Archive for February, 2008

happy birthday RDF!

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Misha pretty much summed it all up in his post The RDF Model and Syntax Specification became a W3C Recommendation nine years ago today! Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification W3C Recommendation 22 February 1999 http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222/ Best wishes to all members of the original W3C RDF Model and Syntax Working Group and to [...]

active purls

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Stu Weibel’s post on ‘List Making Meets Redirection’ prompted me to comment on some of the Active PURL work (PURLs with associated services) we at Zepheira has been developing. Example ‘Active PURLs’ might be notification to publishers of problems with target URLs (basically a link-checker for PURLs), notification to readers of updates to target PURLs [...]

Flashing back on HTML

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Following a web of circuitous links in the process of explaining to my son what a computer *not* connected to the Web might be, I stumbled upon some of our early working group notes discussing the finer points of initial HTML specification. Scanning the minutes I found it interesting to note the original cast of [...]

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