Walking in Simon’s Shoes by Shelley Powers (Practical RDF). Shelley looks at RDF(/XML) from another point of view - of the RDF-skeptical editor of her book, Simon St. Laurent.
Month: September, 2003
OntoWeb Deliverable 4.2: W3C working drafts and recommendations proposing extensions to RDF(S) – OWL
Tim Berners-Lee on BBC’s Go Digital
Tim Berners-Lee gave an interview on the BBC World Service Go Digital programme with a simple intro to the semantic web ideas. See the Go Digital 2003 archive for the links to the programme archive materials in Realmedia, 22 September 2003.
Web Disservices: Microsoft’s Misstep, Mark Pilgrim
Web Disservices: Microsoft’s Misstep, Mark Pilgrim (XML.com) with an interesting analysis of how MS chose to deploy a simple test web service. Seems the object was to make it easy with MS tools, hard with anything else, and not web friendly (cachable, urls, using decent HTTP authentication methods). Mark reformats it to put the method name in the URL, arguments as query arguments and authentication in the HTTP header. Lots of nice quotes, here’s one: