foaf2doc

I've been working with FOAF a bit recently which has entailed a fair amount of reading through the FOAF namespace document. Doing a "View Source" on that page is also useful as you can then examine the embedded RDF Schema that describes the FOAF vocabulary; there's a lot more in the schema than is visible … Continue reading foaf2doc →

Synthetic RSS Feeds and FOAF

Sean McGrath was recently looking for a tool that would "coalesce various standalone feeds into, aggregated feeds so that my client side aggregator sees it as a single feed" which seems like a perfectly reasonable request. And it's one of many useful features that server-side aggregators could be doing. Others include normalising feeds so they … Continue reading Synthetic RSS Feeds and FOAF →

Schematron Progress

Rick Jelliffe has announced a short document describing the differences between Schematron 1.5, 1.6, and ISO Schematron. The latter being the version that will become part of the ISO DSDL standard. What with Jing now supporting Schematron, and the publication of James Clark's Namespace Routing Language document, the DSDL effort seems to be moving forward … Continue reading Schematron Progress →

Why use RDF instead of just XML?

Nice comments from Dan Brickley in response to this posting HubLog: RDF braindump. This question keeps resurfacing, and this is one of the best answers I've seen: "One way to think about this: the Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of XML applications who agree to make a certain tradeoff for the sake of … Continue reading Why use RDF instead of just XML? →

Radio Monkey

Facts: I've just bought the new Radiohead album, "Hail to the Thief" I've also just bought Bonobo's new album, "Dial M for Monkey" A Bonobo is also a type of monkey It's Friday It's Friday, and there are still no pictures of be-hatted animals on the Daily Chump Therefore, here's a picture of a novelty … Continue reading Radio Monkey →

Structured Procrastination

Just saw this article on "Structured Procrastination" courtesy of Edd on the Daily Chump. Fits my working style also. This week I've refactored the FOAF-a-Matic to allow me to internationalise it very easily, have been hacking on Mark 2 to get ready for another beta, and have been exploring how jpegrdf works with a view … Continue reading Structured Procrastination →

FOAF-a-Matic In Japanese

The title says it all. The Japanese version of the FOAF-a-Matic was made possible by the kind efforts of Masahide Kanzaki. Big thanks to Masahide for his swift turn-around of the translation. Masahide has also created a Japanese introduction to FOAF. Danny has links to other recent FOAF activities

Translating the FOAF-a-Matic

As I mentioned recently I'd like to get the FOAF-a-Matic translated into other languages. The aim is to make the creation of FOAF files as easy as possible for as many people as possible. While the app doesn't support all of the various properties that can be added to a FOAF document, I think it … Continue reading Translating the FOAF-a-Matic →

People Nearby

I added the magic META markup to get myself into GeoURL today and now that they've harvested my co-ordinates I've been amusing myself by cruising through the list of sites geographically near mine. It makes for interesting reading. Surprisingly there aren't any sites at all in Bath. But there are certainly plenty in and around … Continue reading People Nearby →

FOAF-a-Matic Progress Update

I've been hacking on the FOAF-a-Matic Mark 2 again this week after some gentle (and much needed) prodding from Phil Wilson who got so fed up with waiting for me to release another version, he went ahead and did some work on the code himself. (And why not, its Public Domain after all). So during … Continue reading FOAF-a-Matic Progress Update →