Friday, May 3, 2002

If ontology, then knowledge: Catching up with WebOnt (XML.com) A web portal, for example, could use a formal ontology covering the knowledge domain the portal focuses on; for example, medical research about the origin of AIDS. In order to collect, analyze, share, and structure information, it would be helpful if the portal had a public ontology available for its own use and the use of its information-sharing partners, including medical publishers, university researchers, health organizations, and the like. [IBM DeveloperWorks: XML News] 2:44:54 PM     Wrapping Web Service APIs. O’Reilly: “There are many approaches to writing XML based web services: SOAP, XML-RPC, REST. If all you want to do is use a service, and there is a Python wrapper for it, you might not care what it was written in. Mark Pilgrim has wrapped the Google SOAP API. Load up his PyGoogle module and google away. The wrapper takes care of the SOAP for you.” [ranchero.com] 2:34:29 PM

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