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RDF Writing

Reviews and updated chapters

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just read a review of Practical RDF out at Amazon that wasn’t very complimentary. In fact, I’ve had few complimentary reviews of the book, which can happen with a book. Sometimes you hit; sometimes you miss. I can’t do much about the typos in the book (though these really […]

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RDF

Syndication as compared to aggregation

Bobby Masteria writes on common misconceptions about aggregation as compared to syndication. However, though I agree we don’t have to support all feeds, leaving out one of the most widely used is a mistake.

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RDF

Why a processor rather than a transform

I have spent a little time looking at other approaches to mapping RDF to a web document created as XHTML; approaches such as GRDDL, which uses XSLT to transform basic concepts from (X)HTML into RDF/XML and then provides a link to the transform. (RAP just released a GRDDL parser, though it’s based on PHP 5.x, which means […]

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RDF

I need to keep up more

…with the Semantic Web doings at the W3C, though doing so precludes doing much else at times. However, not keeping up means that I’m losing important bits of information; such as this bit that Danny Ayers named his new kitten after a proposed new query language for RDF. Ah well, at least he didn’t name her Ontaria.

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RDF Semantics

In need to keep up more

…with the Semantic Web doings at the W3C, though doing so precludes doing much else at times. However, not keeping up means that I’m losing important bits of information; such as this bit that Danny Ayers named his new kitten after a proposed new query language for RDF. Ah well, at least he didn’t name her Ontaria.