I’ve set up a SPARQL endpoint for lcsh.info at sparql.lcsh.info. If you are new to SPARQL endpoints, they are essentially REST web services that allow you to query a pool of RDF data using a query language that combines features of pattern matching, set logic and the web, and then get back results in [...]
If you happen to be in the DC area on May 8th and are interested in linked data and the practical application of semantic web technologies like RDF and OWL please join us at the Library of Congress for a presentation by Alistair Miles, key developer of SKOS, and semantic web practitioner at the University [...]
If you’ve ever tried installing the Tabulator (Tim Berners-Lee’s experimental linked-data browser) and not seen it work you may have run into the same problem as me.
On a hunch I guessed that there might be some weird interaction with another Firefox plugin — so I went through all 15 of them, disabling each one [...]
High 5, more dead than alive
Rockin’ the plastic like a man from a casket
Yeah, the blog is back after getting routed by the LinuXploit Crew. The whole episode was really rewarding actually. I learned what projects I work on that need to be hosted elsewhere at more stable locations–that are likely to outlive my pathetic [...]
DemoCampDC is an adaptation of BarCamp to provide an informal mechanism for sharing technology shtuff in the DC area. If you are interested and in the DC area please add your name to the list of attendees and stay tuned.
In case you missed it linux.com is running an article by Michael Stutz on Evergreen, an open source integrated library system developed by the state of Georgia to support a consortium of 44 different libraries. (Thanks for the link Adam)
Hanging out with miker_ and bradl in irc and having open-ils in my feed reader makes [...]
If you are interested in such things Ian Bicking has a nice posting about why breaking up a project into smaller packages of functionality is important. His key point is that the boundaries between packages actually help in establishing and maintaining decoupled modules within your application.
…when someone claims their framework is all spiffy and decoupled, [...]
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