I've uploaded the slides (Powerpoint) from my XTech 2005 talk: Connecting Social Content Services using FOAF, RDF and REST. In the presentation I basically gave an overview of the paper, touching on some areas where I thought further work was needed and attempted to do a little RDF advocacy, but coming from a slightly different … Continue reading XTech Talk, Slides and Overview
Author: Leigh Dodds
CTO at EnergySparks (https://energysparks.uk), previously Director of Delivery at the Open Data Institute. Proud Dad.
XTech Day Two: XHTML and the WHATWG
Some notes from day two of the XTech conference. A more mixed selection of talks for me yesterday: Directions of the Mozilla RDF engine -- Axel Hecht gave a low level look at how the RDF parser and APIs in Mozilla were going to be brought up to specification and optimised. Some new APIs will … Continue reading XTech Day Two: XHTML and the WHATWG
Xtech Day One: Open Data Track
Some notes on the first day of the XTech 2005 conference. The opening keynotes of the conferences were from Paula Le Dieu of Creative Commons International and Mike Shaver, Project Co-ordinator for the Mozilla Foundation. In his opening remarks as conference chair, Edd Dumbill, explained that the keynotes underpinned his goal to broaden this years … Continue reading Xtech Day One: Open Data Track
Connecting Social Content Services using FOAF, RDF and REST
Abstract A growing number of "social content" applications such as Flickr, del.icio.us, audioscrobbler, and AllConsuming are making open web services part of their core offering to end users. These interfaces allow users to query, share, and manipulate the data managed on their behalf by these social content applications. Web service interfaces make such sites more … Continue reading Connecting Social Content Services using FOAF, RDF and REST
XTech Plans
I'm flying out to Amsterdam tomorrow for XTech. Like last year I'm staying in the Quentin England near Leidesplein, and have extended my trip to include a long weekend afterwards. So it'll be a nice mix of geekiness followed by some fun, food and drinks with the missus and a whole posse of friends who … Continue reading XTech Plans
Birthday Snapshot #3
Another of my annual birthday snapshots. What's going on in my life at the moment? I doubt you're interested, but I am. So there! Home Well we stopped thinking about the loft conversion and went ahead and had one done. What a nightmare that turned out to be. Dust, mess, and disruption I was expecting. … Continue reading Birthday Snapshot #3
Ending HTTP Abuse
In Jon Udell's End HTTP Abuse piece he observes, as have many recently, that many of the popular web services don't do the right thing with GET and POST. In my paper for XTech this was one of the criteria I used to compare a number of different web services. The complete list of reviewed … Continue reading Ending HTTP Abuse
ISWC 2005 Submission
As I've alluded to in the past we've been exploring moving our content repository over to an RDF triple store. It's turning out to be pretty massive, we've learnt a few things along the way, and no doubt have much more to learn as we continue with the project. Seemed worthwhile submitting a conference paper … Continue reading ISWC 2005 Submission
New SPARQL Specification
I'm very pleased to see the publication of the latest SPARQL specification. It looked for a while as if FROM was going to be removed from the language, i.e. specifying the data set would be a protocol issue and not something supported in the query language. This seemed like a bad idea to me, not … Continue reading New SPARQL Specification
Who Should You Vote For?
I just filled this out as an idle exercise to see that the results would be: Who Should You Vote For?. I don't feel that any party represents my views especially well, but my expected outcome was Liberal Democrat. You can see the results for yourself: Labour 8Conservative -21 Liberal Democrat 34 UK Independence Party … Continue reading Who Should You Vote For?
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