PlaceTime.com - URIs for Places and Times by Ian Davis including:
Instants in the Gregorian calendar A URI space that represents instants in time according to the Gregorian calendar. Intervals in the Gregorian calendar A URI space that represents intervals in time according to the Gregorian calendar. Points in the WGS 84 datum A URI space that represents geographical points in [...]
Ottawa Linux Symposium 2003 Proceedings
Linux Weekly News 2003-07-31
RDF: Ready for Prime Time (XML.com), Shelley Powers author of the just-released Practical RDF book from O’Reilly(book weblog). Redland and Raptor get a mention although she didn’t actually say they were written in C :)
On Search: Metadata by Tim Bray Metadata on search, Yahoo! and Google and futility of requiring metadata with more than a few fields except in special cases. Yes, one Dublin Core lesson sort-of. Maybe not even a dozen. Of course that still has yet to be learnt by some in the digital library world.
On the web and semantic web, [...]
The Future of Human Knowledge: The Semantic Web (TechNewsWorld.Com) by Gene J. Koprowski. I don’t recognise the quoted names, is that a sign that the activity is broad (optimistic) or that they are just who the journalist managed to get on the phone in the USA (pessimistic)?
Will somebody please keep these people away from the phone and any funding: “According to [...]
Indicating HTML and RDF authorship with FOAF OR “I made this!” by Edd Dumbill. Describing a way to use HTML <meta> tags to make foaf statements about who is the creator/author, using email addresses or SHA1 digests of email addresses. The downside is the pseudo XML QName in the attribute fields. Yuck, but inevitable.
The above was the outcome of his [...]
Perl6 Exegesis 6 (Perl.com) by Damian Conway. Perl6 makes my head hurt. I think I get junctions (quantum superpositions as Damian described them at OSCON) and now I find it has parametric types “The idea is a little like C++ templates, except not quite so brain-meltingly complicated.” and another dozen things. Hypothetically.
Mono 0.25 Release. There are RPMs for RedHat 9.0 and debs too.
Integrate Web services and Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee (ADTmag.com), report from the Gartner Web Services and Application Integration conference, Los Angeles, USA. Tim did his taxes this year with a semantic web model of the US income tax form.
Weblog archives for July 2003.
