Re: (Fwd) Re: new Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG) home list, se

Wasn't there this approach that used URIs to identify things.....?

Dan Brickley wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> * John Fletcher <J.P.Fletcher@aston.ac.uk> [2005-02-04 16:33-0000]
>  
> 
>>There is another use of SWIG at http://www.swig.org/  which has 
>>been around since at least 2000.  It has a sourceforge download 
>>page and also a message list at swig@cs.uchicago.edu
> 
> 
> Thanks for the reminder. I was aware of SWIG when we renamed the 
> group, and initally tried to use "SW IG" here instead of "SWIG",
> but of course the contraction is too appealing, and people are 
> pronouncing it "Swig" rather than "S.W.-I.G.". We are also using 
> #swig as an IRC channel name, and do occasionally have a brief 
> confusion. The naming clash is unfortunate, but in a worldwide Web, 
> these things happen. I have just updated the Semantic Web 
> Interest Group homepage, http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/
> to include a paragraph,
> 
>     (If you are looking for the [Simplified Wrapper and Interface
>      Generator] SWIG project, this may not be the SWIG for you).
>  
> I hope that goes someway towards avoiding confusion.
> 
> 
>>The concern of this other SWIG is software interfacing and the 
>>software supplied is capable of generating interface code so that
>>various languages (python, perl, ruby etc) can call subroutines
>>written in C or C++.  Thus it could be a tool used in some 
>>component of Semantic Web software.
>>
>>I am a user of it.
> 
> 
> It is probably most familiar to SW people via Dave Beckett's 
> Redland system, which uses it. I hope the 'real SWIG' people 
> aren't too annoyed to have another computer-related effort using 
> the same acronym.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Dan
> 
>

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