DISQUS

my post got truncated -- i don't know if you got the rest in an email or anything, but i'll be subscribing to your rss and will be posting more on juju soon w/ some more complete examples.

I ABSOLUTELY agree that the real issue with RDF adoption and use by casual developers and 'knowledge-engineers' as well as buy-in to knowledge-capture software systems that focus on RDF metadata is the tremendous visual mess that comprises the pool of available syntaxes for expressing RDF triples and relationships especially in the context of plain-text. It's just not friendly to the eyes or brain. It's also nearly impossible to implement these in the context of a Wiki or other 'casual' editor systems.

For the last few years I've been experimenting with and working on a 'tags-triples'-like syntax primarily for use with text-based in-line metadata markup, as in Wiki-type knowledge capture systems. I just started a java-based project for this called Juju ( http://juju.sourceforge.net ), which I will be posting source files and tutorials/examples online sometime in the next couple of weeks. The system's parser-engine will allow for customizable/multiple syntaxes depending on the implementation needs, but the essense of it is that you could write a WikiWord like LukeSkywalker and then define the link like LukeSkywalker>>Brother>>LeiaOrgana or on the LukeSkywalker page, since the context is LukeSkywalker already, it would accept a shortcut like DarthVader>>Father. Note that the direction of the chevrons/double-arrows indicates the direction of the Subject>>Predicate>>Object triple-form, so that a reverse arrow means Object< <predicate><<subject. the="The" shortcut="shortcut" form="form" with="with" a="a" forward="forward" chevron="chevron" assumes="assumes" that="that" the="the" missing="missing" item="item" is="is" the="the">>Father means DarthVader>>Father>>LukeSkywalker and LeiaOrgana<<brother means="means" leiaorgana="LeiaOrgana"><</brother><brother><<lukeskywalker. the="The" system="system" right="right" now="now" doesn="doesn"></lukeskywalker.></brother></subject.></predicate>