ZDNet Dictionary Definition
- RDF
- (Resource Description Framework) A recommendation from the W3C for creating meta-data structures that define data on the Web. It is designed to provide a method for classification of...
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ZDNet Resources
- Guest post: Introducing the Open Data Definition
- This is a guest post by Ben Werdmuller who is the CTO of Curverider and one of the leads behind the Elgg open source social application engine. The Open Data Definition is a new format for the import and export of data from within social applications....
- Tags: Software, Format, Data, Open Data Definition, Data Portability, Service Closure, Chances, Semantic Web Community, RDF Parser, RDF, Semantic Web, XML, RSS, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Easy RSS Content Generator (zip)
- Easy RSS Content Generator is an easy-to-use program for creating new unique content out of news feeds (the RSS, Atom, and RDF formats are supported). You can use this product, for instance, to create completely autonomous, automatically updated sites, to increase the amount of content on the topic, and to...
- Tags: Easy RSS Content Generator, RSS, RDF, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-01-23
- SlashDock (6)
- SlashDock is a simple Mac OS X dock-based application that fetches and updates headlines for the lastest postings on slashdot. Updates are obtained every 30 minutes, if new articles are available, the dock icon will flash with an image representing the article 'topic'. Selecting an article from the dockling menu...
- Tags: Article, SlashDock, RDF, Apple Mac OS X, XML, Apple Mac OS, RSS, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-11-23
- Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global Graph
- Updated: On this Thanksgiving morning in the U.S., the Facebook Beacon storm continues to rage (Techmeme). It's simply growing pains for the social graph. In fact, the social graph (which Mark Zuckerberg defines as the network of connections between people) reached a new stage of legitimacy or recognition today with...
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Graph, Tim Berners-Lee, Site, WWW, FOAF, Semantic Web, Channel Management, RDF, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-22
- The Semantic Web - is everyone confused?
- The Economist. Tim O'Reilly. Nova Spivack. Danny Ayers. Read/Write Web's Alex Iskold. Kingsley Idehen. Brad Feld. Over the last few days all of them have been amongst those writing to clarify their understanding of the Semantic Web and where it's going. Each piece is thoughtful, each piece...
- Tags: Web, Technology, Language, Danny Ayers, Read/Write Web, Tim, SWEO, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, RDF, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- News Screensaver (exe)
- News Screensaver is a screensaver that will allow you to always have the most recent news, weather forecasts and stock quotes on the computer screen. The screensaver supports all RSS, RDF and Atom formats. The program is shipped with the set of more than 100 links to variously themed news...
- Tags: Screensaver, Newsfeed, News Screensaver, RDF, Internet
- Software downloads 2007-10-26
- Radar Networks weaves semantic Twine
- Radar Networks has finally taken the wraps of its stealthy semantic Web platform. I met with company CEO Nova Spivack earlier this week to get the lowdown on Twine, the first application of the company's technology. "Twine is a new service for knowledge networking, sharing, organizing and...
- Tags: Web, Social Search, Network, Knowledge, Vision, Radar, Information, User, Web Page, Radar Networks, Twine, BlueOrganizer, Powerset, Semantic Web, RDF, Aerospace & Defense, Internet, Manufacturing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
- Seesmic for enterprise?
- Loic LeMeur's Seesmic has the ingredients to be a hit - inside the enterprise. Mike Arrington and Ben Metcalfe have rendered their respective cautious verdicts and it would be remiss of me to sound overexcited. After all, the current iteration is Alpha 0.1 and I expect...
- Tags: Video, Twitter, Seesmic, Ben, Corporate Communications, RDF, Marketing, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- RDF Viewer (3-fx)
- RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a model for storing graphs of information. This is a tool for exploring the structure of a RDF source. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: RDF, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-10-01
- Semantic Radar (9-fx+fl)
- Displays a status bar icon to indicate presence of Semantic Web (RDF) data in the Web page. Click the icon to explore this information in more detail. Data types recognized: FOAF (Friend-Of-A-Friend), SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities), DOAP (Description Of A Project). This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Radar, Icon, RDF, Semantic Web, XML, Aerospace & Defense, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2007-09-28
- Altova SemanticWorks (exe)
- Altova SemanticWorks 2008 is the ground-breaking visual RDF/OWL editor from the creators of XMLSpy. Visually design Semantic Web instance documents, vocabularies, and ontologies then output them in either RDF/XML or N-triples formats. SemanticWorks streamlines the job with tabs for classes, properties, instances, context-sensitive entry helpers, and automatic format checking. It...
