LEAP references

Belongs to LEAP 2.0 and the 2009-03/Leap2A specification

Mailing list

 * cetis-portfolio-dev

W3C

 * W3C
 * Semantic Web activity
 * Semantic Web – new home page
 * Tutorial on Semantic Web
 * Linked Data
 * RDF
 * Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language (originally by Dave Beckett)
 * primer
 * concepts
 * syntax-grammar
 * RDF Schema
 * CURIE syntax
 * OWL guide
 * OWL and RDFS vocabulary index
 * GRDDL recommendation
 * GRDDL primer
 * GRDDL use cases/scenarios
 * GRDDL working group home
 * Semantic Web Deployment Working Group
 * RDFa primer
 * RDFa syntax (including the list of attributes)
 * SKOS
 * SKOS primer
 * SKOS reference
 * best practice on publishing vocabularies
 * RDF Calendar
 * Cool URIs
 * Basic Geo (WGS84 lat/long) Vocabulary

RDF and RDFa from other sources

 * the RDFa info site
 * Joshua Tauberer's rdf:about
 * Ian Davis Introduction to RDF
 * W3 Schools RDF tutorial
 * Bob DuCharme's introduction to RDFa is rather old now
 * Representing Order in RDF

Dublin Core

 * Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
 * the DCMI Metadata Terms page
 * Dublin Core Interoperability levels
 * DCMI Abstract Model
 * Dublin Core Singapore Framework

Atom

 * Atom enabled - a general resource, including material on the syndication format and the Publishing Protocol
 * Atom Syndication Format rfc 4287
 * this includes a RELAX NG compact schema
 * Atom is given in different, possibly easier-to-read versions by
 * Atompub
 * also hosts a "RELAX NG Compact Syntax Grammar for the Atom Format Specification Version 11".
 * Atomenabled
 * Atom Threading Extensions rfc 4685
 * Feed Paging and Archiving rfc 5005
 * Atom Publishing Protocol rfc 5023; an easier to read version
 * Timestamps - rfc3339 is required for atom:published and atom:updated
 * Cover Pages: Atom Publishing Format and Protocol
 * IBM overview of the Atom 1.0 Syndication Format
 * IANA Atom link relation assignments
 * David Powell's Atom/RDF
 * Atom License Extension rfc 4946
 * Creative Commons licences in Atom

parsing and validation

 * Validome's RSS and Atom validator
 * W3C feed validator
 * Feedparser Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python


 * http://www.feedparser.org/ is interesting

vCard

 * vCard on Wikipedia
 * hCard on Wikipedia
 * hCard wiki (current)
 * hCard cheatsheet (2008-03-05)
 * vCard XML from the Jabber community (2008-07-16)
 * Notes on vCard, LDIF and mappings to RDF (Tim B-L, 2007)
 * from a GRDDL primer, hotel example (2007-06-28)
 * An Ontology for vCards (2006-11-14)
 * from an old GRDDL primer, guitar example (2006-09-27)
 * hCard Profile (2006-03)
 * vCARD in XML and RDF (Cover pages, up to 2002)
 * Representing vCard Objects in RDF/XML (Renato Iannella 2001-02)
 * Representing vCard v3.0 in RDF (Renato Iannella 1999-01-22)
 * the namespace used by W3C (rdf file)
 * information page for vCard and vCalendar (imc, 1998)

Other initiatives doing similar things

 * Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange
 * some slides (pdf)
 * Open Data Definition - Elgg doing something really similar!
 * Personal Information Model (Ontology)

Other overlapping specifications

 * FOAF
 * MIAP (a UK agency) common data definitions
 * UK Government Data Standards Catalogue
 * IMS ePortfolio
 * IMS LIP
 * IMS VDEX
 * HR-XML
 * SIFA
 * SIF specifications
 * SIF UK 1.1
 * data model
 * Europass
 * Curriculum Vitae
 * iCalendar
 * on Wikipedia
 * rfc2445

Other specifications of interest

 * Google Data API overview

Validator/extractor services

 * W3C RDF validator and visualiser/converter
 * W3C markup validator
 * W3C RDFa distiller (extractor)

Miscellaneous

 * Comparison between Semantic Web and object-oriented thinking
 * How to Publish Linked Data on the Web
 * Linked Data - Design Issues (Tim Berners-Lee)

See separate page for LEAP2 governance including intellectual property considerations.