Re: XRI and XDI

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Juan Sequeda <juanfederico@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody
> I just stumbled on XRI and XDI:
> http://www.xdi.org/modules/tut3/index.php?id=2
> A quick overview of this seems that it is the same thing as Linked Data. XRI
> are identifiers (URIs) and XDI is a data interchange format (RDF)
> "...n which XML data from any data source can be identified, exchanged,
> linked, and synchronized into a machine-readable "dataweb" just as HTML
> pages from any content source are linked into the human-readable Web today.
> What makes this interchange format possible is identifying, describing, and
> versioning data using XRIs."
> This is the first that I've heard about this? Who know about the status of
> this? Who is adopting this?

It comes mostly from the decentralized ID work and social web work.
It's main uptake is in the Infocard domain, of which the most working
software seems to be Project Nori [1]. The W3C TAG thought that XRIs
could be reduced to URIs [2] but hasn't looked at XDI to my knowledge.
There are also some questions re XRIs, as an early version of them
were patented and this led to
the W3C Royalty Free Patent Policy being formed [3], but the XRI folks
like Drummond Reed seem to have been working on correcting this. The
current state of play I'm not sure about it.

[1]http://projectnori.org
[2]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008May/0078
[3]http://danbri.org/words/2008/01/29/266

> Cheers
> Juan Sequeda
> +1-575-SEQ-UEDA
> www.juansequeda.com
>

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