Monthly Archives: November 2006

Kaivo

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Jukka Villstedt’s Kaivo now has a website. It’s a GUI prototype for navigating and editing RDF-like data and subject of Jukka’s master’s thesis. Similar to Tabulator, Kaivo displays graph data in an outline form. But unlike Tabulator, it can be … Continue reading →

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Reuse til it hurts

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Sean B. Palmer on #swig: I wonder if it might be a good rule of thumb to “reuse properties until it hurts; and then change”, in order to propel the property consensus that’s meant to be such a central feature … Continue reading →

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Blogschluss

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Mein deutschsprachiges Blog ist hiermit offiziell geschlossen. Weiter geht es wie gehabt auf englisch auf dowhatimean.net. Wer kein englisch mag, der kann immer noch auf meinem Flickr-Account Bilder schauen.

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Vista’s OFF button

Posted on November 25, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

This would be funny if it was not so sad. Development of Windows Vista’s shutdown menu took more than a year and 41 people. And what they produced is an utter design failure according to Joel Spolsky. If Moishe Lettvin’s … Continue reading →

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SPARQL will be formalized as an algebra

Posted on November 24, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Andy Seaborne announced yesterday that he is working on a SPARQL algebra for inclusion in the spec. His current draft is here: SPARQL Algebra. I have criticized SPARQL’s lack of a formal semantics before, and I’m glad to see the … Continue reading →

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John Doe’s “Test ASIN” at Amazon

Posted on November 23, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

My colleague Tobias Gauß dug this up while exploring the Amazon APIs: Test ASIN, by John Doe. Apparently it’s going to be published by Test, Inc. on 07/07/07, and you can preorder NOW for only $19.99.

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RESTful SQL?

Posted on November 22, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

I’m trying to understand Mark Baker’s criticism of yesterday’s SPARQL Update proposal. To me his criticism seems to boil down to “it’s not RESTful”, which is true, but not necessarily a problem. Why insist on applying REST to everything that … Continue reading →

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SPARQL Update Language at ESW

Posted on November 20, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

SPARQL Update Language at the ESW Wiki, started by Max Völkel and me. So far the wiki page is just a few notes about the trivial part (syntax), but it might be a good place for collecting relevant links and … Continue reading →

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Content negotiation with hash URIs (long)

Posted on November 16, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Warning, WebArch nerdery ahead. The short version is, I’ve managed to convince myself that there is no problem with content negotiation on hash URIs. And if you want to do it, you should follow the Best Practices Recipes for Publishing … Continue reading →

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Backing up your del.icio.us bookmarks

Posted on November 13, 2006 by Richard Cyganiak

Triggered by recent events, I’ve written a little script that backs up my del.icio.us bookmarks to my local disk. It’s a Ruby script and runs only on Unix systems such as Mac OS X. When run, it will do this: … Continue reading →

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