From: Jim Hendler ([email protected])
Date: 04/01/01
Folks- the following may be of interest, particularly to your students/programmers who have to support your projects with detailed RDF work. -JH p.s. When I'm in my office, I tend to be lurking on this chat -- so it's also a good way to see what your PM is up to > >Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:38:03 -0500 (EST) >From: Dan Brickley <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: ANNOUNCE: RDF Interest Group IRC channel, tools, logs: #rdfig >Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:38:30 -0500 (EST) >Resent-From: [email protected] > > >RDF IG, > >I'm pleased to announce that we have put some tools in place to support >an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel for RDF and Semantic Web developers. > > Full details: http://www.w3.org/RDF/Interest/#irc > Server network: http://openprojects.nu/ > Channel name: #rdfig > Channel URI: irc://irc.openprojects.net/#rdfig > >As discussed at the RDF IG face to face(*) last month, Internet Relay Chat >(IRC) has provided itself a very useful tool for many of us at W3C and >nearby. After looking at various options, we've set up an channel using >the facilities provided by the Open Projects Network, who offer IRC server >support to various Open Source initiatives. > >In addition to the channel itself we have a few handy collaboration tools >in place already. Dave Beckett has set up a searchable logging system >that archives the discussions on #rdfig into the Web (text/html/rdf); Edd >Dumbill and friends have given us an installation of 'chump', an >IRC-to-Hypertext recommendation and annotation tool, and Libby Miller >has hacked an XSLT convertor that turns the 'chump' logs into an RSS 1.0 >feed. You'll notice from the logs that news of the experimental channel >has been spreading by word of mouth for a couple of weeks, and already >provides a round-the-clock drop in centre for RDF/SW developers. > >For those of you new to IRC, it is a real-time text based chat system, >based on the notion of named "channels". The RDF IG home page (see >http://www.w3.org/RDF/Interest/#irc) has links to a few useful sites, or >browse the existing #rdfig logs to get a feel for how we've been using. > >Please bear in mind that this is something of an experiment, both >technically (let me know of any glitches you encounter) and socially >(there are hundreds of people on www-rdf-interest; the pre-announced IRC >channel is already a busy place). Also note that it is a public, archived >and searchable forum: don't say things you don't want to become part of >the Web forever. It might make sense for us to spawn additional channels >(eg. for Logic or DC or sitemap or calendaring enthusiasts); let's see how >it goes. > >Anyhow, I hope this with prove fun, educational, and a useful >compliment to our existing email-based forums. For those of >you who don't have the time or inclination to join us in IRC, do take the >occasional look at the logs and WWW utilities; the channel has already >proved itself a handy way of sharing and annotating Web links, demos and >the like. > >see you in irc://, > >Dan > > >(*) minutes/notes still delayed; I hope by midweek next week > > >-- >mailto:[email protected] >http://www.w3.org/People/DanBri/ -- Prof. James Hendler Program Manager DARPA/ISO 703-696-2238 (phone) 3701 N. Fairfax Dr. 703-696-2201 (Fax) Arlington, VA 22203 [email protected]
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