Semantic web apparently moving along
There are various ways to measure it, but Danny Ayers shows that where it counts, it's making progress.
A few months ago, Danny Ayers said that he was looking for work. Now, he writes
metadata
Using (or not using) Adobe's XMP metadata format
If Adobe is really interested in promoting XMP properly, they could learn a lot about developer relations from Yahoo and Amazon.
Adobe is pushing for XMP to become the metadata format for the OASIS OpenDocument format, and Leigh Dodds just posted some notes on his review of XMP. He covers the XMP-RDF relationship issues better than I could. He also refers to my article on XMP published in XML.com over a year ago, in which I wrote this:
