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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: March 2003
The Google OS
An interesting article that claims that Google is Knowledge Operating System. It draws an analogy between the web as a file system and Google as its means of access, and suggests that the Google API is a primitive type of … Continue reading
C# Documentation
Aaron Johnson investigates how to produce xml documentation for C# without using Visual Studio: the C# compiler will then strip our your comments, package hierarchy, related classes and create an xml file, in the above case, called ‘MyClass.xml’. In and … Continue reading
Catching the Dreams
In the short essay Catching the Dreams Pat Hayes, editor of the RDF Model Theory draft, speaks out against those see Description Logics as the only foundation for the Semantic Web: Using DLs as a semantic web content markup standard … Continue reading
An Exciting Inference
Roger Costello asked the www-rdf-logic list for a simple example of the use of OWL that allowed an Exciting Inference to be made. Here’s my attempt… First of all a robbery takes place. The robber drops his gun while fleeing. … Continue reading
Syndic8 Offering RSS Chapter Previews
Syndic8 has posted two sample chapters of Ben Hammersley’s forthcoming book Content Syndication with RSS. While you’re there, take some time to support Syndic8 by clicking on the Amazon links and pre-ordering what’s I’m predicting will be the tech book … Continue reading
Adding Biographical Information to RSS
Here’s something I’ve been collaborating with David Galbraith on: adding biographical information to RSS and HTML. By biographical information we mean information about a person to help you identify them, like the little summary on the top left of this … Continue reading
Idei Speaks
Having worked for Sony, I have a lot of respect for Nobuyuki Idei. In this interview (the first of three) he covers a lot of ground: how he’d like to buy Palm or Symbian, why Nokia don’t understand the mobile … Continue reading
Tim Bray Meets RSS Reality
Tim Bray: The Vast Sucking Sound When you’re watching the access_log, what’s really remarkable is the steady pounding from the RSS aggregators. ongoing has been up a day and a bit, and as I watch this, I’m seeing maybe four … Continue reading
Episodic Markup
I’m thinking about ways of representing time and timelines in RDF. My angle is from the biographic / genealogical areas. I want to be able represent ‘episodes’ in a person’s life, e.g. from 1876 to 1881 my great grandmother lived … Continue reading
