I sent a note to the RDF Interest Group today, telling them about the draft of the book. I’ve already received some excellent feedback. Some people climb mountains. Others scale rock cliffs, or dive the deepest depths of the ocean. Still others race cars at 180 MPH, ride bulls, or sail across the ocean in a […]
Category: Semantics
I am so burned out from the push to finish the draft this last week. It got to the point that I was coding PHP into a Java class, and I kept looking at some Python, trying to figure out why it looked funny (it’s Python, it’s supposed to look funny). And then I had […]
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Grand idea #102
Thanks to Sean McGrath I found out about this discussion thread over at the Tag Soup discussion forum. It starts off with Tim Berners-Lee basically asserting that a URI represents a web page, or at least a physical resource: We know. Your “resource” is a vague thing which can be a robot or a web page. That vagueness makes […]
Next week I’m delivering to my editor the complete first draft of “Practical RDF” for O’Reilly. Yeah, finally. No one has seen the complete TOC, including the tools, APIs and whatever used in the book and I thought I would provide a heads up before the book is released for public review. If you’re interested, […]
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Good Enough
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mark Pilgrim does not believe in the Semantic Web. He believes Semantics is hard; that the syntax for the Semantic Web is laughably complex. Mark wants to stay with the “…simple but relatively well-defined semantics of HTML.” HTML is good enough for Mark, and I say that’s great, because no one wants […]