Michael Hausenblas | 3 Feb 2010 10:21
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3rd CfP: LDOW2010 - 3rd International Workshop on Linked Data on the Web, at WWW2010, Raleigh, USA

Dear SWUI people,

This is a reminder that the deadline for submissions to LDOW2010,
the 3rd International Workshop on Linked Data on the Web, is coming up
in less than two weeks time:

Submission deadline: 15th February 2010, 23.59 Hawaii time

We are looking forward to receiving your submissions for LDOW2010 - hope to
see you in Raleigh!

Cheers,

Chris Bizer
Tom Heath
Tim Berners-Lee
Michael Hausenblas

==============  Call for Papers  ===============

Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2010) Workshop at WWW2010

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April 27th, 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

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Objectives

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Siegfried Handschuh | 4 Feb 2010 14:59

EKAW 2010 – Call for Workshop Proposals

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and
students

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*** Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management  EKAW - 2010 ***

11th October-15th October 2010 - Lisbon, Portugal
http://ekaw2010.inesc-id.pt

workshop call at:
http://www.siegfried-handschuh.net/events/EKAW2010/

*** Call for workshop proposals ***

Background and Motivation
---------------------------------------

Workshops provide members of a community a forum to discuss common
interests in a focused way. If you are working in an emerging area in
Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Engineering and/or Knowledge
Management, consider organizing a workshop. They are a chance to meet
mind-alike researchers and discover what others are doing. A workshop
offers a good opportunity for young researchers to present their work
and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Successful
workshops may result in edited books or special issues in international
journals.

EKAW 2010 is looking for exciting proposals for half-day or full-day
workshops to be held. Each workshop should generate discussions that
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John Edward | 4 Feb 2010 21:45
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Draft paper submission deadline is extended: BCBGC-10

Draft paper submission deadline is extended: BCBGC-10

 

The 2010 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA.  BCBGC is an important event in the areas of bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics and chemoinformatics and focuses on all areas related to the conference.

 

The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10). MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10.

 

  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10)

  •  International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10)

  • International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10)

  • International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10)

  • International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10)

  • International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10)

  • International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10)

  • International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10)

  • International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10)

  • International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10)

 

We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details.

 

Sincerely

John Edward

Publicity committee


Alex Abramovich | 6 Feb 2010 13:50
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‘New ontology pages’ as Semantic Web foundation

Hi all,

   This is a reminder that an original idea of Semantic Web is based on three foundations, namely, XML, RDF and ontology pages. Any Web resource’s content must be duplicated in the machine-readable form (ontology page); RDF will link a total Web content into one semantic network (Semantic Web); intelligent agents, defined on this semantic network, will serve the Web visitors.

   As it seems to me, ‘Berners-Lee at al’ expected that Web resource’s owners will write ontology pages themselves Unfortunately, their expectation failed.

Why?

   On the one hand, Web resources’ owners don’t ready to pay more for their Web resources maintain, and any Web design’s complication conflict with real tendency of the simplification (and even automation) of Web resources’ construction.

   On the other hand, ‘Berners-Lee at al’ didn’t provide both any unified scenario for the ontology pages creation and connective semantic mechanism.  

   The ontology pages idea was rebranded, as rightly observed Dan Brickley, into other variations on the theme, related to Linked Data and such instruments as RDFa, GRDDL etc., which aim to integrate RDF more closely into user-facing Web content.

As a result Semantic Web engineers must link now more than 13 billion RDF triples and unknown quantity of independent ontologies.

   I suggest returning to the original ontology pages’ idea based on the new knowledge representation language, namely on Need Language (NL). Herewith, I assume that Web publisher is extremely interested in success of the publication, but he is against additional and unmotivated expenses on the maintenance of Web resource, and also he does not wish to penetrate into additional technical details.

   You know that any Web publisher has in mind a satisfaction of a certain need of Web visitors. The main problem is to detect what need exactly may be satisfied by the given Web resource.

   NL based engine will provide a query-answering session with both any Web publisher and any Web visitor, using their professional or/and everyday slang.  

