Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Working Draft: SPARQL Protocol for RDF

2005-01-18: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the SPARQL Protocol for RDF. The draft describes RDF data access and transmission of RDF queries from clients to processors. The protocol is compatible with the SPARQL query language (pronounced "sparkle") and is designed to convey queries from other RDF query languages as well. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)

Saturday, January 15, 2005

Backpack Broadcasting

Since 2003, tens of thousands have died in Darfur, Sudan, and many more have been displaced. To help draw awareness to the situation, veteran commentator and journalist Dr. Bob Arnot, armed with his camera, traveled to the region to film “Darfur,” a one-hour documentary that puts compelling faces against the still-mounting numbers. [Jan 14, 2005]