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Wednesday, November 13, 2002


Slashdot talks about Ontologies?. Okay, it's like a virus spreading around. Slashdot just posted this article on new W3C Drafts, including an OWL Guide... Oof. I'm just starting to get a handle on this stuff...
People at W3C seem to have had a busy Friday, according to their website. They have released no less than 4 working drafts (Web Ontology Language (OWL) Guide, the QA Working group - Introduction, Process and Operational Guidelines, Specification Guidelines) and 2 proposed recommendations: XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0 and HTML DOM 2.
I spent a good 2 or 3 hours yesterday going over the RDF stuff again. It's definitely not a technology for mere mortals nor something you can just pick up in one sitting. I find myself grokking only portions of the Semantic Web at a time. I wonder if its because these Brains that are creating it have a hard time talking to us lesser beings or because the technology/implementation is just too complex...

-Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook]

I think it just comes from a different history and perspective.

RDF comes from the AI research world, so it aims at being very general.

But its power will come throuhg simple applications, such as RSS or the use that is made out of it in mozilla.

What I like in it is that it's very web friendly. I think of RDF as the web way of looking at the world.

 


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genes, neurons, internet: organizing principles of networks....blogrolls???.

Blogroll analysts, there's a significant opportunity for cutting edge science here...

To quote a former professor of mine, "interesting if true; interesting in any case"

The quest for commonality.

genes, neurons, internet: organizing principles of networks. How do 30,000 genes in our DNA work together to form a large part of who we are? How do one hundred billion neurons operate in our brain? The huge number of factors involved makes such complex networks hard to crack. Now, a study uncovers a strategy for finding the organizing principles of virtually any network – from neural networks to ecological food webs or the Internet.... more in [context weblog]

[Seb's Open Research]

The research in question is by Uri Alon of the Weizman institute.  A reprint of the October 25 2002 Science Article at http://www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/UriAlon/Papers/networkMotifs/networkMotifs.pdf has the meat, including...

 

[Jon Schull's Weblog]
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Gartner: Application Server or Application Platform Suite?. ZDNet has an excellent excerpt from recent Gartner research on the topic of of buying into an application platform suite (all the productivity products and 'enterprise editions' vendors build and bundle around their application servers). The writeup articulates well the factors pushing the growing trend towards developing with APS's in addition to, or instead of appservers. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community]
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WebCream 4.4 Swing UI into HTML Website ConversionTool Released. WebCream is a Java to HTML conversion tool that acts as a bridge between Java GUI applications and a HTML/JavaScript front end. The new version (4.4) includes a new SnapshotRenderer component that can represent emulate any custom UI component on a webpage, allowing complete UI conversion. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community]
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Loosely coupled intuition. Perhaps we should not even attempt to define loosely coupled. After all, if you need a precise definition, then you ... [Loosely Coupled weblog]
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November 11, 2002. Abstractions fail. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. There's leakage. Things go wrong. It happens all over the place when you have abstractions, and it's dragging us down. Read all about it in my latest feature article: The Law of Leaky Abstractions.

[Joel on Software]
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