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 [...]
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- @mrgunn sorry to hear you wasted that much time on it when others had no trouble at all :-( in reply to mrgunn 7 hrs ago
- @mrgunn feel free to email me error message, or better yet, create an issue on github http://bit.ly/bf8jRx in reply to mrgunn 12 hrs ago
- @mrgunn it looks like python3.1 does have multiprocessing ; but the try/except syntax is different, so that would need some adjustment in reply to mrgunn 12 hrs ago
- @pkeane huh, yeah ; looks like 2.5 introduced try-except-finally-block ; good to know :-) in reply to pkeane 13 hrs ago
- @mrgunn oh, hmm did you git clone git://github.com/edsu/bagit.git it should work from there in reply to mrgunn 13 hrs ago
- @mrgunn oops yeah, I still need to remove that dependency on unix mv ; thanks for trying it out ; I would be interested to see the error in reply to mrgunn 22 hrs ago
- @pkeane thanks for trying, test suite similarly fails then? `python test.py` in reply to pkeane 1 day ago
- @mrgunn not so important what's in the background, but an indication of how many cores you have would be great! in reply to mrgunn 1 day ago
- if you are bored, and have a multicore system i'd appreciate it if you could run http://bit.ly/9NTlaA & send output to ehs at pobox dot com 1 day ago
- @librarythingtim because you don't respond to your email? :-) in reply to librarythingtim 1 day ago
- so digg and twitter are both moving to cassandra? http://bit.ly/aSy2dY http://bit.ly/aLfavC 1 day ago
- dang, 137 years of Popular Science available online via Google http://bit.ly/cl1ZTH e.g. http://bit.ly/bj3Vmx 1 day ago
- added md5 parallelization to minimalist bagit library using python's multiprocessing module http://bit.ly/b4BEFE 2 days ago
- @dbrunton @linabrunton thanks for letting us invade your homestead to see your chicks; kids were surprisingly sedate on the way home btw :-) 2 days ago
- ushering in the weekend w/ Dogfish Head Aprihop in hand http://bit.ly/cWwGvd 3 days ago
- viaf.org has an opensearch description (yay) but they don't allow http clients to auto-discover it (boo) 3 days ago
- @gkob thanks for writing about uberblic's #wikipedia data extraction and real time update mechanisms http://bit.ly/ddJCD6 3 days ago
- @adrianstevenson funnily enough I was reading about URI Sets this AM on the train: http://bit.ly/cqAKsv ; an important effort imho 3 days ago
- @adrianstevenson @azaroth42 i wonder if talking about a URI Set saves some people from having to say "No, not that kind of Graph!!" :-) in reply to adrianstevenson 3 days ago
- i *think* i successfully hooked @mjgiarlo into subscribing to last.fm with eyecandy from playground.last.fm e.g. http://bit.ly/bA545z 3 days ago
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