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RDF and free software hacking

tima thinking outloud - The Next Generation of TrackBack: A Proposal, Timothy Appnel, 2003-01-29. Make it more RESTful, forge closer with RSS.

The Semantic Web by Ben Williamson and Libby Miller in the Education Guardian. Mentions for eLearning, ILRT, RDF, Semantic Web, HP Labs and all the cool stuff we use.

RSS Promise and Peril, Tim Bray. Maybe a plea for RSS the standard rather than funky RSS tag soup. Obligatory tired knocking of RDF/XML.

To bee or not to bee, Danny Bradbury of the UK Independent newspaper on the semantic web. He interviews Eric Miller, W3C Semantic Web Activity lead and John Davies from BT who seems to work on an On-To-Knowledge project. The first implementations of Semantic Web technology are taking place behind the scenes, within companies that work in specific industries.

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Html diff tools summary from W3C spec-prod list, January 2003. The first named htmldiff tool isn’t downloadable, seems to be a broken file.

Jena 2 Roadmap 2003-06-17 which seems to junk BerkeleyDB support till later, unspecified date.

XML Deviant - “A community Update”, Kendall Grant Clark, XML.com. A little YAML, CSS RDF syntax.

Proprietary [linux] kernel modules - outline of some of the issues by G.R. Keech (2003-02-16) Essentially, kernel modules are considered by Linus to be derived-works of the kernel and thus should be GPLed. Binary drivers are on dodgy ground.

XML Enriched N-Triples (XENT), Sean B. Palmer on www-rdf-interest. Initial feeling it is a bit of a mess of XML and N3-lite-lite.

More News - Semantic Web blog, Andrew Newman who seems to work on the Tucana Knowledge Store (”scheduled for open source release 2002-01-17″) for Plugged In Software in Queensland, Australia.