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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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Monthly Archives: May 2006
RDF/JSON
RDF/XML sucks: People loudly complain about RDF/XML, the standard serialization format of RDF graphs into XML. It’s crufty, it’s buggy, it misses the point, it’s a royal pain. Turtle/N3 is better for reading and writing by humans, but writing a … Continue reading
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SPARQL developers discussion mailing list
The W3C’s public-sparql-dev mailing list is a bit underpublished (or rather, it’s in an abandoned cellar behind a cabinet with a sign reading “beware the tiger”). Nonetheless, it is the place where to discuss implementation and usage of W3C’s new … Continue reading
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This blog doesn’t have enough cat photos
Hats off to anyone who can watch this without laughing! Bonus link.
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WWW2006 wrapup
Wow, what a week! WWW: This is a fantastic conference, very high quality, excellent organisation, lots and lots of fascinating people. Edinburgh: The label “Athens of the North” is appropriate. It’s all there, the city sprawling over several hills, the … Continue reading
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Off to Edinburgh
WWW2006 is starting tomorrow. I will be giving a demo of D2R Server on Thursday. To save money, I’m flying to Glasgow and take the train from there. Edinburgh is a beautiful city I hear. This is the first time … Continue reading
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Backlog
Greg Knauss: My entire life has devolved into an endless, grinding slog through my back-log. Everything I do is about catching up, doing the stuff I didn’t get done the day before, plowing through some other goddamned thing that needs … Continue reading
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Achilles is dead
The Under Odysseus blog, a serialized retelling of the siege of Troy through the eyes of Eurylochus, an officer with administrative duties in Odysseus’ entourage, is one of my favourite sources of light entertainment these days. The story reaches a … Continue reading
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Semantic MediaWiki inline queries
New in Semantic MediaWiki 0.4: inline queries. Syntax is quite simple and fits in well with other MediaWiki idioms. The queries produce comma-separated lists, bullet lists, or tables. Expressivity seems to be comparable with RDQL plus sort and limit. No … Continue reading
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JUC2006 wrapup
JUC2006 has been over for a few days. This is my wrapup post. First some linkage: Leigh’s summary Lots of photos from Anja and Libby (I stole a random selection for this post) More photos, from Libby too I think … Continue reading
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SPARQL endpoint self-descriptions
In many scenarios involving SPARQL endpoints, it would be great to have machine-readable metadata about the endpoint. What is it called, what is inside, what can it do? One place where this comes up is with generic SPARQL browsers. They … Continue reading
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