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laacz.lv points to a presentation about the architecture of Flickr (written in PHP)
http://laacz.lv/blog/2004/10/27/scaling_php

i tried to find some links about the architecture of Orkut, but did not find much. here's what I did find:

http://styrheim.weblogg.no/180404115522_orkut__evaluation.html
Styrheim - Orkut - Evaluation

http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/08/intimacy_gradie.html
Life With Alacrity: Intimacy Gradient and Other Lessons from Architecture

http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/04/four_kinds_of_p.html
http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/08/progressive_tru.html

Links to Semantic Web research papers taken from this document (MS Word) by Alexander Sigel:

[Ahmed 2003] Ahmed, Khalil: TMShare - Topic Map Fragment Exchange in a Peer-To-Peer Application. Procs. XML Europe 2003. http://www.idealliance.org/papers/dx_xmle03/papers/02-03-03/02-03-03.html

[Alesso & Smith 2004] Alesso, H. Peter; Smith, Craig F. Developing Semantic Web Services. Wellesley, MA, USA: A.K. Peters. erscheint im Juni 2004. ISBN 1-56881-212-4. http://www.akpeters.com/book.asp?bID=216

[Cabral et al. 2004] Cabral, L., Domingue, J., Motta, E., Payne T., and Hakimpour, F. (2004) Approaches to Semantic Web Services: An Overview and Comparisons. The First European Semantic Web Symposium. Heraklion, Greece, 10-12 May, 2004. http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/irs/cabralESWS04.pdf

[Cai & Frank 2004] Cai, Min and Frank, Martin. RDFPeers: A Scalable Distributed RDF Repository based on A Structured Peer-to-Peer Network. http://www.isi.edu/~frank/Papers/2004-www-rdfpeers-cai-frank.pdf

[Elenius 2004] Elenius, Daniel: Peer to Peer Semantic Web Services. Master Thesis Project. “a fusion of Web Services, Semantic Web, and Peer-to-Peer Networking technologies, in order to come a little bit closer to the goal of ‘Ubiquitous Computing’”. http://www.ida.liu.se/~daele/exjobb/

[Fielding 2000] Fielding, Roy Thomas. Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures. PhD Dissertation Doctor of Philosophy in Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, 2000. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm

[Froehner; Nickles & Weiss 2004] Froehner, Tina; Nickles, Matthias and Weiss, Gerhard: Towards Modeling the Social Layer of Emergent Knowledge Using Open Ontologies. ECAI 2004 Workshop on Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM-04). August 22-27, 2004, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain). to appear.

[Goble et al. 2003] Goble, Carole A.; De Roure, David; Shadbolt, Nigel R. and Fernandes, Alvaro A. A. Enhancing Services and Applications with Knowledge and Semantics, in: Foster, Ian and Kesselman, Carl (Eds.) The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, 431-458. Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd edition, 2003/2004. Cited by de Roure and Hendler: E-Science: The Grid and the Semantic Web, in: IEEE Distributed Systems. http://dsonline.computer.org/0402/d/x1ex3.htm.

[Gomez-Perez; Gonzalez-Cabero & Lama 2004] Gomez-Perez, Asuncion; Gonzalez-Cabero, Rafael & Lama, Manuel. A Framework for Design and Composition of Semantic Web Services. 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium. First International Semantic Web Services Symposium (ISWSS'04) http://www.daml.ecs.soton.ac.uk/SSS-SWS04/ . Stanford March 22-24, 2004. http://www.daml.ecs.soton.ac.uk/SSS-SWS04/44.pdf

[Howard & Kerschberg 2004] Howard, Randy & Kerschberg, Larry. A Knowledge-based Framework for Dynamic Semantic Web Services Brokering and Management. WebS 2004, International Workshop on Web Semantics, in conjunction with DEXA 2004, Zaragoza, Spain, 2004. http://eceb.gmu.edu/pubs/Howard_KerschbergWebS04.pdf.

[IFLA FRBR 1997/2000] Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. Final Report. IFLA 1997. Latest Revision: April 9, 2000.

