Re: Where are the Linked Data Driven Smart Agents (Bots) ?

2016-07-06 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Ruben, On Wed, 7/6/16, Kingsley Idehen wrote: "Smart Agents and Bots are now hot topics across the industry at large." bullet point - Wants are getting a little ahead of wishes, as usual :( What people already believe about Linked Data is that {an SQL right outer

Re: Close to spam (was Re: [CfP] Reminder: Submit to ISWC2016 Doctoral Consortium!)

2016-05-19 Thread Gannon Dick
David, the part of my comment which was not confidential was some wisdom from a famous English Author with Copyright Troll experience ... - Everybody knows this one: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." (2 Henry VI, 4.2.59) William Shakespeare

Re: Temporal validity: alternative for dcterms:valid?

2015-12-24 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Frans, "a versioning scheme based on DCMI has a weak spot: the property for denoting temporal validity (dcterms:valid) is impractical to the point of being unusable." Well, sort of. If one is trying to rank temporal validity then one is trying to rank the negative pattern of the property.

Re: New Extension for revealing Structured Data Islands embedded in HTML pages

2015-12-05 Thread Gannon Dick
+1 Very useful. There is a definite need for a GRDDL replacement :) http://www.w3.org/TR/grddl-tests/ On Sat, 12/5/15, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Subject: New Extension for revealing Structured Data Islands embedded in HTML

Re: New Extension for revealing Structured Data Islands embedded in HTML pages

2015-12-05 Thread Gannon Dick
y not have permission to post messages to the group. A few more details on why you weren't able to post ... +1 with Oak Leaf Clusters, Kingsley Sorry Alphabet, couldn't resist. On Sat, 12/5/15, Gannon Dick

RE: What Happened to the Semantic Web?

2015-11-16 Thread Gannon Dick
At the equator the Sun God works half-days. Fine example for the little folk, that. Plus another. On Mon, 11/16/15, john.nj.dav...@bt.com wrote: Subject: RE: What Happened to the Semantic Web? To: janow...@ucsb.edu,

Re: What Happened to the Semantic Web?

2015-11-11 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi All, Melvin had a very good point about the vector *types*. Some of the types are not so benign in implementation [1]. When the meta data sits atop a firewall as XML, it is shared, and the DOM is transferred intact. With XHTML this means access unbalanced access to the name space

Re: What Happened to the Semantic Web?

2015-11-11 Thread Gannon Dick
On Wed, 11/11/15, Wouter Beek wrote: I find it difficult to see why centralization will not be the end game for the SW as it has been for so many other aspects of computing (search, email, social networking, even simple things like

Re: What Happened to the Semantic Web?

2015-11-11 Thread Gannon Dick
On Wed, 11/11/15, Ruben Verborgh wrote: Subject: Re: What Happened to the Semantic Web? To: "Kingsley Idehen" Cc: public-lod@w3.org, "semantic-...@w3.org" Date: Wednesday,

Re: Are there any datasets about companies? ( DBpedia Open Data Initiative)

2015-11-06 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi all, Organizational Identifiers are a bit dangerous for the little people to talk about :-) 1) First, some food for thought ... if FOAF identifies real people rigorously, one would think complexity less and convergence faster for many fewer organizations. That would make no sense, unless

RE: [Caution: Message contains Redirect URL content] Re: Ontology to link food and diseases

2015-05-06 Thread Gannon Dick
+1, with a Science caveat ... nano-_ is a marketing nonsense word and followed by ... the smallest unit of ... is nonsense x 10^5. The atomic conversion of a serial number tagged (URI) decimal number (currency for example, bills and coins) is 10,000 (URI) + D(0) = 1M (URN) + D(0) {D(0) =

Re: Ontology to link food and diseases

2015-05-05 Thread Gannon Dick
In light of Bernard's comments (nice job, BTW) may I suggest StratML ... (http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=59859) StratML helps prevent man-in-the-middle substitution attacks on code sets at the sub-domain (submitter) level. These attacks are kin to SQL Injection Attacks

Re: Ontology to link food and diseases

2015-05-04 Thread Gannon Dick
Good idea, Marco. A collated reverse lookup of medical literature for food incompatibilities would be helpful for the layman. The US FDA, Centers for Disease Control maintains Posion Hot Line (phone). They may probably have created a reverse lookup / Ontology already. You can obtain all the

Re: Algorithm evaluation on the complete LOD cloud?

2015-04-24 Thread Gannon Dick
: Subject: Re: Algorithm evaluation on the complete LOD cloud? To: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com Cc: public-lod@w3.org public-lod@w3.org, SW-forum Web semantic-...@w3.org, Laurens Rietveld laurens.rietv...@vu.nl Date: Friday, April 24, 2015, 9:39 AM Here is my take. The Complete LOD cloud

Re: Algorithm evaluation on the complete LOD cloud?

2015-04-23 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Laurens, Ignore the hecklers, I know what you mean. Look at the two solutions to the German Tank Problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem The analyses illustrate the difference between frequentist inference and Bayesian inference. Estimating the population maximum based on

Re: Looking for pedagogically useful data sets

2015-03-13 Thread Gannon Dick
SQL queries are a semantics killer ***for those situations where the uncertainty inherent in semantics (Bayesian Interference) can not be eliminated and the deterministic solution (frequentist Interference) is unavailable***. The terms Bayesian Interference and frequentist Interference are

Re: Microsoft Access for RDF?

2015-02-20 Thread Gannon Dick
If you don't like double housekeeping (most programmers know the pitfalls here), then using OWL or inference rules you can also infer attendance from the arrival events. Are most programmers who work for the Human Resources Department ignorant or just really scary ? It's Friday. Get thee to

Re: Microsoft Access for RDF?

2015-02-19 Thread Gannon Dick
wrote: Subject: Re: Microsoft Access for RDF? To: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com Cc: Linked Data community public-lod@w3.org Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 6:10 PM Yes,  there is the general project of capturing 100% of critical information in documents and that is a wider problem

Re: Microsoft Access for RDF?

2015-02-18 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Paul, I'm detecting a snippy disturbance in the Linked Open Data Force :) The text edit problem resides in the nature of SQL type queries vs. SPARQL type queries. It's not in the data exactly, but rather in the processing (name:value pairs). To obtain RDF from data in columns you want to

Re: linked open data and PDF

2015-01-22 Thread Gannon Dick
Wow, there's a blast from the past*. --Gannon * past = back when URL's looked like URI's and control freaks could keep their domain holdings and ontologies on the same ledger. Not for a minute do I think this was a good thing, and in any case no fault of GRDDL.

Re: Debates of the European Parliament as LOD

2014-11-12 Thread Gannon Dick
Juan, The G8 Open Data Charter Technical Annex contains Topics and Categories which would be a good starting point [1]. I scraped it and linked it with URN's to the US Library of Congress ID Servers.  I can supply that table if it would save you some time [2]. --Gannon [1]

Re: It is not the URI that bends, it is only ..

2014-10-17 Thread Gannon Dick
On Fri, 10/17/14, Sarven Capadisli i...@csarven.ca wrote: Subject: It is not the URI that bends, it is only .. To: Linking Open Data public-lod@w3.org, SW-forum semantic-...@w3.org Date: Friday, October 17, 2014, 12:32 PM Dear PhiloWebers, I

Re: How to model valid time of resource properties?

2014-10-16 Thread Gannon Dick
On Thu, 10/16/14, Frans Knibbe | Geodan frans.kni...@geodan.nl wrote: ... the current state of a resource might be part of the default graph (which can remain unnamed) and historical states associated with temporal graphs. You see this in the wild

Re: Reference management

2014-10-09 Thread Gannon Dick
Good catch, Michael. LOL. There is a nomenclature problem. The confusion here is that the Chinese own the confusion. You mustn't forget that Five Eyes have joint custody. If your 20 random samples were *my* fingers and toes then certainly they would be distinct from *your* fingers and toes.

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

2014-10-03 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Phillip, Eric, et. al. On Fri, 10/3/14, Phillip Lord phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk wrote: Eric Prud'hommeaux e...@w3.org writes: Let's work through the requirements and a plausible migration plan. We need: 1 persistent storage: it's

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

2014-10-03 Thread Gannon Dick
On Fri, 10/3/14, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: We never thought of making up imaginary people to cite stuff though. Never mind that, imagine the automation possibilities Huge numbers of imaginary people talking to themselves ... (thanks

Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper

2014-10-01 Thread Gannon Dick
I agree, Laura. If you are roaming overseas (in any direction) and a friend sends you a chunk of data which may not be accessible publically or wants to send you only Chapter 416 of 837 then it teaches publishers nothing but may keep ISP's in Champagne for years to come. Yes, London has free

Re: Formats and icing (Was Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper)

2014-10-01 Thread Gannon Dick
Not to pile on Sarven, said Gannon, piling on, but I recently tripped over the XSD validation tests I did a couple of years ago. They are XHTML 1.1 + RDFa all zipped up so you won't have to stitch the schema together (it is 20+ little files). If anyone wants it please contact me off-board.

