BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. What would it be like to add the ability to create RDF/XML “sub-trees” within a plain vanilla XML document? It would be like the following: xoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxox xoxoxoxo xxoxoxooxoxxo foaf:knows xoxoxoxox xox xoxoxoxox oxoxoxoxox xxoxoxoxoxoxxo rss:item xoxoxoxoxoxox xoxoxoxo xxoxoxoxox xoxo xxxxoxo xxox x foaf:lastname xoxoxoxo xoxoxoxoxox oxxx oxoxox oxoxoxox xoxoxox postcon:reason […]
Recovered from the Wayback machine. Jon Udell has been exploring the concept of mixing, in his words, RDF-isms with RSS 2.0, which is a non-RDF, single use XML vocabulary. First, important note – when RDF people talk about RSS, they usually mean RSS 1.0, which is an RDF-enabled vocabulary. Second important note – RDF puts certain constraints and requirements on an […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This weekend I played a bit more with the attachment that allows me to take photos of slides with my digital camera. The ones shown here I took years ago when I lived in Portland, Oregon. The subject is a flock of European Starlings at sunset, just after a storm. Every year […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dan Brickley just came out with a why there’s a foaf:knows but not a foaf:friend. The better explanation occurs in the comments: Because the concepts of ‘knowing’, ‘knowing well’, ‘friend’ etc. are both slippery and because people vary (personality, use of language etc.) in how they’re comfortable using those concepts, you get […]
Originally published at O’Reilly, and recovered from the Wayback Machine. Not long ago, Marc Canter, one of the early founders of Macromedia, talked about RDF and the Semantic Web in his weblog. Specifically, he wrote: “I’ve been spending more and more time trying to grok the RDF folks. I have to say I like what I […]