Metalink News : 19 Mar 2007

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Google Summer of Code - Metalink projects
Metalink @ Package Resources, repair info & collection metalinks
Geospatial Semantic Web: Metalink meets RDF and SPARQL
Speed Download 4.1.10, GetRight 6.2a, and wxDownload Fast 0.6.0 are
out!
Metalink for UniProt RDF, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
DOFUS MMORPG uses Metalink
Cross platform GUI Metalink Editor
Slashgeo: Downloads Based On Location
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Google Summer of Code - Metalink projects

Google Summer of Code is on! Now's your chance to do something
Metalink related for one of the many projects and make some cash!
Drupal or Mozilla could be options...

http://code.google.com/soc/

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Metalink @ Package Resources, repair info & collection metalinks

Metalink @ Package Resources ( http://metalink.packages.ro/ ) has
updated .metalinks in testing thanks to Manuel Subredu. M@PR provides
automatically generated .metalinks for the Linux Kernel,
OpenOffice.org, Ubuntu/Edubuntu/Kubuntu, openSUSE, Arch Linux, CentOS,
& Fedora.

Fedora and openSUSE have collections directories which have metalinks
that list all 5 CD ISOs, which is more convenient than downloading the
5 files separately.

These Metalinks have repair information, which when used with aria2
(and hopefully soon other clients) enable self healing/repairing
downloads.

Please report any problems you may have.

http://download.packages.ro/metalink/testing/

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Geospatial Semantic Web: Metalink meets RDF and SPARQL

This post [1] by Harry Chen details some work done by Dan
Brickley [2] last week:

"Lastly, a wider adoption of Semantic Web technology will depend on
our ability to bridge gaps between research and real-world
applications. Proof-of-concept examples (e.g., the one in the above)
that build on real-world applications (e.g., Metalink) can inspire
people who are not already in the Semantic Web circle to pick up the
idea of the Semantic Web, and go wild with it."

[1]
http://www.geospatialsemanticweb.com/2007/03/11/metalink-meets-rdf-an...

[2]
http://danbri.org/

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Speed Download 4.1.10, GetRight 6.2a, and wxDownload Fast 0.6.0 are
out!

wxDF 0.6.0 now supports SHA1 checksums, and the next version
should support repair information.

http://www.yazsoft.com/
http://www.getright.com/
http://dfast.sourceforge.net/

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Metalink for UniProt RDF, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

The UniProt RDF distribution is over 5GB large. To help people
retrieve the data more efficiently, we now mirror the data and provide
a Metalink file that describes all the file locations.

http://www.uniprot.org/
http://eric.jain.name/2007/03/07/metalink-for-uniprot-rdf/
http://dev.isb-sib.ch/projects/uniprot-rdf/

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DOFUS MMORPG uses Metalink

DOFUS, a "Tactical MMORPG", uses Metalink for their downloads.

http://www.dofus.com/community/ankamagames/download.php?game_id=1&type=metalink

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Cross platform GUI Metalink Editor

Hampus Wessman has created a cross platform Metalink Editor with
a
GUI. Please check it out and send in feedback and suggestions! So much
progress has been made since this was first released.

http://hampus.vox.nu/metalink/

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Slashgeo: Downloads Based On Location

Metalinks offer location tagging of mirrors.

http://technology.slashgeo.org/technology/07/03/12/0134241.shtml