RE: Why Rdf?

Hello Federico,

RDF is not a programming language and cannot be "compared" with JSP or
Servlets.

You write your normal servlets and it is fine if you keep your data in a
relational database. Make the UI in HTML, fine. Normally, people use
RDBMS to store things and communicate with XML and now - RDF.

you mentioned that you do something in university sourroundings.
its a good idea to use RDF there, as an interchange format.

Some ideas to hook you:

- If you start a RDF project at your university now, people will have a
head start into the future.

- Publish your lecture dates & times with Sherpasuite RDF:
http://www.sherpasuite.com/index.html
(you have to wait until release)

- publish your news with RSS (like the other 15.000 organisations that
already do)
http://www.syndic8.com/ 
http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec

- scratch your research results from the databases and publish them in
CERIF
(Common European Research Information Format):
http://www.eurocris.org/

greetings
Leo Sauermann
www.gnowsis.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:www-rdf-interest-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Federico Rozados
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 6:25 AM
> To: Charles McCathieNevile
> Cc: jena-dev@yahoogroups.com; www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Why Rdf?
> 
> 
> 
> Ok, thanks for your explanation Charles. But, is not the if i 
> use xml format
> or another, to represent my information?.
> 
> Now, i want to develop a University site, that has Library access (all
> information about books and reservation), students 
> informations and teachers
> information. My point is, which are the advantages to that rdf has to
> develop this and Is not the same if i develop using jsp, ejb 
> or jb (java
> beans) or servlets?.
> 
> i appreciate your opinion about this?. and if you have any 
> information about
> the future of rdf, which companies use this technology, the usability,
> security and other point you can send me.
> 
> thanks a lot
> Federico.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
> To: Federico Rozados <frozados@fibertel.com.ar>
> Cc: <jena-dev@yahoogroups.com>; <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 2:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Why Rdf?
> 
> 
> You could indeed do the same thing using servlets and jsp. Or 
> COBOL. Some
> reasons why I would use RDF instead:
> 
> 1. When I want to migrate the project to a new computer/mobile
> phone/platform
> that has a different server setup I don't need to rewrite my code.
> 
> 2. When I want to extend the project with some new kind of 
> information I
> don't need to write new code for handling most of the extension. For
> example,
> to extend "foaf" applications to understand what language(s) 
> people speak,
> and what their interests are, I simply need to render the 
> extra RDF triples
> in a user interface. Passing around RDF means that I don't 
> care what is
> inside it.
> 
> 3. Because it is a data format, not active code, I can decide 
> at any time to
> search the data for email addresses coming from 
> Spanish-speaking countries
> and suggest that people look at 
> http://esw.w3.org/topic/SemWebSpain - the
> spanish Wiki page 
> on RDF. To do this with jsp/servlets I need to write a new
> interface to the data, so I need to understand the existing 
> code as well as
> the data that is presented.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Chaals
> 
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Federico Rozados wrote:
> 
> >Hello all, how are you?.
> >
> >I have to develope something to show the usability of RDF, 
> but i couldnīt
> >see why rdf i so important or which is the usability of rdf. 
> I think that
> we
> >could do the same things using java servlets and jsp.
> >
> >can someone explain me why to use rdf?.
> >
> >thanks
> >federico.
> >
> 
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