The W3C just announced the W3C Semantic Web Activity Phase 2 which includes the following:
Semantic Web Interest Group (was RDF IG) RDF Data Access Working Group - NEW to provide a web interface to rdf data stores by a query language. Think Joseki, RDF Net API, SOAP, REST with RDQL, SeRQL etc. (charter)
Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment [...]
I just made a change to the Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language to fix an incompatibility with Notation3 after I did some testing against cwm (I also see reference to Turtle and other n3-like syntaxes in that page). The collection syntax uses a list of items with no commas allowed, whereas I had re-used the objectList grammar term, which requires them. [...]
Inauguration of the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment WG mailling list
N3 grammar bug with comma in collections to public-cwm-bugs. Likely I need to change Turtle to only use collections without the comma.
Accepted libgdiplus 0.1-2 (i386 source), 2003-02-24. (looks like an NMU, although it isn’t; I’m not the maintainer).
Accepted libcairo 0.1.18-1 (i386 source), 2003-02-24.
Redland RDF Application Framework 0.9.16 released to fix a minor but important bug that made the installed C header files inconsistent - oops! The release notes give the gorey details.
Debian Bug report logs - #234246 - libraptor1-dev: inclusion of raptor.h produces compilation error
I’ve just put up some ETech Videos made by Dav Coleman at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2004 last week. These include Dan and Edd’s FOAF talk session. It is mostly of Dan giving a good introduction to the purpose and scope of FOAF, along with what it’s not out to do. Then Edd following with a quick FOAFbot demo. Afterwards there [...]
After years of work, the documents are finally cooked and published as W3C Recommendations - the last stage of the process. The press release and testimonials include all the press and ra-ra-ra. I edited the RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised) and RDF Test Cases with Jan Grant as well as reading all the others, many times. All done. PHEW!
Weblog archives for February 2004.
