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RDF and free software hacking

Raptor RDF Parser Debian package - my first RDF software packaged for debian. It is a sponsored upload, I’m not a Debian developer.

OpenGuides - network of free, community-maintained city guides. The new home of Grubstreet which will be moving there shortly. OpenGuides includes both the open content and open source software to use it.

Our technical policy: to provide the maximum possible amount of metadata about things in our guides in RDF, in order to facilitate integration into other systems.

(via Matt Biddulph [...]

N-Triples editor’s draft 2003-06-26 with some fairly minor changes apart from updating typed literals to remove language.

RDF/XML editor’s draft 2003-06-26 with all the changes after last call merged in (bar some spell checking, doc formatting). Corresponds to the CVS version 1.501, the last published WD 23 January 2003 was 1.463.

How (Not) to Grow a Technology, Kendall Grant Clark, XML.com. On common ways to grow XML technology, he seems to have missed out vendor-controlled.

LWN.net Weekly Edition 2003-06-26

Have your pie and eat it by Edd Dumbill on his new blog about the new weblog format thing which might be called Pie or Echo. Wandering through the (as usual, very hard to read) wiki site of Sam Ruby, it isn’t really clear what are the goals, process to deliver them or structure to manage it. I much prefer [...]

Architecture of the World Wide Web, W3C working draft 2003-06-23 from the W3C TAG.

RDF in XHTML:Or How to Compose XML, 2003-05-27, Semweb CG/HTML WG Task Force Document.

Namespace Routing Language (NRL), James Clark, 2003-06-13. Will the guy never stop? It’s implemented too. Possible way to encode X-in-RDF-in-HTML where X are RDF vocabularies such as Dublin Core, Creative Commons, OWL, FOAF. I need to read up on the details.