[Activerdf] Announcing the new Active RDF Blog

[Benjamin Heitmann]

Hallo there,
people at the dawn of the Semantic Web age.

It is my pleasure to announce, that
Active RDF has a brand new weblog published at:

http://blog.activerdf.org

So point your browsers and news aggregators in that direction,
and witness news about current ideas and development of the source,
about actual releases, and about documentation, tutorials and related 
links.

We also have a new URL for the Active RDF Wiki at:

http://wiki.activerdf.org

That's the place where new documentation is going to be published.


I would also like to use this opportunity to introduce myself:

My Name is Benjamin Heitmann, and I have just recently moved over to 
Ireland to DERI, Galway, where I am a student under the supervision of 
Eyal Oren, working on my Masters Thesis, which will be founded on Active 
RDF.

In the coming weeks I will be updating the documentation of Active RDF, 
through commenting the code, creating an outline of the general ideas 
behind the most recent incarnation of Active RDF (with funky colored 
diagrams) and through writing introductory tutorials.

People here at DERI are also right now working on building a real 
application based on Active RDF ;) This will be a Conference Scheduler, 
which gets data about the events as input, and can show you if conflicts 
exist, after you have selected the events in which you wish to 
participate. The input will of course be RDF data, and so we will gain 
some insight into the feasibility of using Active RDF.

Regarding my research interests, I am hoping to discover emerging 
patterns for developing web applications for the semantic web, so you 
people can expect to not only see improvements and stabilizing of Active 
RDF itself, but also additions along the whole RoR stack.

That means the data backend, the access of model objects, helpers for 
the controller and means of interacting in the view, all catering to the 
needs of a real,actual, down to earth developer, who does not only dream 
of building the semantic web, but wants to start working towards that 
vision right now. 

The realization of our ideas will of course take time, but the next 
stable and tested release of Active RDF should be upcoming in the next 
few weeks.

I am looking forward to the exchange of ideas on this list,
sincerely, Benjamin Heitmann.