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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.
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http://iandavis.com/id/me
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Monthly Archives: November 2002
From Weblog to Moblog
This article is right on target: A weblog is a record of travels on the Web, so a mobile phone log (moblog?) should be a record of travels in the world. Weblogs reflect our lives at our desks, on our … Continue reading
Tiny FOAF Image
At the request of Bill, I’ve added a tiny version of my FOAF button, that should sit nicely with all those orange xml icons: Update 4 June 2003: I moved all the FOAF images into one place
FOAF Buttons
I had a go at creating a couple of buttons for FOAF files: Update 4 June 2003: I moved all the FOAF images into one place
Open Problems in Data-Sharing Peer-to-Peer Systems
A new paper from the Stanford Peers group: In a Peer-To-Peer (P2P) system, autonomous computers pool their resources in order to inexpensively handle tasks that would normally require large costly servers. The scale of these systems, their open nature, and … Continue reading
Tim Bray’s RPV syntax for RDF
Frustrated with the existing XML syntax for RDF, Tim Bray has proposed an alternative syntax which, he claims, is more readable and easier to use than the existing syntax. As an experiment I tried to convert my RSS feed into … Continue reading
RDF Schemas for Reuters Tags
As part of some classification work using the Reuters Corpus, I’ve created some RDF schemas for some of the codes used by the NewsML documents in the corpus: reuters_regions and reuters_topics.
Optimising Windows 2000 Services
If you’re looking to optimise your win2k system (James take note! ), here’s a good guide to Windows 2000 services.
BT Directory Enquiries
For some reason, one of the first posts I ever made on this weblog about British Telecom’s directory enquiries service is number 7 on Google when you search for bt directory enquiries. I get loads of entries in my referer … Continue reading
More on FOAF in RSS
Morten Frederiksen suggested a change to the FOAF snippet in my RSS: A small suggestion for using foaf inside something like dc:creator: State the above line as <foaf:mbox_sha1sum rdf:value="69e31bbcf58d432950127593e292a55975bc55fd"/> instead, that way the XSLT/XPath string value of dc:creator is just … Continue reading
RDDL With RDF
Tim Bray has announced a new draft of the RDDL spec for describing documents associated with a namespace. Interestingly, this version describes two different syntaxes: one utilising XLink, the other RDF.
