Re: Cost and access (Was Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper)

2014-10-07 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 07/10/2014 14:33, "Gray, Alasdair" wrote: >On 3 Oct 2014 16:06, Phillip Lord wrote: >> >> Eric Prud'hommeaux writes: >> >> > Let's work through the requirements and a plausible migration plan. >>We need: >> > >> > 1 persistent storage: it's hard to beat books for a feeling of >>persistence

Re: Linked Data and Semantic Web CoolURIs, 303 redirects and Page Rank.

2014-07-23 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 23/07/2014 21:49, "Kingsley Idehen" wrote: >On 7/23/14 3:40 PM, Michael Smethurst wrote: >> Hi Kingsley >> >> Very definitely starting to feel like deja vu... >> >> On 23/07/2014 20:18, "Kingsley Idehen" wrote: >> >>> >

Re: Linked Data and Semantic Web CoolURIs, 303 redirects and Page Rank.

2014-07-23 Thread Michael Smethurst
Hi Kingsley Very definitely starting to feel like deja vu... On 23/07/2014 20:18, "Kingsley Idehen" wrote: >On 7/23/14 2:05 PM, Michael Smethurst wrote: >> For internal usage it's all probably fine. But I still think it's a >> pattern that shouldn't b

Re: Linked Data and Semantic Web CoolURIs, 303 redirects and Page Rank.

2014-07-23 Thread Michael Smethurst
Interestingly enough I just checked a random shortened link off Twitter >and it went through no less than 5 HTTP 301/302 redirects (500 ms in >total) before getting the HTML. Yeah, it's a shambles init :-/ > >Taking that into consideration a single 303 is not too bad! In comparison t

Re: Linked Data and Semantic Web CoolURIs, 303 redirects and Page Rank.

2014-07-23 Thread Michael Smethurst
Oops, dropped laptop :-/ Continues On 23/07/2014 14:50, "Michael Smethurst" wrote: >Hi Bill > >Bit of a difficult question to answer because the reality is probably >still quite disjointed. Various parts of bbc.co.uk: >- serve linked data >- store data as rdf (i

Re: Linked Data and Semantic Web CoolURIs, 303 redirects and Page Rank.

2014-07-23 Thread Michael Smethurst
;d be interested to know what you have found most >efficient/convenient at the BBC - essentially dealing with the fact that >the server doesn't know about what comes after the # > > >Thanks > >Bill > >On 23 Jul 2014, at 13:52, Michael Smethurst >wrote: > >

Re: Linked Data and Semantic Web CoolURIs, 303 redirects and Page Rank.

2014-07-23 Thread Michael Smethurst
Hello (Pretty sure I've made this comment before so please forgive any signs of premature senility) I think this may be an unfortunate side effect of the conflation of the 303 ("I can't send that") pattern with the content negotiation ("what flavour would you like") pattern Lots of linked data a

Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-04-04 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 30/03/2012 16:15, "Tom Heath" wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On 27 March 2012 16:17, Michael Smethurst wrote: >> >> On 26/03/2012 17:13, "Tom Heath" wrote: >> >>> Hi Jeni, >>> >>> On 26 March 2012 16:47, Jeni Tenni

Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-28 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 27/03/2012 18:12, "Kingsley Idehen" wrote: > On 3/27/12 12:35 PM, Michael Smethurst wrote: >> >> >> On 27/03/2012 16:53, "Kingsley Idehen" wrote: >> >>> On 3/27/12 11:17 AM, Michael Smethurst wrote: >>>> No sane publis

Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 27/03/2012 16:53, "Kingsley Idehen" wrote: > On 3/27/12 11:17 AM, Michael Smethurst wrote: >> No sane publisher trying to handle a decent amount of traffic is gonna >> follow the dbpedia pattern of doing it in one step (conneg to 303) and >> picking up 2 ser

Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-27 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 26/03/2012 17:13, "Tom Heath" wrote: > Hi Jeni, > > On 26 March 2012 16:47, Jeni Tennison wrote: >> Tom, >> >> On 26 Mar 2012, at 16:05, Tom Heath wrote: >>> On 23 March 2012 15:35, Steve Harris wrote: I'm sure many people are just deeply bored of this discussion. >>> >>> No offen

Re: Explaining the benefits of http-range14 (was Re: [HTTP-range-14] Hyperthing: Semantic Web URI Validator (303, 301, 302, 307 and hash URIs) )

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Smethurst
Yes, like I say, I think you agreed Nothing to be ashamed of :--Z On 20/10/2011 12:21, "Kingsley Idehen" wrote: >On 10/20/11 2:38 AM, Michael Smethurst wrote: >>RE: Explaining the benefits of http-range14 (was Re: [HTTP-range-14] >> Hyperthing: Semantic We

