Martin Poulter Libby Miller, Oxford (1993-ish) A photo of Libby Miller, taken while at Oxford University image/gif Eric Miller, relaxing. image/png Eric Miller Jan Grant, Queen's Silver Jubilee vi user image/jpeg Rael Dornfest Aaron Swartz RSS Info Dave Beckett Art Barstow Art Barstow Dan Connolly Damian "Damey" Steer damey The RDF Web home page rdfweb.org is an experimental linked information system. This page provides links to some early writeup and prototype work. text/html Aggregating Recommendations using RDF This paper describes an early implementation of an XML/RDF-based metadata service environment, focussing on the convergence of cataloguing, bookmarking, recommendation and filtering applications facilitated by XML and RDF. The recommendation system uses RDF to store user recommendations and annotation data, using the RDF syntax and the Dublin Core vocabulary. It is entirely configurable also using RDF/XML. The display of the recommendations is left open, although they may be displayed using an RDF display tool which opens up the possibility of aggregating diverse recommendations, remote or local. The paper then discusses several different models of metadata aggregation with respect to the incentives of contributors to create high-quality metadata, and the evaluation strategies of the aggregation sites. RDF; annotations; recommender; aggregation; metadata text/html RDF: Extending and Querying RSS channels This document explores some examples based around the idea of extending RSS using RDF-based modularisation, and then querying the resulting data in ways that exploit those extensions. text/html RDF, SQL and the Semantic Web (rough draft) This is a quick writeup some work in progress, exploring various inter-relationships between relational databases, tools from the logic programming community, and W3C's RDF. We first discuss some broad issues surrounding RDF APIs and query systems, before exploring a number of more detailed case studies. Our first case study is based around our SQL-ish ("Squish") interface to any RDF database that exports either the Jena or Stanford RDF APIs. Our second case study shows how tools from the logic programming community can be used to export RDBMS systems to the Web. text/html RDF: Statements, Statings - A summary of some discussion threads This paper sets out to summarise two lengthy threads from the RDF Interest group mailing list in November 2000. The argument centred around some different approaches to modelling RDF statements in RDF (and the corresponding confusion as to what exactly an RDF statement amounts to). text/html Ontologies and Metadata - A (draft) discussion of issues raised by the Semantic Web Technologies Workshop, 22-23 November 2000. A discussion of what ontologies might mean in the context of the semantic web. This is not a full and complete description of the workshop: a link to presentions will be made when they are available. Enabling Inferencing This paper presents an overview of the query services that might be built on top of XML/RDF data. It does not present a specific proposal for an RDF query language; instead, it argues for a query language that is expressed in terms of the RDF logical data model rather than one particular concrete syntax text/html Margaret Hart Libby Miller Craig Dibble Liz Ian Sealy Martin L Poulter Channel of Filth