fidzu : RDF

What is URIBurner? A service from OpenLink Software , available at: http://uriburner.com , that enables anyone to generate structured descriptions -on the fly- for resources that are already published to HTTP based networks. These descriptions exist as hypermedia resource representations where links are used to identify: the entity ( data object or datum) being described, each of its attributes, and each of its attributes values (optionally). The hypermedia resource representation outlined above is what is commonly known as an Entity -Attribute-Value (EAV) Graph. The use of generic HTTP scheme based Identifiers is what distinguishes this type of hypermedia resource from ...

10 Mar 2010 5:52pm GMT

The W3C Media Annotations Working Group has published Working Drafts of Ontology for Media Resource 1.0 and API for Media Resource 1.0 . The former document defines the Ontology for Media Resource 1.0, a core vocabulary to describe media resources on the Web. It is defined based on a core set of properties which covers basic metadata to describe media resources. Further it defines syntactic and semantic level mappings between elements from existing formats. The ontology is supposed to foster the interoperability among various kinds of metadata formats currently used to describe media resources on the Web. The latter defines ...

10 Mar 2010 5:43pm GMT

10 Mar 2010 11:11am GMT

I'm pleased to report that XProc: An XML Pipeline Language is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation.

10 Mar 2010 11:01am GMT

No pun intended.

09 Mar 2010 11:48pm GMT

En este �ltimo art�culo sobre Hakia se profundiza en las ventajas de red de Google frente a Hakia y se trata la innovadora herramienta de Hakia para la publicidad web (CONTEXTA). Tambi�n se expone la utilidad de Hakia, y en general de cualquier buscador sem�ntico, para evitar el tr�fico oportunista que muchas p�ginas web consiguen usando palabras equ�vocas. Desde un punto de vista t�cnico, los expertos distinguen entre ventajas de red directas e indirectas. Sin entrar en detalles, dir� que las primeras corresponden a situaciones en que el valor de un bien o servicio se incrementa inmediatamente cuando crece el ...

09 Mar 2010 4:01pm GMT

JISC calls for Linked Data projects… Back in December, I met up with the Semantic Technologies Working Group at JISC to talk a bit about the rise of Linked Data and have a high-level look at who's been doing what. It was a great talk, from my perspective, because I was speaking to a room full of folk who knew EXACTLY what I meant. Instead of stumbling over explaining basic principles, we were all able to have a pretty healthy discussion about the big picture-looking at companies and organisations who've told their stories in Nodalities Magazine, for example. I left ...

09 Mar 2010 2:40pm GMT

As I announced a few weeks ago , the RDF Next Steps Workshop will take place at NCBO, in Standford, US. A separate page has now been published on the details of the location , especially on hotels. Let me also use this blog entry as a gentle reminder that the deadline for the position paper submissions is on April the 4th. There is still time, but not that much…

09 Mar 2010 9:32am GMT

On Thursday, I have 20 minutes to address 200 people (plus a video audience) at NoSQL Live … from Boston . My self-appointed mission is to start building bridges between the

09 Mar 2010 5:08am GMT

In the last few days I released Version 1.17 of my Flickcurl C library interface to the Flickr API. It has new complete support for three new recent sets of new APIs. Added 15 new functions for the new Stats API calls announced 2010-03-03 : flickr.stats.getCollectionDomains , flickr.stats.getCollectionReferrers , flickr.stats.getCollectionStats , flickr.stats.getPhotoDomains , flickr.stats.getPhotoReferrers , flickr.stats.getPhotosetDomains , flickr.stats.getPhotosetReferrers , flickr.stats.getPhotosetStats , flickr.stats.getPhotoStats , flickr.stats.getPhotostreamDomains , flickr.stats.getPhotostreamReferrers , flickr.stats.getPhotostreamStats , flickr.stats.getPopularPhotos and flickr.stats.getTotalViews . Added 8 new functions for the new People and "photos of" people API calls announced 2010-01-21 : flickr.photos.people.add , flickr.photos.people.delete , flickr.photos.people.deleteCoords , flickr.photos.people.editCoords and flickr.photos.people.getList , ...

09 Mar 2010 2:36am GMT

An example, for better or worse, of automating website interaction with XProc.

07 Mar 2010 9:25pm GMT

sameAs.org is a great service on a number of different levels. It provides a much needed piece of Semantic Web infrastructure and it achieves that through a simple clean interface and API. You don't even need to know anything about RDF to get value from the service. In short it's one of those nice web services that do one thing and do it really well. I use the service as a frequent example in my talks and training sessions on Linked Data. For example, while it's useful to review techniques for linking together datasets, in practice you can achieve a ...

07 Mar 2010 7:58pm GMT

Deceptively simple demonstrations of how Virtuoso 's SPARQL -GEO extensions to SPARQL lay critical foundation for Geo Spatial solutions that seek to leverage the burgeoning Web of Linked Data . Setup Information SPARQL Endpoint: Linked Open Data Cache (8.5 Billion+ Quad Store which includes data from Geonames and the Linked GeoData Project Data Sets) . Live Linked Data Meshup Links: LinkedGeoData things within 2km ORDER BY Dist LIMIT 10 (Use from iPhone only since its an iPhone oriented Linked Data driven application) LinkedGeoData things within 2km of Trafalgar Square | ORDER By Distance - closest first | ORDER By Distance ...

06 Mar 2010 10:43pm GMT

Or, perhaps more to the point, where was I? And where will I be?

06 Mar 2010 9:57pm GMT

The W3C has just published seven documents related to HTML5 . This set of documents also include the latest drafts of HTML+RDFa and of HTML Microdata .

05 Mar 2010 8:48am GMT

Motivation for this post arose from a series of Twitter exchanges between Tony Hirst and I, in relation to his blog post titled: So What Is It About Linked Data that Makes it Linked Data™ ? At the end of the marathon session, it was clear to me that a blog post was required for future reference, at the very least :-) What is Linked Data ? " Data Access by Reference " mechanism for Data Objects (or Entities) on HTTP networks. It enables you to Identify a Data Object and Access its structured Data Representation via a single Generic ...

04 Mar 2010 3:16pm GMT