By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. That Isn’t a Mistake
Dan Meyer, dy/dan, 2018/12/24
I find it amazing that such a simple post can generate so much comment (75 connents as of this post), but it goes to show that discourse is about both content and building an audience over time. Mostly the latter, in this case. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. First Public Working Drafts: The Profiles Ontology; Content Negotiation by Profile
Xueyuan Jia, W3C, 2018/12/18
As the news item says, "The Profiles Ontology is an RDF vocabulary to describe profiles of (one or more) standards for information resources" and "Content Negotiation by Profile describes how Internet clients may negotiate for content provided by servers according to profiles." There are still open issues in both drafts. More...
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