Acknowledgments
First among the people I want to acknowledge is the RDF Working
Group, the folks who have worked the last two-plus years to get the
updated RDF specifications out on the street and into action. The
listing of people is quite extensive, but I want to specifically
mention a few who were particularly helpful to me while I worked on
the book: Brian McBride, Pat Hayes, Dave Beckett, and Frank Manola.
This book would never have hit the streets if it
weren't for the patience and good humor of the lead
editor, Simon St.Laurent. During the almost year and a half this book
was in development, Simon never once lost patience, though other
editors might have given up on RDF as a topic.
In addition to Simon, I want to extend my appreciation to the
technical editors on the book including Dorothea Salo, Dave Beckett,
Uche Ogbuji, and Andy Seaborne. Less formally, I want to also extend
my appreciation to those from the RDF community who were so kind as
to review one or more chapters in the book for completeness and
accuracy:
My apologies if I have inadvertently left someone off this list.
Finally, I want to extend my thanks and appreciation to the
organizations and people responsible for the software and
technologies covered in this book. These include:
Jena—Hewlett-Packard and Brian McBride, Janet Bruten, Jeremy
Carroll, Steve Cayzer, Ian Dickinson, Chris Dollin, Martin Merry,
Dave Reynolds, Andy Seaborne, Paul Shabajee, and Stuart Williams
Brownsauce—Hewlett-Packard and Damien Steer IsaViz—Emmanual Pietriga The RDF Validator—Art Barstow and Emmanual Pietriga Intellidimension's RDF Gateway and Geoff Chappell AmphetaDesk and Morbus Iff Ginger Alliance PerlRDF and Petr Cimprich RDFLib and Redfoot from Daniel
"elkeon" Krech
RDFStore and Alberto Reggiori SMORE and Aditya Kalyanpur RDF API for PHP and Chris Bizer Redland and Dave Beckett C# Drive and Rahul Singh Wilbur from Ora Lassila and Nokia Plugged In Software's Tucana Knowledge Store and
David Wood
Sidrean Software's Seamark Server and Bradley Allan Adobe's XMP Sesame's Arjohn Kampan Meerkat—O'Reilly and Rael Dornfest Ranchero Software's NetNewsWire and Brent Simmons The Mozilla development team members Stanford University's Knowledge Modeling Group and
Protégé
The Dublin Core effort FOAF, FOAFbot, and FOAF-O-Matic by Leigh Dobbs, Edd Dumbill, Dan
Brickley, Libby Miller, rdfweb-dev, and friends
The web sites from several weblogging friends including Allan Moult,
Chris Kovacs, Jonathon Delacour, Loren Webster, and Dorothea Salo
Books don't get written in a vacuum and this book is
no exception. I'd like to thank some special friends
for their support and encouragement during the long, long period this
book was in development. This includes my best friend, Robert Porter,
as well as AKM and Margaret Adam, Jonathon Delacour, Simon
St.Laurent, Allan Moult, Chris Kovacks, Loren Webster, Jeneane
Sessum, Chris Locke, Dorothea Salo, and others whom I met in the
threaded void known as the Internet. Thanks, friends.
It's finally done.
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