Monthly Archives: October 2008

Sharking the vote

By danbri | Published: 2008-10-26
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OpenID, OAuth UI and tool links

By danbri | Published: 2008-10-15

A quick link roundup:
From ‘Google OAuth & Federated Login Research‘:
“The following provides some guidelines for the user interface define of becoming an OAuth service provider”
Detailed notes on UI issues, with screenshots and links to related work (opensocial etc.).
Myspace’s OAuth Testing tool:
The MySpace OAuth tool creates examples to show external developers the correct format for constructing [...]

Posted in FOAF, Project ideas, Semantic Web, coding, ggg, oauth, openid | 1 Comment

Drupal social/data Web developments

By danbri | Published: 2008-10-15

Dries Buytaert  on ‘Drupal, the Semantic Web, and search’.
Discusses RDFa, SearchMonkey and more. Great stuff! Excerpt:
This kind of technology is not limited to global search. On a social networking site built with Drupal, it opens up the possibility to do all sorts of deep social searches – searching by types and levels of relationships while [...]

Posted in FOAF, RDF, RDFa, Technology, coding, ggg | 1 Comment

NISO/CLIR/RLG – Technical Metadata Elements for Images Workshop (18-19th April 1999)

By danbri | Published: 2008-10-15

Maybe this is a record for delayed blogging. Nine and a half years late, here’s a writeup I found (on a corpsed hard-drive) of an image metadata workshop held by NISO, in Washington. I wrote it up for the JISC JIDI project at ILRT, who funded my trip. I’m sure they won’t mind it being [...]

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Compiling Rmutt on MacOSX Leopard (gcc -arch x86_64)

By danbri | Published: 2008-10-3

Keeping my notes findable: Rmutt on MacOSX will build cleanly if you change the CC line in the Makefile to be:
CC = gcc -arch x86_64
That is all. For those who haven’t tried it, Rmutt is a grammar-based nonsense generator along the lines of the Dada Engine (see also Web version). The Dada Engine powers the [...]

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