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Archive for September 2003

Walking in Simon’s Shoes

Monday, September 29th, 2003

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) - OWL

Monday, September 29th, 2003

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 on BBC’s Go Digital

Monday, September 29th, 2003

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

Thursday, September 25th, 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

Thursday, September 25th, 2003

LWN.net Weekly Edition 2003-09-25

FreeBSD port of Redland updated to 0.9.14.

Wednesday, September 24th, 2003

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

ICANN - how do I get rid of you?

Monday, September 22nd, 2003

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, [...]

Semantic Weblogs in RDF

Monday, September 22nd, 2003

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

Sunday, September 21st, 2003

Linux Kernel Traffic 2003-09-18

OWL Test Results (Semi-Official Semi-Static View)

Thursday, September 18th, 2003

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

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