- Tags: Altova, Altova SemanticWorks, Altova SemanticWorks 2008, Semantic Web, RDF, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-09-26
- Easy RSS2Email (exe)
- Easy RSS2Email is a program that is used to automatically create and send e-mail messages whose contents are retrieved from news feeds. Besides the popular RSS format, the program also supports the Atom and RDF formats. It is possible to send message both in HTML and in plain text. Easy...
- Tags: Newsfeed, Video, Easy RSS2Email, Corporate Communications, RDF, RSS, XML, E-mail, Marketing, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2007-09-18
- Learn semantic tagging techniques for Java developers
- Java developers who wish to participate in building the Semantic Web need to be familiar with official standards such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) in order to tag documents appropriately and enable RDF Site Summary (RSS) feeds. However, RSS enabling is only the first step in moving toward...
- Tags: Technique, Java Developer, Java, Tagging, RDF, Semantic Web, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Book chapters 2007-07-26
- Can Microsoft create a reality-distortion field?
- Can Microsoft create a reality-distortion field?It's traditional for Microsoft to copy AppleThree Apple Engineers and Three Microsoft EngineersThree Apple engineers and three Microsoft engineers are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three Microsoft engineers each buy tickets and watch as the three Apple engineers buy only...
- Tags: XML, Mary Jo, conductor, Apple Fans, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Engineer, RDF, Apple Engineers
- Discussion threads 2007-07-20
- Robotech: Battlecry: Prima Official eGuide (exe)
- Features of Robotech: Battlecry: Prima Official eGuide: effective strategies for controlling your veritech fighter, loads of information on every fighter, guardian, and battloid weapon, proven walkthrough of every fast-flying mission, vital information on combat options and special abilities, technical data on all RDF and zentraedi units.
- Tags: Information, RDF, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-07-17
- Netsplorer (msi)
- In the ever growing world of media publishing, the launch of branded news readers is a radical innovation. This unobtrusive application will bring Web links, news, video clips and podcast directly to the end users desktop. The concept is based on the demystification of the RSS format, read, manage and...
- Tags: Concept, Web, RSS, RDF, Podcasts, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-06-12
- VUE (app)
- The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) project at Tufts UIT Academic Technology is focused on creating flexible tools for integrating digital resources into teaching and learning. VUE provides a visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. Using VUE's concept mapping interface, faculty and students design semantic networks of digital...
- Tags: Environment, Goal, Visual Understanding Environment, RDF, Productivity, Internet
- Software downloads 2007-03-27
- JeromeDL (jar)
- JeromeDL is a semantic digital library engine. It aims to comply with more and more standards of the Second Generation Internet, like RDF, DublinCore, BibTeX, MARC21, RSS, Microformats, FOAF, eRDF, with a lot more coming soon, e.g., SIOC, or DOAC.
- Tags: JeromeDL, RDF, RSS, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2006-12-12
- YeahReader (exe)
- YeahReader is a program for reading news feeds in RSS, RDF and Atom formats, and podcasts. The program provides all basic RSS reader functionality such as a convenient feed update system, proxy support, and pop-up update notification. Besides this, YeahReader has such features as built-in blog client that will allow...
- Tags: Blog, YeahReader, Blogging, RSS, RDF, Podcasts, Internet
- Software downloads 2006-12-08
- The great [structured] database in the sky
- The great [structured] database in the skyWe call it the Semantic WebThe idea of a "great database in the sky" is exactly that of the Semantic Web. This vision is well into the implementation phase, with RDF as the (structured) data model and SPARQL as the query language. See:http://iandavis.com/blog/2006/11/the-great-database-in-the-skyhttp://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2006/11/ceo_of_mysql_in.htmlhttp://burningbird.net/technology/http://dannyayers.com/2006/11/10/mysql-my-goodness-Here's a...
- Tags: XML, Semantic Web, Databases, RDF, database
- Discussion threads 2006-11-10
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