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Archive for February 2004

W3C Semantic Web Activity Phase 2

Friday, February 27th, 2004

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 [...]

Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language fix for collections

Friday, February 27th, 2004

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

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

Inauguration of the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment WG mailling list

N3 grammar bug with comma in collections

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

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)

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

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)

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

Accepted libcairo 0.1.18-1 (i386 source), 2003-02-24.

Redland RDF Application Framework 0.9.16

Tuesday, February 24th, 2004

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 #234246 libraptor1-dev: inclusion of raptor.h produces compilation error

Sunday, February 22nd, 2004

Debian Bug report logs - #234246 - libraptor1-dev: inclusion of raptor.h produces compilation error

ETech Videos

Thursday, February 19th, 2004

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 [...]

RDF and OWL docs are W3C Recommendations

Tuesday, February 10th, 2004

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!

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