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<div>John Cowan's 
<a href="http://recycledknowledge.blogspot.com/">posted</a> some
great reports from Extreme Markup 2007. Amongst them a neat 
<a href="http://recycledknowledge.blogspot.com/2007/08/extreme-markup-2007-thursday.html">summary</a>
of the key bits of FRBR (quoted here because I have real trouble
keeping this stuff in my head for more than 10 seconds) :
<blockquote>
 ...the FRBR model of works, expressions, manifestations, and
 items. For computer-document purposes, a work is the abstract
 work, e.g. 
 Hamlet; an expression is a particular kind realization,
 like a particular edition of the text or recording of a
 performance; a manifestation is the expression in a particular
 format such as .txt, .html, .doc, or .avi; and an item is a
 particular copy residing on a particular server, disk, or tape.
 Ideally, there should be separate URIs for each of these
 things.
</blockquote>
John also points to an Eric Freese 
<a href="http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme/proceedings/html/2007/Freese01/EML2007Freese01.html">paper</a>
about doing chatterbot AI with RDF. This has been lurking in the
nether regions of my todo list for years, it appears now to have
been 
done (although I couldn't find any working link to the
material online). btw, if I remember correctly, although the core 
<a href="http://www.alicebot.org/">AIML</a> material is sane
enough, there are some entertaining Outsider Software ideas around
the fringes.
Another 
<a href="http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme/proceedings/html/2007/Mason01/EML2007Mason01.html">paper</a>
he mentions talks about describing a pipe organ using topic maps. I
need to read this properly sometime soon, there's an obvious
overlap with what I want to do for describing the 
<a href="http://dannyayers.com:88/tinocaster/">Tinocaster</a> in
RDF (
grr, I forgot, that server's not got its data back yet - link
to be fixed soon). As it happens, looking at that took me
(with the aid of various 
<a href="http://talisians.com/">Talisians</a>) down the path of
using FRBR - how to do a 
<a href="http://n2.talis.com/wiki/SemWeb_Music_Store">music
store</a>, and more generally looking at describing (manufactured)
products, prompting the coinage 
<a href="http://n2.talis.com/wiki/FRPR">FRPR</a>.
Might as well drop this in: the 
<a href="http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/crowther/">source code</a>
for the original (Colossal Cave) Adventure game was just 
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fiction/browse_thread/thread/607acaf1a279d4dd/bd53b672a185d177#bd53b672a185d177">rediscovered</a>
- and immediately ported to Fortran 77!
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