J.Pietschmann wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > This could be interesting, Henri. If we had an formal description of a > > project, providing its name, resource (www, scm, wiki, etc.) locations, > > ontological classifications, etc., I imagine that could be useful in > > producing a portal.
> Sounds awfully close to a Maven project.xml. As you note, sounds "close" to a lot of different things. There should not any dependence on Maven, although Maven could populate the system for projects that are using it. However, the key thing above, and seemingly missing from Maven's Project descriptor, is ontology, so I am curious to see Henri's approach. > > We would want some nice means for aggregating and dynamically managing the > > data, but fortunately we have a ready standard for dealing with the content: > > LDAP. > The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. > There are also RDF/RSS/DC and a variety of other XML based metadata > languages (Topic Maps would fit almost as well as LDAP). Yes. However, although there are certainly plenty of XML formats from which to draw, or even to support, few might be considered a standard, and there are even fewer such standards when it comes to a data-access interface for dealing with hierarchical, attributed data. LDAP is one; an XPath/XQuery-based XML DB server would be another route. RDF (http://www.w3.org/RDF/) is a W3C specification for the ontology aspect of the Semantic Web. The RDF syntax (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/) has a decent mapping to LDAP. This is not a new idea, you can see from: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jan/0048.html http://rdf-ldap.ucpel.tche.br/ http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200009/msg00571.html http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dsml/200009/msg00021.html An alternative to LDAP could be Xindice (http://xml.apache.org/xindice/). At least one of the Xindice developers is subscribed to this list. --- Noel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
