After a long series of beta releases Protégé 3.2 (final) was released on November 11!
Also a pre-release of Protégé 4.0 is available together with some screenshots of the new Protégé. Besides the good news of an all new version of Protégé, there are other great news: While we are excited about the proposed enhancements for Protégé 4, we will continue to support the Protégé 3.x series indefinitely as we have important clients and applications that depend on the 3.x implementation.

James Hendler explicitly and Tim Berners-Lee implicitly inform us about the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) formed by MIT and University of Southampton. The initiative aims at exploring web-related research issues. For a motivation on WSRI the interested reader is referred to Creating a Science of the Web (Berners-Lee et al. 2006) available on the WSRI site. Also very interesting: The page of the Web Science Workshop with pictures of some of the web science celebrities.

As Danny Ayers notes Chris Bizer and Richard Cyganiak yesterday announced a RDF version of DBLP, the popular computer science publication database. More info can be found on their D2R Server DBLP page.