From Jamie Pitts an article in the Guardian Spread the Word, and Join Up. In it, Tim Berners-Lee is quoted from a recent talk about new directions in RDF and the Semantic Web. I can agree with him when he says, The nice thing about RDF data is you can merge it. More than a ‘nice’ thing–to me, it’s […]
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RDF: The next operating system
Speaking of Danny, he’s pointed to two terrific RDF resources: The first is ActiveRDF allowing access to RDF data from Ruby-on-Rails. This one I can’t wait to try. The RDFRoom — using RDF to create a virtual 3D room. Appropriate after my last post. I wonder how OPML could be used to create a 3D room? It would probably consist of […]
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Think of the children
Danny Ayers sends a plea along to the semantic web folks working with RDF: This may seem a strange request from an RDF fan who is on record calling OPML bloody awful (or words to that effect). But I’d like to humbly ask that anyone exposing RDF services on the web consider also emitting the following […]
This efficient ways to store graphs in MySQL will come in handy. The RDF/A draft for embedding RDF in XHTML has been released. I did a quick look at the spec and it does look good — the microformats people will be happy to see it. I still believe that we don’t need to embed RDF directly into our web pages […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. …why Atom is the only syndication format to use (if you all persist in finding RDF too hard that is, and go icky poo with RSS 1.x). Rogers Cadenhead: In part to address his concerns (and some voiced by Palfrey), I launched a new site for the board and we’ve been working […]