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a middle way for linked data at the bbc

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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 [...]

Also filed in semweb, web | Tagged bbc, dbpedia, linked data, radio, rdf, semantic web, television, uberblic, web | Comments (1)

data.australia.gov.au and rdfa

Friday, January 29, 2010

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 [...]

Also filed in semweb | Tagged australia, egov, rdfa, w3c | Comments (0)

data.gov.uk and rdfa

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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) [...]

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Hacking O’Reilly RDFa

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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 [...]

Also filed in books, python, semweb | Tagged graphs, identifiers, linkeddata, oreilly, rdfa | Comments (1)

New York Times Topics as SKOS

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Serves 23,376 SKOS Concepts
INGREDIENTS

Text editor: Vim, Emacs, TextMate, etc
Python
BeautifulSoup
rdflib
Internet connection

DIRECTIONS

Open a new file using your favorite text editor.
Instantiate an RDF graph with a dash of rdflib.
Use python’s urllib to extract the HTML for each of the Times Topics Index Pages, e.g. for A.
Parse HTML into a fine, queryable data structure using BeautifulSoup.
Locate topic names and [...]

Also filed in python, semweb | Tagged beautifulsoup, newspapers, nytimes, python, rdf, rdfa, rdflib, skos | Comments (4)

public.resource.org to liberate Code of Federal Regulations

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

good news via the govtrack mailing list

Carl Malamud of public.resource.org, with funding from a bunch of places including a small bit from GovTrack’s ad profits, announced his intention to purchase from the Government Printing Office documents they produce in the course of their statutory obligations and then have the nerve to sell back to the [...]

Also filed in politics | Tagged data, gpo, politics | Comments (1)

provide and enable

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

I got a chance to meet Jennifer Rigby of the National Archives UK at the LinkedDataPlanet Conference in New York City (thanks Ian). Jennifer is the Head of IT Strategy, and told me lots of interesting stuff related to a profound shift they’ve had in their online strategies to:

Provide and Enable

So rather than pouring [...]

Also filed in politics, semweb | Tagged archives, data, government, rdf, rdfa, semweb | Comments (1)

justify my links

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Thanks to a tip from Ian, I’m looking forward to (hopefully) attending the Linked Data Planet conference in New York City as a volunteer. The idea is that I just have to pay for my hotel, and the cost of admission is waived. It seems my travel money is a bit limited at the moment [...]

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permalinks reloaded

Monday, December 17, 2007

The recently announced Zotero / InternetArchive partnership is exciting on a bunch of levels. The one that immediately struck me was the use of the Internet Archive URI. As you may have noticed before all the content in Internet Archive Wayback Machine can be referenced with a URL that looks something like:

http://web.archive.org/web/{yyyymmddhhmmss}/{url}

Where url is the [...]

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good ore

Friday, November 2, 2007

In case you missed it the Object-Reuse-and-Exchange (ORE) folks are having a get together at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) on March 3, 2008. It’s free to register, but space is limited. The Compound information objects whitepaper, May 2007 Technical Committee notes and the more recent Interoperability for the Discovery, Use, and Re-Use of [...]