Dave Beckett - Journalblog
RDF and free software hacking

I just posted my proposal for Redland license changes, in summary from LGPL / MPL to LGPL / Apache 2. Let’s see if people like this.

I just re-discovered sparta.py 0.5: RDF made easy by Mark Nottingham (mnot). He says:

the next step for sparta is to wrap Redland as well as rdflib.

Nice. He’s also got a good looking REST (get, post, delete) API in Python too called http (that link should annoy google) of which there is more about in The Whole Web in a Python Dictionary. (via Josh Sled)

Redland bugs in Gentoo Linux including Bug 61558 - Redland-bindings ebuild incorrect dependancy

Announcement of the preliminary programme of the SWAD-Europe FOAF Workshop @ DERI Galway, Ireland, 1-2 Sept 2004.

Developing a URL structure for broadcast radio sites… by Tom Coates. How they ended up with the URL design for BBC Radio 3 programmes.

I just discovered today that Lyle Johnson has been looking at RDF for Ruby. He’s just mentioned a new one to me Semitar which is:

… an “almost pure” Ruby library for processing Semantic Web data in RDF and OWL. The “almost” qualification stems from the fact that it uses Redland’s Raptor parser, instead of a pure Ruby RDF parser, [...]

I just announced Redland 0.9.17 and Redland Bindings 0.9.17-1 and then immediately found a crashing bug so released 0.9.18 with a fix (patch here) but only a handful of people downloaded it before I noticed and put up a warning. Anyway, what’s new? Firstly, I split redland and the language bindings as I discussed before, but in more detail: Redland 0.9.18

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Announced Rasqal RDF Query Library 0.9.2 with minor bugfixes, just in preparation for the next redland release.