Monthly Archives: March 2006

There are no “shallow end” RDF tutorials

Posted on March 29, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Phil Jones, in my comments: I think the difficulty in RDF comes from […] confusion with the aims of upper-case SemWeb, means that it’s hard to find documentation that doesn’t throw you into the deep-end. (Maybe someone should produce a … Continue reading →

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Leo on RDF server architecture

Posted on March 29, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Leo: Note that an RDF database server (with inference) will probably look like this. Haha. So true.

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Adding geo cordinates to your FOAF file

Posted on March 29, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

You don’t have a FOAF file yet? No? Then go create one! You have a FOAF file, but it doesn’t have geo coordinates? Then go add them! This link leads to a little service that helps you locate the latitude … Continue reading →

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Ask an ignorantselfishertarianist

Posted on March 28, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Scott Adams, author of the Dilbert comic strip, started a blog a while ago, and it’s been one of the most enjoyable reads on my blogroll ever since. His pragmatic outlook on the world, his tendency to take everything at … Continue reading →

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Spellchecking vocabularies with SPARQL

Posted on March 27, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Dan Brickley experiments with using SPARQL queries to check on the vocabularies used in an RDF file. Here’s a query that checks my FOAF file for properties that are in the FOAF namespace, but not declared in the FOAF RDFS … Continue reading →

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Yet another new blog: Steffen Pingel

Posted on March 27, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Noticed today that Steffen Pingel, one of the guys behind StatCvs-XML, has started a blog.

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My new favourite english word …

Posted on March 27, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

… has to be satisfactorily. Displaced to the second rank: procrastination. I liked that one because it plays such a major role in my life, and my native language (german) has no word for that concept. It’s nice to learn … Continue reading →

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RDF and OWL are legacy

Posted on March 27, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

[John Sowa:](http://www.w3.org/mid/4426BF93.1070503@bestweb.net) > RDF and OWL are legacy systems that must be supported, but semantics, pragmatics, and ontology are where the action is. RDF and OWL are too limited, clumsy, and inefficient to support any serious work in knowledge representation … Continue reading →

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This was not on the map!

Posted on March 25, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Here’s Danny’s continuation of the “SemWeb types should embrace OPML/RDF is too hard” thread, in which he takes a step back to paint the big picture. The goal is the Web of Data, Web as a platform. An RDF-based semantic … Continue reading →

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Canaries in the New Economy’s coalmine

Posted on March 24, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Jessica Clark: In many ways, “geeks” are the canaries in the New Economy’s coalmine. Programmers and knowledge workers often operate as free agents in the digital economy—self-employed or contract workers with little job security and a constant need to reinvent … Continue reading →

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