BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. rdfdata.org’s newest data source is The London Tube’s Schedule in RDF/XML. The data is used by the online tubeplanner.com. Putting this data into RDF/XML is a wonderful idea. Can you imagine the possibilities if other London organizations started putting their events into an RDF/XML feed? Add yourself into the mix with FOAF, and a […]
I thought I would break in with a little tech talk and discuss FOAF, or Friend of a Friend. If you hang around weblogging for any length of time, you’ll probably come across this term. Might be nice to know that it’s not some kind of new goverment regulation. FOAF is XML created using a specific […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I haven’t been able to post much here because of the work on the Kitchen (BTW – it sure would be nice to see more technical people involved with this. Hint. Hint.) Anyway, I don’t much care for IRC, but this snippet that Danny broke out of the FOAF IRC channel was extremely funny, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Another entry from Slashdot, this one about an alternative to SQL, based on SQL guru Chris Date’s innovations in the field. This alternative, known as ‘Tutorial D’, would seek to eliminate some of the more persistent relational DB problems, such as that pesky multi-meaning null. Is a field null because it makes no […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interesting Slashdot thread about how Lehigh University is going to build the Semantic Web all by itself. Computer scientist Jeff Heflin and others are building the Semantic Web, which they hope will handle more data, resolve contradictions and draw inferences from users’ queries. The new improved Web will also combine pieces of information from multiple […]