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Re: XML/RDF

• To: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
• Subject: Re: XML/RDF
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:20:30 -0700
• Cc: "Mike Champion" <mc@x...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...> of "Mon, 04 Nov 2002 20:48:17 +0100." <EBEPLGMHCDOJJJPCFHEFMECIIFAA.danny666@v...>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> 
> >One thing I didn't find in the article was a compelling reason to
> >care ... "As RDF interest and application development grows, there's
> >an increasing payoff in keeping RDF concerns in mind ".  Uhh, not
> >in the world I live in!  Sorry, I just don't see much interest
> >in RDF.
> 
> Couple of factlets I jotted from a presentation the other day [1] : Adobe
> [2] has integrated RDF support into their products (Acrobat, Photoshop etc)
> and the figure suggested is about 10 million documents produced by these
> will contain RDF by the end of the year; Sun Microsystems are using RDF
> across the board in their internal knowledge management system (GKE) [3].

Thanks for the link.  The Sun GKE project is the one I've mentioned here a few 
times.  It's the one in which Fourthought is the primary contractor.  I wasn't 
aware that they'd made this white paper public.

I should say that the project is proving a resounding success within Sun.  So 
much for the idea that RDF is some academic oddity.


> I'm sure there are plenty of other examples (like Mozilla and the thousands
> of RSS 1.0 syndicated feeds...).

> [1] http://www.bncf.net/dc2002/
> (specifically Eric Miller's keynote, slides available somewhere)
> 
> [2] http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/main.html
> 
> [3]
> http://sg.sun.com/events/presentation/files/kmasia2002/Sun.KnowledgeMngmnt_FINAL.pdf


-- 
Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
Python&XML column: 2. Introducing PyXML - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/09/25/p
y.html
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 1 - http://www.webservices.org/ind
ex.php/article/articleview/663/1/24/
The Past, Present and Future of Web Services 2 - 'http://www.webservices.org/in
dex.php/article/articleview/679/1/24/
Serenity through markup - http://adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6807
Tip: Using generators for XML processing - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork
s/xml/library/x-tipgenr.html

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