Site menu:

Tags

Recent Comments

Site search

Categories

October 2008
M T W T F S S
« Jul    
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Tags

Blogroll

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]