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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:
http://twitter.com/iand
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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
Back to Basics with Linked Data and HTTP
In the Semantic Web, it is not the Semantic which is novel, it is the Web That quote, attributed to Chris Welty of IBM, is the one that best captures my outlook on the Semantic Web and Linked Data. The … Continue reading
To wordpress…!
OK, so last time we spoke I was moving to Posterous :) I tried that for a while and while it’s a lovely system it’s not entirely suitable for my needs. The main problem was in formatting technical posts with … Continue reading
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A Guide to Publishing Linked Data Without Redirects
This is a follow up to my post earlier this week which resulted in lot of very positive discussion on this blog, the LOD mailing list and Twitter. Note that this is provisional guidance only, based on mailing list discussion. … Continue reading
Beenz
It’s fun moving to a new blogging platform because it makes you look over your old posts. This one from April 1999 made me laugh: If you haven’t heard of Beenz yet, you will in the next few months. It’s … Continue reading
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The Right to Fork
Michael Kay writes angrily after the W3C TPAC meeting: What we saw yesterday is that control is now in the hands of a cabal of four or five browser vendors who between them are going to decide the experience that … Continue reading
Over to posterous
I’ve been looking for a hosted blog platform since last year and I’m now trialling posterous.com. Importing my wordpress posts was incredibly smooth and I’ve manually carried over some of the pointers to projects and popular posts with a bit … Continue reading
OpenVocab 2
Over the weekend I uploaded a preview of OpenVocab 2 for public testing and feedback. This is a complete rewrite and introduces a number of new features: Support for OpenID – all changes must be verified by logging in with … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, data, openvocab, Projects, publicdomain, rdf, schemas
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