Don’t call me DOM

To celebrate the progress of GRDDL towards its final stage, and to replace the aging and somewhat unreliable XSLT-based GRDDL demonstrator, I’ve just released a brand new W3C GRDDL service.

It simply takes a Web page and extracts the RDF statements it can find in there using GRDDL.

I have made its source code available on W3C Public CVS server, but the gist the work is done by the underlying library, python-librdf, the Python binding for Redland. Particular thanks to Dave Beckett who provided amazing user support to help setting this up!

I haven’t written about GRDDL for a long time, and in fact haven’t been much involved in its recent developments; but seeing it published as a Proposed Recommendation some 3 years after the first draft I wrote, and less than a year after its first public working draft in the Recommedation track, it feels like my baby just graduated!

Kudos to the GRDDL Working Group for the amazing job they did of formalizing, cleaning and working out the hard issues that existed in the original specification!

I was attending and presenting in the WWW2006 conference last month, and haven’t been able to publish a trip report since then… Bad me!

My last WWW Conference was three years ago and didn’t leave me with great memories, but this year’s edition was certainly much better than any other WWW Conference I’ve been to, and getting close to be as inspiring as XTech was last year - I haven’t been to XTech this year, so I don’t know how good it was, but read some positive reports on the 2006 edition as well.