2003-01-10

MT Help Request - Maciej Ceglowski is working on a search engine based on latent semantic analysis to operate as a plugin for the Movable Type blogging tool.
Featuring a marvellous logo:
Oghma Project: Binding Knowledge for the Semantic Web - "MindHive is a open-source tool for organising your personal information which allows you to selectively share your information with others and to run autonomous, rational agents capable of moving across a peer-to-peer (p2p) network to perform tasks for your benefit."

2003-01-06

Renmin Voice : must-read piece from Joshua Allen. "The Semantic Web is about people, and specifically about making people's voices clearly audible and indelible..."
A quote I particularly like : "Too much meta and your mind can't bootstrap.". Joshua may just have hit the nail on the head regarding the underlying cause of antipathy to RDF in certain quarters.

2003-01-05

Dynamic Java Class Loader using OWL from Michael Grove, Mind Swap
includes an interesting discussion about why he wrote it
Thinking XML: Summary - index of Uche Ogbuji's pieces at IBM developerWorks "...that covers the knowledge management aspects of XML, including metadata, semantics, Resource Description Framework (RDF), Topic Maps, and autonomous agents."
Drive - An RDF Parser C# - "Drive builds an RDF graph with labelled edges from an RDF document. The three classes RDFGraph RDFNode and RDFEdge can be used to recursively walk the graph. Drive runs on the Microsoft .NET platform and requires Visual Studio .NET for application development."
LGPL Licence.
McBreen.Consulting: Software Craftsmanship Book When you look at software, do you get the feeling that it has been developed without adult supervision?