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A RDF extension in PHP

Danny Ayers points to an RDFWeb discussion entry about providing help with porting the Raptor RDF engine to Windows. Or with getting RDF support built into PHP. Guys, PHP is open source. You don’t have to get the PHP folks to buy into including it as part of the distribution. What you need to do is provide the stripped […]

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RDF

New for me

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. You all probably know about this already, but version 0.8 of RAP or RDF API for PHP was released in June. Among other things, such as an integrated RDF server, RAP provides support for the RDQL (a query language for RDF), now a W3C submission–which you’ve probably also heard about. One advantage of taking […]

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RDF

Mining passive social networks

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Marc Canter pointed to an upcoming conference, the 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking, and the Semantic Web (also mentioned at RDFWeb and Danny Ayers). I wasn’t sure about a conference focusing primarily on Friend of a Friend, but looking through the Call for Papers topic list, the conference goes beyond the concept […]

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Burningbird RDF

Cleaning House

Yesterday and today I’ve been cleaning out my server, including my weblog installation. I also brought Practical RDF back online, as a new WordPress weblog. I borrowed heavily from the Burningbird redesign for this new weblog; basically copying Deep Thoughts with the addition of the book cover and the muted background. I used an old trick to […]

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Semantics

Emotive

In my last post, Scott mentioned being able to change the stylesheet based on the mood of the writing–derived from the occurrence of trigger words such as ‘anger’, or perhaps mention of certain names. The problem with a keyword-based solution is that without knowing the context, you really can’t determine how a word is being used. For […]