Monthly Archives: October 2005

Introducing Embedded RDF

This is a copy of a message I sent to the W3C semantic web discussion list today. I’ve been working on an enhanced way to embed RDF into XHTML that doesn’t require any new markup. There are existing methods such … Continue reading

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Ward Cunningham Moves On

I did wonder whether Microsoft would really grok Ward Cunningham, now it seems they didn’t understand what they had: Microsoft Corp. has lost one of its high-profile hires to an open-source consortium. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, … Continue reading

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Refactoring Bio With Einstein Part 2: Conditions

Genealogy is mostly a detective game dealing with partial knowledge. Given a few facts and dates, the researcher makes informed estimates for related events. For example if you know that someone was born in 1905 you might start searching for … Continue reading

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Web 2.0 Day One – A Personal Glimpse

Not sure this is appropriate for the silkworm blog but this is my site and so anything goes here! I’ve been at the Web 2.0 conference all day (see the silkworm blog for my blow-by-blow accounts of the workshops). I … Continue reading

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