Time to sync up with June

• WWW2005 in Tokyo. Fun with the microformats guys.
• XTech in Amsterdam rocked as I expected – “best conference evah!“. I missed the XHTML2 and HTML5 session as I was chairing a parallel track.
• Aaron‘s learnt a hard lesson or two and swapping coasts. Good luck with the startup.
• SPARQL Query Results XML Format W3C Working Draft 2005-05-27 edited by me, now with a broken W3C XML Schema – I gave up trying to make it work. Use the RELAXNG.
• Mike Linksvayer explains how ugly was metadata deployed for Creative Commons inside HTML comments, 2005-06-03. Blame Aaron :) but yay for massive deployment.
• A computer company announced it would be switching chips. Again.
• Debian 3.1 shipped, 2005-06-06 – yay!
• Internet Draft draft-ietf-atompub-format-09.txt, 2005-06-08 – no link, the IETF hates hypertext
• Raptor 1.4.7, 2005-06-08 – crash fixes
• Rasqal 0.9.10, 2005-06-09 for Steve (“are you shipping soon?“) and Danny (“where is sorting?“)
• Redland 1.0.2 and Redland Bindings 1.0.2.1, 2005-06-10 – do you trust software with a version a little past 1.0?
• Reboot.dk – looked fun, but I was travel tired
• Beta technorati site looks rather good and seems faster, curiously
• plantrdf.com chunters on – should we be archiving this?
• Redland is 5 years old next week

and I learnt you just can’t please some people. They can eat my shorts.

Two Towers by Ora Lassilla points out a paper Semantic Web Architecture: Stack or Two Towers? (PDF) by Horrocks, Parsia, Patel-Schneider and Hendler (not clear where it’s published) that reviews the current semantic web architecture state and argues that there is an emerging clash of two stacks of semantics, one DLP-Datalog, Datalog rules stack incompatible with the RDF / OWL / First Order Logic extensions of OWL semantic web stack, leaving the only option for it to start again from raw XML.

Seems like going backwards to me but maybe somebody who understands this area better will explain it to me in small words!