Monthly Archives: January 2005

Postal Experiments

Posted on January 22, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

Einige Spaßvögel testen die Grenzen der US-Post, indem sie allerlei skurrile Dinge verschicken, beispielsweise heliumgefüllte Luftballons, ausreichend frankierte Ziegelsteine, 20$-Noten und alte Rehkeulen: Deer tibia: Our mailing specialist received many strange looks from both postal clerks and members of the … Continue reading →

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Wie man Windows in Linux verwandelt

Posted on January 17, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

Grrrr. Nicht lustig.

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Namespaces and vocabulary partitioning

Posted on January 13, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

Continuing a thread about views in triple stores. Leigh Dodds pointed out the need for something like SQL’s views in RDF stores, and suggested vocabulary namespaces as a partitioning mechanism: The […] subset may be created by filtering out the … Continue reading →

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Donald Rumsfeld

Posted on January 9, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

Man mag von US-Verteidigungsminister Donald Rumsfeld halten was man will – seine Liste mit Weisheiten zu Regierung und Geschäftswelt ist gut. Ein paar Highlights: Learn to say “I don’t know.” If used when appropriate, it will be often. If you … Continue reading →

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Folksonomies succeed where the Semantic Web fails

Posted on January 8, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

The Folksonomy meme has been bouncing around the blogosphere for a couple of weeks. The idea is to categorize information (such as bookmarks or photos) by user-defined keywords, often called tags. This is especially powerful when combined with a social/collaborative … Continue reading →

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Views in triple stores

Posted on January 8, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

Leigh Dodds wants views in triple stores: Views are an important feature of relational databases, providing a way to abstract over complex queries, subset data to just the minium required for a given task, as well as providing a point … Continue reading →

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Gecyberschaft, Geblogschaft

Posted on January 7, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

Susan Crawford bloggt einen Vortrag von Mary Ann Allison. Sie hat eine Theorie zur Evolution des menschlichen Zusammenlebens. Here’s her idea: sociologist Ferdinand Tonnies described village society before the Industrial Revolution (gemeinschaft) and urban society afterwards (gesellschaft) … and she thinks we’re … Continue reading →

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Deprecate RDF/XML!

Posted on January 7, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

Phil Dawes suggests to deprecate RDF/XML. His plan for action: Deprecate RDF/XML as the default serialisation of RDF. Make it clear that it is tricky to write by hand (i.e. by putting this note in the W3C literature), and that … Continue reading →

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Gotta Get My Stuff Done

Posted on January 2, 2005 by Richard Cyganiak

Eine Quicktime-Animation (via 43 Folders). Ich sage euch, da wurde mein Leben verfilmt.

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