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Ian Davis: British; married with kids; technical architect; CTO of Talis; co-author of RSS 1.0; creator of FOAF icons; Semantic Web hacker.
My URI:
http://iandavis.com/id/me
Email Me:
nospam@iandavis.com
Twitter:
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Monthly Archives: November 2002
Bartering
While tinkering with some ideas for describing small businesses in a FOAF-like way it struck me that the most interesting formats are ones that promote linkage. FOAF has the knows predicate, but how could you link businesses together. One intriguing … Continue reading
Describing Businesses in XML
James picked up on my corporate FOAF idea and suggested that: Looking at patterns in press releases (a major source of this kind of information), there is often a trailer with the company’s URL… …A rule for disambiguation could be … Continue reading
Content Types For HTML Link
I was poking around this website and I noticed that I didn’t have the correct MIME types set up for my RSS or for the RDF that is scattered around. I have link tags in my HTML head section that … Continue reading
Some Ideas on Corporate FOAF
I’ve been looking at Dan Brickley’s FOAFCorp ideas which show a fun way to map relationships between board members of corporations (c.f. They Rule). I’d like to extend it to describe relationships between the companies themselves, rather than their employees. … Continue reading
FOAF Icons
I’ve made a page to collect together all the various icons I’ve made for FOAF plus derivatives that other people have put together.
Animated Foaf Icon
Jim Ley, author of the awe-inspiring foafnaut, has animated my SVG foaf icon. If your browser supports SVG, you should see it embedded here: Made me chuckle!
Discontinued RSS Channels
Back in the early days of RSS (1999 or thereabouts) I used to run a web scrapign tool called RSSMaker to demonstrate how RSS could be produced from HTML. I stopped running that tool almost two years ago, however I … Continue reading
Tiny FOAF Image in SVG
Here’s my tiny FOAF icon in SVG format – my first attempt at writing SVG. You’ll need a browser capable of viewing SVG or the SVG plugin from Adobe. Update 4 June 2003: I moved all the FOAF images into … Continue reading
Prevayler
Prevayler is a persistant, in-memory object storage mechanism. Instead of keeping your business objects in a database and writing serialization code to and from SQL, Prevayler simple serializes the whole lot to disk every night. Additionally, all transactions are logged … Continue reading
Hi From Zurich
I’m in Zurich for a couple of days – riding on trams and getting to grips with the strange dialect of German they speak here…
