Tag Archives: genealogy
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Refactoring BIO with Einstein Part 5: Updated Vocabulary
16 June 2010 by Ian Davis
It’s been four years since the last instalment of this series. Over the past couple of months I have revised …
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Representing Time in RDF Part 6
710 August 2009 by Ian Davis
I found these documents useful while researching this topic. I include them here because they could make a useful list …
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Representing Time in RDF Part 5
610 August 2009 by Ian Davis
Approach 4: N-ary Relations In this approach a new class is created for each time-dependent predicate. This new class represents …
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Representing Time in RDF Part 4
Leave a comment10 August 2009 by Ian Davis
Approach 3: Reified Relations In this approach I reify every triple that is time-dependent. That means every triple is split …
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Representing Time in RDF Part 3
Leave a comment10 August 2009 by Ian Davis
Approach 2: Named Graphs In this approach I physically divide my data up into separate graphs. Each graph contains triples …
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qRepresenting Time in RDF Part 2
Leave a comment10 August 2009 by Ian Davis
Approach 1: Conditions and Time Slices Conditions were my invention to model the state of being of an individual at …
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Representing Time in RDF Part 1
810 August 2009 by Ian Davis
Way back in 2006 I wrote a blog post concerning the modelling of time in RDF (see Refactoring Bio With …
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More Genealogy Social Software
224 September 2007 by Ian Davis
Via ComputerWorld comes more news of how the genealogy world is hotting up. For example, FamilyInHistory.com provides: Gone are the …
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More Social Genealogy Sites
Leave a comment12 September 2007 by Ian Davis
Like TechCrunch, I’m keeping an eye on this space. Our Story seems the best of the bunch: executing on an …
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Through The Mists of Time
Leave a comment25 January 2007 by Ian Davis
Just in case you thought our historical records were a true account of our past here’s a list of famous …
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