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The Joys of RDF

Monday, May 5th, 2008 |

I’ll follow up on the post about the F/OSS DH Infrastructure to say that I’ll be very interested to hear about projects using RDF, and to talk about a couple of my projects using it.  One project is scraping the Atom feed out of our WPMU installation to RDFize it all and make it accessible in a variety of ways; another is an ontology for describing universities from the viewpoint of the actual teaching and studying (i.e., not just saying such-and-such a class is taught by Dr. X, but also what texts etc. they study, what tools they use in the course of study, etc.).

I’ll through this out, too–is there any interest/desire for some of the people already using RDF to get together to do a tutorial/workshop/something-or-other for the curious about RDF, SPARQL, ontologies, etc?

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3 Responses to “The Joys of RDF”

  1. asolove Says:
    May 5th, 2008 at 11:58 am

    I would love to see at least two sessions: one a tutorial on the basic RDF data model for those who might have to make decisions, and a second developer chat about the tools people are using for working with RDF. Most of the existing tools have a fairly steep learning curve that goes beyond RDF and into different implementation strategies and feature subsets. It might help if we could get together a list of RDF tools people are using and do a quick rundown of the trade-offs. If people want to get even deeper, we might explore web serving solutions, dereferencing, federation, etc.

    Would you might posting/commenting on the tools you are currently using in these areas?

    Thanks,

    Adam

  2. Douglas Knox Says:
    May 8th, 2008 at 6:08 pm

    I’m not using RDF (other than playing with some of the Simile tools) but would like to hear the experience of people who are. If anybody has given any thought to Topic Maps, I would be interested in talking about that as well, either in comparison to RDF or independently. There are a couple of project ideas where I have thought Topic Maps would be an excellent fit conceptually, although the F/OSS tool situation there has its own challenges.

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