Worrysome quotes from SUO mail archive ( Jean-Luc Delatre)

we must be doing something right...

XML.com: Architectural Design Patterns for XML Documents
seeAlso : W3C XML Schema Design Patterns

(spotted by danbri, #rdfig)

SIMILE Use Case Document Issue List also SIMILE Planning Workshop Input Document :
"SIMILE is a research project investigating how to extend DSpace, an existing project between Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and MIT Libraries, to enhance its support for arbitrary schemas and metadata primarily though the application of semantic web techniques. The project also aims to implement a digital asset dissemination architecture based upon web standards."

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Tools and Software

Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit (in C, various platforms) version 0.9.9 released.

• Performance improvements - uses less memory, less repeated small malloc/free sequences, faster for larger files.


• Added WWW retrieval - can parse from an URI as well as files, given either libcurl or libxml2 is available.


• Minor bug fixes.


• Various Win32 configure, building patches


• Sources updated to use autoconf 1.6+, automake 2.52+


• More debian packaging updates.

Architecture of the World Wide Web updated W3C Working Draft

W3C SemanticTour Roma, London, Munich, Athens and Brussels, 10- 24 June 2003

try the kool-aid!

FXSL -- the Functional Programming Library for XSLT

OWL Ontology Validator (Bechhofer-Volz) and OWL Ontology Validator (BBN)
seeAlso: Web-Ontology (WebOnt) Working Group

Content Syndication with RSS new book by Ben Hammersley

Open RDF "...is a collection of RDF components for the Delphi/Kylix programming language."

Peter@Norvig.com author of the classic "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach", now 'Director of Search Quality and Director of Machine Learning' at Google.

Interview with Sergey Brin, Google co-founder (reported by Jeremy Allaire)

He basically said he doesn't believe in the semantic web as a set of linked RDF data-structures. His basic argument is that the structure of natural language and what it presents is much much richer than meta-data tagging schemes. Clearly, Google's understanding of natural language is unique, but there still is a need for machine readable APIs for data on the Internet.

RDF and other monkey wrenches an anti-RDF piece by Sean McGrath.
Debunked.

The first taste of Liberty (Frank Sommers) article on the Liberty single sign-on system and SAML (Secure Assertion Markup Language).

RDF based discovery system post on dotgnu list from James Michael DuPont :

"The idea of discovery needs to go down to the method and variable level where you can browse an program and extract just the needed bits and bobs. In the end, this is tied closely into the job of the compiler, but is implemented on a global scale."

Samizdat: Co-op Engine "...a generic RDF-based engine for building collaboration and open publishing web sites." (GNU)

GNU.RDF [DotGNU] project proposal, and another reference on the list : "Unless any objections are raised soon, DotGNU will have an RDF based
discovery system. Namespace issues have been discussed."

(thanks MONOKROM)

Lecture Notes on Algorithmic Information Theory from Chaitin : "In these lectures I discuss philosophical applications of AIT, not practical applications. Indeed, I believe AIT has no practical applications."

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - current issue : "The Semantic Web"

Pedantic Web or Semantic Web? positive article by Jeff Pollock :

Look for the semantic Web to forever change the face of three key technologies that drive businesses everyday:
1. Enterprise Middleware (EAI, B2B, ETL, EDI, etc.)
2. Media Asset Management (video, audio, photos, etc.)
3. Enterprise Resource Planning (SCM, CRM, HR, FIN, PLM, etc.)