I’m so happy to announce to to the world that Redland 0.9.15 is released. It is, as always, too long since the last release but reading the news page I seemed to do better in 2003 (3) than 2002 (1) since I was concentrating on Raptor releases: 2003 (7), 2002 (4).
Lots of new stuff that’s too difficult to summarise, the [...]
Medusa, RDF, and Redland by Curtis C. Hovey (aka Sinzui / Essence) thinking about using redland for the GNOME search/metadata system Medusa. He likes the use of standards but needs a solid and fast database with an extensible schema and good search. Maybe going to GNOME storage later.
RDF in PNG by Ross Burton on adding RDF into PNG images with the tEXt field, like I was doing with pngmeta years ago now with a new tool PyPNG. Once I’ve fiddled with the library design a little I’ll write a PNG Explorer (hmm, png:/// in Nautilus is tempting) and a Metadata Editor for PNG files. Then I’ll try and [...]
Quick and Easy IPv6 for Debian (The ChangeLog)
Accepted raptor 1.2.0-2 (i386 source) - Raptor with Turtle Terse RDF Triple Language enters debian unstable.
Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit 1.2.0 released. With Turtle and new support for the RDF collections syntax ‘(’…’)’ from N3.
Replacements for packages in Debian non-free
Linux Weekly News 2004-01-22
Sane XML, Simon St. Laurent (O’Reilly Network)
It seems Tim Bray has decided to write an XML writer in C called Genx that is lightweight and writes safe and efficient XML. I had to write a Exclusive Canonical XML writer for the RDF/XML parser in Raptor (which now contains several RDF parsers). in order to emit the XML literals from rdf:parseType=”Literal”. Raptor works on top of libxml2 or expat, so I couldn’t [...]
Weblog archives for January 2004.
