Monthly Archives: March 2007

Neil Bartlett: “StatSVN helps startups get funded”

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

Neil Batlett has an interesting take on StatSVN and StatCVS: One problem that startup companies often have is demonstrating to investors that they’re actually doing something productive rather than just pouring away money on office plants, Herman Miller chairs, and … Continue reading →

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Less code: eRDF templates for RDF-driven web sites

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

Keith Alexander experiments with using eRDF markup to populate HTML templates: I was writing a php template, marking it up with eRDF, and I realised that what I was doing was describing variables with triples – which is essentially what … Continue reading →

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Trilingual word mashup

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

The German readers will appreciate my mix of surprise and horror when I realized I had just typed this word in an email: folksonomymäßig A word that is certain to hurt the sensibilities of every lover of either the English, … Continue reading →

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SPARUL—SPARQL Update Language

Posted on March 9, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

Andy Seaborne announces a first draft of SPARUL, the SPARQL/Update Language: This document describes SPARQL/Update (nicknamed “SPARUL”), an update language for RDF graphs. It uses a syntax derived form SPARQL. Update operations are performed on a collection of graphs in … Continue reading →

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An answer to all (well, some) of your URI questions

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

Aren’t URNs much more elegant than those brittle HTTP URIs? Why is everyone yapping about 303 redirects? Hash vs. slash? What’s the deal with content negotiation and the Semantic Web? Shouldn’t we use blank nodes anyway? There’s a lot of … Continue reading →

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URIs for exceptions?

Posted on March 4, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

Over in the comments to Henry Story’s bug ontology post, I wrote: There should be RDF representations of program error reports, such as Java exceptions. Then I could SPARQL for “NullPointerException in class so-and-so of project foobar“, and possibly a … Continue reading →

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