Archive for January, 2009

Google likes us

Monday, January 12th, 2009

I’m really not the only one who has ever implemented compact URIs (CURIEs), but when I googled for “safe curie” today, Krextor was the first hit, far ahead of the RDFa specification. Cool!

Reinventing the XML→RDF wheel?

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

When researching into related work for Krextor, I discovered this paper about XSDL (XML Semantics Definition Language). (Note that by XSDL the authors do not mean the new name of W3C XML Schema, as the latter has only been renamed recently.) XSDL is a language that allows for solving very similar problems as Krextor – extracting RDF in terms of some ontology from XML documents. I had always been looking for a nice declarative way of doing so, and there it is.

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