“Because most of the targeted employees were male between the ages of 20 and 40 we decided that it would be best to become a very attractive 28 year old female. We found a fitting photograph by searching google images and used that photograph for our fake Facebook profile. We also populated the profile with [...]
I now have a crude Lucene index derrived from SKOS data. It is more or less a toy example, but somehow promising also. Example below is a test against FAO‘s AGROVOC. Each concept becomes a “document”, with a “word” field containing the prefLabel, and a “uri” field for the concept URI. I don’t index anything [...]
People want full ownership and control of their information so they can turn off access to it at any time. At the same time, people also want to be able to bring the information others have shared with them—like email addresses, phone numbers, photos and so on—to other services and grant those services access to [...]
I just announced this on the public-esw-thes and public-rdf-ruby lists. I started to make a Ruby API for SKOS. Example code snippet from the readme.txt (see that link for the corresponding output): require “src/jena_skos” s1 = SKOS.new(“http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy”) s1.read(“http://www.wasab.dk/morten/blog/archives/author/mortenf/skos.rdf” ) s1.read(“file:samples/archives.rdf”) s1.concepts.each_pair do |url,c| puts “SKOS: #{url} label: #{c.prefLabel}” end c1 = s1.concepts["http://www.ukat.org.uk/thesaurus/concept/1366"] # Agronomy puts [...]