Re: A Distributed Economy -- A blog involving Linked Data

2014-09-20 Thread Gannon Dick
...@netestate.de wrote: Subject: Re: A Distributed Economy -- A blog involving Linked Data To: Paul Houle ontolo...@gmail.com Cc: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com, Linked Data community public-lod@w3.org, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com Date: Saturday, September 20, 2014, 11:30 AM Hello

Re: A proposal for two additional properties for LOCN

2014-09-01 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Frans, A complete and coherent coordinate system is a sine qua non for analysis of data, planning strategy and measuring performance. Your questions ... 1) Are the semantics of the two properties really absent from the semantic web at the moment? As long as the perception exists that

Labor Day: Work - Life Balance

2014-08-29 Thread Gannon Dick
One of the more tedious planning chores is populating time lines, or the related task of start and end points of intervals. With a 4 high stacking, or a 4 wide packing (16x1) of quads or quarters in an appropriate coordinate system, this chore becomes considerably easier.

Re: Linked SDMX Data

2014-08-15 Thread Gannon Dick
/0001.html On Fri, 8/15/14, Sarven Capadisli i...@csarven.ca wrote: Subject: Re: Linked SDMX Data To: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com, public-lod@w3.org Cc: KevinFord k...@loc.gov, public-loc...@w3.org public-loc...@w3.org, public-egov...@w3.org

RE: (groan, not again): OGC Temporal DWG. Was: space and time

2014-08-14 Thread Gannon Dick
) [3] http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/EarthSeasons.php Best wishes, Chris -Original Message- From: Gannon Dick [mailto:gannon_d...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 6:38 PM To: andrea.per...@jrc.ec.europa.eu; frans.kni...@geodan.nl; simon@csiro.au; Chris Beer

(groan, not again): OGC Temporal DWG. Was: space and time

2014-08-13 Thread Gannon Dick
resources. Work-Life Balance gets, um, unbalanced. --Gannon On Tue, 7/29/14, Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: RE: OGC Temporal DWG. Was: space and time Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2014, 12:45 PM On Tue, 7/29/14, Little, Chris

Re: Linked SDMX Data

2014-08-11 Thread Gannon Dick
Sorry for the x-post Hi Sarven, I noticed you used GeoNames for the Australian Bureau of Statistics Linked Data hack mentioned below. GeoNames does much useful work ... but everyone in the Linked Data business could use a little help. Domains - in theory, the countries of the world are a

Re: SemStats 2014 Call for Challenge

2014-08-06 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Sarven, The US Census Bureau has piles of data available via an API. http://www.census.gov/developers/ You need a key. I do not see anything in the terms of service about citizenship http://www.census.gov/data/developers/about/terms-of-service.html I think the key motivation is to avoid

Re: Call for Linked Research

2014-07-30 Thread Gannon Dick
? On Wed, 7/30/14, Paul Houle ontolo...@gmail.com wrote: I think's a little more than tax avoidance. On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 7/30/14, Giovanni Tummarello

Re: Just what *does* robots.txt mean for a LOD site?

2014-07-27 Thread Gannon Dick
On Sat, 7/26/14, aho...@dcc.uchile.cl aho...@dcc.uchile.cl wrote: The difference in opinion remains to what extent Linked Data agents need to pay attention to the robots.txt file. As many others have suggested, I buy into the idea of any agent

Re: OGC Temporal DWG. Was: space and time

2014-07-24 Thread Gannon Dick
To: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com, andrea.per...@jrc.ec.europa.eu andrea.per...@jrc.ec.europa.eu, frans.kni...@geodan.nl frans.kni...@geodan.nl, simon@csiro.au simon@csiro.au, Chris Beer ch...@codex.net.au Cc: public-loc...@w3.org public-loc...@w3.org, public-egov...@w3.org public

