This week the NDIIPP partners meeting, the Library of Congress is holding a Recollection workshop to demonstrate some of the capabilities this platform provides to the digital preservation community. In addition to being able to connect / upload / transform various different data formats as well as allowing users to build various interactive exhibit interfaces [...]
Tonight we tagged a svn “invitational beta” branch for next weeks Freemix launch at 2009 SemTech. This is a huge accomplishment by an absolutely extraordinary team. While there is still a lot of work to do (this is only the beginning ), this marks an important milestone toward making it easier for people, communities and [...]
Misha pretty much summed it all up in his post The RDF Model and Syntax Specification became a W3C Recommendation nine years ago today! Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification W3C Recommendation 22 February 1999 http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-rdf-syntax-19990222/ Best wishes to all members of the original W3C RDF Model and Syntax Working Group and to [...]
Stu Weibel’s post on ‘List Making Meets Redirection’ prompted me to comment on some of the Active PURL work (PURLs with associated services) we at Zepheira has been developing. Example ‘Active PURLs’ might be notification to publishers of problems with target URLs (basically a link-checker for PURLs), notification to readers of updates to target PURLs [...]
For a long time I’ve been thinking how useful it would be to give PURLS to people as a key part for managing evolving social networks. And now that the new purl work we’re doing at Zepheira (which is downright scary-good due to in part a rock solid engineering team and the use of NetKernel [...]
15 years ago, I was involved in series of discussions at the IETF regarding technical standards related to identifying resources in decentralized environments. Acronyms such as “URI”, “URN”, “URL”, “URC” (and occasionally the phrase “you are kidding?!”) where constantly thrown around with much heated debate regarding requirements, protocols, semantics and capabilities for each of these [...]
Over the past several years, I’ve occasionally used the phrase “recombinant data” when talking about the Semantic Web. Recently at the Semantic Technologies 2007 conference I attempted to give this term a definition during one of my talks: the ability to rapidly recombine, reform, re-factor and reuse data from different applications to address a particular [...]
Several folks have asked me privately about Zepheira … more specifically what we do, how to pronounce it and where the name came. The following is a poor attempt to minimize future inquiries Ok, first, what is it… the home page captures some of this: Zepheira helps organizations use the Web to connect, visualize, analyze [...]
I’m a jazz fan. The combination of vinyl, low watt tube amplifcation, high efficency speakers and jazz works for me. Spinning some Miles Davis in particular I really enjoy. Ok… enough on that. A couple of months ago, I spent a few minutes combining some of the tools that we’re building in the Simile project [...]
Tim Bray’s latest post reminded me of his rdf.net challenge. Working with various companies on RDF and Semantic Web related tools / products I had forgotten this was still in play. As it still is, i’m interested . More specifically, I’d like to offer Piggy Bank (and various other tools in the Simile toolkit) as [...]