Kurt Cagle wrote an excellent essay on semantics, Some Thoughts on Semantics. He talks about the technologies associated with the building of the semantic web, and how each technology builds on the previous to provide greater degrees of accuracy. RDF can be used to make assertions and ontologies can be used to ensure the accuracy and […]
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First looks at Joost
s I edited the book today, while the snow blew in an oddly unendearing blizzard–alas, we missed the copper moon–I watched Joost. Specifically I watched a nice show on sleeper sharks, several episodes of National Geographic, and explored a bit with the other channels. A television network hosted entirely through the web (Internet Protocol TV […]
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Pipes missing the target
Uldis Bojars writes: Pipeline architecture itself is not unique to Pipes. Applying it to the Semantic Web (or to RSS) is not unique either – many have been collecting / integrating information from a number of sources and asking questions like “show me the publications by people who know [user input here, e.g. “Stefan Decker”] and […]
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RSS kills gotos
Assaf: Everytime you meta-program, God kills a for loop. *snork* (Link thanks to Sterling.)
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Cheap Eats at the Semantic Web Cafe
Recovered (comments and all) from the Wayback Machine. It’s a rare event when several seemingly disparate items of interest all come together to form a compelling, coalescent whole. This event happened for me the past few weeks; an experience formed of discussions about digital identity and laws of same, LID, Technorati Tags, new and old […]