Dear all, Welcome to semantic-web: a discussion forum for the principles, and development, of the Semantic Web. Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer "Perhaps, but...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 12, 2000 9:04 pm
Just thought I'd write a discussion areas list, for reference purposes (a bit like a charter): 1. Defining the SW 2. The history and future of the SW 3....
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 13, 2000 1:25 pm
Now that there are a handful of members, let me explain what's going on! This list was set up because:- 1. Having a public SW list provides us a nice forum and...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 13, 2000 5:41 pm
Hi Everyone, [BTW: As this is still a very small group at the moment, I shall post a letter to RDF IG asking for opinions on creating another list. The message...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 13, 2000 11:54 pm
... From: Dan Brickley <Daniel.Brickley@...> To: www-rdf-interest <www-rdf-interest@...> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 11:13 PM Subject: Re: New...
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Nov 14, 2000 3:32 am
... +1. If you want this list Sean, you're going to have to make the case to Dan -- and let's use the W3 one, shall we? Politely, -- [ Aaron Swartz |...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 14, 2000 11:57 am
... We did, but it was left unfinished. ... I feel it would be easy define such a list: create a spin off IG from RDF IG; SW IG - and use semantic-web@......
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 14, 2000 12:27 pm
... Dan ... We'll have to wait and see if Dan even wants us to use the W3C list: if he doesn't, then SW discussions will remain on RDF IG. Dan's call... I...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 15, 2000 1:50 pm
Hi Everyone! I think I'm going to rename this group/list to:- Semantic Web Interface Technologies Development swi-dev@egroups.com So, why/when/what/where/who?...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 15, 2000 1:59 pm
New mailing adddresses:- Send to: swi-dev@egroups.com Subscribe: swi-dev-subscribe@egroups.com Unsubscribe: swi-dev-unsubscribe@egroups.com Manager:...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 15, 2000 6:13 pm
Well, now we've got quite a few new members subscibed to this list (welcome, and thanks for the support!), I thought I'd try to inspire conversation. Due to...
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Robin Berjon
robin@...
Nov 15, 2000 6:35 pm
... I don't know about RSS but according to te rdf-syntax spec, appendix B, one should be able to use: <link rel='meta' href='my_metadat.dc.rdf' /> (this might...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 15, 2000 7:48 pm
... one ... Ah, very true, but how does one go about attaching meta-data to certain element and attributes in XHTML? Only by linking back in your RDF file with...
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Robin Berjon
robin@...
Nov 15, 2000 8:12 pm
... I guess so (haven't thought about it too much). Or we can wait until one can use other namespaces in XHTML, which'll be a big win imho (I think Mozilla is...
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Brian Killian
brian@...
Nov 15, 2000 8:25 pm
why not just throw html/xhtml out and go right to xml..do we really need xhtml?? Just use html as a presentation language until something comes along that was...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 15, 2000 8:44 pm
... Just wait 'till XHTML m12n (Modularization of XHTML - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization) goes to recommendation. ... Not that I know of. I'm not...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 15, 2000 8:52 pm
... Well, CSS is already here. The point that you correctly identified, is that we shouldn't have a presentation based langauge for the SW, it should be ...
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Robin Berjon
robin@...
Nov 15, 2000 9:49 pm
... I was aware of that effort, and they seem to be progressing fast as standards go. ... Thinking about it, the DOM might not be a good model for RDF, or for ...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 15, 2000 10:52 pm
... m12n is progressing a bit too fast in most people's opinions! ... Yes, I agree. DMO processing is mainly for flat XML, but RDF/SW is going to be large,...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 16, 2000 3:20 pm
I am excerpting a very important message that I posted to the WAI WCAG WG a little while ago: [...] therefore, the fact that a certain portion of XML/HTML was...
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David Galbraith
david@...
Nov 16, 2000 5:42 pm
There is an interesting roundup of P2P companies in the latest issue of Red Herring including a 6 page feature on Infrasearch - the guys who are planning on...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 16, 2000 7:39 pm
[...] ... using ... and ... I'm not too sure I get what you mean by that...unless it's akin to:- <div style="display:none;"> <metadata/> </div> And it's O.K....
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Nov 16, 2000 11:43 pm
... I'm not sure I follow what you're saying -- are you suggesting an RSS 1.0 file that describes a directory? That'd be interesting... -- [ Aaron Swartz |...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 17, 2000 8:16 pm
Anyone interested in this? "Call for papers to SW talks - WWW10": we could do something about SWI, couldn't we? The most relavent section is:- "We invite...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 20, 2000 10:17 am
I'm afraid I may have taken Robin's statement about Styling due to Semantics [1] a bit too far, in a conversations [2] on the WAI GL list. It seems to me that...
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Mischa Weiss-Lijn
m.weiss-lijn@...
Nov 20, 2000 12:06 pm
Interesting point This kind of embedded metadata, is what I would call intra-document metadata, since it distinguishes between components of a document, as...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 21, 2000 11:28 pm
... as ... kind ... Maybe CC/PP will help us to clear things up? Will CC/PP be useful in a Semantic Web? ... You wouldn't think it! Not sure why the discussion...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Nov 25, 2000 4:56 pm
If we want to provide an RDF view of an XHTML document, at the moment we use the class attribute in XHTML and convert into DC and RSS. However, if XHTML is a...
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Robin Berjon
robin@...
Nov 29, 2000 2:08 pm
... Was there any discussion there ? -- robin b. I think... I think it's in my basement... Let me go upstairs and check. -- Escher...
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Robin Berjon
robin@...
Nov 29, 2000 2:08 pm
... I'm surprised no one out there that I could find is working on a standard interface to RDF. Does anyone know of anything ? In addition to that an XPath...
