New RDF dump available !

ODP has finally done a successful RDF dump including category id's ...
http://rdf.dmoz.org/

This should mean that Google will update their directory very soon (or maybe they'll wait until the next dance).

Gringo.

I see you beated my http://www.seochat.com/viewtopic.php?t=233 for 3 minutes

Plerase feel free to close my post so that there won't be splitted replies across two threads.




Ettore R. Peyrot
SEO & Localization Consultant - Eta Beta - Ability Top Translations
ODP Meta Editor

Gringo / Ettore --- You guys are fast, thanks for the update, glad to see the update is finally done and kudos to the guy(s) and the ODP who worked hard to get this latest update done!!

Okay here we go again You guys are hovering above me like gods and I'm like Eve trying to figure out which fig leaf to wear I have no clue what this is all about and whether it is something I can utilize or not. I even went to http://www.dstc.edu.au/cgi-bin/redirect/rd.cgi?http://archive.dstc.edu.au/RDU/reports/RDF-Idiot/ "An Idiot's Guide to the Resource Description Framework" and it's scary to think I don't even make it up to idiot! ops:
Please give this to me in layman's terms: "RDF provides interoperability between applications that exchange metadata and is targeted for many application areas including; resource description, site-maps, content rating, electronic commerce, collaborative services, and privacy preferences." "The objective of RDF is to support the interoperability of metadata. RDF allows descriptions of Web resources - any object with a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) as its address - to be made available in machine understandable form. This enables the semantics of objects to be expressible and exploitable" Exactly what type of applications are we talking here? Is the metadata like meta tags? Is this just something for dynamic pages? It says for XML. Can someone refer me to a site that would illustrate this in action or is it like a behind the scenes script? Also How does this effect Google?
Is this something I should even worry about at my level or should I just go ahead and eat that dang apple and forget about the blissfulness of paradise and naivety?

No this is nothing that you can really utilize. The only help this will be to you is if you have sites in the ODP which have been added since September. Sites added before September should be already in the Google Directory, but sites added after have not been added to the Google directory because they were not in the ODP's latest RDF Dump.

The RDF dump is used by sites that use the ODP data. So unless you want to run a directory, the RDF dump is no use to you in it's RDF form - It just means that Google (who does use it) can now be fresher!

Oh thanks God! I already feel like my head is going to explode!
I do have another unrelated question but i suppose i should start another subject line. Guess I gotta load up a real pic soon too. Since the whole board seems to have gone that route! Thanks Darren

Yeah why not - If my horrid face is allowed to be on the web then anybodys is!

Hope that they will use the Dump at this Dance!

they used it on the last dance, which is why it was delayed, and why this one is later also

zen

And i'm hoping they do another dump soon because my updates missed out on the RDF by two days!

FWIW, a new RDF dump is being generated right now, and should be out right after Easter.

As Mr. Burns would say .. Eggcellent (Thought the Egg part would make a good Easter athmosphere).

Actually that would be Egghead from the old Batman TV show with Adam West ;-)

Here's to hoping that Google (and AskJeeves for that matter who has not updated in MONTHS) pick up the new RDF.