DataLibre from Steve Mallett. It’s mission is to: Liberate Your Data, Write Once – Read Everywhere and nicely aligns with the kinds of things FOAF and DOAP are doing for people and projects respectively; which are linked from the site.

It’s something I’ve been interested in and over the years, had less interest in giving my data to .coms that then go lock it up, and/or sell it. This first happened with IMDB (although it’s still available, you can’t use it for anything interesting), CDDB and continues with various subject-specific data aggregators for blogs and pictures. There are however, some recent good sites that do let you put data in and out nicely, with no lock-in such as del.icio.us and bloglines. We need to do more to encourage this; plus encouraging them to provide RDF import/export as appropriate.

An Interview with Tom Lord of Arch on Versioning Systems by Steve Mallet, OSDir. Amusing how he didn’t actually link to the Arch source code.

Writing a Social Content Engine with RDF by anselm. A long essay on the story of making a Java-based (server)/Javascript (client) CMS based on RDF using a pure Java OODB for storage.

Today we’re going to build a social content engine for organizing and sharing content with our friends.

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What could you do with this?

You could make your own Craigs List such as discussed by Jo [Walsh] http://frot.org/geo/craigslist.html

Your own personal knowledge tracking system – for tracking your habits or even your finances.

Source not quite yet available

Today I gave a presentation Redland, Raptor and Rasqal – Open Source RDF in C, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Tcl, Java and C# at XMLOpen which was held in Cambridge UK, 21-23 September 2004. It covers some of the design and thought behind Redland along with general issues when targeting Open Source communities.

Simile Scalability Report on Triple Store Applications, Ryan Lee, MIT. 2004-07-26. Small typo, 3store does not rely on Redland, just Raptor for parsing.