A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 10 March, 2003.
ICS-VRP V 2.5: Validating RDF Parser for FORTHfrom Uche Ogbuji at 16:54, 10 MarVRP is open source and supports semantic validation of both resource descriptions and schemas. This version is faster, supports WXS Datatypes, updated conformance and some SVG tools.
D2R MAP - Database to RDF Mapping Language and Processorfrom Uche Ogbuji at 16:36, 10 MarD2R MAP is a declarative language to describe mappings between relational database schemata and
OWL ontologies. The mappings can be used by a D2R processor to export data from a relational database to RDF. An open source (LGPL) implementation is available.
Report on Mapping Semantic Web Data with RDBMSesfrom Uche Ogbuji at 15:37, 10 MarThis report is a product of the
Semantic Web Advanced Development Europe (SWAD-Europe) project, and authored by Dave Beckett and Jan Grant. It covers mapping triple stores and RDBMS, concentrating on surveying the schemas used and discussing mapping approaches to and from relational schemas. It describes current best practice for using such systems for Semantic Web data.
OASIS forms committee for Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM)from Uche Ogbuji at 14:54, 10 Mar
Scholarships made available and participation deadlines extended for SVG Open 2003from Uche Ogbuji at 14:49, 10 MarThe deadine to submit a paper abstract or course proposal for the SVG Open 2003 Conference and Exhibition has been extended to 21 March 2003. Also, 30 new scholarships are available to student presenters, courtesy of the
BC Advanced Systems Institute. A new poster presentation option has been added for students. SVG Open 2003 will be held July 13-18, 2003 in Vancouver, Canada.