{"id":289,"date":"2004-02-23T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=267"},"modified":"2004-02-23T03:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-23T07:01:00","slug":"reinventing-rdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2004\/02\/reinventing-rdf\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinventing RDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usefulinc.com\/edd\/blog\/2004\/2\/23#12:43\">Ed Dumbill writes;<\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nI&#8217;m wondering how long it will be before everybody&#8217;s completely reinvented RDF in the search for what it had all along.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Yup.  Any day now, I expect.  In fact, I bet BEA is working on\nsomething as we speak given Adam&#8217;s comments, plus the recent\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificspirit.com\/Authoring\/Compatibility\/ProvidingCompatibleSchemaEvolution.html\">flurry<\/a>\nof\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificspirit.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/28\/extensibility_and_ignore_rule_in_web_architecture\">work<\/a>\nby\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificspirit.com\">Dave Orchard<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Anybody who&#8217;s spent any time following RDF would know that there&#8217;s a\nwhole\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Law_of_excluded_middle\">bunch<\/a> of\n<a href=\"http:\/\/esw.w3.org\/topic\/ClosedWorldAssumptions\">things<\/a>\nyou could seriously mess up if you didn&#8217;t know better.  Given that Dave and\nAdam have previously demonstrated\nsome <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0113297\/2003\/03\/23.html#a158\">extreme ignorance<\/a>\nregarding RDF, I&#8217;m not hopeful that what they produce will be anything very\ninteresting.<\/p>\n\n<p>WS-DataExtensibility anyone?<\/p>\n\n<p>I also wanted to add, in response to Chris Ferris&#8217;\n<a href=\"http:\/\/webpages.charter.net\/chrisfer\/archives\/2004_02_01_oldrants.html#107684834763867788\">comment<\/a>\nabout &#8220;partial understanding&#8221; (a key benefit of RDF) being unnecessary, that\npartial understanding is little more than &#8220;MustIgnore&#8221;.  How DaveO can go\non-and-on (see links above) about the value of MustIgnore, yet not see the\nenormous value-add that RDF\/XML provides over plain-old XML, totally boggles\nmy mind.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Dumbill writes; I&#8217;m wondering how long it will be before everybody&#8217;s completely reinvented RDF in the search for what it had all along. Yup. Any day now, I expect. In fact, I bet BEA is working on something as we speak given Adam&#8217;s comments, plus the recent flurry of work by Dave Orchard. Anybody [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}