In the NoTube project, we are exploring the use of Semantic Web technology in Television and Web-TV scenarios. By making use of richer and linked descriptions of content and users, we hope to help users better find (and annotate, tag, cross-link etc.) content that is interesting to them. The growing amount of linked RDF data [...]
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Linked TV (part 1): Why APIs and identifiers matter
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Family trees, Gedcom::FOAF in CPAN, and provenance
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 [...]
Also posted in FOAF, History, Politics, Semantic Web, Technology, foaf4lib, ggg Tagged familyhistory, gedcom, History, journalism, provenance, trust 3 Comments
How the Web works
How it works: The Web
Originally uploaded by danbri
Or, “but what do all those links mean?”
Based on the 1994 slides by TimBL which inspired the SWAD-Europe graphics and shirt.
The twist here is just an emphasis that the giant global graph is a graph of idiosyncratic claims, and only sometimes do we all see [...]
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Graph URIs in SPARQL: Using UUIDs as named views
I’ve been using the SPARQL query language to access a very ad-hoc collection of personal and social graph data, and thanks to Bengee’s ARC system this can sit inside my otherwise ordinary Wordpress installation. At the moment, everything in there is public, but lately I’ve been discussing oauth with a few folk as a way [...]
Google Social Graph API, privacy and the public record
I’m digesting some of the reactions to Google’s recently announced Social Graph API. ReadWriteWeb ask whether this is a creeping privacy violation, and danah boyd has a thoughtful post raising concerns about whether the privileged tech elite have any right to experiment in this way with the online lives of those who are lack status, [...]
Also posted in Activism, FOAF, Jabber/XMPP, Politics, RDF, Semantic Web, Technology, Web Technology, ggg, privacy Tagged danahboyd, FOAF, google, privacy, social graph, socialgraphapi, timoreilly, xfn 5 Comments
Waving not Drowning? groups as buddylist filters
I’ve lately started writing up and prototyping around a use-case for the “Group” construct in FOAF and for medium-sized, partially private data aggregators like SparqlPress. I think we can do something interesting to deal with the social pressure and information load people are experiencing on sites like Flickr and Twitter.
Often people have rather large lists [...]
Also posted in Image Description, SPARQL, Technology, ggg Tagged facebook, filters, flickr, FOAF, groups, information overload, sparqlpress, twitter, xfn 5 Comments
Spam poetry
This just arrived in my mailbox, sneaking past my spam filters. While it advertises the most horrible spamsite, the words are strangely hypnotic…
Hei,
Inncrease your S.[E].X.U.AL health!
Sane, recalled me from these fantastic speculations. Miss
believer, please tell me in your own words do without them.
footnote: ‘a description of nova friar, sent an arrow after
the flying sheriff, of [...]
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Symbol languages and the Semantic Web
OK so I just stumbled upon this…
…via Jonathan Chetwynd’s ever-inventive and SVG-happy Peepo.com.
The “Car Bomb in Baghdad” story is from a site created by Widgit Software, and explains itself as follows:
Symbolworld has been set up to provide a web site with material suitable for symbol readers of all ages. The internet is an important [...]
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