[Z3-zemantic] Zemantic 0.5 released

[Reinout van Rees]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Michel Pelletier wrote:

> This is only the beginning, I have great confidence in both Zope 3
> and the semantic web, and I think that 2005 will be the year of
> both.

Thanks a lot for the work. I haven't been been able to test it out
yet, but I've build something similar myself and the idea works great
(http://vanrees.org/weblog/1111398880).

Just for the record: for my rdflib+zope combo I've hacked the
new-style-classes stuff out of rdflib to work with zope 2.6's
ExtensionClass. Terrible job, especially when the new rdflib version
comes out two days after you've gotten it working... I won't bother to
update it anymore now that Zemantic is there ready to use :-)

In two weeks time I'll have the freedom to jump a bit more into the
zope 2.8, zope3 and zemantic territory. I agree that zope has got a
lot of potential regarding the semantic web.

Being a good semantic web inhabitant basically means _accepting_ and
_spitting-out_ xml and rdf. (I'm disregarding for a moment the work
done inside a zope application). Spitting out rdf and xml is pretty
easy. Zemantic can do RDF and otherwise zope pagetemplates work like a
charm to export xml.

The biggest challenge is probably tying incoming xml/rdf into zope.
I love archetypes' automated magic, but *how* do you get it to work on
incoming RDF instead of on object residing in the ZODB. No doubt it
'll be possible. Having something like Zemantic available this early
in the stage of zope3/zope2.8 seems great.

Greetings,
Reinout

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