timeline of knowledge-representation, quite a lot of spurious entries, only comes up to 1994, but fun all the same.

(found at Psybertron)

Email ideas from John Robb. Great ideas, though Userland focussed (perfectly understandable, he is their COO, whatever that is). Hopefully Chandler will incorporate them all (and more - RDF makes OPML look stone age).

Building, Aggregating and Navigating Information Systems with Topic Maps A one-day seminar in New York, January 27, 2002.

Jabber FOAF Utilities
Roster2Foaf
Roster2Foaf will allow you to login to your existing Jabber account, retrieve your entire roster, and convert the whole thing into a FOAF file for you. If you already have a Jabber account, but are just getting started with FOAF, this could be a great starting point.
JID2Foaf
JID2Foaf will retrieve information about a single jid (Jabber ID) and convert it into a simple element.

the flurry of FOAF apps continues! Tis the season...

FOAF Hackery from Leigh Dodds. The first beta of his foaf-a-matic Mark 2 application is now available.

N3 Wiki at Internet Alchemy - (Ian Davis) "...a Wiki that uses N3 as its underlying format. It's written in Perl, runs as a CGI and uses RDF::Notation3 to parse the N3."

"I chose RDF/N3 over RDF/XML because cvs integration will work better when I get around to adding page histories."

"Might find some use in building vocabularies collaboratively."

Redland and Raptor RDF - Programs Using the Libraries - from velociraptor Dave Beckett. Interesting to see that 3 of the 10 or so apps listed are closer to the general-app-developer domain than (semantic) web comms, e.g.
Fastboot, Leni Mayo - "A system to help general-purpose operating systems boot faster by analysing system dependencies as a graph and running independent tasks in parallel."

PS. Raptor 0.9.7 just released.

palmagent - "... is (intended to be) a Semantic Web Service, providing paper-trail style synchronization." (in W3C's cvs).

Chump and chat logs from #rdfig discussion on calendaring - arranged in advance!

Knowledge Processors - "The Universal Knowledge Processor". Rather a grandiose title, but more down to earth practicalities : "...conceptual retrieval is the selective thinning of an infobase, through operations on concepts only, to a point at which small sets of documents can be manually inspected." also known as the "dynamic taxonomy approach", appears to be facet-based. Looks like it uses XML and/or RDBMS.

Some nice demos.

It's a commercial system, but there are papers (Giovanni Sacco) about how it's done.

What is RSS? - at xml.com - good piece from Mark Pilgrim, very practical, with a little Python code. Gives a reasonably balanced comparison between the different formats, though one could be left thinking that the main reason for using RSS 1.0 was its use of RDF, without knowing what an advantage that was, or that it was as good (if not better) for "general-purpose, metadata-rich syndication".

Workflow Patterns

The Six Simple Principles of Viral Marketing

How to Compare Uniform Resource Identifiers - Tim Bray, for TAG

also from TAG, TimBL's response to TB's RDDL challenge, RDDL in RDF (other solutions are linked from the summary)

Wrote. - "Yesterday's News, Today." Currently showing reports from the Minnetonka Record, 1914.

Top story : "City Farmer Successful With Hogs"

ebPML.org - "...a website dedicated to the architecture and technologies of Business Process Management Systems (BPMS)."

Boxes and Arrows: What Is A Controlled Vocabulary? - great intro.

just needs bolting to RDFS...

Spring - a Mac desktop, writtin up in The Register - "...a really radical departure from the 2D file/folder office automation metaphor of the 1970s into a more loosely structured and spontaneous UI more appropriate to an always-connected world."

not unrelated to what I'm doing with Ideagraph

Historical Event Markup and Linking "..project provides a means of coordinating and navigating disparate historical materials on the internet." There is an XML schema and XSLT stylesheets for generating maps, timelines etc.

Some demos, using Cocoon :

• An SVG Timeline of Russian Revolutionary History (in Russian).


• An SVG Animated Map of the Second Punic War


• An SVG Dynamic Map of the career of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz


• An HTML Table of Events during the Meiji Restoration (in Japanese Unicode).

The Semantic Web gets real ZDNet piece, talks about Celcorp's products as an example of SW technologies being used in business today.

According to the quotes in ZDNet, they're automatically extracing ontologies, and though the piece mentions OWL what the Celcorp site talks about sounds more like good old-fashioned AI...

Creative Commons talk - Aaron's notes on the metadata angle. He's also written up the launch party.

heh, I notice they had a theremin player. Connections: Rothman's Theremins - I heard many a strange sound come out of Jake's bench when it was in East London - he was one of my lecturers at the Furniture College (it's now known as Guildhall University), and I kipped on his settee many a time. He wrote his theremin circuit up for one of the mags (Everyday Electronics?) , probably online somewhere.

BlogTalk - A European Weblog-Conference - Vienna, Austria in May 2003. "Web-based publishing, communication and collaboration tools for professional and private use."

"The language of the conference will be English or if only German speakers and attendents are present German."
hmm, I found this on Paolo's blog, so I think there'll be at least one Italian there...

MultiCentrix - commercial knowledgebase stuff, XML (schema, XSLT) & web friendly (the main app domain would appear to be web publishing). Example of published output, a representation of FOLDOC

Practical RDF - Shelley's book-in-progress now has a cover, the Secretary Bird :

The power of voice - searching audio by phonemes.

Toy Recall Database - somewhat offtopic, but definitely noteworthy for its weirdness e.g.

BarbieTM Sunglasses
"The frames of the sunglasses can break, allowing the petroleum distillate and floating glitter to leak out. Petroleum distillates could be harmful to children's eyes and skin and could be fatal if ingested."

Ideagraph - version 0.5, source (Java) now available for non-commercial use.

It's a Personal Knowledge Manager based on RDF. Features graphic node and arc diagram interface. As the version number suggests, it's about halfway to what's planned.

The alicebot-general Archives

just wanted to catch up - but the archives have already got to June 2004!

Creative Commons - big day - "On December 16, 2002, Creative Commons released version 1.0 of its Licensing Project, and the first release of content under its Founders' Copyright."

perlIBIS - "...is a suite of Perl modules for processing IBIS dialog maps...These modules provide a graph-like data structure for representing and manipulating IBIS conversations. Currently, it can import QuestMap files, and export into XML and a variety of graphical formats (using GraphViz)."

seeAlso: http://purl.org/ibis

More Like This From Others - a conspiracy of Bens makes interesting Trackback.

The Unnamed Semantic Web Client - XUL+RDF based, can read and display a few different data sources and now RSS (non-RDF!) through XPath.

Library Lookup - Jon Udell's outstanding bookmarklet experiments continue...

XML R�sum� Library - "... is an XML and XSL based system for marking up, adding metadata to, and formatting r�sum�s and curricula vitae."

Maybe FOAF data could be used as input?