EPiServer Module 3.3.0.37 Released
EPiServer Module 3.3.0.37 has now been released. This update addresses an issue whereby registering events with SchemaJSON were not being fired correctly. Registering events with SchemaJSON now requires that after the event is registered FlushSchema() is called so that the event is properly registered.
EPiServer Module 3.3.0.36 Released
EPiServer Module 3.3.0.36 has now been released.
- The topic map interface has been improved when dealing with topics scoped in multiple languages as well as for topics that are unscoped. Editors can now choose the language of topics they wish to see, either in a scoped language or all topics in their default unscoped view.
- Compatibility with Firefox has also been improved there may still be minor cosmetic issues however.
The upgrade requires that you install the EPiServer Module SQL extensions by running the included SQL script.
Updated SharePoint Module Extensions for NPCL Editor
Today we have released a compatibility upgrade for the SharePoint Module extensions for the NPCL Schema Editor.
Due to some binary incompatibilities bewteen the Visual Studio SDKs for VS 2005 and VS 2008, the SharePoint Module Extensions for the NPCL Schema Editor that are provided with the current release of the SharePoint Module (SharePoint Module 3.1 Hotfix 1) do not load correctly when using Visual Studion 2008 and version 3.0 of the NPCL Schema Editor.
The new release is intended for use ONLY with version 3.0 of the NPCL Schema Editor in Visual Studio 2008 - for details and download please see this earlier posting.
The updated SharePoint Module Extensions can be downloaded from here. To install, simply copy the contents of the zip file into the Extensions directory as described in the documentation for the NPCL Schema Editor.
White Paper: Introduction and Vision for Web3
Linked here is a white paper that provides a vision and introduction to web3.
The summary below provides an introduction...
In the past 20 years, the Web has developed from a niche technology to a mass-media providing new forms of communication and interaction between people. Web 1.0 was a technical platform - a common set of protocols and formats that allowed machines to communicate and present information from a remote server to a local user. Web 2.0 used the technical platform of Web 1.0 to build more interactive web sites where users contribute and share content and become creators and owners of content rather than passive consumers.
Web 2.0 has reached the limits of what can be achieved on the technical platform of Web 1.0; new technologies must be put in place to provide a fundamentally new technical infrastructure, or platform, to enable the next generation of innovative web applications. Key to this Web 3.0 platform is a set of protocols and formats that allow the communication of subjects and people's perceptions of those subjects between computers, and that enable new applications to be built that allow users to create, share and integrate information and knowledge seamlessly...
A Vision for a Topic Maps World
Yesterday at the Topic Maps 2009 conference in Oslo I gave a presentation called 'A Vision for a Topic Maps World'. In this presentation I summarised some of the key successes of Topic Maps and then looked forward to how Topic Maps can work on a more global scale.
One of the key things I presented was a concept for a Subject Identity Resolution service, a kind of DNS for subjects and representations of statements about subjects.
The full presentation can be found here.
We'll be blogging more about the Subject Identity Resolution Service over the coming weeks.
Welcome to the Networked Planet Web3 Blog
Welcome to the Networked Planet web3 blog. This blog is dedicated to all things web3. For us at Networked Planet web3 is all about the publishing online of structured semantic data in a way that can be discovered and usefully processed by both humans and machines. This is not the semantic web, but a web of joined up structured information.
Semantic Technologies such as RDF and Topic Maps are great standards for the representation of statements about a subject, what we really are looking forward to are protocols and conventions that allow fragments of information to be published and connected.
As Networked Planet we have been doing a lot with the ISO13250 Topic Maps standard. This standard and our products have been used in many applications to improve the way in which information is organised and accessed. Our next goal is to take many of the ideas and concepts that have been so successful within enterprises into a more global space.
Over the coming months we will be releasing services, presentations, white papers and products that support the goal of a Web of linked data.
NPCL Schema Editor for Visual Studio 2008
We are pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of the NetworkedPlanet NPCL Schema Editor and NPCL Tools for Visual Studio.
The NPCL Schema Editor is a graphical editor that runs inside Visual Studio and provides developers with a drag-and-drop interface for creating topic map ontologies expressed in NetworkedPlanet's NPCL format, the format used by the EPiServer Module and SharePoint Module as well as other NetworkedPlanet tools.
The NPCL Tools for Visual Studio provides a bundle of new features to make it easier to work with NPCL files in Visual Studio. The current set of tools are:
- An MSBuild task for compiling multiple NPCL files into a single NPCL file for easy deployment;
- An MSBuild task for generating HTML documentation from an NPCL file;
- An NPCL Schema Editor extension that allows developers to add text and HTML documentation to the items in an NPCL schema;
- A Visual Studio project template for an NPCL Schema project that uses the MSBuild tasks to create a Visual Studio project for creating a large NPCL schema as a set of smaller, more easily managed NPCL files.
Most importantly of all, this new release is built on Visual Studio 2008.
As with previous releases, the NPCL Schema Editor and Tools for Visual Studio are provided free of charge and the latest version can be downloaded here.
Enterprise Services Known Issue: Topic Map Index fails to start with error 1075
A couple of customers have reported an error when starting up the Topic Map Index Service installed by the Enterprise Services 1.0 installer. When trying to start the service, the user will see a dialog displaying a message like:
"Could not start the TMCore Topic Map Index Service service on Local Computer
Error 1075: The dependency does not exist or has been marked for deletion"
What has happened is that the installer detected SQLServer installed on the machine and has inserted the dependency. The dependency it adds is against the normal SQLServer service name, but if you are running a different instance or are running SQLServer Express edition, you will need to modify that dependency.
WARNING: The fix to this problem involves changing registry keys. Please be very careful to change only the specified keys and ensure that you enter the correct values.
To fix this problem you need to first determine the name of the SQL Server Express service to add the dependency for. To do this, look for the server in the services list, then go to the Properties for the service. The service name is the value displayed as "Service Name" on the "General" tab of the Properties dialog. For example, on our own intranet server that uses SQL Server Express, the service name is "MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS".
Now go into the registry, go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TopicMapIndex and change the DependsOnService value to the name of the database service that the topic map index service should wait for before starting up.
NOTE: If you don't actually connect to a database service on the same machine then just delete this value completely.
