[microformats-discuss] FYI: two posting about the Semantic Web, the "SynWeb", scraping and microformats

[Jacob Ham]

Can anyone recommend any books to catch up on "the vision" of a semantic
web? I have gone over some of W3C's RDF stuff, and a couple other things on
the web. But from what I have gone over (not much), the complexty of the
system make its hard to imagine to be implimented by the normal web
developer (not trying to degrade web developers, but question the
specifcation). Recommendations?

Cheers,
Jake

On 10/24/05, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> On 10/24/05 9:43 AM, "Danny Ayers" <danny.ayers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > [1] http://dannyayers.com/2005/09/cake.gif
>
> There are just soooooo many things wrong with that diagram that it's hard
> to
> know where to start criticizing. In fact, not sure it is worth
> criticizing,
> so I'll just point out the only pieces that I think make at least some
> amount of practical sense:
>
> * URI (and even then I'm starting to dismiss URNs are mostly academic,
> thus
> leaving only URLs),
> * Unicode (I admit, because of my last name I'm biased here)
> * XML (a reasonable foundation, even if XML+tidy works better in practice)
>
> The rest are best left to academics IMHO.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tantek
>
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