RE: New Intro Reloaded - New Site: rdfabout.net

Hi Joshua,

 

May I suggest that http://www.rdfabout.net <http://www.rdfabout.net/>  will
become a showpiece of what you can do with RDF, i.e. that you use RDF to
build it and to help the visitor in the navigation in a way that is clearly
better than HTML? Just loading it with all sorts of articles will turn it
into Yet Another Maze Site where you get lost.

 

Perhaps you can teach other sitebuilders to put a date on their stuff. Too
often I find material about interesting, but abandoned and/or totally
out-of-date initiatives. If we want to do something against this information
pollution, we should also persistently clean up and archive. Now the
Internet is a mess, just like my desk :-) 

 

I look forward to your site, and perhaps one day I will know enough of RDF
(and OWL) to justify a contribution from my side. Now I still have lots of
questions.....

 

Regards,

Hans

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: semantic-web-request@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Joshua Tauberer
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 1:33 AM
To: semantic-web@w3.org
Subject: New Intro Reloaded - New Site: rdfabout.net

 

 

A month ago I posted a new intro-to-rdf article (and, btw, thanks for 

all of the suggestions).  The problem I was trying to fix is that, as 

far as I've seen, we need to do a much better job of explaining to the 

outside world just why RDF is so simple and useful.  We're not going to 

reach a Semantic Web any time soon unless more people know about and 

understand RDF.

 

Part of the problem is a lack of an obvious place people can turn to 

learn about RDF.  All of the good articles are scattered, or worse yet 

lost in blog archives.  www.w3.org/RDF is good as a reference, but not a 

starting place.  An rdf.com would be nice, but alas...

 

Encouraged by the feedback I got on the article, I figured I might as 

well create such a website.  So I did.  Announcing:

 

http://www.rdfabout.net

 

The name is of course a reference to the RDF/XML attribute rdf:about 

(www.aboutrdf.net works too).

 

There's not too much on the site yet.  But suggestions are most welcome. 

  I would like to add articles on inferencing, SPARQL, design issues 

(like issues around URIs, smushing, tractability of related problems), 

brief tutorials for a few toolkits, etc.  If anyone has written about 

these things before and would like to resurrect an old blog entry as an 

accessible article, for instance, please let me know.

 

-- 

- Joshua Tauberer

 

http://taubz.for.net

 

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