The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

Lee Feigenbaum has written an excellent survey covering the current state-of-the-art application development paradigms for the semantic web, and provided a vision as to how he believes RDF application development could/should evolve.
My off-the-cuff, gut reaction is that RDF, as the data-format basis of a distributed application development framework, needs a well-defined object model to be [...]

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Over at Planet RDF” there have been two responses to a post proposing to get rid of RDF in Mozilla 2.0 (which corresponds to Firefox 4.0).
As the Planet RDF posts state, the main problem with RDF support in Mozilla currently is that it’s old and ugly. Being part of a rather large semantic web [...]

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Sean pointed me to the GLScube project a couple months ago. They are four Egyptians putting together a semantic file system for Linux. They have recently made the decision to rewrite their system following a 0.1 version release, and have also started a development blog, which should be interesting to follow. Their [...]

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I decided to spend 5 minutes yesterday putting together a FOAF document for myself. I have seen a variety of personal URIs out there, but ended up going with Elias‘ pattern: http://fancygonzo.net/who#rob. I also went over to the FOAF Project and added my new FOAF document to their Bullitin Board so that FOAF-aware [...]

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A SPARQL FAQ created by Lee Feigenbaum. Great work, and an especially great starting place for anyone wanting to learn more about the query language for the semantic web.

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About two months ago, Nova Spivack wrote a post entited, The Ontology Integration Problem in which he discusses the problems he’s experienced in developing ontologies for use in his startup company, Radar Networks. The crux of his article is:
In my own experience designing a number of OWL ontologies (500 classes – 3000 classes on [...]

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Nova Spivack had an interesting post almost exactly a year ago today entitled “Towards a World Wide Database (WWDB).” It’s an insightful look at one compelling vision of the future of the semantic web. Great read, especially if you want a better idea of the end goal of the work I’ve been doing [...]

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I should have known that such a thing as IT Conversations existed. Net radio interviews of, by, and for geeks (a.k.a. “IT professionals”), which is to say that it’s awesome. A bunch of the interviewees are people whose blogs I follow regularly, such as Tim Bray, Dan Bricklin, and, of course, Elias Torres, with [...]

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