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Also, some of this overlaps with the Web Services Inspection Language
(WSIL[1]) from Microsoft, IBM and others, that covers some of what ROR
includes, particularly Web Services. To my knowledge, there has been no
activity for WSIL in several years.
Joe
[1]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnglobs
pec/html/wsinspecspecindex.asp
Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dom Vonarburg [mailto:dvonarbu@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 5:47 PM
> To: martin
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] ROR files in action - focusLook.com
>
> Martin,
>
> Interesting article! False information is a problem with any
> self-authored information.
>
> But I think ROR can actually help solve a part of this
> problem:
>
> By encouraging websites to describe their objects ROR
> provides additional data for search engines can process (to
> check for consistancy of the information, for example). Also,
> text on a webpage can refer to an object in the ROR file for
> futher qualification. So the more a search engine
> understands about a website, the less that website can fool
> the search engine.
>
> Also, ROR provides several objects that will generate webs of
> "observational" metadata. For example the Review object
> enables a site or blog owner to express an opinion about a
> website, blog, blog entry, product, service, etc. This kind
> of data can be very valuable, not individually, but as a whole.
>
> Dom
>
>
> --- martin <martin@x-hive.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Dom Vonarburg wrote:
> > > What is ROR?
> > >
> > > ROR is a simple RDF/XML format for describing your website in a
> > > generic fashion, so that search
> > engines
> > > and other web applications can find and discover information more
> > > easily.
> >
> > Have you read
> > http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm?
> >
> > The article is quite impolite, but I think the general idea of it
> > holds.
> > Does ROR do anything to evade false information?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Martin
> >
>
>
>
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