Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been silent in this weblog, primarily because I’ve been working on a couple of other projects. I had talked with a good, and wise, friend of mine about this effort and he made a point that I felt was valid: that I should implement those applications or functionalities I’ve […]
Category: Semantics
PHP API for SPARQL?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Does anyone know of a PHP implementation of SPARQL? Not the adorable kitten who I happen to be god-mother to (and who I can’t connect to at the moment); the W3C RDF/XML query language. I have my old Query-o-Matic that works — barely — using RDQL, but need to create […]
Semantic web enabler of the year
If there was a Semantic Web Enabler of the Year award, I would nominate the site rdfdata.org (and the creator, Bob DuCharme) daily, and twice on Sunday. Especially when you see data such as details of terrorist acts since 1988, organized in OWL. My jaw dropped when I looked through it. My, my, what the warbloggers […]
Folksonomies
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This isn’t a post as much as it is a placeholder for some articles I want to examine and write about later, after I finish a couple of promised applications and the rest of the updates for the chapters here. I’m not quite sure what to make of ‘folksonomies’ –simple […]
I still like my analogy to the elephant and the blind men, in chapter 1. People still see RDF, and more generally, the Semantic Web (or my preferred, the lowercase semantic web), from different viewpoints, and with different expectations. That hasn’t changed, and by the nature of the beast, never will. Good. Keeps life interesting. […]
