- From: Anthony Bryan <anthonybryan@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:16:30 -0400
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
Hi, This is from a few months back, but I don't think it was mentioned here yet. Dan Brickley did a Metalink to RDF conversion (files found at http://download.packages.ro/metalink/testing/ ). Metalink is an XML format for listing all the ways you can get a file or collection of files (mirrors, rsync, p2p) along with checksum to repair a file in case of error, signatures, language, OS/arch, and other metadata. It's mainly used for large files like ISOs, where errors can be very frustrating. Here's a screenshot of a Metalink download in the DownThemAll Firefox extension (nightly build). What you don't see are all the mirrors and checksums. http://code.downthemall.net/maierman/metaselect4.png More info at http://www.geospatialsemanticweb.com/2007/03/11/metalink-meets-rdf-and-sparql -- (( Anthony Bryan )) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ]
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