Now this is cool, and I’ve seen it in demo form for a while: BBC Programme Catalogue is live announces Matt Biddulph.
75 years of BBC programme data, all clickable in a web and ready to browse, search, tags, tag clouds, sparklines of activity. UK TV heaven. No video present but it’ll answer all those [...]
I’ve been allowed to escape from the US after 6 months of good behaviour to go to some useful conferences in Europe. Just when the sunshine appears in California. Doh! First to the Jena User Conference in my previous home city of Bristol, UK from May 10-11. I’m not speaking here, so I [...]
Yesterday I released Raptor 1.4.9 and the major visible addition this time is the first version of the new Raptor Tutorial covering all the parsing and serializing functions with working full examples. Used together with the updated Raptor Reference Manual which now covers 100% of the public API of functions, structures and defines, these provide a [...]
I spend most of my work day writing twiki pages or going to meetings, so I’ve been doing coding on my own time, and presently have been working on refactoring the internals of Raptor’s XML support. I’ll explain why below. It’s been a long process and probably never ending. The reason I started writing Raptor in October 2000 was to have [...]
A small pile of RDF things done recently need mentioning: Today my Rasqal RDF query library in Subversion gained support for writing the RDF query results in JSON after the draft Serializing SPARQL Query Results in JSON from Kendall, Lee and Elias announced today. This can be done in the Rasqal query demo to see [...]
Tom Coates just posted the slides of his Future of Web Apps talk from the Carson Future of Web Apps Summit in London last week. He called the talk Native to a Web of Data but as I read it, part of it expressed far better than I’ve been able to get across: that the open data [...]
Today’s reading list:
On the Quality of Metadata… by Stefano Mazzocchi. Read this, then read it again. The lesson I mainly got from this is, as expected, W3C XML schema does not modularise or compose, don’t use it to describe metadata on the web. Ever. There’s more in there too - engaging feedback [...]
Yesterday I announced version 0.9.11 of my Rasqal RDF Query Library. It’s another “catching up” edition with changes going back to June 2005. It should be up-to-date with the SPARQL WD 2005-11-23 at least in terms of syntax. All the details are in the release notes and the query demo should be updated soon.
The Free Software Foundation (of which I’m a member) has just announced the start of the discussion on a draft 3rd edition of the GPL. This is the most important free software license today not just because it covers the GNU software but it includes Linux as well as many other major free software (GNOME, [...]
Fog in Sunnyvale A pile of email New Apple products such as the MacBook Pro (Steve Jobs is certainly a keynote presentation genius) A new episode of House Birthday cards, emails, IMs, IRC and real-life greetings, phone and Skype calls.
Sadly my employer didn’t buy any new companies today to celebrate, that was yesterday :)
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