foaf:OnlineAccount Generator

Phil Wilson is also thinking about how to subscribe to someone's brain. Phil has hacked his aggregator to attempt to discover as many RSS feeds as possible starting from autodiscovery of someone's FOAF description. Nice work. It's also closer to the original lazyweb request as its applying some rules to try and find additional data … Continue reading foaf:OnlineAccount Generator →

Subscribe To My Brain

Over Thai food last week, Geoff and I were chatting about subscribing to RSS feeds for all of a person's outputs. No just blogging but bookmarking, listening and other activities. Its a topic that's seen some previous discussion. I've written about my life in RDF, Jo Walsh has discussed externalising absolutely everything and Morten Frederiksen … Continue reading Subscribe To My Brain →

Triple Store Test Suites

I was very pleased to see this post pop up on PlanetRDF: Stress test your triple store. Ten million triples from the Swoogle cache ready for download. As it happens I'm trying to get sign off at the moment to release part of our data set for research purposes. Not confident of how far I'm … Continue reading Triple Store Test Suites →

Sample Sparql Queries, Updated

Back in February I posted some sample sparql queries that might be useful as additional examples of the SPARQL syntax. Since then we've had several new drafts including some syntax changes. In this post I'm including updated versions of all queries. Except for one that is, see later discussion). I've also thrown in a few … Continue reading Sample Sparql Queries, Updated →

Twinkle 0.3

I've just uploaded the latest version of Twinkle: a SPARQL query tool. The project now has its own homepage and DOAP description. Version 0.3 of Twinkle basically just brings the tool up to date with the latest SPARQL syntax by moving to ARQ 0.9.5. I also added a few UI niceties such as icons, tooltips, … Continue reading Twinkle 0.3 →

XTech Talk, Slides and Overview

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 →

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 →

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 →