In the spirit of release early and often, I've just uploaded the first snapshot of Twinkle, a query tool for Sparql. Twinkle is a simple Java interface that wraps the ARQ query library that Andy Seaborne is currently building as an add-on to Jena. ARQ is still under development and is not yet a supported … Continue reading Twinkle: A Sparql Query Tool
Month: January 2005
Tailored Feeds
Tim Bray posted some notes on Private Syndication, referring to this ZDNet piece by David Berlind. I'm inclined to agree that this kind of syndication is as yet a largely untapped application agree and that it's one with a great deal of possibilities. I'd love to have a feed of my bank balance, credit card … Continue reading Tailored Feeds
Folksonomies and Libraries
Seems like the library community is getting interested in folksonomies and how they can be used to supplement data coming from OPACS and other structured metadata. From The Shifted Librarian: I think controlled vocabularies and folksonomies can co-exist peacefully and even complement each other. And as librarians, let's start making use of them to complement … Continue reading Folksonomies and Libraries
Tag Spam
So any signs that "tag spam" has started yet? "Tag Spam" will be (or is) the practice of associating unrelated content (pr0n links, adverts, viagra pill adverts, press releases) with well-known tags with the purpose of encouraging click-throughs to said content. Seems like a natural extension of referrer, comment, and trackback spam, and I'm curious … Continue reading Tag Spam
Idea for Personal Timeline Viewer
As one of my new years resolutions was to not sit on ideas until I get time to implement them (I never do), so I've created an "Ideas" category that I can use to write these down. Here's my first one: I'd like an application that would build be a personal timeline of my web … Continue reading Idea for Personal Timeline Viewer
Semantic Web != Text Analysis; Semantic Web != Controlled Vocabularies
Stefano says The future of the semantic web is LSI. While I agree that LSI is definitely a cool technology, and is an interesting alternative to Bayesian techniques I don't agree that it's the future of the semantic web. The semantic web isn't about text analysis. It's not about data mining a document corpus. But … Continue reading Semantic Web != Text Analysis; Semantic Web != Controlled Vocabularies
XForms and FOAF and Cross-Player Woes
Mark Birbeck posted to rdfweb-dev on Friday to announce an XForms-based FOAF creator. To use the tool you'll need to install the latest version (and patches) of Forms Player. As Birbeck notes in the announcement the demo does nicely show-case some of the XForms features, notably extracting information for the form labels from the demo, … Continue reading XForms and FOAF and Cross-Player Woes
More on Triplestore Views
A quick follow up to my Views in Triple Stores posting. Andrew Newman describes how my requirements can be addressed within Kowari. He also noted (privately) that views are crucial for lots of use cases, pointing me at this thread on kowari-general. Richard Cyganiak was less keen on the idea. He's right that too wide … Continue reading More on Triplestore Views
Flickr Convert
I signed up for a flickr account shortly after it launched. Back then I was interested in browsing through the service to look at possibilities for data import/export (as FOAF) and so never actually played with the photo management and sharing features (duh). Prompted by Christopher Schmidt's recent Flickr and RDF posting which gave a … Continue reading Flickr Convert
From Lists to Social Content Engines
I started this essay last week on the train between Bath and Oxford, but then got side-tracked with writing up my XTech 2005 submissions and fighting off a nasty stomach bug before finishing it. Poking into my aggregator this morning I was interested to see this exchange between Bill de h
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