Archive for 'RDF'
Fun With Copyright Renewal Records
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 which have been renewed at some point, the upshot being that if a given work [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2008 under RDF, Tools, conferences, nerdination.
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Start Your Query Engines
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 database engines that have recently added XML capabilities to their offerings. [...]
Posted: December 14th, 2006 under RDF.
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Name-Calling
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 about how to go about constructing names for those resources. The actual morphology of [...]
Posted: July 26th, 2006 under RDF.
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