Neil Batlett has an interesting take on StatSVN and StatCVS: One problem that startup companies often have is demonstrating to investors that they’re actually doing something productive rather than just pouring away money on office plants, Herman Miller chairs, and playing foosball all day. … One thing you can do is show the evolution […]
Keith Alexander experiments with using eRDF markup to populate HTML templates: I was writing a php template, marking it up with eRDF, and I realised that what I was doing was describing variables with triples - which is essentially what I would be doing to write a SPARQL query to retrieve data for the […]
The German readers will appreciate my mix of surprise and horror when I realized I had just typed this word in an email: folksonomymäßig A word that is certain to hurt the sensibilities of every lover of either the English, Latin, or German language. Now if I manage to sprinkle a little bit of french […]
Andy Seaborne announces a first draft of SPARUL, the SPARQL/Update Language: This document describes SPARQL/Update (nicknamed “SPARUL”), an update language for RDF graphs. It uses a syntax derived form SPARQL. Update operations are performed on a collection of graphs in a Graph Store. Operations are provided to change existing RDF graphs as well as […]
Aren’t URNs much more elegant than those brittle HTTP URIs? Why is everyone yapping about 303 redirects? Hash vs. slash? What’s the deal with content negotiation and the Semantic Web? Shouldn’t we use blank nodes anyway? There’s a lot of confusion around URIs on the Semantic Web. You have to do quite a bit of reading and trial-and-error to arrive […]
Over in the comments to Henry Story’s bug ontology post, I wrote: There should be RDF representations of program error reports, such as Java exceptions. Then I could SPARQL for “NullPointerException in class so-and-so of project foobar”, and possibly a solution has been filed, or at least I will find a related bug. Drew Perttula […]