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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.

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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

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