Posted in General, Semantic Web, tagtriples on Sep 24th, 2005 Comments
I’m quite excited about this release - it includes new POST functionality that accepts HTTP-POSTed content interpreted via mimetype. The upshot of which is that people can cut-n-paste xml chunks into JAM*VAT (which is a compelling way to demonstrate the technology).
You can try it via the online demo - click on the ‘Post Data’ link […]
Posted in General, Semantic Web on Sep 22nd, 2005 Comments
Here’s a barrier to successfully using RDF URIs for identifying things collaboratively: you need to know the URI before you can use it.
If two parties create URIs for the same thing in seperation, the chances of them minting the same URI are pretty much nil. This is especially true with temporal seperation - you […]
Posted in General, Semantic Web, tagtriples on Sep 20th, 2005 Comments
With all the buzz around the possibility of an ‘RDF-Lite’, I feel compelled to list a few barriers that I think URIs raise for a new user trying to get to grips with RDF metadata creation.
Here they are, in no particular order:
(1) URIs don’t allow you to use existing identity schemes.
Apart from existing web […]
Posted in General, Semantic Web, tagtriples on Sep 16th, 2005 Comments
In the last post I mentioned importing XML into the JAM*VAT tagtriples store. One of JAM*VATs main features is that it can translate *any* XML into a tagtriples representation using some simple heuristics. I thought I’d better elaborate on this, especially as I haven’t documented the heuristics anywhere.
Before starting, I ought to point out that […]
Posted in General, Semantic Web, tagtriples on Sep 15th, 2005 Comments
Ian Davies has been discussing the complexity of RDF and considering the possibility of an RDF Lite. Danny Ayers also picked it up here.
Readers of this blog will already know that I struggled with teaching RDF’s complexity when attempting to promote and deploy it at work. This prompted my research and creation of a simpler […]
