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Profiles (and thus RDF) from University of Bath Person Finder

08 June, 2006 - 124 words

Work’s staff and student directory has just had an overhaul, and I finally got the change in to add the hCard profile to the <head> of the page. This means that because the page is marked up with the hCard microformat, you can pass a page like mine to a ...

Peer-to-peer social networking

21 November, 2005 - 540 words

Social networking sites and functionalities are a means to an end. Personally, I want to use a social network to describe, filter and prioritise information in an aggregator (or, if you like, a “Digital Lifestyle Aggregator”). Boris Mann has written Distributed Social Networking a nice speculative piece...

I (heart) the RDFers

15 August, 2005 - 176 words

Every time anyone dares to question RDF the RDFites assume they don’t know how it works. That’s a really bad state of affairs, but also one that I’ve fortunately never encountered. All the RDFers I’ve spoken too (although I confess it’s not many) have been polite and willing to explain things in ever decreasing complexity until I finally understand what they’re...

Is there a dearth of FOAF apps?

10 April, 2005 - 288 words

Someone posted to the rdf-dev mailing list the other day, saying FOAF had had its chance to do any good, and had failed. Time to close up shop. He missed the point. FOAF is a data format. It’s the surrounding application infrastructure which needs a kick up the arse, not the format that needs killing. As of right now, I can’t give you one good example (off the top of my head) of a...

Goodbye, Allconsuming

08 March, 2005 - 377 words

I’ve given up with Allconsuming.net, it’s just too slow (when it’s responding at all) and too much work to maintain my books there. Over the next few days I’ll be exporting my data via the HTTP API, and probably converting it to RDF using the RVW format so that I can later do with it what I like. ...

How to export Firefox's history to a text file

04 January, 2005 - 465 words

Note that this doesn’t currently work in Firefox 1.5 Specifically, serialised as RDF/XML. Early last year, Jamie Zawinski asked about how to extract information from Firefox’s history.dat file and ended up having to write a Perl script to do it. He actually got ...

Jabber and FOAF - the hope is still alive

13 September, 2004 - 149 words

stpeter has made three very interesting posts (Disco RDF, Knowing and Making Friends) which talk about the possibilities that would start to open up if Jabber clients (o...

Slow replies

22 June, 2004 - 46 words

Over the last few months I’ve had a number of people contact me on various issues, from IM to RDF to syndication and more. To all those people – Sorry for not having got back to you yet! I’ll be trying to clear the backlog this week.

New Mozilla RDF module owner

26 April, 2004 - 97 words

Hot damn! Mozilla RDF has a new module owner who has this to say: We gonna push for both standards conformance (there are new specs out there since early 2004) and scriptability for remote web applications. This will include some serious whacking of the RDF API in Mozilla, as that is not ready for the web by a fair amount. Great! I’ve run into a couple o...

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18 March, 2004 - 76 words

Almost a year old now, but the PyCon Introduction to the Semantic Web and RDF is still very good, and most usefully provides sample Python code. In the same vein, Building Metadata Applications with RDF very ably demonstrates how to handle RDF documents in Python and is an ex...

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