Ping FOAFnaut

Here's a simple bookmarklet that uses FOAF Autodiscovery to find a FOAF document linked to from the page you're currently viewing and then submits it to FOAFnaut. If FOAFnaut already knows this URL then the database will be cleared and the data reloaded, otherwise it will just load the new data. Just drag the link … Continue reading Ping FOAFnaut →

Thoughts on Markup Tools

Great post from Dorothea on requirements for good markup tools. I agree with everything she says, and follow a few of the habits she lists myself: I tend to write an article and then markup it up, unless its only a very very short piece; and always fill in my URLs after the fact. I … Continue reading Thoughts on Markup Tools →

My Life in RDF

I have this project idea at the back of my mind which I mentally refer to as "My Life in RDF". Rather than being an exciting diary of the trials and tribulations of a lone hacker, wrestling with semantic web technologies for fun and profit, you should read that title a bit more literally: the … Continue reading My Life in RDF →

Got Advogato? Get FOAF!

Continuing a week spent tinkering with FOAF utilities, I've just posted a new one that will automatically generate a basic FOAF file for you if you have an existing Advogato profile. Advogato to FOAF To use the utility all you need to supply is your nick name and email address. The latter is used as … Continue reading Got Advogato? Get FOAF! →

More, More, MORE

I've been meaning to have a play with the POI API for some time now. So, when a colleague mentioned how easy it is to work with, I decided it was high time I had a look. Whilst thinking of a suitable utility it occured to me that Office documents have metadata stored in them … Continue reading More, More, MORE →

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 →