[Jorgensen 2004] Jorgensen, Poul Henrik (Portia, Copenhagen). ONE Shared Authority Control with RDF and FRBR. Angekundigter Vortrag fur: Interoperability: New Challenges and Solutions. 28th Library Systems Seminar, Trondheim, Norway, June 9-11, 2004. http://www.elag2004.no/files/papers.shtml

[Karp 2003] Karp, Alan H. Viewpoint: Making Money Selling Content that others are Giving Away. Communications of the ACM 46(1) 2003, 21-22. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=602438&dl=ACM&coll=portal

[Kim & Gil 2004] Kim, Jihie & Gil, Yolanda. Towards Interactive Composition of Semantic Web Services. 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium. First International Semantic Web Services Symposium (ISWSS'04) http://www.daml.ecs.soton.ac.uk/SSS-SWS04/ . Stanford March 22-24, 2004. http://www.isi.edu/ikcap/scec/papers/AAAI-Symp-04-Kim-Gil.pdf

[Knorz 2001] Visualisierung von Zusammenhangen. Von der Wissenskarte zur interaktiven graphischen Topic Map. Vortrag 10.5.2001 im Rahmen des 6. Archivwissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums: Online-Findebucher, Suchmaschinen und Portale. Internetanwendungen in Archiven. Marburg, in: Menne-Haritz, Angelika (Hg.): Online-Findbucher, Suchmaschinen und Portale. Veroffentlichungen der Archivschule Marburg, Band 36, Marburg, 2002. http://www.iuw.fh-darmstadt.de/methodik/Publ/vortrag/Marburg2001/paper1.htm
http://www.iuw.fh-darmstadt.de/methodik/Publ/paper/Marburg2001/2001_10_15_Visualisierung_Endversion_pdf.pdf

[Kossmann & Leymann 2004] Kossmann, Donald and Leymann, Frank. Web Services. Informatik Spektrum, 27(2):117-128, April 2004.

[Madche & Staab 2003] Alexander Madche and Steffen Staab. Services on the Move. Towards P2P-Enabled Semantic Web Services. Procs. 10th Int. Conf. On Information Technology and Travel & Tourism, ENTER 2003. http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/sst/Research/Publications/enter2003-maedche-staab.pdf

[Newcomb 2002] Newcomb, Steven R. The Economics of the Topic Maps Reference Model. XML 2002 Conference, December 8-13, 2002, Baltimore. http://www.coolheads.com/SRNPUBS/XML2002/The_Economics_of_the_Topic_Maps_Reference_Model.html

[Paolucci et al. 2003a] Paolucci, Massimo; Sycara, Katia; Nishimura, Takuya and Srinivasan Naveen. Using DAML-S for P2P Discovery, in: Proceedings: First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2003, 203- 207. http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~softagents/papers/p2p_icws.pdf

[Paolucci et al. 2003b] Paolucci, Massimo; Srinivasan, Naveen; Sycara Katia and Nishimura, Takuya. Towards a Semantic Choreography of Web Services: From WSDL to DAML-S, in: Liang-Jie Zhang (Ed.): Proceedings: First International Conference on Web Services, ICWS '03, June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. CSREA Press 2003, 22-26. http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~softagents/papers/isws_ieee_03.pdf

[Pathak 2004] Pathak, Jyotishman. Peer-to-Peer Semantic Web Services: A Symbiotic Relationship for Knowledge Sharing. Term Project Work for Theory of Distributed Algorithms (ComS 612), Spring 2004, taught by Dr. Soma Chaudhuri, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA. http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~jpathak/courses/proj_report_612.pdf
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~jpathak/courses/CS612_project_presentation.ppt

[Reinefeld & Schintke 2004] Reinefeld, Alexander and Schintke, Florian (2004): Grid Services. Web Services zur Nutzung verteilter Ressourcen. Informatik Spektrum, 27(2):129-135, April 2004.

