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the iCite net is presently was in development towards a prototype, implemented in Java and XML. the iCite net builds on many ideas, projects and standards, either directly or by way of inspiration (last updated, circa 2004):
Permanent web address services / schemes
- Permanent URL (PURL)
- Web Resource permanent URLs
- The Handle System
- There's No Such Thing as a Web Site, by Tim Bray
Blogs (web logs) and personal voice / web identities / bodies
- The Future of Online Communities, by Jon Udell
- 'Log Frenzy (Abstract)
- Manufactured Serendipity, by Sam Ruby
- What makes a weblog a weblog, by Dave Winer
- webbodies, by David Weinberger
- The Cluetrain Manifesto
- The World of Ends
- World of Ends: World of Means
Online identity / information rights
- Creative Commons
- Web logs and the Public Domain, from Lawrence Lessig
- IALTBAL (I am learning to be a lawyer), from Doc Searls in response to Lawrence Lessig
- A respectful quibble with the Doc, from Lawrence Lessig in response to Doc Searls
- Creative Commons, RSS and Manila
- The Open Digital Rights Language Initiative (ODRL)
- Information and Content Exchange (ICE)
- XACML: eXtensible Access Control Markup Language
- Platform for Privacy Preferences (p3p)
- A P3P Preference Exchange Language 1.0 (APPEL1.0)
- Open Privacy
- Identity Commons
- KUNEKT
RSS (RDF Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication) and variants
- RSS 0.92
- RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0
- RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules
- Simple Semantic Resolution - RSS 2.0 Module
- RSS 2.0
- RSS 3.0 (proposal)
- Epistula Syndication Format (ESF)
- Extremely Simple Syndication (XSS)
- Bootstrap: How to Redirect a RSS Feed, by Dave Winer
- RSS: how we bootstrap from the existing blogosphere to the semantic web, in a post by Jon Udell
- RVM (Review Module for RSS 2)
Service / Syndication discoverability
Directory formats and syndication
- Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML)
- OPML and directories, by Dave Winer
- Outline Markup Language (OML)
- Open Content Syndication Directory Format (OCS)
Blog universe views
Blog- and Blog-related APIs
- Blogger API
- Meta Weblog API
- LiveJournal API
- A Review of Blogging APIs, by Diego Doval
- RESTLog API
- The Comment API
- Echo Project on the Well Formed Log Enty, started by Sam Ruby
TrackBack, BackLinks and variants
- TrackBack homepage
- TrackBack documentation
- Trackback for RSS, by Justin Klubnik, Ben and Mena Trott
- Notes on the Background of Back-Links, by Seth Gordon
- Backlinks
- Disenchanted's Linkback
- Decafbad's ShowReferersNextGen
- Pingback
- Whitepaper: Pingback vs Trackback 1.1, by Ian Hixie
- Trackback Alternative proposal, by Joe Lombardo
- WIBNI Trackback 2.0..., by Sam Ruby
- Automatic linkbacks, by Mark Pilgrim
- The Next Generation of TrackBack: A Proposal, by Timothy Appnel
ThreadsML, threads description, threading module
- ThreadsML
- ThreadsML discussion
- ThreadsML Wiki
- Threading Standard discussion (older discussion on ThreadsML)
- Save the Threads!, by David Weinberger (conception of ThreadsML)
- Thread Description Language
- RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules: Threading
Social Software, general
- Social Software Alliance
- Social Software and the Politics of Groups, by Clay Shirky
Web to physical world social software
- GeoURL
- the World as a blog
- Globe Alive - World Live Web
- The Godseye Project
- Place Time URIs
- WebOutliner, by Broadband Mechanics
Other web social fun
- BlogTree, blog genealogy
- Tangent, casual links (like sex?) for websites
- Friday Five, small weekly surveys for fun
Rating and reputation systems and sites
Education
- RSS: The Next Killer App For Education, by Mary Harrsch
- Information Literacy and RSS, by the Shifted Librarian (Jenny Levine)
- E-Learning in the Semantic Age
Universal Personal Proxy / Personal Knowledge Manager
- Ideagraph
- Universal Personal Proxy, from Russell Beattie
- Personal Proxies, from Abe Fettig
- Universal Personal Proxies and Agent Companions, from Les Orchard
- JOG — My personal Google and Wayback machine, from Matt Giffith
Semantic Web, general
- WC3 Semantic Web homepage
- Semantic Web 1-2-3
- A Sporting Gentleman's Guide to the Semantic Web and other such Technological Marvels of the Modern Age, by Ben Hammersley
- On Semantics and Markup, by Tim Bray
- Esther Dyson's Interview with Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder, blogged by Jeremy Allaire
- August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web, by Paul Ford
Semantics and classification of links
- Hypertext Links: Whither Thou Goest, and Why, by Claire Harrison
- Semantic Characterisation of Links and Documents, by Silvia Martelli and Oreste Signore
Metadata and information / content classification
- Building a Metadata-Based Website
- Content Integration
- Scout Portal Toolkit
- Faceted Classification of Information
- eXchangeable Faceted Metadata Language (XFML)
- Introduction to XFML
- Faceted Classification discussion (Yahoo Group)
- FacetMap
- Topic Maps (XTM)
- XTM and XFML: more cousins than competitors, from Matt Mower
- Easy News Topics
RDF (Resource Description Format) related
- RDF homepage
- FOAF (Friend-of-a-Friend)
- Relationship module for FOAF
- FOAF Bulletin Board
- FOAF Explorer
- FOAFNAUT
- Parsing FOAF with PHP, by Ian Davis
- Building the Social Network, by Jason Bell (on FOAF and Java and Open Source development)
- Jabber FOAF Utilities
- RDF Extraction from XML (XR)
- RDF in XHTML
- Open Directory Project RDF data dump
- HP Labs Semantic Web Research
- Semantic blogging demonstrator, from Steve Cayzer at HP Labs Bristol
- Nokia Semantic Web Server
Other useful resources
- Representational State Transfer (REST), from Roy Thomas Fielding's Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures (dissertation)
- XML Protocol Matrix
- Database Debunkings (especially writings of Chris Date, Hugh Darwen and Fabian Pascal)
- Project Xanadu (Ted Nelson / ZigZag data structures)
Note: these related ideas, projects and standards are frequently mentioned and discussed in the iCite net development news / blog.