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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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Category Archives: Opinion
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
In Search of Ambiguity
This is inspired by Jeni’s recent blog post What do URIs mean anyway? where she writes: The imperfection of the real world as it applies to linked data is that URIs will be used in ambiguous ways. We might not like … Continue reading
Big Ben
Ambiguous references happen in the real world all the time. For example, the name Big Ben is used to refer to the clock tower and to the bell, but strictly speaking only one of those is right. Most of the time these … Continue reading
Is Idiomatic JSON for RDF Desirable?
The RDF Working Group seems to be making some useful progress in many areas. However, they are circling around the JSON serialisation a bit. Lee Feigenbaum asked on twitter: #RDF WG #JSON task force — should the group focus on … Continue reading
My Feedback on SPARQL 1.1 Uniform HTTP Protocol for Managing RDF Graphs
I sent the following feedback yesterday to the W3C SPARQL Working Group on their proposal for a RESTful approach to managing graphs. I reviewed the document at http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-sparql11-http-rdf-update-20101014/ and enclose my initial comments below. Note that I stopped my review … Continue reading
