By danbri | Published:
2009-5-9
Busy sysadmin week. The main FOAF site is back, now hosted on Amazon EC2. Thanks to Stephane Corlosquet for all the time he spent fixing up the Drupal installation, after the recent server compromise. I’ve also moved over danbri.org (well, DNS is propagating), and migrated my blog into a completely fresh Wordpress installation. The FOAF namespace [...]
Also posted in coding, openid, privacy |
By danbri | Published:
2009-3-7
<Farmer> <sowed> <Corn> <kept> <Cock> <woke> <Priest> <married> <Man> <kissed> <Maiden> <milked> <Cow> <tossed> <Dog> <worried> <Cat> <killed> <Rat> <ate> <Malt> <in> <House> <builtBy> <Person foaf:name=”Jack” /> </builtBy> </House> </in> </Malt> </ate> </Rat> </killed> </Cat> </worried> </Dog> </tossed> </Cow> </milked> </Maiden> </kissed> </Man> </married> </Priest> </woke> </Cock> </kept> </Corn> </sowed> </Farmer>
FOAF super-connectivity daydreams from 2002.
“indirectly [...]
By danbri | Published:
2009-3-2
A must-read for those who care about standardised access to non-public Web data.
By danbri | Published:
2009-2-22
“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 [...]
By danbri | Published:
2009-2-19
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 else [...]
By danbri | Published:
2009-2-18
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 [...]
By danbri | Published:
2009-2-18
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 “test concept is “+ c1 + ” ” [...]
By danbri | Published:
2009-1-18
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 Essays, History, Politics, Semantic Web, Technology, foaf4lib, ggg | Tagged familyhistory, gedcom, History, journalism, provenance, trust |