Re: [help] semanticweb.org admin

2014-07-21 Thread Gannon Dick
Apparently SemanticWeb.Org is run by a Mr./Ms(?) W. Ki. First name Wi. He/she is quite friendly, but perfers to speak RDF, which I often mistake a for Pidgin Klingon variant. Maybe it's just me. In any case, here is community residence home page: http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Main_Page I

Re: [help] semanticweb.org admin

2014-07-21 Thread Gannon Dick
Hmmm ... Postal Code DERI, we're making some progress :) On Mon, 7/21/14, Bernard Vatant bernard.vat...@mondeca.com wrote: Subject: Re: [help] semanticweb.org admin To: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com Cc: public-lod@w3.org public-lod@w3.org

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

2014-07-18 Thread Gannon Dick
On 18 July 2014 14:05, Mark Fallu m.fa...@griffith.edu.au wrote: I am attempting to understand how the the CoolURI 303 redirect pattern for the semantic web (http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/) can be implemented without negative impact on search engines. Just a quick question: Is

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Pieter, I disagree, pending clarification. If the transportation costs of (RESTful) URI's - an Ontology - between Top Level Domains TLD is Zero - more specifically exp(Zero)-1=Zero, then the URI's are entangled (as in Quantum Entanglement). In this case, the URI's are not broken, but

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Gannon Dick
If we want to differentiate between      I like the zebra;      I don't like the document about the zebra. But why do they need to be on the same domain? Several parties on different domains can represent information about the animal zebra. They just seem like different things to

Re: Real-world concept URIs

2014-07-17 Thread Gannon Dick
? --Gannon On Thu, 7/17/14, Paul Houle ontolo...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: Real-world concept URIs To: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com Cc: Ruben Verborgh ruben.verbo...@ugent.be, Luca Matteis lmatt...@gmail.com, Pieter Colpaert pieter.colpa

Re: Education

2014-07-12 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Hugh, Education being all about seeing the patterns, it's nice when the classical can be related to the new concepts. So ... Suggestion: The US Government (NOAA) offers a spreadsheet which calculates Sunrise, Sunset, etc. from first principles (parabolics not hyperbolics). There is a

Re: Attribute or Property Ontology?

2014-07-11 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Mike, Maybe this is just too difficult to do, and that is the reason I'm not finding any prior work. ;) = There is some prior work called science. E=mc^2 means there is no Edge of the Universe 1/4 mile ahead, please creep sign. Ontologists are trying to find the sign, but in the

space and time

2014-07-10 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi All, Apologies for the cross-posting (I come in peace, with free stuff) Some time ago Simon suggested that there might be some measures which should be taken with regard to historical time frames and the Julian Calendar. IIRC, this is something Chris asked me, some time ago, to do as well.

Re: Encoding an incomplete date as xsd:dateTime

2014-06-26 Thread Gannon Dick
Simon, On Wed, 6/25/14, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: [Reasoning about named calendar years in terms of intervals bounded by time points is painful, especially for years in the future. Leap seconds can be added with only about six months notice (

Re: Quantum Superposition and Democracy

2014-05-31 Thread Gannon Dick
or Quantum Mechanics on the other. --Gannon On Fri, 5/30/14, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program metadataport...@yahoo.com wrote: Subject: Re: Quantum Superposition and Democracy To: Michael Brunnbauer bru...@netestate.de, Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com Cc

Quantum Superposition and Democracy

2014-05-30 Thread Gannon Dick
Dutch researchers announced yesterday they had succeeded in reliably transmitting information between quantum bits separated by 3 meters. This relies on Quantum Superposition, what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.” (he liked things more classical). For the Web this is exciting

Re: European court reaches verdict with profound impact in Internet

2014-05-17 Thread Gannon Dick
On Sat, 5/17/14, Michael Brunnbauer bru...@netestate.de wrote: But there is a way out of the verdict and it involves novel use of linked data and semantic web technologies. I very much doubt that triples can help here. = I

Re: European court reaches verdict with profound impact in Internet

2014-05-16 Thread Gannon Dick
I think it is high time that the creators, maintainers and developers of the platforms which collectively form the Internet sit down with search engine companies and work out some practical rules to provide the option of the right to have some personal information forgotten, as stated in this

Re: Lot's of eggs, but where is the chicken? Foundation of a Data ID Unit

2014-04-17 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Sebastian, If you want to bring metadata up to date ... 150 years ago, or so Gauss offered up an algorithm for calculating the date of Easter. The procedure is accurate to within 3 days. It can also be modified to compute the older Passover and lots of variants [1]. If you are neither

