RDF is a framework for describing resources. We know that. We also know (from various sources, such as the RDF Model and Syntax Specification, or Pierre-Antoine Champin’s RDF Tutorial (recommended!)) that an RDF document consists of a number of descriptions, and these descriptions look like this:
<rdf:RDF … >
<rdf:Description … >
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Here are two or three, er, thoughtbites, that I’ve come across over the past few days and that have stayed with me. I just thought I’d share them here as it’s the weekend and often a good time to think about things.
Open thinking about deep-linking
Tim Bray’s strawman defence of the principle that ‘deep linking’ on [...]
I’ve just read Jon’s latest post on XML Scripting, which mentions Adam Bosworth’s thoughts about an XML scripting language that could natively support XML.
While the advent of XML scripting sounds fascinating, I’ve also been wondering about RDF enabling us to “gracefully integrate with the world of objects” and enhance the “self-describing nature of XML”. [...]
After spotting a comment on #rdfig regarding the contents of my RSS 1.0 feed’s <description>, I decided to take the plunge and use the draft part of RSS 1.0’s mod_content module, namely the content:encoded property, to hold the entity-encoded weblog item content. (The description element itself in core 1.0 is optional, and [...]
Now that I understand what the RDF in RSS is, I’m ready to move up to RSS 1.0. I’m using Blosxom which generates RSS 0.91 by default. Flushed with a previous success using XSLT, I thought I’d use that technology again to generate 1.0 from 0.91.
Luckily, Eric van der Vlist has some XSLT stylesheets [...]
Ironically, it’s only been the recent and ongoing hubbub about the direction of RSS that’s got me wondering what the real truth is about the RDF in RSS. In a still handwavy sort of way, I understand that RDF is important for the (semantic|data) web that is to form as a layer above the current [...]
Thanks to Leandro Mariano Lopez, Andy McMullan, damaged justice (ian), and Brian Donovan, who all emailed me to tell me that it’s Ctrl-PgUp/PgDown, I’m one step closer to mouseless nirvana…
Now, if I can get Mozilla to run on my VT320 …
I was just reading some background stuff before I posted my comment just now over on the interesting discussion on REST and idempotency over on Sam’s site (the comment is also partially in response to Sam’s post yesterday).
I had about 5 or 6 tabbed pages open with content relating to the discussion, and lo and [...]
Sam has asked Mark Baker a question, or rather, presented an apparent conundrum. It was a pleasant subject to ponder as I was rolling out the pastry for some apple and blackberry pies, and on returning to the keyboard, I’ve decided to put some of my own thoughts down on Sam’s points, even though [...]