As a result Web resource’s content and Web visitor’s specification are represented the same semantic marked syntax, and NL based engine will get an opportunity to find for the visitor an appropriate Web resource. If except a need description Web publisher provides a way of this need satisfaction, NL based  enghine will get an opportunity to meet Web visitor’s need directly or to compose a new way of the given need satisfactions using available need-resources.

   In other words, I mean that Web publishers will rewrite (in the scope of the query-answering session) their published information in the new specific form (or input a description of certain need’s satisfaction) that includes all necessary constructive elements including documents and audio/video data in the corresponding places of the new presentation of their Web resource.

   As a result Web visitor will be relieved of necessity to look through Web content in search of relevant information. He will deal, mainly, with Web of needs. System engine will interview Web visitor and find or generate the actual way of the given need satisfaction. Herewith, system engine will demonstrate to the customer only those documents and audio/video resources, which are related to the found way of the given need satisfaction.

   Optional, Internet provider supplies Web of needs in form of configurations ordered by the customer that will allow to the governments to regulate the information flow.

   Neither Web publisher nor Web visitor will be obliged to know something else except the particularities of their needs. They will be interacting with Web of needs using their professional slang.

   With the purpose of realization of mentioned above possibilities in Need Language I have formalized the representation of domain knowledge and defined both commonsense knowledge and commonsense reasoning.

I need your opinion, your advice, your help and your cooperation.

All the best,

A.Abramovich   


Alex Abramovich | 6 Feb 2010 15:23
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‘New ontology pages’ as Semantic Web foundation

Hi all,

   This is a reminder that an original idea of Semantic Web is based on three foundations, namely, XML, RDF and ontology pages. Web resources’ content must be duplicated in the machine-readable form (ontology page); RDF will link a total Web content into one semantic network (Semantic Web); intelligent agents, defined on this semantic network, will serve the Web visitors.

   As it seems to me, ‘Berners-Lee at al’ expected that Web resource’s owners will write ontology pages themselves. Unfortunately, their expectation failed.

Why?

   On the one hand, Web resources’ owners don’t ready to pay more for their Web resources maintain, and any Web design’s complication conflict with real tendency of the simplification (and even automation) of Web resources’ construction.

   On the other hand, ‘Berners-Lee at al’ didn’t provide both any unified scenario for the ontology pages creation and connective semantic mechanism.  

   The ontology pages idea was rebranded, as rightly observed Dan Brickley, into other variations on the theme, related to Linked Data and such instruments as RDFa, GRDDL etc., which aim to integrate RDF more closely into user-facing Web content.

As a result Semantic Web engineers must link now more than 13 billion RDF triples and unknown quantity of independent ontologies.

   I suggest returning to the original ontology pages’ idea based on the new knowledge representation language Need Language (NL). Herewith, I assume that Web publisher is extremely interested in success of the publication, but he is against additional and unmotivated expenses on the maintenance of Web resource, and also he does not wish to penetrate into additional technical details.

   You know that any Web publisher has in mind a satisfaction of a certain need of Web visitors. The main problem is to detect what need exactly may be satisfied by the given Web resource.

   NL based engine will provide a query-answering session with both any Web publisher and any Web visitor using their professional or/and everyday slang.  

As a result Web resource’s content and Web visitor’s specification are represented the same semantic marked syntax, and NL based engine will get an opportunity to find for the visitor an appropriate Web resource. If except a need description Web publisher provides a way of this need satisfaction, we will get an opportunity to meet Web visitor’s need directly or to compose a new way of the given need satisfactions using available need-resources.

   In other words, I mean that Web publishers will rewrite (in the scope of the query-answering session) their published information in the new specific form (or input a description of certain need’s satisfaction) that includes all necessary constructive elements including documents and audio/video data in the corresponding places of the new presentation of their Web resource.

   As a result Web visitor will be relieved of necessity to look through Web content in search of relevant information. He will deal mainly with Web of needs. System engine will interview Web visitor and find or generate the actual way of the given need satisfaction. Herewith, system engine will demonstrate to the customer only those documents and audio/video resources, which are related to the found way of the given need satisfaction.

