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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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Tag Archives: rdf
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
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
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Tagged data integration, economics, kasabi, linked data, rdf, technology adoption
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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
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Tagged data.gov.uk, geodata, kasabi, linked data, opendata, ordnance survey, rdf
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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
Usability of JSON Serializations of RDF
Thomas Steiner produced a wiki page showing how various RDF + JSON proposals serialized a particular RDF graph as part of the RDF working group’s work in this area. I found it particularly interesting because I’m the main originator of … 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
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
