Monthly Archives: March 2006

SPARQL for vocabulary management: theory vs practice

I’ve lately been thinking about whether the named graph support in SPARQL can help us evolve vocabularies and associated code (eg. generators and translators) in parallel, so that we know when the RDF generators are emitting markup that uses properties which aren’t yet documented in the ontology; or when the ontology contains terms that aren’t [...]

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The Persian for London is Tehran

IM-chatting with a friend in Iran about Eugène Ionesco I stumbled randomly on this quote that charmed me:

I got the idea of making analogies between cities from Hofstadter, who quoted Ionesco’s remark
The French for London is Paris.

One of the growing frustrations of life online is that there isn’t yet truly one Web [...]

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