The two OWL abstract syntax approaches (one in the existing syntax and semantics WD, the other by Jeremy Carroll) are compared by PFPS in syntax task force - differences between the two approaches on the Webont WG list.
Lawrence Lessig: Exclusive rights to stagnate, FT.com
Standards, Semantics and Survival talk by Tim Berners-Lee given at the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) meeeting (NYC, NY, USA). Partly semantic web introduction and partly going over software patents of web technologies. I think the latter are evil, by the way.
Has some interesting new pictures that I’m duly borrowing:
The element of the Semantic Web slide 9
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Linux Kernel Traffic 2003-02-23
LWN.net Weekly Edition 2003-02-27
I had another go at getting Edd’s foafbot running with the updated Redland 0.9.12 API and it now seems to not crash as much after I hand-edited some bugs that it found in the latest version. This is a good thing since I found the bugs and fixed them. Of course that just leaves the issue of why it runs and doesn’t [...]
I’m so tired of seeing morons confuse RDF, OWL and XML syntaxes so I’ll record this rather than send it as email to the latest fool. RDF has an abstract syntax which is triples and very simple:
6 Abstract Syntax (Normative) This section defines the RDF abstract syntax. The RDF abstract syntax is a set of triples, [...]
mt2blosxom - Movable Type to Blosxom script
Vstr string library - if I ever need a monster C string library, I’ve finally found it. Contains a huge test suite and more options than you can shake a stick at. LGPL.
The Semantic Web Illustrated, SemaView - first of a series of “At-A-Glance” illustrations introducing the semantic web technologies.
Weblog archives for February 2003.
