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My name is Richard Cyganiak.
I'm a software engineer at TopQuadrant. I work on web technologies for managing data and am based in Dublin, Ireland.Links
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I want one of these
This Wired article reads like something straight from a William Gibson novel: Michael Chorost lost his ability to hear in 2001. A cochlear implant, a small computer installed in his skull, allows him to understand human voices again, but is … Continue reading
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The Warthog Jump
Funny Halo in-game video: The Warthog Jump. What happens when you blow up a car sitting on top of a pile of grenades? Great choice of music, too. (via BoingBoing)
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Sparklines for the SourceForge stats feeds
Sparklines are small word-sized graphics that communicate lots of numbers in a small space. Here’s an example: Jena downloads are usually around 80 per day during the week, with slightly less on the weekends. After the 2.3 release on 12 … Continue reading
What’s next? A great discussion with some of my favourite thinkers
Time Magazine has a great discussion with some of my favourite writers and thinkers about trends for the future. Some choice quotes: Malcolm Gladwell: One of the most striking things in observing the evolution of American society is the rise … Continue reading
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SPARQL wishlist
Some stuff that isn’t in SPARQL, but should be. I’ve two use cases in mind: building AJAX applications on top of a SPARQL store, and enabling discovery of the stuff that is in a SPARQL store you don’t know yet. … Continue reading
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SemWeb student job in Berlin
Student job offer (in German) The job is in the Semantic Web for Pathology project. I’ve previously written about it (in German).
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Can we measure performance by analyzing CVS repositories?
A couple of days ago, I came across this fine paper by Keir Mierle et al. from U of Toronto: Mining Student CVS Repositories for Performance Indicators They examined the CVS repositories that their students used for assignments, extracted all … Continue reading
Uncovering a plan to destroy the world
Here’s what I dreamed last night. (True!) This is a scene from a James Bond movie. One of the old ones, starring, maybe, Roger Moore as 007 and Gert Fröbe as the Goldfinger-like villain. This is towards the middle of … Continue reading
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TriG syntax issues
TriG is a Turtle-based serialization syntax for RDF datasets. The only implementation I know of is in NG4J. An example: @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> . @prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> . @prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> . { <http://example.org/bob.rdf> dc:publisher “Bob” . <http://example.org/alice.rdf> dc:publisher “Alice” … Continue reading
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RSS feeds for SourceForge project activity statistics
Every SourceForge project has a statistics page with the number of daily page views and downloads (example). Last year, I built a little screenscraper (page in German) that converted any project’s stats page into an RSS feed. But earlier this … Continue reading