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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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Author Archives: Ian Davis
Sketch of a Reformulation of RDF
I’ve been mulling over this alternate way of thinking about RDF, one that is resource-oriented rather than triple-oriented. This is what I came up with: ~~~~ The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework for representing information in the Web. … Continue reading
Google Author Rich Snippets
I spent a few minutes today following Google’s guidelines for declaring authorship of online content. Done properly this can enable Google to show a photo of the author and a link to them against search results containing their content. This … Continue reading
Posted in Projects, Tips and Tricks
Tagged authority, authorship, google profiles, rich snippets, web of trust
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The Real Challenge for RDF is Yet to Come
One often overlooked advantage that RDF offers is its deceptively simple data model. This data model trivializes merging of data from multiple sources and does it in such a way that data about the same things gets collated and de-deduplicated. … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion
Tagged data integration, economics, kasabi, linked data, rdf, technology adoption
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Holding Patent Offices Accountable
If a patent office grants a patent then shouldn’t the holder of that patent have the right to sue the patent office if the patent is later found to be invalid? If patent offices were actually held accountable for their … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion
Tagged due diligence process, office grants, patent claims, patent office, patent offices, patents
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Share-Alike Patents
As I mentioned in my last post on disrupting the patent system, I did have one new idea: a share-alike patent. This is a pretty simple idea for anyone familiar with the GPL or Creative Commons Share-Alike licenses. A share-alike patent is … Continue reading
Disrupting the Patent System
Last week I wrote asking for suggestions for ways to disrupt the patent system. I got lots of great comments on this blog and on Hacker News. Cefn Hoile pointed me to his project Enigmaker where he prototypes a new public … Continue reading
How would you disrupt the patent system?
I object to the patent system not because I don’t think ideas are worth protecting or patent offices make poor decisions but because it represents an unnatural, artificial and corrupt monopoly. It’s unnatural because it seeks to monopolise something that … Continue reading
Failing is an expensive way to learn
Reading Josh Infiesto’s post got me thinking about failure: Learning how to reflexively avoid stupidity is a key ingredient to attaining great heights with any skill. It’s amazing how many hours you can piss away trying add new and interesting … Continue reading
Kasabi Transit Data for New York City
I just published a new dataset on Kasabi: Transit data for Metropolitan Transportation Agency of New York City The NYCTA operates the Staten Island Railway and the New York City Subway which covers Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. The Kasabi … Continue reading
Posted in Projects
Tagged kasabi, linked data, new york, open data, rdf, transit, transport
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Ordnance Survey Linksets on Kasabi
I just published 5 new datasets in Kasabi. These are quite simple datasets that provide links between the Ordnance Survey Administrative Geography and various other geographic datasets hosted in Kasabi. To create them I first extracted all the shapefile data … Continue reading
Posted in Projects
Tagged data.gov.uk, geodata, kasabi, linked data, opendata, ordnance survey, rdf
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