Article:		RDF: Ready for Prime Time
Subject:		I hate to rain on this parade, but...
Date:		2003-08-01 15:28:32
From:		Roy Tennant
A lot of projects can drop the acronym, but frankly I doubt many of the projects cited as using RDF would actually validate as true RDF. For example, how does a true RDF parser deal with RSS? Show me some cross-domain communication that works, and does useful work, and then maybe I'll stop saying that RDF is DOA.

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• I hate to rain on this parade, but...
  2003-08-04 00:00:52 Danny Ayers [Reply]
  
  Most of the projects Shelley mentions use RDF in their core, and it's as true as it gets.
  Re. cross-domain communication, many of the apps listed in [1] have some cross-domain element (virtually every RDF app uses DC for a start!).

  
  RSS is something of a special case, but RSS 1.0 *is* true RDF, and as I point at [2], other RSS dialects can be transformed to RDF. Note also that the Raptor RDF parser now has a "tag soup" facility for handling other RSS dialects and producing true RDF.

  
  NewsMonster [3] is one example (there are others) of an app that uses RSS and cross-domain RDF.

  
  It's way too late too talk of RDF being DOA, it's adoption is accelerating. Check out Dave Beckett's resource list [4].

  
  [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/chosen_demos_rationale_report/hp-applications-survey.html
  [2] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/23/extendingrss.html
  [3] http://www.newsmonster.org/
  [4] http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk/discovery/rdf/resources/