Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was pleased and rather surprised to see so many comments attached to my posting on RDF. As to be expected with recent discussions, the thread soon turned to issues of RDF/RSS. That’s cool. What isn’t cool is something such as this by Morbus Iff and Dave Winer’s absolutely atrocious […]
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RDF: As simple as A, B, C
When I demonstrated a very simplified RDF/RSS model last week, in the comments attached to the post, Ziv asked the following question: One question of an RDF newbie: Why do we need that (rdf:Description) element? Why can’t we simply put the @rdf:about attribute on the (item)? As I started to answer the question in the comments, I […]
Sam Ruby had taken a first shot at RSS 2.0 with an RSS document demonstrating the new, simplified RSS syntax. No evidence of RDF, RSS version, no RDF Seq. Mark expanded on this with what looks to be the same specification, different examples and the use of included HTML (parseLiteral in RDF terms). (Correct me if I misread this […]
Threadneedle status
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I provided a status on ThreadNeedle at the QuickTopic discussion group. I wish I had toys for you to play with, but no such luck. To those who were counting on this technology, my apologies for not having it for you, and unless someone can point out an obvious solution to […]
Myths about RDF/RSS
Lots of discussion about the direction that RSS is going to take, which I think is good. However, the first thing that happens any time a conversation about RSS occurs is people start questioning the use of RDF within the RSS 1.0 specification, and the necessity of keeping RSS “simple”. Mark Pilgrim writes: Many people in the RSS community feel that, […]
