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Redland is 5 today!

Marc’s perl Class::Redland and our python rdfobj are based on it, and it’s helped us all go a lot faster. Thanks, dajobe!

I am experiencing a bout of that same compulsion to verbiage that must bother regular bloggers daily - a kind of blogohrrea. Having exhausted the patience of my irc friends, i turn to the web as a verbal outlet.
In theory, times are very interesting. Semantic web projects with a spatial aspect, that i’ve been tinkering […]

Since the journalling thread last summer, i’ve been idly dreaming about collecting RDF feeds of all the information i generate through the keyboard. dashboard i liked a great deal - edd did some great tricks with it. I hear excited things about beagle. But i don’t run a gnome desktop; i do a lot of […]

Busily hacking together prototypes for Wireless London, a free network service collection thing.
The package will eventually contain an RSS aggregator server; written using the redland python interface, and a standalone GiST based spatial index. I’m planning to cobble together a generic RDF aggregator package soon, mostly from other peoples’ rss storage and feed parsing code. […]

Back in London for a while after a year’s absence, i find myself re-involved in a longstanding project to rebuild the consume.net node database and documentation set in a fashion that should include lots of RDF metadata for nodes, an Open Guide and a feedback mechanism to help get people involved in local mentorings.
As it’s […]

i decided to use Class::RDF as a small test case for what a more ‘literate’ project and programming behaviour might be. a small collection of files, rss feeds of cvs commit notes and code journals written on irc, a DOAP file, some beautiful code coverage reports made by Devel::Cover.
imagining a wiki-like interface, to code, to […]

indyvoter finally ‘went beta’ at the weekend, during a training mission in Ohio, having bust a gut hacking on it the previous week. By now it’s into the third rewrite and looking stable, with half as many features again on the release list.
Hopefully, it’s more than a YASN - find friends, join communities, write blogs, […]

in latvia recently i was working on some data-sharing models for media metadata annotated with space and time, with andrew paterson of the aware project. it’s mostly cobbled together from other vocabularies.
The hopeful plan is to gather a lot of metadata about the proceedings of these workshops, and bring it together in interesting visualisations in […]

i made an RDF API to the del.icio.us api, to make a point. The RDF version of the del.icio.us api works exactly the same as the real one, but the results are in RDF, and everything that goes through it gets stored in an RDF model. this means that you may get back more context […]