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Archive for September 2003

Language Instincts, Jon Udell

Thursday, September 18th, 2003

Language Instincts by Jon Udell (XML.com). This short article mentions a little about marking up and reusing xhtml/CSS to record what the content is about (that’s the semantic markup bit). It also makes the small point about recording things in a natural way that people understand. To which the answer is - “Doh!”

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Linux Weekly News 2003-09-18

Thursday, September 18th, 2003

Linux Weekly News 2003-09-18

RDF::Simple 0.04

Wednesday, September 17th, 2003

RDF::Simple 0.04 perl modules by Jo Walsh. Just minor changes since 0.0.1 which was only 3 weeks ago, so still very new.

RDF Forms

Wednesday, September 17th, 2003

RDF Forms by Mark Baker. Writing down a description of HTML/HTTP form fields/encoding in RDF.

Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2003

Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS). knowledge organization systems seems such a broad term, I’ve no idea really what is out of scope. NKOS mentions classification systems, thesauri, gazetteers, and ontologies, as networked interactive information services but that seems wooly too. Is it trying to say “on the Web/Internet”? Interactive seems too tightly defined. Why can’t it be via [...]

Escaped Markup: Still Harmful

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

Escaped Markup: Still Harmful, Norm Walsh. A followup to his earlier article (XML.com) mostly with reference to the (no name yet) syndication format.

RDFX - An RDF explorer for Eclipse

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

RDFX RDF explorer for Eclipse (via Leigh). I don’t have Eclipse installed at present but it’d be interesting to see what it does. It seems to be large not only since it uses Eclipse and SWT but also Jena. Lotta jars. See howto for some information before downloading.

RDF Template Language 1.0 2003-09-08

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

RDF Template Language 1.0 by Ian Davis (Semantic Planet) latest version 2003-09-08. Has a GPLed implementation in PHP.

Redland and Raptor packaging

Monday, September 15th, 2003

Redland and Raptor packaging email by me to redland-dev since I hadn’t mentioned redland in Debian or the perl CPAN RDF::Redland.

O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2004 Call for Participation

Friday, September 12th, 2003

O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2004 Call for Participation

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