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Re: RDF as RDF, RDF as XML, RDF as metadata, RDF as object ser

• To: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Subject: Re: RDF as RDF, RDF as XML, RDF as metadata, RDF as object serialization ....
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:10:49 -0700
• Cc: Danny Ayers <danny666@v...>, donpark@d..., xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: Message from Mike Champion <mc@x...> of "Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:32:25 EST." <oprf32kbfmezizxn@localhost>
• Sender: uche.ogbuji@f...

> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:27:07 +0100, Danny Ayers <danny666@v...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > I have yet to see an XML application that couldn't be done without XML, 
> > so
> > that argument isn't particularly strong. The point is that in the same 
> > way a
> > lot of applications are considerably easier to implement using XML, quite 
> > a
> > few applications are considerably easier with RDF, and such practical
> > applications are now popping up all over the place.
> 
> I hesitate to walk into this fire yet again, but I am genuinely curious:
> Many of the examples people use to illustrate the adoption of RDF
> seem to be XML formats that happen to be RDF-processable
> (dmoz.org and RSS 1.0 come to mind).  Others are clearly RDF
> applications that happen to use XML serialization (it looks like most
> of the projects on the semantic web page cited recently fall into
> that category).

I don't process dmoz data or RSS feeds with XML tools.  I use RDF tools, which 
allow for easy aggregation, query and other processing.  Ditto all the other 
RDF formats *I've* worked with, including The RPM Repository metadata, PRISM, 
MusicBrainz, The ISO BSR rdfs dump, Wordnet/RDF, etc.

RDF allows me to process such things with a *great* reduction in work, and a 
great gain in performance.  And it allows me to congruently combine one with 
another with a similar ease.


-- 
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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