Monthly Archives: October 2004

Jena RDF Output

Posted on 18 October 2004 by

Danny Ayers mentioned Jena’s RDF/XML output in a message to RSS-DEV. It has a concept similar to my idea of preferred namespaces, in that it allows you to specify “pretty types” which are the types of the principle objects (which … Continue reading →

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Constraining RDF/XML

Posted on 17 October 2004 by

These are a few notes about rules to constrain RDF/XML output in order to make the serialisation of any given graph deterministic. One strong motivator is RSS 1.0 which uses a restricted profile of RDF/XML designed for compatibility with RSS … Continue reading →

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Google Desktop

Posted on 15 October 2004 by

Well, it’s finally here, and it appears to work as advertised. More later when it’s finished indexing everything on my machine. …later. I was… um… surprised to see search results from my local machine appearing when I searched via www.google.com. … Continue reading →

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WikiFolders

Posted on 13 October 2004 by

Here’s an interesting idea from Justin Chapweske: Wiki + WebDAV = WikiFolders: The basic idea behind WikiFolders is to ditch hierchical file organization in favor of the ad-hoc approach of Wikis. Instead of a hierchical organization of folders and files, … Continue reading →

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SPARQL First Draft

Posted on 13 October 2004 by

The first draft of SPARQL Query Language for RDF has been issued. Understandably there are huge gaps in the text, but it looks very promising. The syntax is of the RDQL/SquishQL stable. However, it includes something that I’ve always felt … Continue reading →

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Exchange is King

Posted on 13 October 2004 by

Ben Hyde hits it on the head: Above I mentioned two ways that XML might get displaced. One on the supply side (data normal form) and one on the demand side (presentation). There is a third – data exchange. Exchange … Continue reading →

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RSS 1.0 Feed-a-Matic

Posted on 4 October 2004 by

The decision to start work on a revision to the RSS 1.0 specification got me thinking about how best to approach it. The spec was written four years ago and hasn’t changed since. It’s good to have stable specifications because … Continue reading →

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RSS 1.0 Revision

Posted on 2 October 2004 by

I proposed the following motion a couple of days ago to the RSS-DEV interest group: The RSS-DEV Interest Group should initiate work on a revision to the RSS 1.0 specification limited to editorial clarifications and informative usage guidelines. The syntax … Continue reading →

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