Dave Beckett - Journalblog
RDF and free software hacking

I’ve made a new thing: Triplr for GETting semwebby data. Go check it out.

It’s unrelated to the other older new thing not previously mentioned in a blog post: Flickcurl which is the C library I made for the Flickr API (about 25% complete) although I did steal the cute name from the utility which turns a Flickr photo’s description into triples, [...]

I often been puzzled why people write “The Semantic Web is AI” and “The Semantic Web is a top-down design” and “The Semantic Web is Ontologies”. As far as I’m concerned, all of those are bogus. I think I’ve worked out why they write this - they aren’t talking to anyone actually working [...]