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

Views in Triple Stores

Views are an important feature of relational databases, providing a way to abstract over complex queries, subset data to just the minium required for a given task, as well as providing a point around which a schema can be refactored without having to (immediately) change the applications that use it. So far I'm not aware … Continue reading Views in Triple Stores →

Konfabulator

Via Catalogablog I've just learnt that Konfabulator is available for windows. Looked interesting, so I installed it. I'm in love. Looking forward to seeing this del.icio.us based widget.

FOAF from Audiscrobbler

Whilst upgrading my Audioscrobbler WinAmp plugin today to be conformant to the latest submission protocol (my RESTful redesign didn't gain any traction unfortunately) I discovered that they're been busy on their web services interface. Alongside the original RSS 1.0 "recent tracks" feed, there is now an RSS 2.0 feed, a plain text version, and a … Continue reading FOAF from Audiscrobbler →

IngentaConnect RSS Feeds

It's with some pleasure that I'm able to announce a little Xmas present from the technology team at Ingenta to the academic and RDF communities: another batch of RSS feeds from IngentaConnect. To be precise: in excess of 20,000 new RSS feeds containing the latest table of contents data for the academic journals that are … Continue reading IngentaConnect RSS Feeds →

FOAF-a-Matic now available in Dutch and Chinese

I'm pleased to announce that the FOAF-a-Matic is now available in two additional languages: Traditional Chinese and Dutch. (Those are the direct links, content negotation will be used to give you a suitable version automatically if you use the usual link). I actually got sent two Chinese translations so I should thank both Ilya Eric … Continue reading FOAF-a-Matic now available in Dutch and Chinese →

Slug: A Simple Semantic Web Crawler

Back in March I was tinkering with writing a Scutter. I'd never written a web crawler before, so was itching to give it a go as a side project. I decided to call it Slug because I was pretty sure it'd end up being a slow and probably icky; crafting a decent web crawler is … Continue reading Slug: A Simple Semantic Web Crawler →