Birthday Snapshot #4

The fourth in my annual navel gazing series. This time to mark my 34th year. And damnit I just keep getting better.

SPARQLing the BBC Programme Catalogue

Now that the BBC Programme Catalogue is live (see announcement from mattb) there's another huge RDF data source ready for playing with. To start the ball rolling, here's a couple of SPARQL queries: List TV shows made by William Hartnell that mention Dr Who. Results in html or json List all episodes of Dr Who … Continue reading SPARQLing the BBC Programme Catalogue →

2006 Jena User Conference Programme

The schedule for the 2006 Jena User Conference has been published. Taking place on 10th/11th May at HP Labs in Bristol, the conference will be a great opportunity for the Jena community to get together with the core developers to share experiences, talk about projects that are underway, and discuss issues such as the future … Continue reading 2006 Jena User Conference Programme →

Slug: Alpha-2

A while ago I released a simple Scutter called Slug. Prompted by the fact that a couple of people have actually found it useful, and a need for an improved and more configurable scutter for one of my own projects, I've packaged up a new release of the code. There's more documentation, although still a … Continue reading Slug: Alpha-2 →

SPARQLing Services at XTech

I'm very pleased to announce that I've had a paper accepted at XTech, I believe the schedule is still being compiled, but I've had confirmation that my paper "SPARQLing Services" has been accepted. Here's the abstract: Backed by the flexibility of the RDF data model, and consisting of both a query language and data access … Continue reading SPARQLing Services at XTech →

Out and About

From the way it's shaping up, 2006 looks set to be my busiest year ever with respect to travel and conference attendance. A few weeks ago I was at the ALA MidWinter conference in San Antonio, Texas. Ingenta has regularly had a stand at the conference, but this was my first time. A good chance … Continue reading Out and About →

Personal Annual Report

A nice visualisation of someone's activities over the course of a year: a personal annual report. It looks like at least some of the data (e.g. the list of most listened to artists) is already being taken from websites collating data about a users habits and activities. It'd be nice to see something this eye-catching … Continue reading Personal Annual Report →

The Modern Palimpsest

The following is a brief summary of a talk I gave recently at the Ingenta Publisher Forum on the 28th November. The slides are available as a Powerpoint presentation. In the presentation I tried to highlight some of the possibilities that could become available if academic publishers begin to share more metadata about the content … Continue reading The Modern Palimpsest →

OpenDocument and XMP

This is the second part of my look at XMP. This time I'm focusing on the potential for using XMP as the metadata format for OpenDocument (ODF). This is part of a broader discussion to help define the future direction for the ODF metadata format, one proposal on the table is to use RDF, via … Continue reading OpenDocument and XMP →

Looking at XMP

I've been taking a look at XMP as I've been considering different ways to "enrich" content. Embedding metadata is one option and XMP aims to fulfill the role of a metadata format suitable for embedding in a diverse range of media formats. It's also under discussion as way to embed metadata in the OpenDocument format. … Continue reading Looking at XMP →