BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Tim Bray wrote a short note on weblogs and wikis, basically saying that contrary to assertions at Sun and elsewhere that the two are convergent, they’re both very different: A wiki is a collaborative construction engine, with refactoring and edit-in-place being the dominant forms of activity, and many equal voices […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. An issue about attaching metadata recorded as RDF/XML to a web object, particularly a web page, is that there is no clean way to embed the XML into an (X)HTML document; at least, embed the data and still have the page validate. Yet creating separate files just for the RDF/XML […]
Okay, at this point we have city data through OpenGuides (and thanks to Danny for pointing out the article on the front page.) We have London Tube data through Tubeplanner.com . Jo Walsh gives us the poetic (I like it) oranges and lemons, with descriptions of London churches and their location based on the nursery rhyme: Oranges and Lemons sing the bells […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Following on the theme of how we can have a lovely time in London, thanks to RDF and the seman…ooops! Semantic Web, rdfdata.org has pointed to another set of RDF data related to travel: OpenGuides . According to the site, OpenGuides is a network of free, community-maintained “wiki” city guides to which anyone […]
Dare Obasanjo has a good post today on the failure of URIs when it comes to their role as identifiers within the Semantic Web, and points to a TAG discussion thread and a referendum on this issue. I don’t subscribe anymore to the TAG emails–too male, too pedantic–so I appreciate having these items pointed out. Still, Dare sums it up best […]