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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: July 2005
Fit For Purpose
A cool idea from Dan Brickley from a must-read post for any RDF practitioner: The cultural shift we need, and the toolset to accompany it, is a shift to application-oriented validation. Instead of an absolute, universal ‘yes’ or ‘no’ for … Continue reading
FRBR and RDF
Yesterday I published an RDF schema for FRBR. This is a collaboration with Richard Newman, based on work he started last year and incorporates ideas from Leigh Dodds and Bruce D’Arcus. Now you might be thinking that we’ve just written … Continue reading
Querying Collections With Sparql
Chatlog of danbri working out how to query RDF collections in Sparql: SELECT ?feature, ?a, ?b WHERE { ?x :name ?feature . ?x foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf wikipedia:Clifton_Suspension_Bridge . ?x :centerLine ( [gml:pos ?a] [gml:pos ?b] ) . }
Web Principles
Words close to my heart from lesscode.org’s Motherhood and Apple Pie The good news in all this is that there is a resurgence of interest in the web’s basic principles that is somewhat oriented toward the business community. I believe … Continue reading
Upgrading
Pardon the dust while I upgrade to WordPress 1.5.1 – it may take some time :)
RSS Issues Wiki
Once again I’ve cleaned up the RSS Issues Wiki. It was completely clobbered by wikispam so now I’ve been forced to add an edit password. Just email me and I’ll send it to you. I had to reconstruct each page … Continue reading
Talis, Web 2.0 and All That
I’ve recently started working for a company called Talis as the technical lead for the research group. Talis is a pretty mature company. It was established as a co-operative providing library systems in 1969, so it’s a year older than … Continue reading
