Category Archives: Technology
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5 Weeks of Go
2123 May 2012 by Ian Davis
I promised a few people that I’d write up my impressions of Go after spending 5 or so weeks learning …
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Sketch of a Reformulation of RDF
1526 November 2011 by Ian Davis
I’ve been mulling over this alternate way of thinking about RDF, one that is resource-oriented rather than triple-oriented. This is …
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The Real Challenge for RDF is Yet to Come
818 August 2011 by Ian Davis
One often overlooked advantage that RDF offers is its deceptively simple data model. This data model trivializes merging of data …
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In Search of Ambiguity
87 July 2011 by Ian Davis
This is inspired by Jeni’s recent blog post What do URIs mean anyway? where she writes: The imperfection of the …
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Big Ben
Leave a comment7 July 2011 by Ian Davis
Ambiguous references happen in the real world all the time. For example, the name Big Ben is used to refer to the …
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Usability of JSON Serializations of RDF
Leave a comment6 April 2011 by Ian Davis
Thomas Steiner produced a wiki page showing how various RDF + JSON proposals serialized a particular RDF graph as part …
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Is Idiomatic JSON for RDF Desirable?
221 March 2011 by Ian Davis
The RDF Working Group seems to be making some useful progress in many areas. However, they are circling around the …
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My Feedback on SPARQL 1.1 Uniform HTTP Protocol for Managing RDF Graphs
115 December 2010 by Ian Davis
I sent the following feedback yesterday to the W3C SPARQL Working Group on their proposal for a RESTful approach to …
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Back to Basics with Linked Data and HTTP
76 December 2010 by Ian Davis
In the Semantic Web, it is not the Semantic which is novel, it is the Web That quote, attributed to …
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Is 303 Really Necessary?
294 November 2010 by Ian Davis
A few months back I threw out a question on Twitter: what breaks on the web if we use status …
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