It’s clear from discussion bouncing around IRC, Twitter, Skype and elsewhere that “Lock-in” isn’t a phrase to use lightly. So I post this to make myself absolutely clear. A few days ago I mentioned in IRC a concern that newcomers to SPARQL and RDF databases might not appreciate which SPARQL extensions are widely implemented, and […]
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“Stuff I’ve been thinking about” (SocialNetworkPortability WebCamp) – my slides
I’m in Cork, mainly for the excellent Social Network Portability event on Sunday, but am also staying through Blogtalk’08 which has been great. I’ve uploaded my slides from my talk (slideshare in Flash, included inline here, or a pdf). I have some rough speaking notes too, maybe I’ll get those online. I have no idea […]
Lqraps! Reverse SPARQL
(update: files are now in svn; updated the link here) I’ve just published a quick writeup (with running toy Ruby code) of a “reverse SPARQL” utility called lqraps, a tool for re-constructing RDF from tabular data. The idea is that such a tool is passed a tab-separated (eventually, CSV etc.) file, such as might conventionally […]
RDF in Ruby revisited
If you’re interested in collaborating on Ruby tools for RDF, please join the public-rdf-ruby@w3.org mailing list at W3C. Just send a note to public-rdf-ruby-request@w3.org with a subject line of “subscribe”. Last weekend I had the fortune to run into Rich Kilmer at O’Reilly’s ‘Social graph Foo Camp‘ gathering. In addition to helping decorate my tent, […]
CheckRDFSyntax and Schemarama Revisited
So I meant to write about a 1-line piece of Javascript, but ended up with a 5000 word freeform essay on the nature of RDF, XML, validation and so forth. It could probably do with some editing, but for now the words are in pretty much the order they came out of my brain. A […]