Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-17 Thread Mark Birbeck
An excellent summary of the state of play so far, Dave...count me in. :) On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Dave Reynolds dave.e.reyno...@googlemail.com wrote: Dave Reynolds wrote: Jeni Tennison wrote: I don't know where the best place is to work on this: I guess at some point it would be

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-14 Thread Mark Birbeck
Hi Richard, Isn't: Give 'em RDF and tell them to develop better toolsets ... exactly the approach that the RDF community has been pursuing for a decade or two, with less than impressive results? ;) Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birb...@webbackplane.com http

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-14 Thread Mark Birbeck
the Twitter API, based on data provided by RDFa.) Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birb...@webbackplane.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle Street, London

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-13 Thread Mark Birbeck
' to a JavaScript programmer -- perhaps you'd be interested in helping to get that into shape? Regards, Mark [1] http://code.google.com/p/backplanejs/wiki/Rdfj [2] http://code.google.com/p/backplanejs/wiki/CreateNamedGraphMapper -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birb...@webbackplane.com http

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

2009-07-08 Thread Mark Birbeck
mention RDFa? Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birb...@webbackplane.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4RR)

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

2009-06-29 Thread Mark Birbeck
be that too much information is being provided in the RDF view, rather than using links to other data that can be retrieved. Perhaps Michael could give an example.) Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birb...@webbackplane.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

2009-06-29 Thread Mark Birbeck
, Mark On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Toby Inkstert...@g5n.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 13:30 +0100, Mark Birbeck wrote: If we go back a step, RDFa was carefully designed so that it could carry any combination of the RDF concepts in an HTML document. In the end we dropped reification

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

2009-06-26 Thread Mark Birbeck
cloaking by Google's spam detection systems. [1] Regards, Mark [1] http://knol.google.com/k/google-rich-snippets/google-rich-snippets/32la2chf8l79m/1# -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birb...@webbackplane.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

2009-06-25 Thread Mark Birbeck
(née RDF/XHTML), and I would say that it's an even more important theme today; so much so that I made it the core of a presentation I did at SemTech last week, on 'RDFa: The Semantic Web's Missing Link'. [1].) Regards, Mark [1] http://webbackplane.com/mark-birbeck/blog/2009/06/slides

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

2009-06-25 Thread Mark Birbeck
; the more metadata we can get into HTML-space, the more likely we are to bring about a more 'semantic' web...before anyone notices. ;) Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birb...@webbackplane.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd

Re: http://ld2sd.deri.org/lod-ng-tutorial/

2009-06-22 Thread Mark Birbeck
the occasional lapses into them and us-ism... Optimistically, Dan -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birb...@webbackplane.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle

Re: RDFa + RDF/XML Considered Harmful? (was RE: Ordnance Survey data as Linked Data)

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Birbeck
, RDFa+HTML allows it. Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4RR)

Re: RDFa + RDF/XML Considered Harmful? (was RE: Ordnance Survey data as Linked Data)

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Birbeck
be the equivalent. I can't comment on that example, but ultimately there is no need for a URL for an HTML+RDFa page to be any different to a normal one. (Although I might have missed your point, here) Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webBackplane.com/mark

Re: RDFa + RDF/XML Considered Harmful? (was RE: Ordnance Survey data as Linked Data)

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Birbeck
...anything, that is, except itself. :) Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4RR)

Re: RDFa + RDF/XML Considered Harmful? (was RE: Ordnance Survey data as Linked Data)

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Birbeck
in the rest of the other email), is that an RDF/XML document can't hold triples about itself, since an RDF/XML document is 'scaffolding' that 'dissolves' the moment you interpret it, leaving you only the triples. Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Library of Congress Subject Headings as SKOS Linked Data

2008-06-17 Thread Mark Birbeck
://lcsh.info/static/lcsh.nt [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/#hashuri [5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/ [6] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/ -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name