Recovered from the Wayback Machine. At the time I wrote Practical RDF, the folks at HP’s Semantic Web Research Lab were in the process of creating the second major release of Jena, the popular and extremely comprehensive Java RDF API. However, at the time, the release was in pre-alpha state and wasn’t stable enough for inclusion in […]
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FOAF page and specification update
Dan Brickley and Libby Miller have updated the FOAF Specification Page, and have done a very nice job of it, too. This becomes a good schema page/documentation page model for others to use with their RDF vocabularies. This also reminds me that I need to focus both on PostCon, and its associated vocabulary, and the RDF […]
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Tax? Or Precision?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I read the comments about “RDF tax” and how we must “prove” RDF’s worth, yet when I look at so many plain XML feeds, all I can see is the improvement that could be added because of the precision of using RDF/XML. Not all XML feeds, but any that are […]
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I am not the church and RDF is not the earth
The discussion continues on using RDF/XML for the new Pie/Echo/Atom syndication feed, in Sam’s comments and in the email list. I even had a very fun time in the echo IRC yesterday, though I’m not a particularly adept IRC person. (I did find out about the use of /me, and went crazy using it as a result.) I’m […]
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Bray and Symbols and Grounding
Tim Bray on the namespace fooflah that’s been happening: Right now, in the context of the Pie/Echo/Atom/whatever project, people assert that crystallizing the meaning of embedded namespaces is the key to interoperability, the central problem, and so on. Huh? When someone proposes markup from another namespace for inclusion in a syndication feed, there are three possible […]