Mark Nottingham

XML Infoset, RDF and Data Modelling

I’ve been talking with a few people about my previous assertion that the Infoset is a bad abstraction for data modelling, and my subsequent post about the informational properties of the Infoset.

sparta.py 0.4: Data Binding for RDF in Python

After a short pause (OK, nearly three years), I’ve released version 0.4 of sparta.py.

The Semantic Web’s Dirty Little Secret

Browse through the W3C Semantic Web pages and you’ll see this notice in a few different forms:

The New RDF

I spent a little time on the plane the other day reading the latest WD of the RDF Primer. I didn’t attempt to review the entire document set, as reading a 71 page primer is quite enough!

RDF Model and Syntax

Jack William Bell makes a precise, short and readable effort at explaining why RDF is simple and important.