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RDF and NoSQL

ericg — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:02:23 +0000

This is the kind of stuff that really gets my thinking bones going!

http://decentralyze.com/2010/03/09/rdf-meets-nosql/

Anyone else out there have ideas about this kind of stuff?

ericg — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:48:18 +0000

Journalism and the Semantic Web

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RDF personal finance database

ericg — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:24:22 +0000

Okay, this is an idea that’s been developing in my mind ever since I realized how closely the secrets of the internals to Quicken® were held. Build a personal finance application that uses RDF as the backend store. Every time I’ve tried to do something in an SQL database, or as a spreadsheet, I run into the problem of imperfect data representation: if you don’t get your table models pretty close to what you’ll need when everything is finished, you don’t really have much that’s useful. RDF gives you a graph representation that can mimic tables that are arbitrarily wide. RDF remembers facts that are important, while allowing you to change your mind about what’s essential. I’ll post more once I know more.

Band Name Generator

ericg — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:32:14 +0000

I used to have a cool little program I wrote on the web, called the band name generator. I’d gone through a couple different versions, adding features, and had a lot of fun writing it. Then I lost interest, changed internet service providers, and let it just go away.

It’s coming back. Woo Hoo. I’ve found it’s been a really great way to get myself motivated to learn new ways of doing things. I can take a concept that I’ve thought about in deep detail, and re-imagine it in terms of the latest ideas that happen in web programming.

The next set of “buzzwords du jour” will be “RDF”, “SPARQL”, and “ontology”. That will mean BUPKUS to most of you, but I’m excited.

FOAF and Facebook

ericg — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:40:46 +0000

“FOAF” means “friend of a friend”, for those that don’t know, and if you don’t, just skip this post.

I went on Facebook, and used their FOAF Generator tool, to (what else?) generate some FOAF, which I tweaked a bit by hand, got it to validate at the W3C’s RDF Validator, and the stuck it up at here.

The exciting part, is what others can do with it. See what the FOAF Explorer does.

Neat semantic web things:

ericg — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:39:30 +0000

http://www.43places.com

http://www.43things.com