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RDF and free software hacking

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.

OntoWeb Deliverable 4.2: W3C working drafts and recommendations proposing extensions to RDF(S) which is essentially a report on designing OWL in WebOnt by Ian Horrocks, Peter Patel-Schneider, Frank van Harmelen,

PDF, 2003-09-16.

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 (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 [...]

LWN.net Weekly Edition 2003-09-25

FreeBSD textproc/redland port updated to 0.9.14 (FreeBSD Problem Report 56637)

ICANN - How do I get rid of you? or Verisign (was Network Solutions) who think and act like they own the DNS.

“If I meet a powerful man, I ask five questions: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And, [...]

Inspired by Leigh’s work on converting an OPML listing into RDF it seemed only right that the Semantic Weblogs listing I have also give descriptions and pointers to semantic webloggers, in the semweb format, RDF. Using the foaf:weblog property and XSLT, I’ve now made an Semantic Weblogs in RDF page which can be linked into the semantic web or used for crawling and browsing.

Linux Kernel Traffic 2003-09-18

OWL Test Results (Semi-Official Semi-Static View) written by Sandro Hawke, W3C team for the W3C Web Ontology Working Group.