   Optional, Internet provider supplies Web of needs in form of configurations ordered by the customer that will allow to the governments to regulate the information flow.

Neither Web publisher nor Web visitor will be obliged to know something else except the particularities of their needs. They will be interacting with Web of needs using their professional slang.

   With the purpose of realization of mentioned above possibilities in Need Language I have formalized the representation of domain knowledge and defined both commonsense knowledge and commonsense reasoning.

I need your opinion, your advice, your help and your cooperation.

All the best,

A.Abramovich   


Jochen Reutelshoefer | 7 Feb 2010 14:23
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2nd Call for Papers: SemWiki2010

            ***2nd Call for Papers***

           Fifth Workshop on Semantic Wikis
          Linking Data and People [SemWiki2010]
      co-located with ESWC 2010, Heraklion, Crete
                   May 30 or May 31, 2010
               http://www.semwiki.org/

Goals and Motivation
====================
Semantic wikis as social semantic software have the mission to gather
humans and computers in order to build together the next wave of ontology
driven collaboration platforms. The research has shifted from proofs of
concept towards foundational research in large projects, commercially sold
enterprise systems and real world use cases. Besides evaluations of such
use cases, technical innovation and foundational research are still needed,
as the large-scale application of semantic wikis has unveiled a number of
research questions. The aim of this fifth SemWiki workshop is to exchange
ideas, to discuss pressing research questions arising from practical usage
of semantic wikis, and to explore integrations of wikis with other semantic
web technologies.

Topics
======
We address researchers working on (but not limited to):

* Applications of semantic wikis in the fields of:
- e-science and e-learning
- software and knowledge engineering
- enterprise workflows
- knowledge management or personal knowledge management
* Integration and reuse of semantic wikis or (semantic) wiki content:
- integrations with other semantic applications and mashups
- browsing and navigating
- visualizing
- editing linked open data
- scaling wikis to the web
- giving semantics to non-semantic wikis (e.g. Wikipedia)
- reusing semantics gained from wikis (e.g. DBpedia)
- interlinked and distributed semantic wikis
- innovative plugins/extensions for existing systems (e.g. Semantic 
MediaWiki)
* Human and social factors of semantic wikis:
- usability studies
- empirical studies
- analyses of semantic wiki contributors and their contributions;
- overcoming entrance barriers
- giving incentives for contributing
- connecting knowledge and social interaction
- community building
- from asynchronous interactions to real-time/multi-synchronous 
interactions in semantic wikis
- privacy: permissions, trust, licensing, access control
* Knowledge representation and reasoning in semantic wikis:
- combining formal and informal knowledge
- multimodal reasoning/strong reasoning support
- transforming informal to formal knowledge
- making formal knowledge accessible
- on-line knowledge evaluation
- coping with inconsistencies
- change management, truth maintenance, versioning, and undoing semantic 
changes
- utilizing emerging knowledge models
- rapid prototyping of schema-driven applications
- collaborative ontology engineering

Organisation Committee
======================
* Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
ch.lange <at> jacobs-university.de
* Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria
sebastian.schaffert <at> salzburgresearch.at
* Hala Skaf-Molli, INRIA-Nancy University, France
skaf <at> loria.fr
* Jochen Reutelshöfer, University of Würzburg, Germany
reutelshoefer <at> informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de

Programme Committee
===================
# Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig (DE)
# David Aumüller, Universität Leipzig (DE)
# Joachim Baumeister, Universität Würzburg (DE)
# Tobias Bürger, STI Innsbruck (AT)
# Amélie Cordier,  LIRIS, Université de Lyon (FR)
# Björn Decker, Fraunhofer IESE (DE)
# Alicia Díaz, La Plata University (AR)
# Sebastian Dietzold, Universität Leipzig (DE)
# Fred Durão, University of Aalborg (DK)
# Michael Erdmann, Ontoprise (DE)
# Fabian Gandon, INRIA - Edelweiss (FR)
# Tudor Groza, DERI (IE)
# Siegfried Handschuh, DERI (IE)
# Martin Hepp, UniBW München (DE)
# Guoqian Jiang, Mayo Clinic (US)
# Malte Kiesel, DFKI (DE)
# Jakub Kotowski, University of Munich (DE)
# Markus Krötzsch, AIFB Karlsruhe (DE)
# Tobias Kuhn, Universität Zürich (CH)
# Thomas Kurz, Salzburg Research (AT)
# Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz (AT)
# Pascal Molli, Nancy University, INRIA (FR)
# Christine Müller, Jacobs University Bremen (DE)
# Claudia Müller-Birn, Carnegie Mellon University (US)
# Grzegorz Nalepa, AGH University Krakow (PL)
# Amedeo Napoli, CNRS, LORIA (FR)
# Viktoria Pammer, Know-Center Graz (AT)
# Alexandre Passant, DERI (IE)
# Jean Rohmer, Thales (FR)
# Marek Schmidt, Technical University of Brno (CZ)
# Matthias Samwald, Semantic Web Company (AT)
# Daniel Schwabe, University of Rio de Janeiro (BR)
# Elena Simperl, STI Innsbruck (AT)
# Rolf Sint, Salzburg Research (AT)
# Katharina Siorpaes, STI Innsbruck (AT)
# Harold Solbrig, Mayo Clinic (US)
# Stephanie Stroka, Salzburg Research (AT)
# Max Völkel, FZI Karlsruhe (DE)
# Klara Weiand, University of Munich (DE)

Submission and Proceedings
==========================
We invite the following different kinds of contributions:

* full research or application papers (15 pages) describing recent research
outcomes, mature work, prototypes, applications, or methodologies; authors
of accepted full papers will be able to present their work in a 15 minute
talk at the workshop
* short position papers (5-10 pages) describing early work and new ideas 
that
are not yet fully worked out; authors of short papers will be able to
present their work in a 5-10 minute lightning talk at the workshop
* demo outlines (5 pages) describing the demonstration of a software 
prototype
in the poster and demo session during the workshop
* poster descriptions (2 pages) outlining a poster to be presented in the
poster and demo session during the workshop
* *wiki submissions*: A set of wiki pages explaining/demonstrating the
addressed topic or presenting a system. A Confluence space (on this site)
will be provided on request but also own wikis can be used. Additionally,
we require such submissions to be exported to PDF or HTML. Primarily, the
wiki space will be reviewed, but the export serves as a backup for the
reviewing in case of technical problems and is used to verify that the
submission complies to the guidelines, e.g., does not exceed the page
limit of the respective type of contribution.  Where the exported PDF
or HTML is not comparable to LNCS (see below), we estimate 400 words
per page.

All submissions except Wiki submissions should be formatted according to the
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format.  For complete
details on this issue see Springer's Author Instructions:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0
Papers will be submitted using the EasyChair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semwiki2010

In addition to ordinary submissions, all attendees of the workshop are
encouraged to informally present their work in an open space session
during the workshop if they are not (yet) able to submit a description
of their work or to also discuss more recent work that has been done
after the submission deadline of the workshop.

Important Dates
===============

Paper Submission: 26th February 2010
Author Notification: 5th April 2010
Camera ready: 18th April 2010
Workshop: May 30 or May 31, 2010

In case of questions, feel free to contact any of the organisers:
chair <at> semwiki.org

--

-- 
Jochen Reutelshöfer
Department of Intelligent Systems
University of Würzburg, Germany
http://www.is.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/

CFP:NDT2010:Prague-Czech Republic:July2010


The Second International Conference on 'Networked Digital  
Technologies'  (NDT2010)
                      Prague, Czech Republic, July 7-9, 2010
                       http://www.dirf.org/ndt2010
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Location: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Date: July. 7-9, 2010.
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Topics:

Information and Data Management
Data and Network Mining
Intelligent Agent-Based Systems, Cognitive and Reactive Distributed AI Systems
Internet Modeling
User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling
XML-Based Languages
Security and Access Control
Trust Models for Social Networks
Information Content Security
Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management
Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design
New Architectures for Web-Based Social Networks
Semantic Web, Ontologies (Creation, Merging, Linking and Reconciliation)
Web Services Security
Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems
Data management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks
Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks
Indexing and Query Processing for Moving Objects
User Interfaces and Usability Issues form Mobile Applications
Mobile Social Networks
Peer-to-Peer Social Networks
Sensor Networks and Social Sensing
Social Search
Social Networking Inspired Collaborative Computing
Information Propagation on Social Networks
Resource and Knowledge Discovery Using Social Networks
Measurement Studies of Actual Social Networks
Simulation Models for Social Networks
Cloud computing
Grid computing
Green Computing

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Date:  Feb 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2010
Camera Ready submission: May 10, 2010
Registration: May 15, 2010
Conference date: July 7-9, 2010

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SUBMISSION:
Submission instructions are listed at  
http://www.dirf.org/ndt2010/submission.asp

John Edward | 12 Feb 2010 18:35
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Draft paper submission deadline is extended: BCBGC-10, Orlando, USA

It would be highly appreciated if you could share this announcement with your colleagues, students and individuals whose research is in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, data-mining, and related areas.

 

Draft paper submission deadline is extended: BCBGC-10, Orlando, USA

 

The 2010 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA.  BCBGC is an important event in the areas of bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics and chemoinformatics and focuses on all areas related to the conference.

 

The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10). MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10.

 

  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10)

  •  International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10)

  • International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10)

  • International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10)

  • International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10)

  • International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10)

  • International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10)

  • International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10)

  • International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10)

  • International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10)

 

 

MULTICONF-10 will be held at Imperial Swan Hotel and Suites.  It is a full-service resort that puts you in the middle of the fun! Located 1/2 block south of the famed International Drive, the hotel is just minutes from great entertainment like Walt Disney World® Resort, Universal Studios and Sea World Orlando. Guests can enjoy free scheduled transportation to these theme parks, as well as spacious accommodations, outdoor pools and on-site dining — all situated on 10 tropically landscaped acres. Here, guests can experience a full-service resort with discount hotel pricing in Orlando.

 

We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website http://www.PromoteResearch.org for more details.

 

Sincerely

John Edward

 


Dan Connolly | 16 Feb 2010 19:06
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FYI: Zotero uses tabulator's RDF-handling .js code

Tim and tabulator folks,

While looking into practical interactions between web architecture
and bibliographic ontologies, I discovered...

"As of r4656, Zotero uses libraries derived from  Tabulator to handle
RDF."
 -- https://www.zotero.org/trac/wiki/BiboMapping

https://www.zotero.org/trac/changeset/4656
06/24/09 16:42:41 (8 months ago)

This was news to me, so I thought I'd pass it on in case it's news
to others...

Oh... and if Zotero is something you're not familiar with... it's
a pretty popular research tool...

"Zotero is a free, open source add-on for the Firefox browser. Zotero
enables users to manage bibliographic data and to store web-page
snapshots and other electronic objects. Through a separate add-on, it
also allows citation in text (in Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer)
and can automatically create bibliographies in various formats (such as
APA and MLA)."
 -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotero

--

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541  0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E

Ed Summers | 16 Feb 2010 19:20
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Re: FYI: Zotero uses tabulator's RDF-handling .js code

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Dan Connolly <connolly <at> w3.org> wrote:
> This was news to me, so I thought I'd pass it on in case it's news
> to others...
>
> Oh... and if Zotero is something you're not familiar with... it's
> a pretty popular research tool...

This is news to me...and something I've wanted for a while now--so
thanks for posting Dan.

Were you able to see it in operation at all? I've got some HTML pages
that are linked to rdf/xml descriptions (which use the Bibliographic
Ontology) [1] ... which Zotero doesn't seem to pick up on. I guess I
could send a quick message to zotero-dev to see what the status of the
implementation is, and how it discovers the rdf content.

//Ed

[1] e.g. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214 has a
<link> that points to
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214.rdf


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