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The thread inspired by loose invokation of Herr Gödel in the context of the Semantic Web comes at an opportune time. In an older release of 4RDF (part of 4Suite[1]), we included a prototype inferencing system for RDF, called RDF inference language (RIL), which I discuss in an XML.com article[2]. To the extent that FOL and inferencing are useful in processing XML metadata (I, as always, make no claim for the feasibility if the overall Semantic Web), RIL aims to provide a simple and practical approach to such processing. We have recently gone through the motions of opening up RIL for community development and discussion. I have posted a draft[3] of RIL to its mailing list[4], and the large amount of work that needs to be done to analyze, design, formalize, describe and implement RIL is beginning in discussion on the list. There is a great deal of contribution that could be made by those hereabouts, and this is work that is intended for implementation straightaway: there has been interest from developers of more RDF implementations than just 4RDF. So please, do join the RIL mailing list and contribute your ideas on a lightweight, practical RDF inference mechanism. Thanks. [1] http://4Suite.org [2] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/10/11/rdf/ril.html [3] http://lists.fourthought.com/pipermail/ril/2001-May/000037.html [4] http://lists.fourthought.com/mailman/listinfo/ril -- Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant uche.ogbuji@f... +1 303 583 9900 x 101 Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com 4735 East Walnut St, Ste. C, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA Software-engineering, knowledge-management, XML, CORBA, Linux, Python
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