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Jelena Jovanovic, Nikola Milikic, and Filip Radulovic attended the Web of Data Practitioners Days 2008, that took place last week in Vienna, Austria. It was intended to communicate the results of the past years' semantic systems activities to a broader audience, especially to practitioners from industry and academia. Its main objective was to show how semantic technologies can improve and enhance existing Web-based software systems and how the Web of Data will provide a completely new paradigm of managing globally interlinked information.

The event was organized by four major Austrian institutions, University of Vienna, Joanneum Research, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, and Semantic Technology Institute from Innsbruck.

Many experts gave talks about the subject, among them Yves Raimond,  Richard Cyganiak, Leo Saureman, Alan Dix, and others.

An article about our project Synesketch is published in the November issue of the Creative Review – the world's leading monthly magazine for visual communication!

Also, blogosphere is embracing Synesketch: post about our project was published on the Information Aesthetics blog, a world's major weblog for data visualization and visual communication. The "Pointy Haired Dilbert" considered Synesketch one of the "5 Superb Visualizations of the Week".  It is also the subject of some Hungarian, Russian, French, and Dutch blogs.  Del.icio.us and Twitter talk about Synesketch too. Moreover, it is (currently, it changes often) a Google's first result for the following queries: "textual emotion", "textual emotion recognition", and "textual emotion visualization".

Synesketch -- a textual emotion recognition and visualization engine and library, built by Uros Krcadinac -- entered the selection of the Alternative Party's art exhibition in Helsinki, Finland, October 24-26. Alternative Party is an international festival of digital culture which gathers together creative people like researchers,  programmers, visualists, musicians, and designers.

Milan Stankovic started a new project, Modeling Online Presence. The project addresses the issue of integrating and exchanging the data related to users' presence in the online world.

The core part of the project is the Online Presence Ontology (OPO) that can be used to represent instant messaging statuses, status messages, avatars and other elements that form the image of a user's presence in the online world. As a difference from FOAF that models more static and persistent user profile data, our goal is to model the dynamic and frequently changing aspects of user profiles.

All those dynamic aspects of online presence are currently published on different services (social networks, instant messaging platforms, Twitter-like and lifestreaming services) and the aim of OPO is to facilitate their exchange across those services.

For more information please see the project page or contact Milan Stankovic.