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RDF

Mixing Vanilla XML with RDF/XML

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. What would it be like to add the ability to create RDF/XML “sub-trees” within a plain vanilla XML document? It would be like the following: xoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxox xoxoxoxo xxoxoxooxoxxo foaf:knows xoxoxoxox xox xoxoxoxox oxoxoxoxox xxoxoxoxoxoxxo rss:item xoxoxoxoxoxox xoxoxoxo xxoxoxoxox xoxo xxxxoxo xxox x foaf:lastname xoxoxoxo xoxoxoxoxox oxxx oxoxox oxoxoxox xoxoxox postcon:reason […]

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RDF

You have your peanut butter in my chocolate!

Recovered from the Wayback machine. Jon Udell has been exploring the concept of mixing, in his words, RDF-isms with RSS 2.0, which is a non-RDF, single use XML vocabulary. First, important note – when RDF people talk about RSS, they usually mean RSS 1.0, which is an RDF-enabled vocabulary. Second important note – RDF puts certain constraints and requirements on an […]

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Weblogging

Weblog Links: Part 1—The Impermanence of Permalinks

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Webloggers may vary in their support of technologies such as comments and trackbacks and RSS, but two things most agree on: weblogs support archives for older posts, and each post is accessible individually with a URL called a permalink. In fact, it is these two items that give all webloggers […]

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Semantics

FOAF, Flocking, and the Semantics of Starlings

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This weekend I played a bit more with the attachment that allows me to take photos of slides with my digital camera. The ones shown here I took years ago when I lived in Portland, Oregon. The subject is a flock of European Starlings at sunset, just after a storm. Every year […]

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Just Shelley Weblogging

Caricatures and Shadows

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.  I’m thinking more about the concept behind discarding weblog archives. I’ve been re-reading some old posts, some nice and some not so nice. Those posts that are a year or two old aren’t even recognizable. I’ve earned the sobriquet “Burningbird” honestly, as I’ve been nothing if not hot in much […]