Documents are here to stay, and so is data. Roughly put, we have HTML/WWW for documents, and XML/RDF/SW for data. The problem we all face is that it is very...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Dec 2, 2000 6:28 pm
... Yes, that's exactly my point. We need some kind of system (that isn't too comlicated) that allows us to anotate data, and have it either processed or ...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Dec 8, 2000 5:59 pm
Just an FYI: I have updated some stuff about using XHTML as a Semantic Interface Medium at: http://www.mysterylights.com/sbp/adotsw/ ...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Dec 11, 2000 2:24 pm
I've been wanting to announce this for ages, but Aaron wouldn't let me!:- Blogspace, by Aaron Swartz http://www.blogspace.com/ Discussion forum:- ...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Dec 13, 2000 5:08 pm
[Oops, this applies here too. I forget about this list sometimes :-)] In building the UWIMP project [1] we needed to come up with a way of importing RDF into a...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Dec 15, 2000 4:19 pm
... I decided that this was such a good idea that I made a working example :-) Here it is: http://infomesh.net/sbp/sbptest/ What it does is extract, by...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Dec 19, 2000 11:52 am
According to Tim Berners-Lee: "The Semantic Web is a Web that includes documents, or portions of documents, describing explicit relationships between things...
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tim.french@...
Dec 19, 2000 2:32 pm
I think was is currently lacking in the semantic-web discussion I have looked at so far, are some of the following points regarding shared meanings and to what...
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Dec 19, 2000 9:51 pm
... I have no idea what you mean by this. Why is this the downfall of the Semantic Web? -- [ Aaron Swartz | me@... | http://www.aaronsw.com ]...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Dec 19, 2000 10:49 pm
... RDF Schemas don't convey structure, and XML Schemas don't convey semantics. Therefore, when it comes to such a time as we need RDF systems wih structure, I...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Dec 19, 2000 11:05 pm
As a bit of further explanation, here is another TimBL quote:- [[[ Most of the applications for the representation of metadata can be handled by RDF at this...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Dec 19, 2000 11:27 pm
... I had a look at http://www.smdf.org/ and it looks very commendable. The parallels between the"ideograms" approach in semiotics and the basic assertion...
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Dec 20, 2000 6:56 pm
... What do you mean by structure? I believe rdfs:range and rdfs:domain allow this. If you need datatypes, then you can use XML datatypes. If you need ...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Dec 21, 2000 6:01 pm
... Interesting: could you come up with an example of how you could use XML Schema datatypes in RDF? Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer http://uwimp.com/ ...
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Dec 21, 2000 8:08 pm
... I'm certainly no schema expert, but I'd guess something along the lines of: <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" ...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Jan 14, 2001 5:03 pm
So, what's new in the world of Semantic Web interfacing then? Well, firstly, the whole world is holding its breath waiting for Seth Russell's description of a...
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Dave Beckett
dave.beckett@...
Jan 15, 2001 11:40 am
I don't think this report made it to these lists [via Yuri Demchenko - demch(at)terena.nl on REIS list] Dave ... Semantic Web workshop report A report on the...
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SWAG WG
aswartz@...
Jan 24, 2001 2:04 am
It is our great pleasure to announce:- SWAG, the Semantic Web Agreement Group http://purl.org/swag/ We are creating a strong infrastructure for the Semantic...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Jan 26, 2001 11:14 pm
"Due to the strange fascination from many of our members with N3, SWAG provides an N3 to RDF converter" [1] Indeed. Using notation3.py [2], it converts from...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Jan 30, 2001 6:02 pm
Intro: It is fully possible to re-use other peoples N3 rule files as long as you record the equivalences between your terms. CWM [1] stores RDF triples, and...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Feb 8, 2001 9:58 pm
Is this the first reference to a Semantic Web? [...] machines to analyze a semantic web. http://www.w3.org/Bugs.html - Web Projecs for the Entusiastic Well,...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Feb 10, 2001 3:03 pm
... It's a huge sigh of relief to see the headlines "W3C Launches Semantic Web Activity" at the W3C homepage... It's nice to see that the W3C is (at last) ...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Feb 20, 2001 3:21 am
Just trying to keep on top of some of the recent SW developments... this thing appears to be changing subtly, but noticeably. Seth Russell has recently been...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Feb 22, 2001 2:39 pm
... Yes, that's more or less the direction in which I'm starting to think. Of course, the difference between a SM and your mind is that you can have an almost...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Feb 22, 2001 4:07 pm
... Yes, that's more or less the direction in which I'm starting to think. Of course, the difference between a SM and your mind is that you can have an almost...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Feb 22, 2001 4:34 pm
It turns out that my latest SW "article" is also short enough to put in a message, so while I've published it to the Web at:- ...
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Sean B. Palmer
sean@...
Feb 23, 2001 5:23 pm
Stop me where I'm wrong... Let's say we have the following snippet of easily understandable N3:- @prefix : <http://infomesh.net/2001/02/ns1/> . @prefix myns:...
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rose@...
Mar 8, 2001 1:45 pm
-- Apologies for multiple copies -- ... 2 Year Post-Doctoral Research Position Center for Tele-Information COM, Technical University of Denmark A two year...
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Benny Gustavsson
benny.gustavsson@...
Apr 13, 2001 9:07 pm
Is the Semantic Web a MetaWeb? (or I'm I just confused) (If you are not into fuzzy discussions, please ignore this posting, and I apologize in advance. Sorry...
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Aaron Swartz
aswartz@...
Apr 16, 2001 9:26 pm
... I disagree. It need not have an ontology, but merely a URI -- a space in the Web. Thus, meaning is universal. -- Aaron Swartz <me@...>|...
