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A good news day: London beats Paris to 2012 [Olympic] Games and [European Union] Software patent bill thrown out.

Time to sync up with June

WWW2005 in Tokyo. Fun with the microformats guys. XTech in Amsterdam rocked as I expected - “best conference evah!“. I missed the XHTML2 and HTML5 session as I was chairing a parallel track. Aaron’s learnt a hard lesson or two and swapping coasts. Good luck with the startup. SPARQL Query [...]

Two Towers by Ora Lassilla points out a paper Semantic Web Architecture: Stack or Two Towers? (PDF) by Horrocks, Parsia, Patel-Schneider and Hendler (not clear where it’s published) that reviews the current semantic web architecture state and argues that there is an emerging clash of two stacks of semantics, one DLP-Datalog, Datalog rules stack incompatible with the RDF / OWL / First Order Logic [...]

I just presented a talk Bootstrapping the Semantic Web with Redland at XTech describing Redland and how it came about, components etc. There’s a paper also which goes into this in more detail but the cute bit is at the last minute I came up with a demonstration, using the slides themselves as the RDF graph. This involves using GRDDL to create an [...]

I’ve had a busy few weeks travelling (I do most of my year’s travel in a 5 week period) first with SPARQLing days in Italy working on SPARQL, WWW2005 in Tokyo talking about Redland, SPARQL and a bit of microformats panel fun. Next is the exciting finale, XTech in Amsterdam Tuesday-Friday. I’m talking about Bootstrapping the Semantic Web with Redland. Which could [...]

Just made a minor update to the SPARQL RDF Query Language Reference summary. A few errors fixed, a few additions.

If you want to learn about the SPARQL (SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language) now is a great time to do it as there are some new materials available:

Introduction to RDF Query with SPARQL Tutorial as given at WWW2005 by Steve, Eric, Andy and myself on Monday. All available for reuse.

SPARQL RDF Query Language Reference, a 2-page summary document that [...]

The second day started with an interesting keynote from Eric Brewer of UC Berkeley: The Case for Technology for Developing Regions with emphasis on sustainable, practical and local ways to apply technology (ICT as usually called) in developing countries. Included lots of examples of self and local help to use appropriate technology and deal with issues of language, literacy and [...]

I am just watching Tim Berners-Lee’s keynote Web For Real People at WWW2005. Mostly talking about two things - the terrible things that real users of the web have problems with such as spam, phishsing and so on, and how the web community should be fixing it, and secondly the new Mobile Web Initiative that just launched, to develop the mobile web. [...]

I’ve just arrived in Tokyo (well, Chiba City) for the 14th Annual WWW conference WWW2005. I’m involved formally in two things, giving a tutorial on SPARQL Tuesday and talking on developer’s day in the semantic web track about implementing SPARQL in redland or something near that (handwave handwave). Tomorrow’s my free day so I have the opportunity to get lost [...]