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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: November 2007
links for 2007-11-30
Lost Boy: How Shall I Integrate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways… Leigh Dodds back on form: “Each of the sections below tries to work through a potential data integration scenario, attempting to demonstrate how RDF and/or OWL enable easier … Continue reading
It’s OK to use URIs with Fragments in RDF
I’ve been doing some more digging on my fragmentation and shadow web themes and came across something I hadn’t really seen before or, if I have, has been completely wiped from my mind. The RDF Concepts document contains a whole … Continue reading
links for 2007-11-29
There’s No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere You can make money on the long tail but not in the long tail… (tags: opinion long tail web 2.0)
Platform at SWIG-UK, Bristol
Last Friday I gave a presentation on the Talis Platform to the SWIG meeting, kindly hosted by HP Labs Bristol. I’ve posted the slides up at our n2 developer community site. They’re not much to look at but I wrote … Continue reading
links for 2007-11-26
Skype 2.0 beta for Linux (tags: linux skype software)
links for 2007-11-25
Forgotten your password? Google can find it for you. Unfortunately | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Want to decode an MD5 hash? Try searching for it on Google. Salt to the rescue! (tags: security google)
Isn’t The Web Built From Links?
If my shadow web post hasn’t convinced you then try this thought experiment: You want to link from your webpage to Tim Berners-Lee’s URI <http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i>, except you can’t because that link points to something that can never contain the #i … Continue reading
Things Can Be Simpler
Benjee writes in response to my post on shadow webs: eRDF re-uses HTML’s @id to establish resource identifiers, so it mixes document identifiers with non-doc ones, and this is an ambiguity problem indeed. RDFa, however, is a layer on top … Continue reading
Reformulating the Web Architecture
So, accepting that URIs with fragments are generally a broken piece of architecture for the Semantic Web and that information resources are not adding any real substance, here’s how I see the Web Architecture being reformulated for use with the … Continue reading
What are Information Resources Good For?
As is probably obvious from my recent posts (e.g. Fragmentation and Is the Semantic Web Destined to be a Shadow?), I’m thinking about the TAG’s httpRange-14 decision again and a large amount of the Architecture of the World Wide Web. … Continue reading
