Monthly Archives: October 2006

… in which I backpedal quite a bit, after helpful comments from Laurens Holst on my previous post. Clarification 1: I don’t think that namespaces are bad. They are good and important. I just think that sometimes you want to … Continue reading →

One of the nice things about blogging is that you get people to review your ideas, for free. Yesterday I claimed that you don’t need URI prefixes in RDF queries. Instead of writing this: PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> PREFIX doap: <http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#> … Continue reading →

Update: Everyone hates the idea; some for good reasons. Properties and classes in RDF are identified by URIs. This is important because we want to be able to say additional things about them. But it has a cost. It makes … Continue reading →

(Copy’n’pasted from a poster I’ve done recently – I thought it’s worth re-posting here) Public and private organizations can benefit from making data available in machine-readable formats. Such data is most valuable when it is easily accessible and can be … Continue reading →

This is in response to a discussion in the comments to my recent post on geonames.org. I criticized the use of the same URI for concepts and documents in the Geonames RDF output; this post describes in detail how to … Continue reading →

Any regular users of BibSonomy around? Del.icio.us totally works for me as a bookmark manager, and BibSonomy is similar, and now I wonder if I should use it to manage the papers I’m reading. I’m looking for opinions, what works … Continue reading →

Now that we have a large database of places on the Semantic Web, I want to link to my place from my FOAF file. To find a place, go to geonames.org, enter the name in the search box, find the … Continue reading →

The Geonames database is available on the Semantic Web. Announcement, Details, Discussion, notes about the ontology. In summary, this means a whole lot of places with their names and geo coordinates and links to other places are now available on … Continue reading →