(inspired by the ‘Yes we can’ powerpoint slides…)
We Will…
act – not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth
build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together
restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s [...]
Every wondered who the mother(s) of Adam and Eve’s grand-children were? Me too. But don’t expect SPARQL or the Semantic Web to answer that one! Meanwhile, …
You might nevetheless care to try the Gedcom::FOAF CPAN module from Brian Cassidy. It can read Gedcom, a popular ‘family history’ file format, and turn it into RDF (using [...]
Just spotted this review of FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) in the group’s wiki. Also some interesting notes on modelling. It seems the Media Annotation work is starting out well, both in terms of the analysis they’re performing, the relationships they’re seeing (FRBR is from the Library world and often passed over by industry [...]
Cross-browsing and RDF
While cross-searching has been described and demonstrated through this paper and associated work, the problem of cross-browsing a selection of subject gateways has not been addressed. Many gateway users prefer to browse, rather than search. Though browsing usually takes longer than searching, it can be more thorough, as it is not dependent on [...]
Via Dan Connolly, this from the mod_auth_openid FAQ:
Q: Is it possible to limit login to some users, like htaccess/htpasswd does?
A: No. It is possible to limit authentication to certain identity providers (by using AuthOpenIDDistrusted and AuthOpenIDTrusted, see the main page for more info). If you want to restrict to specific users that span multiple [...]
This cropped up in yesterday’s W3C Semantic Web Coordination Group telecon, as we discussed the various measures of SKOS deployment success.
I suggested drawing a distinction between the use of SKOS to publish thesauri (ie. SKOS schemes), and the use of SKOS in RDFS/OWL schemas, for example subclassing of skos:Concept or defining properties whose range or [...]