Thought Process : Process Thoughts

from Ben on RDFWeb list

In an upcoming spin off on Movable Type, the folks at Six Apart are including support and networking of Friend of a Friend files from their upcoming product TypePad. It will be exciting to see where they go with this service. If they just link between their hosted page it will be little better than other closed systems such as Ryze and the like. the power of FOAF is to reach far and wide and find tangential relationships among would be relations. How they implement the network and how preemptive they are in it’s inter and intra communications will be key to it’s success.

And besides feeling that it’s probably time to find another Blogging software (again), it is cool to see the FOAF format being implemented into a larger product.

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Battle of the blog builders

Eric Miller is the World Wide Web Consortium’s Activity Lead on the Semantic Web Initiative. He was previously a Senior Research Scientist for OCLC, as well as co-founder and Associate Director of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.

…”The Semantic Web is all about data integration, and much richer ways of organizing things based on contextual relationships.”…

NewBreed Librarian ::: Interview ::: August 2002

Only in the SNA category because RDF seems an important vehicle for conecting related information. A good place to start for the begining technical explorer.

RDF Tutorial - Part I: basic syntax and containers

My rekindled interest in the Semantic Web has inspired me to fish out resources to put together a map of where things are going, and this is one important way point.

Tim talks of many things in this interview, and in hearing his voice one can’t help but to be inspired by his intellect, his drive and his passion. I find the forward looking trends in this hour long interview.

NPR : Tim Berners-Lee

This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. Now, for many, this appears to be approaching an end. What are the scientists to do next?

As We May Think by Vannevar Bush

I was recently referred to these folks by a photographer friend, Jules Greenberg, who says they do nice work. I just thought they might be a good resource for my next promo piece. Maybe you would too…

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OSCOM is an international, not-for-profit organization dedicated to Open Source Content Management.

The goal is to bring together as many great brains as possible to build a network and grow the community of open source content management.

We want to show the world that there are already great and easy-to-use open source content management solutions out there.

Sounds good to me [Joe]
OSCOM - Open Source Content Management