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Subject: Re: [Clump] Introductory post, CL projects, and more!
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From: Yarden Katz <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 02:01:41 -0500
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Dan Moniz <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> It took me a while to getting around to writing this introductory post
> because I've been having fun reading what other people are up to, and
> I'm busy enough with the day to day grind (day job, etc.) to have made
> such little progress compared to the sterling crew of hackers here.
>
> I'm happy to see John Morrison, who I know from the E3 project, and
> happy to see that MaK has at least one CL project kicking around! =]
>
> Also happy to see Luke Gorrie, who I know by proxy from friends in
> common and language research sites like Lambda the Ultimate. Slitch is
> excellent, and I hope we can further convert Luke's excellent Erlang
> hackery skills and techniques to CL.
>
> As for myself, I have an outdated projects page at
> <http://www.pobox.com/~dnm/projects.html> which has some vague
> comments about a few CL projects. Out of the ones listed there, CLAS
> is the one that should get out the door first, if I ever get around to
> updating it, thorough testing, and documenting. It's been in torpor
> much too long.
>
> I'm really enthusiastic about the movement around better XML tools in
> CL. I've thought for a while that CL was possibly the best language
> for really innovating XML manipulation and processing, and I'm glad
> people smarter than me have been playing with the idea and releasing
> some cool code. I have a lot of poorly defined interests in the
> synthesis of XML, RDF, CL, and a lot of the technology now being
> labeled under "The Semantic Web" and social software.

Dan's post inspired me to briefly describe some of the Semantic Web
research I've been doing here, all of which has been exclusively
implemented in Common Lisp:

*   Implementing a rule-based OWL reasoner that uses LISA
    <lisa.sf.net> (a forward
    chaining inference engine) and Wilbur <wilbur-rdf.sf.net> (an RDF
    Toolkit written in CL).  OWL is essentially a description logic
    that is used to build relationships between resources (anything is
    a resource on the semantic web).  You can check it out
    at http://mindswap.org/~katz/2003/06/basic-sketch-wilbur-lisa.html

*   A rule-driven layout system for webpages, similar to a blog,
    designed for RDF.

*   A SOAP serializer for the SHOP <http://cs.umd.edu/projects/shop>
    planning system.

The only thing that's absolutely usable for public consumption right
now is the first item.  Some of this stuff will be submitted to ILC in
one form or another, so it's literally a matter of weeks until all of
this becomes public.

Just thought I'd share.. I'll be sure to post more links as more
source becomes public.

Thanks,
-- 
Yarden Katz <[email protected]>  |  Mind the gap