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Archive for September 2004

DataLibre

Sunday, September 26th, 2004

DataLibre from Steve Mallett. It’s mission is to: Liberate Your Data, Write Once - Read Everywhere and nicely aligns with the kinds of things FOAF and DOAP are doing for people and projects respectively; which are linked from the site. It’s something I’ve been interested in and over the years, had less interest in giving my data to .coms that then go lock it up, and/or sell it. This [...]

An Interview with Tom Lord of Arch on Versioning Systems

Friday, September 24th, 2004

An Interview with Tom Lord of Arch on Versioning Systems by Steve Mallet, OSDir. Amusing how he didn’t actually link to the Arch source code.

Writing a Social Content Engine with RDF

Friday, September 24th, 2004

Writing a Social Content Engine with RDF by anselm. A long essay on the story of making a Java-based (server)/Javascript (client) CMS based on RDF using a pure Java OODB for storage.

Today we’re going to build a social content engine for organizing and sharing content with our friends. … What could you do with this? You could make your own Craigs List such [...]

Redland, Raptor and Rasqal - Open Source RDF, talk at XMLOpen

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

Today I gave a presentation Redland, Raptor and Rasqal - Open Source RDF in C, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Tcl, Java and C# at XMLOpen which was held in Cambridge UK, 21-23 September 2004. It covers some of the design and thought behind Redland along with general issues when targeting Open Source communities.

Simile Scalability Report on Triple Store Applications

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

Simile Scalability Report on Triple Store Applications, Ryan Lee, MIT. 2004-07-26. Small typo, 3store does not rely on Redland, just Raptor for parsing.

Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit 1.3.3

Monday, September 20th, 2004

Announced version 1.3.3 of the Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit with all new license, as previously mentioned. It’s now LGPL / Apache 2.0. It also has several improvements and fixes over 1.3.2 - get it now!

License changed to LGPL 2.1/Apache 2 Added a new Unicode NFC checker Rewritten URI parsing and resolving code Added configure selection of RDF parsers Updated the [...]

Redland contributions

Sunday, September 19th, 2004

A couple of contributions to Redland popped up in the last few days. Better throw them to the web before I head off to the next event XMLOpen in Cambridge (the real one) where I’m speaking about Redland.

librdfutil PHP Redland support library from Morten Frederiksen providing several things related to the MySQL store, the CBD feature as defined by Patrick Stickler and [...]

Photos of FOAF Galway and Dublin, Ireland

Monday, September 6th, 2004

Photos from FOAF Galway, Galway city and Dublin, Ireland. Now I have to work out how to get into the foaf-galway tag on del.icio.us.

Ports ‘n ebuilds for redland-bindings

Saturday, September 4th, 2004

[FreeBSD] Ports ‘n [Gentoo] ebuilds for redland-bindings (2004-08-13) on Russell Andrew Cloran’s blog Distilled Illusions (via Danny Ayers)

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