Cours STAF18

Bienvenue au portail des Hypertextes Exotiques "This is the open portal for a graduate course on exotic hypertexts within TECFAs master's degree in educational technology....Most activities are open to the general public and you also may contribute..." (French/English)

Bonjour a la web semantique francais!

New Scientist interview with Brewster Kahle about the Wayback Machine.
Shame that TimBL doesn't get a mention alongside Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson

Also in New Scientist:

a write-up of the MyLifeBits project, "... to encourage people to take their personal memorabilia out of the shoebox and store them online". (Microsoft 'Barc' !)

a review of the latest book from Howard Rheingold 'Smart Mobs: The next social revolution', which asks " What happens when computing is pervasive, enabled and supported by mobile connections? What is the sociological and cultural impact of the ad hoc formation of mobile human networks?"

Structured Procrastination off-topic (very good!) but I need something to give Blogger a kick again...

W3C HTML Validation Service Results good place to go when your RSS script chokes...

The Snewp - search engine that can give search results in RSS (not sure if any of the formats covered is RDF, the php for some is down).
This idea has a lot of potential!

spamarchive "... is a community resource that provides a database of known spam to be used for testing, developing, and benchmarking anti-spam tools."

Become a Spam Donor!

ICDL Guided Tour - this is a proprietary book-reader app (a web version is on the way apparently), with friendly facetted navigation.

(spotted at ia/ - news for information architects)

Bienvenue au portail des Hypertextes Exotiques "This is the open portal for a graduate course on exotic hypertexts within TECFAs master's degree in educational technology....Most activities are open to the general public and you also may contribute..." (French/English)

Bonjour a la web semantique francais!

John Burkhardt - Groove wsdl & xsd files.

Semaview : Concept to Reality: What the Emerging Semantic Web means to your Business. - white paper style intro.

::Manageability:: again, this time a useful classification of web-system verbs (GET, LOGON etc) with suggested relation to to the 'speech acts' of KQML.

Random thoughts, Rickard �berg. "...coincidentally AOP [Aspect Oriented Programming] and RDF work very well together. Both are about attaching stuff to object identifiers. In the case of AOP it's about attaching code, and in the case of RDF it's about attaching data. I.e. the perfect way to store AOP objects is as RDF tuples, where each namespace represents an AOP "extension"(/Java interface)."

Found through Carlos E. Perez's
Manageability weblog, in turn found through the referrer's list of this site.

RDF Primer Primer, Aaron Swartz.

seeAlso: RDF in 500 Words

Look at storage issues before you leap into XML - ADTmag.com - adapted from Chapter 5 of XML: A Manager's Guide, Second Edition by Kevin Dick.

Mentions RDF & semweb among the alternatives.

Managers take note!

For W3C, it's a question of semantics - Tech News - CNET.com - "In its continuing effort to make the Web more intelligent, the medium's leading standards group has published a series of drafts relevant to its Semantic Web activity. But don't call it artificial intelligence.".

heh

GroupFormingHere and GroupFormingHere. Star Trek, universal translator, millennium hand and shrimp.

While on the subject of Googling for groups, knowlogs covers Knowledge Blogs, k-logs, klogs, Semantic Blogging, and of course semlogs, semblogs and Semantic Weblogs. It's a new Yahoo group on which to explore the potential of blogs, syndication etc. in the management of knowledge. Buggrit.

NewBreed Librarian - Interview with Eric Miller.
"NewBreed Librarian: In 75 words or less, what is the Semantic Web?"

Ooh - a chance to plug RDF in 500 Words again..

Robots, spiders and other user agents
The goal of this site, is to let you create a mod_rewrite, .htaccess or analog.cfg file with your selection of user agents!...you can come in and check that spider/bot that has crawled your site and see what is it all about and decide whether you should keep it out or let it in."

ScholOnto RDFS ( KMi Project: Scholarly Ontologies) : "This schema was produced by the Scholarly Ontologies Project and is used in the ClaiMaker system".
A useful-looking vocabulary for any kind of argued discussion, containing terms such as "Assumption" and "isEvidenceAgainst".

Zero, One, or Many Namespaces?, it's talking about XML schema, but presumably applies to all XML namespaces. Suggests the following design approaches:

[1] Heterogeneous Namespace Design:
give each schema a different targetNamespace
[2] Homogeneous Namespace Design:
give all schemas the same targetNamespace
[3] Chameleon Namespace Design:
give the "main" schema a targetNamespace and give no
targetNamespace to the "supporting" schemas (the no-namespace supporting
schemas will take-on the targetNamespace of the main schema, just
like a Chameleon)

Why is the Web Still Only a Single-User System? - The Idea Basket.
Good question.

Is the intuitive hypertext interface finally here? (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog) Aaron suggests the Contribute tool from Macromedia might be the browser TimBL originally had in mind - in place editing etc.

Google Glossary, for "RDF" top of the list is a good definition from http://www.soaprpc.com/faqs/glossary.html.
The related phrase " Refuse-Derived Fuel isn't bad either...

Using Jaxen and Jena to query RDF using XPath , Richard Searle.
Remember RDFPath? This is an experimental implementation of the same basic idea.

Conclusion : "This code has poor performance on large models and cannot express all possible queries against an RDF model. Nonetheless, it provides a simple query mechanism that is useful for a wide range of purposes. It also serves as an interesting illustration of the power of using the correct abstraction in a software design. "
I think I'd have been a lot more upbeat about it than that - the material presented really does suggest potential.

XulPlanet.com Neil Deakin : "I have updated the RDF library in the XUL tutorial.You can now do fun things like output your bookmarks as RDF:

var bookmarksRDF=newRDFDataSource("rdf:bookmarks").serializeToString(); 

What a great idea : Out-of-the-Box (Community edition) -
all the open-source tools the Java/web developer is likely to need bundled together. Particularly interesting because on their partial list of maybe 30 tools (alongside Ant, Apache server etc etc) there is CWM and and rdf2dot.xsl!!
(spotted at dsuspense)

An example RDDL/RDF document from Jonathan Borden. It looks like any regular web page.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification Proposed Recommendation.

Historical IDs - "The purpose of historical-id.info is to provide unique URIs for historical figures, and to publish some simple RDF containing identifying information."

XML-Deviant: RDF, What's It Good For? , Kendall Grant Clark - "RDF is like my eccentric old uncle...". Nice round-up of recent xml-dev re. RDF.

For some reason he doesn't actually talk about Uncle Norman, though your's truly gets a namecheck.

Maybe it was Uncle Fred he was referring to - house full of fairground organs, wore a beret indoors and out, always covered in grease.

Yes, that'll be it.

Though neither of them are on the web (this side of the Pearly Gates)...must be Uncle Doug.