Bayesian Agents

Classifier4J is a Java text classification library that includes a text summariser and a Bayesian classifier. It was my interest in the latter that lead me to play with the API recently, as I wanted to demonstrate to some colleagues the ease with which one can use Bayesian classification to create a content filter/recommender. Well, … Continue reading Bayesian Agents →

PhotoBlogFeeds Scutterplan

Danny was looking for an easy way to generate a scutterplan from his PhotoBlogFeeds page on the ESW wiki (see Danny's posting for background). I pointed him at the FOAFBulletinBoard which provides a quick and dirty way to create scutterplans collaboratively. Anyone can add links to a Wiki page and all you need is a … Continue reading PhotoBlogFeeds Scutterplan →

How Big Is Your Store?

I've just kicked off a project to explore changing our main content repository to an RDF triple store. The main issue at the top of my list is scalability. The repository will end up holding metadata about more than 16 million articles (plus their associated authors, affiliations, publications, etc) and as you'd imagine thats going … Continue reading How Big Is Your Store? →

Lessons Learned By An XML Hacker

I'm going to be speaking at XMLOpen in September, and I notice that my (late) abstract has now made it into the conference programme, The talk is titled "Understanding RDF: Lessons Learned by an XML Hacker" and will be an attempt to synthesize the things I've learnt about RDF, the semantic web, etc over the … Continue reading Lessons Learned By An XML Hacker →

Using RDF

Nice article from Bill de h

The Info URI Scheme, Why?

I've been skimming through the info URI scheme RFC. From the Cover Pages we learn that the scheme "was developed within the library and publishing communities to expedite the referencing by URIs of information assets that have identifiers in public namespaces but have no representation within the URI allocation.". We also learn that "The motivation … Continue reading The Info URI Scheme, Why? →

Dashboard and Jabber

I've been thinking about writing some Jabber services or bots recently as we've been trialling a Jabber server at work as a replacement for the myriad different messaging services folk are now using. I've been hunting round, unsuccessfully I might add, for something as easy to work with as PircBot a Java IRC Bot framework. … Continue reading Dashboard and Jabber →

Music Metadata Summit

There's a Music Metadata Summit today at Stanford Law School. There's a conference "back channel" via #musicmetadata on freenode if, like me, you are geographically challenged. Some interesting topics in there and a lot of overlap with FOAF (tipjars, playlists, recommendations, etc). I'll probably be dropping in on the IRC channel later this evening.

RDF Adventure Game

Liam Quinn wrote an adventure game using RDF (data). Found via the SWIG chump, and noted here so I can find it again in the future. I was reminded of it after stumbling across Inform a design system for interactive fiction that's been around since 1993. Since its invention...Inform has been used to design some … Continue reading RDF Adventure Game →

Audioscrobbler

Audioscrobbler is another service that meets the criteria described in "Scattered Self. I've just signed up, and already have an RSS 1.0 feed of my recent listening. Very cool site.