A lightweight semantic interoperability framework for countries and large organizations (and small ones)

This post is a summary of some ideas for a lightweight semantic interoperability framework It is mainly a composition of existing open standards to form a framework for organisations to be able to ensure that semantic and technical descriptions stay connected over time. The idea is to provide a framework that allows for an increasing semantic interoperability emerging over time without having a large centralized organisation defining vocabularies. Main points:...

December 15, 2010 · Peter Krantz

Serialization formats don't matter

Shelley Powers on the Myths and Realities of XHTML: I mean, if working with RDF has taught me one thing, it’s that converting between two different forms of serialization is trivial—it’s the underlying model that matters. Exactly! And still, many who are in the integration business think that XML schemas is the only product required to exchange data between multiple parties. The serialization format(s) should be based on the use cases of the information....

October 8, 2008 · Peter Krantz