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Archive for May 2005

Bootstrapping the Semantic Web with Redland

Friday, May 27th, 2005

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 [...]

XTech and a SPARQLing spring

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

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 [...]

SPARQL reference update

Monday, May 16th, 2005

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

Learn SPARQL Today!

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

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 [...]

WWW2005 day 2 - keynote by Eric Brewer

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

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 [...]

WWW2005 keynote - Mobile Web Initiative

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

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. [...]

WWW2005 in Tokyo

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

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 [...]

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