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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Wow, two very hot articles on XML.com.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Mark's piece on Atom and RDF (sorry - we failed the audition) and Kendall's on OWL.</FONT>
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<P><A HREF="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/20/dive.html"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/20/dive.html</FONT></U></A>
<BR><A HREF="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/20/deviant.html"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/20/deviant.html</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">So Atom is XML with a maintained, normative XSLT port to RDF. Better than nothing I suppose and most Atom providers will transform on the server and provide both XML and RDF feeds.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Mark, perceptive chap that he is, drills down to the two reasons why RDF won't be on Fame Academy next week. Tool support and RDF / XML syntax. Why don't we as supporters of and believers in RDF address these issues instead of endless discussion about this FOAF tag or that FOAF tag? I say this in the belief that FOAF is potentially an important vehicle to promote the use of RDF.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Getting a decent, searchable forum to replace this archaic mailing list would be a start. Then a strategy to promote tool development and practical implementation. And the syntax, is there not a simpler way to encode RDF triples in XML?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Mark is down on the Semantic Web. Well I never thought of the Semantic Web as some ethereal, elusive concept dreamt up by some PR brain farter. To me it is just code; a way to code a bit of 'intelligence' into our software applications. And OWL, as Kendall reports, is a step towards this.</FONT></P>
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