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 20/10/2011 00:35, "Hugh Glaser" wrote: > > On 18 Oct 2011, at 14:49, Michael Smethurst wrote: > >> >> >> >> On 18/10/2011 11:30, "Hugh Glaser" wrote: >> > >>> So can I infer from this?: >>> In a worl

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 20/10/2011 01:18, "Nathan" wrote: > Dave Reynolds wrote: >> The problem, as I see it, is that developers start from the NIR but then >> use web browsers to find their way round the data and then cut paste the >> browser locations they find, thus ending up with IRs where they should >> have

RE: Explaining the benefits of http-range14 (was Re: [HTTP-range-14] Hyperthing: Semantic Web URI Validator (303, 301, 302, 307 and hash URIs) )

2011-10-19 Thread Michael Smethurst
Hello! Don't want to sound hopelessly naive but for one second (until the nomenclature wars reignited) I did see a small chink of agreement there. Paraphrasing I think Leigh was saying the resource / representation split was already quite an abstraction and enough for most people in most circum

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-19 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 18/10/2011 11:30, "Hugh Glaser" wrote: > Hi. > On 18 Oct 2011, at 10:57, Michael Smethurst wrote: > >> Hi Bernard >> >> Glad to hear I¹m finally making sense to someone... :-/ > I think I might be still with you ;-) > And finding the discuss

RE: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Smethurst
esentations (which is) see mails passim :-) -Original Message- From: Jonathan Rees [mailto:j...@creativecommons.org] Sent: Tue 10/18/2011 6:27 PM To: Michael Smethurst Cc: Kingsley Idehen; public-lod@w3.org Subject: Re: Address Bar URI On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Michael Smethurst

RE: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Smethurst
I don't seem to be doing a such good job at lurking but I'd thought the current argument against fragment ids was you always get a 200 (so long as the information resource they hang off exists). So: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m86d#teddybearsandtrainsets returns a 200 but that programme

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 18/10/2011 12:26, "Dave Reynolds" wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 10:57 +0100, Michael Smethurst wrote: > >> All of the problems mentioned in this thread could be solved with the >> addition of a *generic* information resource URI that

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 18/10/2011 11:30, "Hugh Glaser" wrote: > Hi. > On 18 Oct 2011, at 10:57, Michael Smethurst wrote: > >> Hi Bernard >> >> Glad to hear I¹m finally making sense to someone... :-/ > I think I might be still with you ;-) > And finding the discuss

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Smethurst
7;s my IR > proxy to 1. > > The conneg for 1 is a systematic 303 to 2, whatever the query. > The conneg for 2 indirects to the desired type of representation. > > Using 2 in Web dialogue avoids confusion : the URI in the browser is not > misleading. You've asked for an IR, here

RE: Address Bar URI

2011-10-17 Thread Michael Smethurst
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RE: Address Bar URI

2011-10-17 Thread Michael Smethurst
public-lod-requ...@w3.org on behalf of Kingsley Idehen Sent: Mon 10/17/2011 12:50 PM To: public-lod@w3.org Subject: Re: Address Bar URI On 10/17/11 1:48 AM, Michael Smethurst wrote: > > Hi Kingsley > > I've heard you make this argument several times in the past. But I > do

RE: Address Bar URI

2011-10-16 Thread Michael Smethurst
guage My 2p Michael -Original Message- From: public-lod-requ...@w3.org on behalf of Kingsley Idehen Sent: Sun 10/16/2011 2:41 PM To: public-lod@w3.org Subject: Re: Address Bar URI On 10/16/11 8:50 AM, Michael Smethurst wrote: > > Hi Hugh > > Apologies for top post; blame we

RE: Address Bar URI

2011-10-16 Thread Michael Smethurst
7;d argue it's a very small minority of users who would understand the distinction / care and the ones that do will all be working with the rdf(a) anyway And possibly more of a blog post than an email. Sorry :-) Michael -Original Message- From: Hugh Glaser [mailto:h...@

RE: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Michael Smethurst
Have to say from a pragmatic point of view that using replaceState to switch between IR and NIR (or whatever we're supposed to call them) URIs feels like bad advice for most developers Users in older browsers are going to see (and copy and paste) one set of URIs whilst users of more modern brow

Re: PUBLINK Linked Data Consultancy

2010-10-07 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 07/10/2010 15:45, "Georgi Kobilarov" wrote: > Hi Michael, Hiya > > Insofar PUBLINK rather clears the way for commercial linked data > service providers. >> >> By doing what? Which bits does publink do and which bits are left to the >> commercial sector? >> >> From the lines abo

Re: PUBLINK Linked Data Consultancy

2010-10-07 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 07/10/2010 11:58, "Hugh Glaser" wrote: > Clearly this is an exciting thing to be doing, but I couldn't let Sören's > comments go :-) > > On 07/10/2010 08:57, "Dave Reynolds" wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 01:38 +0200, Sören Auer wrote: >>> On 07.10.2010 1:13, Georgi Kobilarov wrote: >

