Peter Norvig of Google mentioned Linked Data in his interview with Reddit Ask Me Anything (thanks Gunnar)
So right from the start researchers are writing code that use our main APIs that
are using the data that everyone else uses. If you want some web pages you use
the full copy of the web. If you want some [...]
I got the chance to attend the 2nd London Linked Data Meetup that was co-located with dev8d last week, which turned out to be a whole lot of fun. I figured if I waited long enough other people would save me from having to write a good summary/discussion of the event…and they have: thanks [...]
A few months ago I took part in a discussion on the pedantic-web list, which started out as a relatively simple question about FOAF usage, and quickly evolved into a conversation about terms people use when talking about Linked Data, and more generally the Web.
I ended up having a very helpful off-list email exchange [...]
In my previous blog post I was trying to demonstrate the virtues of data.gov.uk making the descriptions of their datasets available as RDFa. Just this morning I learned from Mark Birbeck that the folks down under at data.australia.gov.au did this last October!
For example this page describing a dataset for public Internet locations has this RDF [...]
The recent public release of the UK Government’s data.gov.uk site got picked up by the press last week in articles at The Guardian, Prospect Magazine and elswhere. These have been supplemented by some more technical discussions at ReadWriteWeb, Open Knowledge Foundation, Talis, Jeni Tennison’s blog, and some helpful emails from Leigh Dodds (Talis) [...]
Kesa’s good friend Gillian from college days in NOLA sent around an email asking for people’s favorite five songs of last year.
For some reason picking individual songs is hard for me. I guess because I rarely put on a song, and almost always put on an album–as antiquated as that sounds. I do occasionally [...]
I recently learned from Ivan Herman’s blog that O’Reilly has begun publishing RDFa in their online catalog of books. So if you go and install the RDFa Highlight bookmarklet and then visit a page like this and click on the bookmarklet you’ll see something like:
Those red boxes you see are graphical depictions of where metadata [...]
I just donated to Wikipedia because I use it everyday. I work as a software developer at the Library of Congress. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve spent the last 10 years filling in gaps in my computer science, math and philosophy knowledge. Working in libraries makes this sort of self-education process easier because [...]
Last Saturday I passed the time while waiting in line at the DMV by reading the recently released Study of the North American MARC Records Marketplace. The analysis of the survey results seem to focus on the role of the Library of Congress in the marketplace, which is understandable given that LC funded the report. [...]
It’s comforting to know that California Digital Library are selectively serving up fulltext content in HTML from their institutional repository for search engines to chew on. For example, compare the output of:
curl http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2896686x
with:
curl –header “User-Agent: Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)” http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2896686x
You should see full-text content for the article in the latter and not in the former:
…
qt2896686x repo “Wholly [...]
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