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Linux Weekly News 2003-10-30

Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 2003-10-27

World Wide Web Consortium Presents the US Patent Office with Evidence Invalidating Eolas Patent pointing to citation of prior art citing work by Dave Raggett and also pointing out the claims were obvious to the typical programmer in 1993. There is also a letter to the head of the U.S. Patent office pointing out many ways in which this a dumb idea, distruptive and [...]

Linux Kernel Traffic 2003-10-26

My objection to OWL Semantics and Abstract Syntax 2003-06-24.

Since then, several owl syntax checker implementations have been reported complete or nearly complete; the evidence is a little hard to find along with a clear description of how hard it was. Sean Bechhofer’s Parsing OWL document lists some of the issues but also notes several limitations (not a complete list) such as not checking [...]

WhoWhatWhenWhere RDF webservice based IRC bot by Libby Miller

Blogger Code in RDF by Mark Pilgrim. On #foaf over the last few days, several people including myself have been helping Mark walk through making his first RDF schema, using the blogger code as an example.

It is a simple vocabulary for describing blogging and your blog in the style of the geekcode. We went through translating the appropriate [...]

Lehigh University Benchmark developed to facilitate the evaluation of DAML+OIL repositories in a standard and systematic way.. Related to the paper Benchmarking DAML+OIL Repositories in the ISWC 2003 ontology conference. It surprises me it wasn’t updated for OWL which superceeds this older DAML+OIL (from 2001).

CS AKTive Space: or How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Semantic Web Nigel R. Shadbolt, Monica m.c. Schraefel, Nicholas Gibbins, and Stephen Harris, submitted to Proceedings International Semantic Web Conference 2003

Semantic Web Status and Direction ISWC2003 keynote by Tim Berners-Lee. Now online.