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Semantics

Funky to go

Joi Ito, presumably in response to this news, wrote the following about a possible Microsoft strategy as regards to Google, searching, and metadata: Google likes scraping html, mixing it with their secret sauce and creating the all-mighty page ranking. Anything that detracts value from this rocket science or makes things complicated for Google or easy for other people […]

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RDF

Jena Week: final examples

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I converted the rest of the Jena1 examples to Jena2 without any major reworking being necessary. At the end of this post is a zipped file of all of the Java source that you can download, use to start your own explorations. In Example 7, reading in an RDF/XML file […]

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Diversity RDF

Accept

My roommate surprised me with a wonderful gift tonight, a movie I’ve been trying to find on DVD for a long time. The movie is “Mr. Baseball” with Tom Selleck. It wasn’t a popular movie, and I doubt you’ve heard of it. It’s also not especially ‘artsy’ but I still love it. * I wish […]

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RDF

Blindsiding and forward thinking

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When Sam Ruby invited me into an IRC chat last week to talk about creating a compliant RDF/XML syntax for Pie/Echo/Atom, I wasn’t aware that there was an agenda behind this effort. It wasn’t until Sam published the full model at his weblog and discussed how RDF needs to meet XML […]

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RDF Writing

Practical RDF-Generating giggles around the world

Practical RDF has now been immortalized in a comic strip. Achewood Hey! I love black licorice!