Re: Slightly off topic - content negotiation by language accept headers

2010-06-24 Thread Michael Smethurst
Hi John Thanks for the tips. Seems our Chrome versions aren't quite the same. I'm on MacOS (5.0.375.70) and... On 23/06/2010 19:48, "John Erickson" wrote: > Here's how you specific your language preferences in Chrome: > > * In the "Customize" menu (the wrench) select "Options" I have no "opt

Slightly off topic - content negotiation by language accept headers

2010-06-23 Thread Michael Smethurst
Hello Realise this is slightly off topic for this list but since you people know the most about content negotiation of the people I know I thought I'd try here first. So... ...does anyone know of any real world sites that content negotiate on language accept headers? Yves has pointed out that Goo

RE: A question - use 301 instead of 406?

2010-03-26 Thread Michael Smethurst
Hello Just chipping in from a publisher's perspective. The /data and /page thing on DBpedia always confused me a little. It seemed to make the assumption that there was only one page (desktop html) and only one data view (RDF). On bbc /programmes we have 2 pages (desktop html using http://www.

RE: [HELP] Can you please update information about your dataset?

2009-08-07 Thread Michael Smethurst
Hi Jun/all Just noticed the line on: http://esw.w3.org/topic/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/DataSets/Statistics saying: BBC Later + TOTP (link not responding - 2009-04-01) That's my bad. The site's been down since we forgot to pay our ec2 bills :-/ Having said that the data has

RE: Linked railway data for the UK

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Smethurst
>> http://ontologi.es/rail/stations/gb/MAN.rdf >> >> and wondering if there's some confusion between location and >> administrative office / postal address. >> >> in the case of piccadilly it's a complex of buildings. the admin >> office / postal address is in a high rise alongside the actual sta

RE: Linked railway data for the UK

2009-05-14 Thread Michael Smethurst
base of all public transport nodes in the UK? > http://www.naptan.org.uk/ > > Michael Smethurst pointed me at this lately: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS > which is interesting at the level of identifying rolling stock (perhaps you > don't want to go quite that far :-) &g

Re: Segment RDF on BBC Programmes

2009-04-30 Thread Michael Smethurst
Just to note that this release also has the first trickle of data from the bbc archive (previously data only went back to early 2007): http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/programmes/schedules/london/2002/01/01 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002shxj For now it's just a few programmes but in time should

RE: New LOD Cloud - Please send us links to missing data sources

2008-09-19 Thread Michael Smethurst
> I can handle that :-) > I ll update the playcount data so that it points to > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes. cheers mate don't fancy a fight with people - they scary and dynamic dns doesn't feel very linked data : ) Can we update the new cloud diagram prematurely and take out the http://bbc

RE: New LOD Cloud - Please send us links to missing data sources

2008-09-19 Thread Michael Smethurst
Just noticed that bbc programmes is pointing to http://bbc-programmes.dyndns.org/ Now we have RDF on the live site (sadly without conneg yet) can we point to http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes? Having said that Yves is linking playcount data to http://bbc-programmes.dyndns.org/ so just changing t

RE: New LOD Cloud - Please send us links to missing data sources

2008-09-17 Thread Michael Smethurst
Just chipping in on the BBC front. For now the /music rdf doesn't add an awful lot to the world. It's just musicbrainz somewhere else. I'd leave it off until either : 1. we add reviews into /music (altho they might make it to Revyu first) 2. /music gets linked up to /programmes [for about 2 hou

RE: [backstage] Muddy Boots + BBC Music Beta

2008-08-06 Thread Michael Smethurst
another bit of a joined up bbc.co.uk clunks into place... mainly thru the efforts of you people if u were all in london and the bbc paid me enough i'd buy you all beers : ) btw: http://www.slideshare.net/fantasticlife/semweb-at-the-bbc is a presentation i gave (badly) the other day to various b

RE: rdf AND rdf-a?

2008-06-11 Thread Michael Smethurst
ay is prettied up by the style crew. Good separation there. Thoughts from the edge, Trent At 09:28 AM 6/10/2008, Kingsley Idehen wrote: >Michael Smethurst wrote: >> >>Morning all >> >>The site I'm working on uses microformats fairly heavily. And we've >&

rdf AND rdf-a?

2008-06-10 Thread Michael Smethurst
Morning all The site I'm working on uses microformats fairly heavily. And we've encountered all the usual problems: accessibility, lack of namespacing / scope etc. Anyway for accessibility reasons we've just updated our standards to prohibit the use of the microformat abbreviation design patter

Re: [Linking-open-data] watchdog.net and LOD best practices

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Smethurst
and Keith Alexander (also CC'd) from here at Talis, > who has been working on some stuff in this area. > > Cheers, > > Tom. > > [1] http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/ > > >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailt