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Taylor Cowan

Biography

Taylor Cowan is a software architect at Travelocity.

Throughout his career he has been working with XML in the context of translation work flows, UI technologies, and more recently the semantic web (RDF/OWL). He is a committer to the open source project "jenabean," a Java to RDF binding framework.

Blog

AtomServer helps serve up AtomPub

July 08 2008

The most interesting development within the XML world of late is AtomPub. It abstracts the details (however simple they may be) of REST and provides them in a well specified protocol. Instead of writing home grown RESTfull web services, decompose... read more

Permanent URLs for things in the real world

June 26 2008

At the Semantic Technologies conference in San Jose I attended an interesting presentation entitled “persistent identifiers for the real web”. XML often uses URLs for identifying schema namespaces, and I suppose could be credited for influencing RDF’s practice of using... read more

They knew the train would come

April 03 2008

Lately I'm becoming more bullish on RDFa. I loose heart when things don't materialize on my timeline, however, I was recently reminded of a scene in "Under The Tuscan Sun" wherein the actor describes how they built tracks over the... read more