Category Archives: RDF

Fun With Copyright Renewal Records

Posted on July 1, 2008 by adam

Based on an enormous amount of work by contributors to Project Gutenberg and the Distributed Proofreaders, combined with healthy sourcing of the US copyright office’s records, Google has compiled a a list of works originally copyrighted between 1923 and 1963 … Continue reading →

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Start Your Query Engines

Posted on December 14, 2006 by adam

A visit to googlefight suggests that the XQuery meme outcompetes the SPARQL [?] meme in the parts of the universe Google knows about1 at a rate upwards of 4:1. XQuery has clearly been the go-to standard for vendors of relational … Continue reading →

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Name-Calling

Posted on July 26, 2006 by adam

Names are fun to think about. Coming up with a theory about what, if anything, a name means was a good inroad to the philosophy of language for me. In the land of frameworks for describing resources, there’s some confusion … Continue reading →

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