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DJ's Weblog - 8 Sep 2002 a great one-page intro to RDF (bit of ref to RSS).

DJ's Weblog - 8 Sep 2002 a great one-page intro to RDF (bit of ref to RSS).

Examples - Getting ino the semantic web and RDF using N3 I think this is fairly new, though the original "Getting into..." doc has been around a good while.

IHT: Artificial intelligence taps the global brain - a chatterbot that scrapes web to answer questions

Burningbird: Myths about RDF/RSS - essential reading for anyone considering using RSS. Nearby is an example of RSS/RDF which is even simpler that those in the spec (the Seq is dropped). Four very minor changes to RSS 0.9x and you have something that will work on the Semantic Web!!

Scripting News "We've been told to expect breakthroughs from people who are expert in RDF. We've been waiting for years."

Yes, three years, and it seems like an eternity.

Dave Winer's primary argument in favour of the 0.9x flavour of RSS seems to be that it's simple, and if you compare an example of RSS 0.94 with one of RSS 1.0, true enough, the 1.0 does look marginally more complicated. But RSS 1.0 covers pretty much all that might be needed for any kind of syndication. Winer's proposing that modular support be included in his v. 2.0 in the form of namespaces, but presumably this will make the specification a little more complicated (the argument "but anything's allowed, so it must be easier" is nicely covered by Aaron's RSS 3.0).

RSS is intended to provide metadata in a machine-readable form. To me it makes sense to use a general format that has been designed for the purpose, rather than an ad hoc format focussed solely on publishing.

Why aim for dead-end lowest-common-denominator support, when something open-ended is available?

Personally I think it's likely that developer support will tend towards the RSS/RDF format as people start to realise its potential, and particularly when Semantic Web applications really start appearing.

That might take another 3 years though....

rdftp: Experimental RDF server "rdftp is an RDF server that supports Query and Update operations on RDF content. The purpose of rdftp is to be an experimental implementation of an RDF Transmission Protocol."
Uses PHP & MySQL, and (it seems) an external Jena parser.

Just had a fabulous idea for using the Google API - McGonagoogle! - returns site details in the style of William McGonagall, poet

www-rdf-interest@w3.org from July 2002: Input sought on datatyp remember to read...votes in lean towards D.

RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters from Mark Nottingham - nice overview from Mark Nottingham, examples of both 0.9x & 1.0

DQL (August 2002) Abstract Specification DAML Query Language (initial release)