From Twitter in the last few minutes, a chaos of echo’d posts about army moves. Just a few excerpts here by copy/paste, mostly without the all-important timestamps. Without tools to trace reports to their source, to claims about their source from credible intermediaries, or evidence, this isn’t directly useful. Even grassroots journalists needs evidence. I [...]
Tag Archives: journalism
Twitter Iran RT chaos
Posted in Activism, Conspiracy Theory, FOAF, Politics, Project ideas, SKOS, The Web at War, ggg, openid, privacy Also tagged identica, iran, iranelection, tehran, twitter, witness 3 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Essays, FOAF, History, Politics, Semantic Web, Technology, foaf4lib, ggg Also tagged familyhistory, gedcom, History, provenance, trust 3 Comments