I’m at reboot 7.0, and even though it hasn’t officially started yet, it looks promising.
Last night it all began with free beer and peanuts (on request) at Admiral Gjeddes Gaard — a very nice place in the center of Copenhagen:
(Details in Preboot.)
Category Archives: Travelling
The Gargonza Experiment
Only a few weeks after SPARQLing Days I’m now finally ready to report some progress…
2005-05-07: Updated to version 0.3, see changelog below.
As is now common knowledge, one outcome of the great gathering in Tuscany is The Gargonza Experiment, which attempts to create a set of showcases for the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the SPARQL Query Language for RDF
. Already the “community theatre” has gained a bit of steam and an increasing number of followers, and I’m sure there’ll be more to come as people get the stuff they started working on completed. To keep up-to-date, I suggest y’all subscribe to Planet RDF or at least to the Gargonza Experiment category that Danny Ayers — my gracious host for a few days following the main event — is maintaining.
To assist in that goal, I’ve made a subset of my photo description database available for SPARQL queries via Sparqlette — A SPARQL demo query service. The subset currently contains only descriptions of the photos taken during SPARQLing Days, and not all photos have been through my annotation process, there are still some foaf:depicts triples to be made…
Sparqling Days
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
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…
SKOS Output from WordPress
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…
See also the SKOS development toolshed.
In passing, being here in Galway/Ireland is great, not only do I get to meet a lot of smart and interesting people, very much like at FOAF Camp, I also get to add another country to my list of visits…