Oooo. This is fun. *claps hands* David Weinberger asks: Let’s say I want to express in an RDF triple not simply that A relates to B, but the degree of A’s relationship to B. E.g.: Bill is 85% committed to Mary The tint of paint called Purple Dawn is 30% red Frenchie is 75% likely to […]
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We interrupt your regular thinking
I wrote a while back about putting RDF files out on Amazon’s S3 file storage. Why, I was asked. After all, I don’t have enough files, I have room on my server, and so on. Yup, I agreed. Other than S3 being nifty tech and wanting to be a cool kid, why would one want […]
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‘allo Jena
Both Leigh Dobbs and Danny Ayers published notes that the Jena User Conference schedule has been posted. (Danny also made mention of dreaming about Jena and white-velvet pouffes, but don’t let that scare you away from RDF.) This has all the makings of being a pretty damn good conference. The sessions are focused either on specific applications or about the practicalities […]
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S3 S404 RDF OK WRKS
First of all–isn’t there anything in any of the syndication feed specs that when a syndicated item returns 404 or like, some indication is made? Shouldn’t there be? In the meantime, I’ve been putting some thought into what I can do with S3. If you’ve been living under a rock (or conversely, are non-tech and […]
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Asking permission first
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Tim Bray has an interesting take on the use of AJAX: rather than have your server do the data processing, use AJAX to grab the data and then have the clients do the work: A server’s compute resources are usually at a premium, because it’s, you know, serving lots of different […]