Latest News
[31 Mar 2006] Version 0.6.0 of Rx4RDF and Rhizome released.
Major changes include:
Rhizome:
- major performance enhancements: several times faster
- supports GRDDL and "shredding", a framework for extracting RDF from content and maintaining the relationship over time.
- better support for viewing and editing RDF directly with most RDF formats (RDF/XML, NTriples, Turtle).
- new UI for editing users and roles
- more Wiki features (including tracking missing pages)
- page and comment spam detection via Akismet service
Rx4RDF:
- much faster: now uses a simple but optimizing query engine
- support for RDF named graphs (RDF contexts)
- better support for using RxPath in XML contexts (e.g. an XSLT page)
- better support 3rd party RDF libraries and RDF stores
Plus many other enhancements and bug fixes.
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[21 Oct 2005] Version 0.5.1 of Rx4RDF and Rhizome released.
Minor release, changes include:
Remove the dependency on the win32all Python library; Improved themes, add CSS skins to data store; plus some bug fixes and documentation improvements.
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[1 Oct 2005] I've published an article about Rhizome in the Sept/Oct issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems. A copy can be found here (pdf).
[28 Sep 2005] Version 0.5.0 of Rx4RDF and Rhizome released.
Changes include:
Major changes to the Raccoon application server:
- enable URL namespace to be mapped to multiple applications
- allow applications to use XML (instead of RDF) data stores
- added SQL-like triggers
- added two-phase commit transaction coordinator
Major changes to Rhizome:
- Added a new, more polished and usable default theme.
- Made fine-grained authentication of changes to the model ubiquitous, made authorization schema much more flexible and expressive.
- Now uses Schematron (via RxPath) to validate the RDF model.
Refactored and cleaned-up code base.
Plus many other enhancements.
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[25 Jan 2005] Version 0.4.3 of Rx4RDF and Rhizome released.
Changes include:
Support for RDF Schema (subclasses and subproperties); new UI for adding comments and several other UI improvements; easier installation and initial configuration; and, of course, more bug fixes.
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[24 Nov 2004] Version 0.4.2 of Rx4RDF and Rhizome released.
New features include: Added a notion of themes to ease customization of look and feel; more security enhancements including sanitizing HTML; smoother installation and command line handling; compatibility with 4Suite 1.0a4 (enables OS X support); plus many bug fixes.
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[14 Oct 2004] Version 0.4.1 of Rx4RDF and Rhizome released.
New features include: support for RDFLIb as a RDF store and as the default RDF/XML parser; Rhizome's export now has the option to export resources as a NTriples file (and inline external file content); and the RxPath command line tool adds the ability to set namespace mappings. Bug fixes most notably include support for non-ASCII content.
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[30 Aug 2004] Version 0.4.0 of Rx4RDF and Rhizome released.
Rhizome gains full-text indexing, browsing and grouping by keyword, summary views, better support for RDF/XML, diffing of revisions, and several usability enhancements. Raccoon gets several improvements to performance, security, and error handling. RxML and ZML syntax has been made more user-friendly with simpler syntax and better documentation.
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[3 Aug 2004] I'm going to the "1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the (Semantic) Web" in Galway, Ireland on September 1. Read the Rhizome Position Paper submitted for the workshop.
[18 June 2004]
Updated site: added new RxML Sandbox and RDF/XML output for search and the metadata view page.
[12 May 2004]
Version 0.3.0 of Rx4RDF and Rhizome released.
This release is focused on making Rhizome usable for running small-scale web sites and includes much improved documentation, fine-grained authorization, and enough new features to put it on par with a full-featured Wiki. Plus a bunch of other stuff.
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[29 February 2004]
Version 0.2.0 of Rx4RDF and Rhizome released. RxPath has been completely reimplemented, much faster and robust. Raccoon is also now much faster with the introduction of extensive caching. And, of course, several enhancements were made to Rhizome. Download it or view the changelog
[15 December 2003]
Version 0.1.3 of Rx4RDF released. Includes support for Python 2.3 and major enhancements to Rhizome -- including users, sessions, authentication and authorization. Download it or view the changelog.
[18 October 2003]
First public release of Rx4RDF. Get it here!