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RDF SVG

RDF to SVG tool

Found at Eclectic – an RDF to SVG tool. You’ve heard about RDF before in this weblog — consider it a meta-language for describing data on the web (and elsewhere). Though you can represent RDF in various forms, the most commonly used technique is XML. SVG is Scalable Vector Graphics and is a way of describing 2D graphics in XML. Nice tool, though […]

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RDF Technology

Nextware Conference 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was signed up to do two sessions, but had to cancel. I was broke and had to move out of San Francisco in June. Back then, conferences didn’t pay travel expenses. I received a brochure from the Nextware conference being held in Baltimore in May. The conference will cover an interesting […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs RDF

More on the RDF/RSS Patent fooflah

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In case everyone’s confused with my postings about the patent issue, I want to go on record by saying that I’m strongly in favor of RDF. There. I know you were all really worried about that one. Okay now, stop worrying, go back to work. -earlier- Jeff Barr of Syndic8 was also […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs RDF

RDF patent dispute

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Over at the RDF interest online forum, at least two developers of implementations based on RDF have received a legal mailing from a firm representing Unified Data Technologies Ltd (UDTL), implying a possible patent infringement due to the use of RDF/RSS. The RDF working group is consulting with the W3C […]

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RDF

SDForum Talk: RDF and the Semantic Web

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ll be speaking about RDF and the Semantic Web at the SDForum in San Francisco, October 9th. See more on the topic at the forum posting.