2003-03-01

'Conneg' and the duality of weblogs (DJ's Weblog) discusses using the same URL for both HTML and RSS versions of blog
The Insidious Big Brother DataBase @ SourceForge - contact management utility created for use with Emacs, can be integrated mail and news readers.
(via #rdfig)
blogged mostly for the name!
Learning Objects Metadata IEEE Computer Society publication.

(via Column Two)

2003-02-28

metamodel.com "This site strives to be the premier source of information and community on semantic modeling and meta-modelling on the Web."
XP successor Longhorn goes SQL, P2P - Microsoft leaks(The Register) : 'The Beast' is set to include a new relational file store at the core of its next version of Windows - file systems would become plug-ins for a raw, native relational data store
Janes' Blogosphere - SVG - "ThreadTrack tracks cross-blog conversations..." now with graphic (SVG) view. Exceedingly cool!
Google lands Web search patent (CNET News.com) - link relevance algorithm, with a bit of document clustering
Service monitor - Matthew Dovey (author of the RSS/RDF Service Status module) is looking for testers/feedback.
calendaring : requirements - list, Jan Grant.
Topic Mapping Roundup not about Topic Maps as such but sharing categories in blogging tools - a history of The Topic Exchange

2003-02-27

RDF query testcases chat (RDF Interest Group IRC Chat Logs for 2003-02-27) also scratchpad
CETIS-The semantic web: How RDF will change learning technology standards (Mikael Nilsson at Cetis) mostly RDF intro, quite old (09/2001) but includes "Lessons from Using RDF in the IMS Specifications" (to summarise : we found RDF great!)
Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) - SCORM Overview
"The Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) defines a Web-based learning "Content Aggregation Model" and "Run-Time Environment" for learning objects."
foaf danbri gives some background in a ForRK post.
Journal on Web Semantics
not sure if I got this one before

2003-02-26

HoneyNet Project - research into the blackhat (cracker) community, paper: Know Your Enemy: Honeynets - "... You create a network similar to a fishbowl, where you can see everything that happens inside it..."
(via dsuspense)
John Sowa on the Semantic Web : Developing XML as a richer version of HTML was generally a good idea. But what botched the semantic web is that promoting a universal syntax does nothing to promote semantics. To avoid further confusion, it would be a good idea to rename it "the syntactic web".
[seen on chat@fipa.org by Bill de h�ra]
Open Source Content Management Conference May 28th - 30th, Mass. USA. Theme is "Leveraging content with CMS: authoring and syndication towards the semantic web"

2003-02-25

Requirements and use cases for a Web Rule Language DAML Joint Committee/RuleML Working Draft 24 February 2003
An Easy Semantic Web some good ideas on semantic blogging, including 'Cascading Ontologies' - a way of adding semantics to HTML styled on CSS.
Tutorial - Reaching out onto the Web cwm stuff from TimBL, lots of log: bits.

2003-02-24

CIA-2003 WorkshopSeventh International Workshop Cooperative Information Agents : Intelligent Agents for the Internet and Web, August 27 - 29, 2003, Finland.
@semantics weblog a new blog on the block.

2003-02-23

XML Package (XPackage)
This specification defines the XML Package format (XPackage) for defining packages, or collections of resources and their associations.
Open eBook Forum Editor's Working Draft 23 October 2002

Strange mix of RDF, XLink and XML Schema. I could be wrong, but I think quite a lot of this is actually redundant - e.g. xpackage:location (URI?), xpackage:metadata (about=..?)
Building Metadata Applications with RDF (Bob DuCharme, XML.com) - brief intro to RDFLib (Python)