Managability to XML to RDF.
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I've been using XML since 1998 and I've ONLY even heard about RDF this year when I started messing with blogs (RSS 1.0). I only heard about "Dublin Core" about 2 months ago...
What's the deal... if this stuff is so important, where the are the apps? The only app I've run into that uses RDF are aggregators.
-Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook]
I've been looking at RDF since 1999, when trying to setup the server side architecture at Netcenter for Netscape Sidebar, and I agree that it has not taken off yet.
I think it's because Tim Berners Lee's plan for the Semweb is very ambitious and there needs to be a lot of infrastructure and normative stuff ironed out before we see reral interesting applications.
It may, now that the ontology wars are over. Read the recent Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools by Michael Denny.
But I don't completely agree with the lack of applications.
it has been used in a very interesting way in Mozilla, where it serves as the base infrastructure for a lot of components: read Resource Description Framework (RDF)
And the W3C RDF page lists a few applications, the most interesting of which I found to be RDFPic
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