“One of the things the Web teaches us is that everything is connected (hyperlinks) and we all should work together (standards). Too often school teaches us that everything is separate (many different ‘subjects’) and that we should all work alone.” –Aaron Swartz, April 2001. So Aaron is gone. We were friends a decade ago, and [...]
A talk from London SemWeb meetup hosted by the BBC Academy in London, Mar 30 2012…. Slides and video are already in the Web, but I wanted to post this as an excuse to plug the new Web History Community Group that Max and I have just started at W3C. The talk was part of [...]
Most of us around RDF and the Semantic Web have by now probably heard the news about Talis; if not, see Leigh Dodds’ blog post. Talis are shutting down their general activities around Semantic Web and Linked Data, including the Kasabi data marketplace. Failures are usually complex and Twitter is already abuzz with punditry, speculation [...]
How can we package, manage, mix and merge graph datasets that come from different contexts, without getting our data into a terrible mess? During the last W3C RDF Working Group meeting, we were discussing approaches to packaging up ‘graphs’ of data into useful chunks that can be organized and combined. A related question, one always [...]
Ben Fry in ‘Visualizing Data‘: Graphs can be a powerful way to represent relationships between data, but they are also a very abstract concept, which means that they run the danger of meaning something only to the creator of the graph. Often, simply showing the structure of the data says very little about what it actually [...]
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Assuming you already have the R statistics toolkit installed, this should be easy. Install Willem van Hage‘s R SPARQL client. I followed the instructions and it worked, although I had to also install the XML library, which was compiled and installed when I typed install.packages(“XML“, repos = “http://www.omegahat.org/R“) ‘ within the R interpreter. Yesterday I set [...]
Gremlin is a free Java/Groovy system for traversing graphs, including but not limited to RDF. This post is based on example code from Marko Rodriguez (@twarko) and the Gremlin wiki and mailing list. The test run below goes pretty slowly when run with 4 or 5 loops, since it uses the Web as its database, via [...]
This is a quick visual teaser for some archive.org-related work I’m doing with NoTube colleagues, and a collaboration with Kingsley Idehen on navigating it. In NoTube we are trying to match people and TV content by using rich linked data representations of both. I love Archive.org and with their help have crawled an experimental subset [...]