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Cobwebs and Rainbows, Round 3

Web 3.0. Like 2.0, but meaningful and integrated (as opposed to unqualified punyformats and mess-ups). And sensible (whatever that means.. "think Scandinavian Ajax" — to cite my boss at V.).I'll be...

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Knowledge, The Bits and Pieces

In a recent post by Lee Feigenbaum, he talks about Using RDF on the Web. Naturally I find this very interesting. In my work on the Oort toolkit, I use an approach of "removing dimensions": namespaces,...

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A Great Day for Specificity

dbpedia.org - Using Wikipedia as a Web Database[...] dbpedia can also be seen as a huge ontology that assigns URIs to plenty of concepts and backs these URIs with with dereferencable RDF...

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Oort In Space, In Time, At 0.3.2

Oort is now at 0.3.2. See the release history for details. Also, check out the tutorial— now functional at last.Apart from fixes, the API is slightly cleaner and RdfQueries can now be updated, directly...

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Cutting Edges

For all of you out there writing droves of RDF, churning out endless amounts of Notation 3, and doing it all in Vim.. (we must be in the millions I'm sure), be sure to check out my little RDF...

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Point of Data

(Read all of this, it is a Zen Koan.)Been thinking about data lately (possibly "in" as well). And information, content, metadata, meaning, knowledge, taxonomies, ontologies.. Ontology. Flashbacks of...

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Of wheels and fortunes

[I wrote this comment a while ago, but left it hanging. Rather than letting it die, I just throw it into the mix (to show a life sign if nothing more).]I was inspired by this post about reinvention...

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A Mind must Become be4 it can Go

Now, I do not understand why the Web 4.0 page at Wikipedia has been protected to prevent creation. It is the fear of the machine? Because as everyone must know, Web 4.0 is the peak of our civilization,...

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OMG! Snakes on a Phone!

So, I got this new cell phone from work. A Nokia 6120 Classic, which has just the size and features I wanted (and more, I'm sure). I picked the white/silver model, to go with my kitchen supplies (in...

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Out To Transmogrify Resource Descriptions

Finally, I've bundled another release of Oort. And OortPub! I've modularized the package into two Eggs, separating the core O/R things from the (experimental) WSGI web stuff.At the cheeseshop you'll...

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Old Bad Breaks Improved by Dividing

I stopped blogging quite a while ago. Partly because I cooked up long articles about Atom-based services with RDF payloads in my head that never got written down (I shall get back to this). Partly...

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Getting lxml 2 into my gnarly old Tiger; going on ROA

In case anyone might google for something like:lxml "Symbol not found" _xmlSchematronNewParserCtxt, I'd like to reiterate the steps I just took to get lxml 2 (2.1 beta 1 to be precise) up and running...

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Memes and Principles, Intent

This is a prelude to an upcoming post where I intend to speak about Atom Entries as some kind of "simplest thing that could possibly work" (for the specific purpose of representing manifests of...

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Representation Taxation

It seems my thoughts about Atom Entries will be delayed a while longer. This post begun life as a response to this "BlubML" post by Bill de hÓra, but quickly turned out to be about my view of data...

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Brave New World

[I wrote this little silliness more than a year ago. Didn't find an appropriate time to post it (it served mostly as critique of the computerized semantics I usually like so much). Now, with Sweden...

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The

most merciful thing, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. Please don't. Or fret not. At least -- not at least.

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Have you ever

stayed within your own contemplationlong enough,to realizethat you're neveroutsideof your contemplation?Leave.

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Possession

I honestly thought that my next post wouldn't be a drunken one. Alas, it'll be. This time, it's prompted by a sample initializing "Requiem" by Delerium (-89, you won't bother): "Possession is a state...

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Resources, Manifests, Contexts

Just took a quick look at oEmbed (found from a context I was led to from Emil Stenström (an excellent Django promoter in my surroundings btw. Kudos.)).While oEmbed is certainly quite neat, I very much...

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Gnostic Nihilism

Here's my take on it. God actually exists. It's the world that doesn't. It's just that when you leave a being like that all alone in nothingness for an eternity, it starts to dream up all sorts of...

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Labelled Reduction as A Good Thing

One small thing (of the many) in Python 2.6 I like (and have waited for since it appeared as a recipe), is collections.namedtuple. It is very useful in itself, but the fact that the stdlib has been...

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The Groovy Times

It has been so long since my last post here. I've twittered away like the rest of my peers. I guess I could dish out details from my personal life of the past year now. To examine my interrupt. I...

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The Stone in the House of Glass

The stone in the house of glassbegan to tumbleIt didn't really seewhere it was goingThe stone in the house of glassbegan to rumbleIt didn't really hearwhat it was doingThe stone in the house of...

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Resources In Various Frames of JSON

I've been mulling over the role(s) JSON should play in representing RDF the last couple of days (well, the last year or so really).Having worked with RDF for some years now, more or less full time, in...

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One Liner At a Time

Just some one-liners. 'Cause, you know, to post something, and to each one its own.even_map = dict(('key_%s' % i, i) for i in range(1, 9) if i % 2 == 0)even_map = Hash[(1..9).find_all { |i| (i).even?...

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