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Archive for May 2003

RDF family - RDF, RDFS, OWL, DC, RSS 1.0 , XMP

Saturday, May 31st, 2003

Thoughts on some of the parts of RDF family - RDF, RDFS, OWL and applications such as OWL DL, DC, RSS 1.0, Adobe XMP and how they relate.

The “semantic web stack” as typically seen in Tim Berners-Lee’s talks is as follows (”top”-down):

Web Ontology Language (OWL) RDF Vocabulary Description Language (RDF Schema) Resource Description Framework (RDF)

This means that:

OWL adds functionality to [...]

LWN.net Weekly Edition 2003-05-29

Saturday, May 31st, 2003

LWN.net Weekly Edition 2003-05-29

Parsing FOAF with PHP

Saturday, May 31st, 2003

Parsing FOAF with PHP, Ian Davis Semantic Planet Weblog uses Chris Bizier’s RDF API for PHP or “RAP” based on the ancient Stanford RDF API.

zool on oscom keynote

Saturday, May 31st, 2003

zool on oscom2003 - dave winer’s keynote at oscom 2003. RSS Family History (by danbri?) I remember Guha showing MCF in Dec 1995 at WWW4.

Battles loom between free, proprietary software

Monday, May 26th, 2003

Battles loom between free, proprietary software, Dan Gillmor. Several important battles are brewing in a growing war between makers of proprietary software and free software.

Semanticpool Weblog

Monday, May 26th, 2003

Semanticpool Weblog in German/auf Deutsch by Daniel Brügge

@semantics RDQL for real at www2003 devday

Sunday, May 25th, 2003

@semantics presentation RDQL for real given at www2003 developer’s day semantic web track. Also includes pointers to all their demonstrations and real sites that they have developed using their RDF-based approach.

My pics from WWW2003, Budapest

Sunday, May 25th, 2003

My pictures from WWW2003, Budapest, May 20-24 2003.

LWN.net Weekly Edition 2002-05-22

Sunday, May 25th, 2003

LWN.net Weekly Edition 2002-05-22

RDF Revised Revised Revised

Sunday, May 25th, 2003

Sjord responds to my quick comments A specification should tell you everything you can do preferably precisely and with examples. The title of the document is RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised) and Revised is important. It is, hopefully, a better description of the existing syntax, which Tim Bray was involved in designing. Not me.

We removed some things, added [...]

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