FWIW, the Oasis page http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xdi
has this on it: "The XDI TC has developed a new RDF based model... " which suggests that it now is not being proposed as an alternative to RDF, anyway. Pat On Oct 18, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Harry Halpin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Juan Sequeda <juanfeder...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi everybody >> I just stumbled on XRI and XDI: >> http://www.xdi.org/modules/tut3/index.php?id=2 >> A quick overview of this seems that it is the same thing as Linked Data. XRI >> are identifiers (URIs) and XDI is a data interchange format (RDF) >> "...n which XML data from any data source can be identified, exchanged, >> linked, and synchronized into a machine-readable "dataweb" just as HTML >> pages from any content source are linked into the human-readable Web today. >> What makes this interchange format possible is identifying, describing, and >> versioning data using XRIs." >> This is the first that I've heard about this? Who know about the status of >> this? Who is adopting this? > > It comes mostly from the decentralized ID work and social web work. > It's main uptake is in the Infocard domain, of which the most working > software seems to be Project Nori [1]. The W3C TAG thought that XRIs > could be reduced to URIs [2] but hasn't looked at XDI to my knowledge. > There are also some questions re XRIs, as an early version of them > were patented and this led to > the W3C Royalty Free Patent Policy being formed [3], but the XRI folks > like Drummond Reed seem to have been working on correcting this. The > current state of play I'm not sure about it. > > [1]http://projectnori.org > [2]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008May/0078 > [3]http://danbri.org/words/2008/01/29/266 > >> Cheers >> Juan Sequeda >> +1-575-SEQ-UEDA >> www.juansequeda.com >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
