rdf: wtf

statico on 2004-11-15T17:25:58

I searched Freshmeat for "rdf":

  • RDF writing and querying tools
  • A parser and serializer for RDF/XML documents
  • A Python library for processing RDF
  • A store/viewer/editor framework for RDF
  • An RDF parser and serializer library
  • A PHP class for consuming RDF/RSS feeds
  • An RDF query library
  • An application statck for building RDF-based applications and Web sites


Fantastic. Has anybody actually written a practical tool that uses RDF?


Yes... or rather Soon.

perigrin on 2004-11-15T18:03:52

I'm in the midst of a collaboration on a Web App using RDF as the storage mechanisim. Also:

  • KingUbu is working on a very large web app with RDF as the storage mechanisim.
  • Michael Nachbaur is working on several projects that involve RDF as a storage mechanisim.

This is just the three people I happen to know who are using mod_perl and RDF. There are a number of non-perl projects using various RDF vocabs. See also FOAF, DOAP, Annotea, Creative Commons...

Re:Yes... or rather Soon.

statico on 2004-11-15T23:03:33

Fantastic! Thanks for the leads!

Yes...regularly

speters on 2004-11-16T13:44:53

RDF (Rich Data Format) was originally intended to be a "generic" XML format pushed mainly by Netscape. So, RSS 1.0 (but not 0.9x or 2.0) is actually RDF. XUL, which controls the GUI, amongst other things, in Mozilla-based tools, is largely RDF.