[Sigia-l] Distributed thesaurus?

[PeterV]

>  A somewhat related project is the FOAF RDF schema being 
>  developed. 

Indeed. A little background because I know this RDF-XML-XTM-... stuff is
confusing, and a small XFML teaser: FOAF is a way of expressing who your
friends are in RDF-XML. The advantage of using RDF-XML is that there is
already a lot of software compatible with it. XFML is a way of
expressing faceted hierarchies of metadata and also your indexing
efforts ("this page is about these topics") in XML, so they can be
shared easily. XFML is almost finished: I expect to publish version 1.0,
aka "core XFML", within weeks. Software that uses XFML will follow soon.

Darn, this turned into a promotional email. Oh well.
PeterV
http://poorbuthappy.com/ease
http://xfml.org