Redland‘s 10th year source code commit birthday is today 28th Jun at 9:05am PST – the first commit was Wed Jun 28 17:04:57 2000 UTC. Happy 10th Birthday! Please celebrate with tea and cake. (New releases soon, but it’s nice and sunny here in California, it’s very distracting.)

I gave a ‘lightning’ talk (actually in about 15 mins) Command Line Semantic Web with Redland on 15th March 2010 at the Semantic Web Austin Meetup during SXSW at Texas Coworking, Austin, TX, USA. Today I recorded it as a screencast and put it online. The embedded Vimeo version is below (best to view full [...]

In the last few days I released Version 1.17 of my Flickcurl C library interface to the Flickr API. It has new complete support for three new recent sets of new APIs. Added 15 new functions for the new Stats API calls announced 2010-03-03: flickr.stats.getCollectionDomains, flickr.stats.getCollectionReferrers, flickr.stats.getCollectionStats, flickr.stats.getPhotoDomains, flickr.stats.getPhotoReferrers, flickr.stats.getPhotosetDomains, flickr.stats.getPhotosetReferrers, flickr.stats.getPhotosetStats, flickr.stats.getPhotoStats, flickr.stats.getPhotostreamDomains, flickr.stats.getPhotostreamReferrers, [...]

Update: you want 0.9.19 not 0.9.18 after package configuration issue found. Links fixed. This release of Rasqal adds draft syntax support for the SPARQL 1.1 Update language being developed by the W3C SPARQL Working Group. The SPARQL 1.1 Update W3C Working Draft of 2010-01-26 introduces the first syntax design with some uncertainties and gray areas [...]

I just released version 1.4.21 of my Raptor RDF parsing / serialising library to the world. This release is just bug fixes: RDFa parser buffer management problems were fixed. The Turtle parser and serializers now use QNames correctly as required by the specification. The RDF/XML parser now resets correctly to detect duplicate rdf:IDs when a [...]