Ron's K-Logs - some interesting knowledge management + blog related material.

seeAlso: knowlogs mailing list.

the pepys project - "...the purpose of this is to collect URL's for web logs, diaries, and journals from around the world, indexed by geographical area and then country."

Moen's Law of Bicycles - essentially "Good customers make for good products."
Linked to here as it probably applies quite well to web clients, and also because the person that quotes this is actively trying to get it up Google's rankings for reference purposes.

Creative Commons : "On 16 December, Creative Commons machine-readable licenses will be available to the public free of charge. Learn creative ways to distribute your works and find pointers to all sorts of licensed content you can use right away."

"You're probably familiar with the phrase, 'All rights reserved,' and the little (c) that goes along with it. Creative Commons wants to help copyright holders send a different message: 'Some rights reserved.'"

Some nice little (c) - substitute icons too...

Ibiblio Maven - lib repository.

G__,,,^oo^,,,__gle

Categories - Aristotle.

seeAlso ORB, the Online Reference Book for Medieval studies.

Mozilla 1.2 is out, latest stable release. The main page of RDF-related documentation seems to be quite old, but there is quite a lot of material.

Every time I look around mozilla.org I come across something I've not seen before - this time it was BrowserG - "...a java based desktop application that provides important functionality and enhances the existing habits of the common web surfer".
Check out the projects page.

HTTP Conditional Get for RSS Hackers

Content Syndication with RSS new book by Ben Hammersley, blogger/developer, journalist and monster.

Aaron Andersen at XulPlanet.com. blog, XUL App Tutorial & references, preferences toolbar for Mozilla.

XML.com: RDF Update [Nov. 27, 2002] - Shelly Powers gives an overview of the six key new documents from the W3C. Notes continue at Burningbird

RSS (Simple - 0.94/2.0) to RSS (RDF) Converter - XSLT. Sjoerd Visscher (weblog).

I had a play with this, and I believe there's a slip in this template :

<xsl:template match="item[guid][not(link)]|r:item[r:guid][not(r:link)]" mode="rdfitem">
  <item rdf:about="{r:guid}">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </item>
</xsl:template>

should be :

<xsl:template match="item[guid][not(link)]|r:item[r:guid][not(r:link)]" mode="rdfitem">
  <item rdf:about="{r:guid|guid}">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </item>
</xsl:template>

otherwise items without a link or unprefixed <guid/> end up with

about=""

Ok, I confess, I've been looking at RSS 2.0.

But jeez, this is meant to be "Really Simple" - how on earth are you expected to parse/intrepret/make sense of this stuff?!

 <item>
  <description><a href="http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/turkey.htm"><img 
src="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/11/28/turkey.gif" width="100" height="118" 
border="0" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" alt="A picture named turkey.gif"></a>
<a href="http://doc.weblogs.com/2002/11/28#rankYourReasonsForThanks">Doc Searls</a>
 introduces <a href="http://www.technorati.com/">Technorati</a>.</description> 
  <pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:18:01 GMT</pubDate> 
  <guid>http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2002/11/28#When:7:18:01AM</guid> 
  </item>

"#When:7:18:01AM" will keep me chuckling for a while...

AvaQuest People Mine - nice little Googlet - enter a "who is" question. Not altogether successful :

GooglePeople is not sure it found the answer to your question "who invented the web?", but listed below are some possibilities to investigate:

Dick Reiman
Ted Nelson
Arthur Clarke
Robin Williams

ah - Dick Reiman's biography of TimBL explains Arthur (C.) Clarke and Robin Williams.

I'm sorry Tim...I'm afraid I can't do that...
or even
Good Morrrning, HTTP!

a klog apart - Phil Wolff discusses the 'converged client' relating it to the 'microcontent client' as described by Anil Dash.

"I'm seeing the converged client as a conceptual superset or framework for building microcontent clients."

HP Labs Semantic Web activity - at least I can be sure that this is semweb-related. This is where to get Jena, the marvellous open source RDF toolkit.

ShareMe - "A Diary of an Effort to bring P2P applications and Java Enabled WebServices to Mobile Devices."

on which I spotted : Alan Kay hired by HP-SemanticWeb HP Labs

Oops! The source article at NY Times makes no mention of semweb - so this is pure conjecture...

Euroweb 2002 Conference : "...communities who identify with the web, the GRID, Web Services, Grid Services and Semantic Web should not be isolated from each other, but need to come together..."

Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus - this is a must-see! - now even better than it was a couple of months ago, and it blew me away then. Runs as an applet.

If however you have spent the past few months working on a graph-based tool then for the sake of your self-confidence you're probably best off steering well clear...

JTP: An Object Oriented Modular Reasoning System - does appear to be very extendable (Java) and is suitable for embedding.

Role of Java in the Semantic Web - nice overview of the SW, with a list of Java-based tools.

I just added this site to Java Blogs as I usually work in Java myself and it crops up here a lot. Then I realised I'd never actually tried a google on "java+semantic+web" - quite a bit of interesting material I hadn't seen before

Annotation System for Sematic Web, NCST Bangalore.
functionalities supported :

1) Making Annotations on ANY resource that can be viewed in a browser (
Currently only MS Internet Explorer is supported )
2) Storing annotations locally/posting to a central server
3) Viewing annotations (Local & from one/more annotation servers)
4) SEARCHING for annotations
5) Replying to annotations made by others.

The client is a plug-in for MS Internet Explorer (a toolbar & a explorer bar). The annotation server was developed in Java.

RDF: Enabling Inference - rather old Mozilla page.

Euler proof mechanism for RDF/OWL/n3 - now in C# as well as Java.

RDF Interest Group IRC Chat Logs for 2002-11-26 Jim Hendler's class question the usual suspects. Good selection appearing on the chump.

KM Quest - "...an educationally supported, distributed business game in the domain of knowledge management"

(spotted at step two)

I have my doubts about whether the phrase 'knowledge management' used in this way is any more than yet another bit of business management hypespeak. So I tried it at the Slogan Generator : "Half the Knowledge Management, All the Taste."
'nuff said.

Lipsum generator : "Lorem Ipsum, or Lipsum for short, is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book...Contrary to popular belief, Lipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old."

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetaur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua..."

Semantic Web conferences listing. "...a list of conferences maintained by members of the SWAD-Europe team." Nota bene : " It is maintained as a profile of XHTML that allows an XSLT transformation to RSS 1.0+events module. "

Java 2 Enterprise Edition, 1.4 beta release. Now includes SOAP & WSDL support.

RDF News by CodingTheWeb.com readable online, plus RSS feed.
(also includes sections for Apache, Google, JavaScript, JSP, MySQL, PHP, Red Hat, RSS, SOAP, Usability, XML, XML-RPC, XSLT, Yahoo)

Use Metadata to Improve Your Pictures, Derrick Story : "Every time you click the shutter, your digital camera records valuable picture data that describes the image you just captured. Data such as time, shutter speed, aperture, focal length, and ISO are written to the file header in the EXIF format..."