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last updated at 2001-08-27 23:25
 
bijan: "a Windows-programming-environment for the work with SWI-Prolog which is suitable for schools"...not quite sure what that means.
bijan: However, I'll surely give it a spin.
 
jhendler: San Jose paper - front page article on Sunday Business section on Semantic Web
 
AaronSw: It seems like a very neat idea, but they should really use 300 redirects since the stuff they do now doesn't work in my browser.
AaronSw: When comparing HTTP POST and XML-RPC, he writes: """Clearly the XML-RPC flavor of the request is more complex. I've biased things slightly here, by not pretty-printing it, but you might well wonder what's gained by encoding a handful of name/value pairs in XML. It's interesting, in retrospect, that I didn't ask myself that question at the time."""
edd_: perhaps you should send a bug report to hello at makeashorterlink dot com then
 
AaronSw: From within the storm of the Web Services hype Jon Udell speaks out in support of the humble URL.
 
DanC: looks terribly handy for putting meat behind lat/long properties (e.g. in photo metadata)
DanC: I've been noodling on visualizing my address book with this sort of hack
DanC: chefmoz elements has Lat/Long properties. Bummer... "We are not currently providing this information.
DanC: and the domain of chefmoz:Lat seems to only include Restaurants. bummer.
DanC: a google search for RDF lat long shows some interesting stuff, but nothing ready-for-prime-time.
 
danbri_: An automated deduction system, "Otter is designed to prove theorems stated in first-order logic with equality."
DanC: sandro may have (re-)discovered otter independently, recently; but a while ago, I pointed him to it; I discovered it in conversation with Bob Boyer.
DanC: sw99 otter notes of Jan 19 2000
DanC: proofcheck.py -- a translation of McCune's proof checker into python
 
AaronSw: "MoodLogic, Inc. is the leading provider of software and metadata for digital music media. "
AaronSw: They have their own query language, database, etc. targeted to Music metadata
 
danbri_: RDFWeb xmlns.com Wordnet for the Web, a quick writeup (Dan Brickley)
danbri_: I've put a pointer to more info at the namespace URI; perhaps RDDL eventually.
 
filsa: the very raw beginnings of a schema are at metamail 0.1
 
danbri_: Notable mainly for Guha's Alpiri company coming out of the closet at Semantic Web supporters. Apparently in the search/discovery business; I thought they were more SOAP/Services.
danbri_: The Alpiri site now says "Alpiri is building the core software for the Services/Semantic Web".
AaronSw: {[ a :MusicAlbum ; :title "Dark Side of The Moon" ; :author "Pink Floyd"} :says :Guha
AaronSw: I think MusicBrainz has that field covered.... <...> a mm:Album; dc:title "Dark Side of the Moon" ; dc:creator [ = <...> ; dc:title "Pink Floyd"] .
 
danbri_: I'm wondering how the Usage Scenarios section relates to expected WebOnt usage scenarios (and how the rest of the doc would differ if written up for WebOnt).
 
danbri: We're looking at using SVG to describe which parts of a photo describe, for example, DanBri, Chaals, or an anonymous thing of type Beer.
danbri: FOAF: Who are those masked men ? (and who signed whose key?)
sbp: Heh: [ a :Beer; :drunkBy :Chaals ] .
 
AaronSw: by Larry Masinter
AaronSw: Similar to the tag and pts schemes
AaronSw: """The first namespace (duri) is used to refer to URI-identified resources themselves, while the second namespace (tdb) is used to refer to abstractions that are not themselves networked resources but are "described by" them."""
AaronSw: """An increasing number of uses for URIs are for objects or concepts that don't actually
AaronSw: "correspond to networked resources, but for which the URI space is used as the identifier.""" For these the "thing described by" or tdb URN scheme is defined.
AaronSw: And my response.
sbp: A little bit scary, in that some information that is useful to parsers is embedded in the scheme itself... but then, all schemes are like that to soem extent
 
danbri: XSLT'd into RDF, with TMQL queries shown translated into SquishQL (and demo'd with Libby's Inkling server)
 
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