecosystem already uses this principle: IANA maintains a centralised registry of claim definitions — a semantics-linking mechanism.
@context achieves the same binding, but decentralised and domain-controlled. Which is what the rulebook model requires.
"Semantics are essential but linking credentials to their semantics is unnecessary" is a contradiction.
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