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LWN.net Weekly Edition 2003-11-20

Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 2003-11-17

Introduction to the Semantic Web by Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices given in Beijing, China, 12 November, 2003.

WMS [Web Mapping Servers] and RDF - For fun and foaf ! from @semantics using data about the swade storage and retrieval workshop participants.

Also just found their presentation slides from the workshop: Indexing and retrieving Semantic Web resources: the RDFStore model

New Syntaxes for RDF pre-print of paper that I have submitted to WWW2004. The submission was in PDF (from LaTeX) but I’ve made an XHTML one too. Nearby, the work in progress page on the syntax N_Triples Plus N.

LWN.net Weekly Edition 2003-11-13

Apache Project Proposing New Licensing (OSDir) with new Apache License, version 2.0, Apache RI License, version 1.0 (Reference Implementation), Apache TCK License, version 1.0 (Testing Compatibility Kit of a Java Specification Request), Contributor License Agreement (CLA), Corporate CLA and Software Grant. The proposed 2.0 license deals with patent licensing and revokes it if sued.

The thread discussing this on debian-legal has so far had no [...]

Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests — Problems and Alternatives from the W3C WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group.

Linux Weekly News 2003-11-06

I made an Redland and Raptor status report to redland-dev