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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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nospam@iandavis.com
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Monthly Archives: June 2005
Search Engine APIS
Alex Bosworth on why Search engine APIs are failing: Talking to Google engineers, I was informed that Google thinks of their 3rd party API program as a complete failure and only a couple people have made anything vaguely useful from … Continue reading
Data RDF Syntax
Missed this the first time round. Dan Connolly’s XMLisation of Turtle: For example <#pat> <#child> <#al>, <#chaz>, <#mo> ; <#age> 24 ; <#eyecolor> "blue" . becomes… <thing ref="#pat"> <rel ref="#child"> <thing ref="#al"/> <thing ref="#chaz"/> <thing ref="#mo"/> </rel> <rel ref="#age"><val int="24"/></rel> … Continue reading
Tagging at the BBC
The BBC has a prototype tagging system for BBC news: We have built a social bookmarking tool just for BBC News that allows logged in users to tag/bookmark stories and view related stories that other users have tagged using similar … Continue reading
Aardvark
Aardvark is a Firefox extension for interactively manipulating the content on a page. It’s like a second cousin of GreaseMonkey. Once it’s activated you can mouseover all the elements in a page and manipulate each one by making it wider, … Continue reading
Tagging Cultures
Tagging for classification compared with tagging for annotation: So here is that hypothesis – that the shift from people using blogs to blog represents the increasing dominance of a Flickr-style paradigm of tagging. Imagine the process of annotating a weblog … Continue reading
Victory!
For the Semantic Web that is. The biggest barrier to RDF vocabulary deployment has been the long-standing Hash vs Slash debate. This surfaced in the W3C TAG as issue httpRange-14 a couple of years back. The issue was incredibly controversial, … Continue reading
