BurningbirdTim Bray on the namespace fooflah that’s been happening: Right now, in the context of the Pie/Echo/Atom/whatever project, people assert that crystallizing the meaning of embedded namespaces is the key to interoperability, the central problem, and so on. Huh? When someone proposes markup from another namespace for inclusion in a syndication feed, there are three possible […]
I was so caught up in the Pie/Echo/Atom stuff yesterday that I missed Jon Udell’s discussion about my book. He wrote: To get a better picture of how the CVM works, I read Shelley Powers’ very well-written new book, Practical RDF. I read it online, actually. Very cool to be able to do that. (Tank, I […]
My roommate flies in tonight and I pick him and the friend that traveled with him up at the St. Louis airport. However, he called to say the flight from Portland to Chicago was going to be late, and I’ll need to use the online airline system to track the flight, see if he makes […]
One of the tools/utilities I covered in the book was Emmanuel Pietriga’s IsaViz, a nifty graphical tool for working with RDF models. Emmanuel just sent me an email to let me know that a whole new version is out. This new version supports the latest last call working drafts for the RDF specification and also uses GSS […]
Thanks to some tweaks suggested by Aaron Swartz, the Pie/Echo/Atom folks are exploring the possibility of formating the syndication format in RDF/XML. As I’ve said in comments – this is a very good thing. It unifies RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 beautifully and justifies having yet another syndication effort. Discussion on this continues at the syndication feed email list. […]