[Bradford] Pub Talk... Or SIMILE, Semantic web and all that jazz

[Robert Burrell Donkin]

i enjoyed the my first LUG. can't promise i'll be there every week but i will

i promised that i'd post some URLs about semantic web etc so here there are...

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/ is now a w3c standard - it's a
standard way of embedding RDF in XHTML. IMHO there are too many custom
small xml dialects which could usefully be replaced by XHTML and read
directly through a browser. microformats are fine but RDF is quite a
lot clearer and more powerful. been playing around with XSLT using
XHTML+RDFa and it works ok.

http://simile.mit.edu/ project at MIT is definitely worth a good look.
it's in it's second phase now - not winding down but the initial
funding burst is spent and the big names have moved on into startups.
very accessible. David Huynh doesn't blog much. Stefano Mazzocchi's
great  http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/ or
http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/archives/ (if you're
looking for semantic web). in particular see
http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/153/. Ben Hyde
http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/ is worth reading (in particular
http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2008/08/parallax) but he mostly
talks about ecomonics these days.

i really like the open source agregators as alternatives to mailing
lists. try http://www.planetapache.org/ - i love it's ecleticism.

facet browsing is great. faceted searching is also very cool. there
are a number of open source projects which are very active in this
area for example http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ which uses
http://lucene.apache.org/ for it's textual search. (yes, i know it's
java but what do you expect from a java weenie ;-)

- robert