Today’s reading list:
On the Quality of Metadata… by Stefano Mazzocchi. Read this, then read it again. The lesson I mainly got from this is, as expected, W3C XML schema does not modularise or compose, don’t use it to describe metadata on the web. Ever. There’s more in there too - engaging feedback [...]
Yesterday I announced version 0.9.11 of my Rasqal RDF Query Library. It’s another “catching up” edition with changes going back to June 2005. It should be up-to-date with the SPARQL WD 2005-11-23 at least in terms of syntax. All the details are in the release notes and the query demo should be updated soon.
The Free Software Foundation (of which I’m a member) has just announced the start of the discussion on a draft 3rd edition of the GPL. This is the most important free software license today not just because it covers the GNU software but it includes Linux as well as many other major free software (GNOME, [...]
Fog in Sunnyvale A pile of email New Apple products such as the MacBook Pro (Steve Jobs is certainly a keynote presentation genius) A new episode of House Birthday cards, emails, IMs, IRC and real-life greetings, phone and Skype calls.
Sadly my employer didn’t buy any new companies today to celebrate, that was yesterday :)
I am happy to announce a new version of my Raptor library for dealing with syntaxes for RDF. I still call it a parser toolkit, otherwise the PT in raptor wouldn’t be so correct but it’s really more of an RDF syntax, URI and web library. It deals with low-level web detail you don’t [...]
I just announced the release of the Turtle version 2006-01-02 RDF syntax which I designed based on adding on the simple N-Triples format, and taking items from Notation 3 (N3). There have been happily, many people using this over the years and a lot of pending updates. This release though was primarily because of SPARQL which uses a Turtle/N3-style [...]
Weblog archives for January 2006.
