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Semantics

Visual Feedback

From the Semantic Web mailing list: Every time I work on logos, I learn something new! The main lesson so far from the Semantic Web logos: Get more feedback on usage policy before deploying. Thank you all for your comments. Most of them related to the usage policy, so you will find a proposal for a […]

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Semantics

Better living through chemistry

I find it funny that I’m currently being inundated with drug comment spam, just after Danny Ayers pointed out the fact that the pharmacy industry is adopting the ‘orphaned’ semantic web: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Internet standards arbiter that developed the HTML content description protocol, released a new standard several years ago called the […]

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JavaScript Semantics

Lists of good stuff

I love lists of good stuff: Danny Ayers, Week of Semantic Web. I hope, I hope, I hope, Danny continues this. Agile Ajax links several GWT tutorials, all in one post — handy if you’re into the Google Web Toolkit, or want to give it a try.

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RDF

Encyclopedia of Life

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Missouri Botanical Garden has partnered with other scientific institutions on the creation of the Encyclopedia of Life. The purpose of this site is to provide a free, publicly accessible site with a page for every species of animal and plant on Earth. According to an article at PNN Online: Over the next 10 […]

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RDF Technology

Accessibility, Microformats, and RDF as the Bezoar stone

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Really nice writeup on the conflict between Microformats use of abbr with hCalendar and accessibility: The datetime-design-pattern is a way to show a readable date (such as “March 12, 2007 at 5 PM, Central Standard Time”) to humans and a machine-readable date (such as the ISO 8601 formatted “20070312T1700-06”) to the Microformat […]