Another weekend and I’ve got the chance to ship some software that’s been pending for a while. It turns out that most of the main changes that went into Rasqal RDF Query Library 0.9.7 and Redland RDF Language Bindings 1.0.0.2 were asked for by users who hang out on the Semantic Web Interest Group IRC [...]

The SPARQL Query Language for RDF W3C Working Draft 2005-02-17 was just published by the RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG). Lots of work went into this 2nd WD especially by the editors – congratulations. So what’s changed? Various things around syntax and some more core bits of the design were decided after our recent [...]

I changed the version number of my main free software project Redland to 1.0.0 – it’s been a mature library for some time, the API creep slowing as the query interface has been bedded in. In some ways it’s just a bigger number than before, but the >1.0 seems to indicate a certain confidence in [...]

Edd already mentioned this but in the flurry of last week’s activities, I forgot to record this event. It takes around a year to become a Debian developer at present for a variety of reasons, and I just completed that process. I’ve started cautiously updating some of my existing packages that needed new versions, beginning [...]

I ran the sample SPARQL queries made by Leigh Dodds on public RDF data sources using my Rasqal RDF query engine. Most of them seemed to work which is good, bugs were found and fixed, and a few more to go. List all of the names, weblogs and encrypted emails of people defined in http://www.ldodds.com/ldodds-knows.rdf [...]