- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:03:08 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
- cc: D.J.Beckett@ukc.ac.uk, swick@w3.org
RDF IG, Ralph and I have made a few changes to http://www.w3.org/RDF/ Nothing too dramatic, but an improvement I think. Added some more RDF parser links (now listed separately for clarity), some more overview documents (including the recent tutorial and API discussion docs), a timeline, and various other links. While I doubt we'll ever be comprehensive at http://www.w3.org/RDF/ I'm keen to track at least any opensource RDF tools that consume/manage/parse RDF. There are a few more things I should add that people have mailed me already; if you've not done so but think it'd be useful for http://www.w3.org/RDF/ to point to, do please send me a pointer and description. Lots of other stuff I nearly added (API, Query Language work etc) but I'll put these on the RDF IG page instead where they can grow more easily... I've also been talking with Dave Beckett, maintainer of the somewhat longer guide at http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/people/staff/djb1/research/metadata/rdf.shtml and editor for the Open Directory RDF section. We've been wondering about ways to use RDF to manage our various RDF resource guides. For now, W3C's http://www.w3.org/RDF/ will remain hand crafted. However there are many RDF-related documents out there that we don't list on the RDF home page, and Dave and I were wondering about maintaining a database of these in RDF to compliment the hand-crafted home page. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has bright ideas about how we might make sharing of RDF-related Web resources easier. Before taking on http://www.w3.org/RDF/ I did make an attempt at a small database of RDF resources, still available from the RDF-DEV pages at http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf-dev/roads/ and with a crude RDF export bolted on at http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf-dev/roads/cgi-bin/roads2rdf.pl? There are a lot of ingredients here that we need to integrate better. RDF home page. Other RDF guides. External databases of useful links (RDF-DEV database; Open Directory). Weblogs. RSS news feeds. Summaries of RDF IG posts (eg. from Stefan Decker and others). While we're keen to do a better job making http://www.w3.org/RDF/ a helpful gateway to RDF resources, we're also keen to find ways of spreading the workload... One aspect of the problem is that many relevant Web resources aren't explicitly targetted at RDF. For example, the GraphViz tools from AT&T didn't target RDF (or even XML) specifically, but still turned out to be really handy for visualising RDF data. Similarly, Stanford's LORE database[1] doesn't target RDF, instead choosing to treat _all_ XML data as having a directed labeled graph structure. AT&T's Strudel [2] is similarly interesting. The problem is that there's a wealth of stuff out there that makes the life of an RDF developer easier. I'd like to find a recipe for sharing these links without weighing down the RDF home page. Suggestions welcomed... Dan [1] http://www-db.stanford.edu/lore/ [2] http://www.research.att.com/~mff/strudel/ -- danbri@w3.org
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