Dave Beckett - Journalblog
RDF and free software hacking

LWN.net Weekly Edition 2003-08-13

SCAM content archive management system. an archive system for Learning Objects and Learning Components. It is built upon international standards for learning technology and metadata. Such as IMS, Dublin Core, IEEE/LOM and RDF. Seems to use the Jena RDF system underneath from the API documentation. A new release was made 2003-08-05.

How to write a Python Extension by Michael P. Reilly and Integrating Python, C and C++ by Duncan Booth. Trying to get python and exceptions thrown from C working reliably.

xml:id Requirements W3C Working Draft 2003-08-06. An example of tiny little XML specifications (like xml:base) - the only way core XML is going to advance from 1.0 (2nd Edition). The politics alone mean XML 2.0 will never arrive.

Learning Commons Portal at University of Calgary, Canada

Linux Kernel Traffic 2003-08-11

Why RDF makes RSS easier by Timo Hannay refering to Udell’s namespaces epiphany. Timo found this after working on an RSS project: I seem to remember that the idea if making RSS 2.0 and its immediate predecessors non-RDF-like was to make programmers’ lives simpler. Well it hasn’t for us, not by a long shot. That’s why we [...]

Semantic Web for Poets, a new site from Shelley Powers, author of Practical RDF. Sadly, the Palatino font (I think) looks so bad in my browser that it’s very hard for me to read. I think it’s one that looks beautiful on OSX but has no freely usable version. :(

On The Meaning of Fragment Identifiers, Norm Walsh. He explains what he meant by I think the assertion that a URI with a fragment identifier points to a dream or a car is absolutely unassailable. From a specification legalese point of view, that’s rock solid. since the RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax working draft defines fragment identifiers in [...]

Namespace Pedantry, Tim Bray. The [Namespaces in XML] Recommendation does not define, in any useful sense, what a namespace is, but that fortunately need not concern us here today and some examples of namespaced and non-namespaced elements and attributes. I don’t know if he’d hate that term too but I need to talk about XML elements and attributes that have no [...]