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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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Monthly Archives: December 2002
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to everyone who knows me or reads this weblog. Here’s hoping that 2003 is going to be fantastic and that I can forget that 2002 ever happened (except 6th August!).
RSS 1.0 Issues List
I have finally written up a list of 11 issues I have with the current RSS 1.0 specification. <!–more–> RSS 1.0 Issues Tracking List Document Author: Ian Davis <iand@internetalchemy.org> This Version: Version 1, 30 December 2002 Introduction This document describes … Continue reading
Site Search
I’ve added an experimental search box to the sidebar to enable searching of postings to this weblog. It currently only searches the main content of each posting, not any comments that people have left.
WysiWiki
A new phrase bumping around the Wiki community is WysiWiki which denotes a wiki that has a live, editable interface rather than having to press a button and type strange forms of markup into a text box. Pepys was my … Continue reading
N3 Wiki
This is something I knocked up a couple of nights ago to learn more about N3. It’s a Wiki that uses N3 as its underlying format. It’s written in Perl, runs as a CGI and uses RDF::Notation3 to parse the … Continue reading
Additional Business Info Element
Another potential element for identifying businesses came to me last night: tax reference, the company’s reference number for sales tax / VAT. May or may not be a core informational element. I don’t know yet.
Business Informational Elements
James has suggested that a good place to start with defining a business description format is a Dublin Core-like set of informational elements that can characterise a business. That set me thinking about what characteristics are exhibited by Dublin Core … Continue reading
Eclipse vs IDEA
Alex Chaffee: I have a feeling that Erich Gamma writes entire applications solely via right-clicking. No typing, not even any left-clicking. Pretty much any interface *other* than right-clicking seems like an afterthought in Eclipse
Classifying Business Types
Something that struck me when browsing WordNet for types of premises was that shop types (such as toy shop or computer store) are best characterised by the types of goods they sell. Pretty obvious stuff, but it led me to … Continue reading
