Dr Ont's Semantic SpoutDr Ont is the chief editor of and spiritual force behind SchemaWeb. Although an RDF newbie, he has strong views which he will air in his blog hosted at SchemaWeb.Honey, I shrunk Dan!- September 8, 2004 Many great photos from the historic 1st FOAF Workshop are now published and perusable online.This photo of Chief FOAFster Dan Brickley however has caused Derek and I some slight concern. We can only think of only three explanations.1. Somebody shrunk Dan.2. There has been an almighty cockup at the printers with a specification misunderstanding comparable to the Spinal Tap 'Stonehenge' fiasco. 3. Just a business card specially designed to fit Dan's wallet! Dan photo by Libby (slightly modified)http://www.schemaweb.info/blogs/Blog.aspx?entryid=50 rdfdata.org is go- September 7, 2004 Bob DuCharme, whose excellent XSLT column for XML.com has been essential reading at SchemaWeb for many years, has grabbed a piece of semspace and launched rdfdata.org as a portal for direct access to large amounts of the golden stuff.Bob, pictured above chilling with a Theremin, is also encouraging content producers to provide an RSS interface for all their content and not just the latest 10 or so offerings. Hear hear, after all HTML is so last year!http://www.schemaweb.info/blogs/Blog.aspx?entryid=49 FOAF extension vocabularies- September 7, 2004 A request at the recent FOAF Workshop at Galway was for a guide to vocabularies available for use with personal profile documents expressed in FOAF. Until such a definitive list has been prepared and published, SchemaWeb may provide some pointers. The query page at SchemaWeb now opens with an example query which returns all properties that declare foaf:Person as the domain.At present these properties belong to the following schemas:BioSpeaks, Reads and WritestrustReading List...http://www.schemaweb.info/blogs/Blog.aspx?entryid=48 |