Category Archives: General

Sparqling Days

30. March 2005RDF, SPARQL, TravellingMorten Høybye Frederiksen

Just like Leigh and Danny — among several other smart people — I’ve been lucky enough to get invited to Sparqling Days, 2 days of likely intense hacking on querying RDF with SPARQL, orchestrated by @semantics.

Unfortunately, several people, among them Leigh whom I have still to meet over beer, can’t make it, but there’s at least one bonus, I finally get to meet Danny Ayers, the man of steel and father of Sparql-the-cat.

I’m sure this will turn out to be quite a nice trip, from what I hear Italy is a very nice country, and the team hacking session will likely help advance the state of RDF query and provide implementations of nice demo applications.

Election Day

8. February 2005Politics, TravellingMorten Høybye Frederiksen

Today is the day. It’s the day that everything has been leading up to for the last three weeks. It’s election day in Denmark.

We get to vote, but it seems like we don’t really get a choice.

At least now it’s almost over. The cold days on the streets with pamphlets, the long days (and evenings) at work with a vote counting system, the sorry “debates” on TV, the endless newspaper coverage of spindoctors.

Perhaps life can resume normal operation again soon. At least I get to go away to Stockholm for a long weekend of relaxation with Katrine, that should make for a good start…

Italian XML

14. December 2004General, Humour, XSLTMorten Høybye Frederiksen

You know you might be hungry when you are greeted by the following error message:

xsltStylePreCompute: unknown xsl:parma xsltApplyOneTemplate: parma was not compiled

The offending part:

<xsl:template mode="navigation" priority="0.2" match="*[@rdf:resource]"> 
  <xsl:parma name="head" select="false()"/> 
  <div class="navigation"> 
    <xsl:variable name="this-p" select="concat(namespace-uri(),local-name())"/>

To keep this sort of on-topic: There was a workshop in Italy last week, SWAP 2004, Danny Ayers has more.

Please Vote

2. November 2004PoliticsMorten Høybye Frederiksen

If you can — unlike the majority of the world’s population — please vote in the US presidential election.

It’s important.

And please vote for John Kerry, the rest of the world will thank you.

SKOS Output from WordPress

1. September 2004FOAF, RDF, Travelling, WordPressMorten Høybye Frederiksen

Waiting for the bus to the medieval banquet at Dunguaire Castle for the FOAF Galway Workshop (photos), I remembered I had tweaked the FOAF Output Plugin to also output SKOS concepts — and possibly mappings to others’ categories.

Get it before your neighbour, the FOAF Output Plugin, version 1.11 — the Galway Release…

Binary Relations

Reflections on the web