[Schwotzer 2004] Schwotzer, Thomas. Modelling Distributed Knowledge Management Systems with Topic Maps. Procs. 4th International Conference on Knowledge Management (I-KNOW2004). (accepted for publication) http://ivs.tu-berlin.de/~thsc/MDKF_IKnow2 4.pdf

[Schwotzer & Geihs 2002] Schwotzer, Thomas and Geihs, Kurt: Shark: a System for Management, Synchronization and Exchange of Knowledge in Mobile User Groups. Procs. I-KNOW2002, 2002. http://www.know-center.tugraz.at/en/downloads/iknow02/tschwotzer.pdf

[Sigel 2004c] Sigel, Alexander. kPeer as a Context-Aware Topic Map P2P Application for the Distributed Integration of Knowledge. Preliminary Paper submitted to MRC2004, Ulm. http://kpeer.wim.uni-koeln.de/~sigel/veroeff/MRC2004/Sigel_MRC2004_updated.pdf

[Sigel 2004b] Sigel, Alexander. Organisation verteilten Wissens mit semantischen Wissensnetzen und der Aggregation semantischer Wissensdienste am Beispiel Digitale Bibliotheken/Kulturelles Erbe. Erweitertes Abstract eingereicht fur ISKO 2004, Duisburg. http://kpeer.wim.uni-koeln.de/~sigel/veroeff/ISKO-2004/Sigel_ISKO2004_Abstract.pdf

[Sigel 2004a] Sigel, Alexander. XTM Topic Maps in Knowledge Organization. Invited Presentation 2004-01-26 for NGI, Regio Zuid at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. http://kpeer.wim.uni-koeln.de/~sigel/veroeff/publications_from_2004.html

[Sycara 2004] Sycara, Katia. Dynamic Discovery, Invocation and Composition of Semantic Web Services, in: Proceedings: Methods and Applications of Artificial Intelligence: Third Hellenic Conference on AI, SETN 2004, Samos, Greece, May 5-8, 2004, Springer LNCS 3025, 2004, 3-12

[Sycara et al. 2003] Sycara, Katia; Paolucci, Massimo; Ankolekar, Anupriya and Srinivasan, Naveen. Automated Discovery, Interaction and Composition of Semantic Web Services, in: Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. 1(1) December 2003, 27-46. 10.1016/j.websem.2003.07.002 S1570-8268(03)00003-9. Auch unter: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~softagents/papers/websemantics2003.pdf

[Talia 2004] Talia, Domenico: Enabling Knowledge Discovery Services on Grids. http://grid.ucy.ac.cy/axgrids04/AxGrids/papers/E00-365467508.pdf . Presentation on Jan 30, 2004 at the 2nd European Across Grids Conference (AxGrids 2004) http://grid.ucy.ac.cy/axgrids04/ , Nicosia, Cyprus, Jan. 28-30, 2004.

[Vatant 2004] Vatant, Bernard: Ontology-driven topic maps, XML Europe 2004. http://www.idealliance.org/europe/04/call/xmlpapers/03-03-03.91/.03-03-03.html

[Vatant 2003] Vatant, Bernard. Cooking for the Semantic Web. OWL and Topic Map Pudding. Online version 01.08.2003 http://www.mondeca.com/owl/owltm.htm

[Veltman 2004a] Veltman, Kim H. Towards a Semantic Web for Culture. JoDi - Journal of Digital Information 4(4) (2004) online Summary: http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Veltman/ Full paper: http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Veltman/veltman.pdf

[Veltman 2004b] Veltman, Kim H. Challenges for the Semantic Web and Information Systems from Culture. AIS SIGSEMIS Bulletin 1(1), April 2004, 37-40. http://www.sigsemis.org/newsletter/April2004/FINAL_AIS_SIGSEMIS_Bulletin_1_1_04_1_.pdf

Metadata for the Masses
http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000361.php

CBD - Concise Bounded Description
W3C Member Submission 30 September 2004
http://www.w3.org/Submission/CBD/

Code and Personality
http://homepage.mac.com/kevinmarks/personality.html

mnoGoSearch (formerly known as UdmSearch) is a full-featured Web search engine which you can use to build search engines over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and NTTP servers, local files, and database big text fields.

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