Re: Incorrect lang tags Re: Princeton WordNet RDF

2014-04-17 Thread Gannon Dick
Perhaps you want to take my suggestion for handling codes ... http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2014Apr/0105.html The codes are a shorthand for links and labels. By using a lookup table with 1461 (possibly duplicate entries) you can create a map (of synthetic bi-annual versions)

Re: Inference for error checking [was Re: How to avoid that collections break relationships]

2014-04-07 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Peter, Data Sets all age at the same rate, (1460 Days + 1 Leap Day per 16 Calendar Quarters) or any scalar multiple of that single frequency. The frequency is man-made. Certainly error checking is good, but cross-domain data transfers are only a transportation service via a dumb pipe. I

Re: Semantic Web culture vs Startup culture

2014-03-31 Thread Gannon Dick
I agree, Kingsley. Problems with SKOS (Lists) and RDF (Lists) are implementation problems, not processing problems. It is very difficult to prevent people from perceiving a first, rest, nil sequence as a Monte Carlo integration of probability. From a young age we see that, if it is summer,

Re: Semantic Web culture vs Startup culture

2014-03-31 Thread Gannon Dick
culture vs Startup culture To: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com Cc: Linked Data community public-lod@w3.org, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com Date: Monday, March 31, 2014, 12:48 PM What makes me laff is that the same people who think RDF sucks think Neo4J is the bee's knees.  (Even

Re: How to avoid that collections break relationships

2014-03-29 Thread Gannon Dick
: Subject: Re: How to avoid that collections break relationships To: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com Cc: Niklas Lindström lindstr...@gmail.com, public-hy...@w3.org public-hy...@w3.org, public-lod@w3.org public-lod@w3.org, W3C Web Schemas Task Force public-voc...@w3.org Date: Friday, March 28

Re: Semantic Web culture vs Startup culture

2014-03-29 Thread Gannon Dick
I just had to pull an Earthquake out of my own pocket to make a point about Web Scale. Culture Wars are much cheaper. Wish I would have thought of that. --Gannon On Sat, 3/29/14, Luca Matteis lmatt...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Semantic Web culture

Re: How to avoid that collections break relationships

2014-03-28 Thread Gannon Dick
My 2 cents: When schema.org was new, I mentioned to Dan B. that conflicting viewpoints between the sponsors might be a problem. He agreed that I confused him entirely (I get that a lot). From a business perspective, a Library is a rooftop of a building which collects fines for over due

Re: Vocabulary for encoding licensing/qualifications

2014-01-23 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Dorian, https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gld/raw-file/default/adms/index.html --Gannon On Thu, 1/23/14, dorian taylor dorian.taylor.li...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Vocabulary for encoding licensing/qualifications To: public-lod@w3.org Date: Thursday,

Re: Vocabulary for encoding licensing/qualifications

2014-01-23 Thread Gannon Dick
/qualifications To: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com Cc: public-lod@w3.org Date: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 4:25 PM Thanks Gannon, Hm, I'm skimming over the document but I'm having trouble understanding. How would I use ADMS to express, say, that I have been granted the passport

Re: [Final CfP]: Uncertainty and Imprecision on the Web of Data @ IPMU 2014

2013-12-20 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Konstantin, As an irony fan, I note that the conference on Uncertainty and Imprecision begins the day after Bastille Day. Interesting comment on the revolutionary character of the Web of Data :-) Uncertainty and imprecision can not be solved by disapproval. If you took a stack of 10

Re: representing hypermedia controls in RDF

2013-11-25 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Ruben, I haven't been able to pull up your distributed affordance presentation but had a general question: Are you thinking in terms of IPv4 or IPv6 ? I think it makes a difference, since the Loop Back address space in IPv4 (16,777,214) puts ca. 425 people (of about 7,126,653,500 people,

Re: representing hypermedia controls in RDF

2013-11-25 Thread Gannon Dick
TBL needs a 6th Star. On Mon, 11/25/13, Ruben Verborgh ruben.verbo...@ugent.be wrote: Subject: Re: representing hypermedia controls in RDF To: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com Cc: public-lod Data public-lod@w3.org Date: Monday, November 25, 2013, 4

Re: Dumb SPARQL query problem

2013-11-23 Thread Gannon Dick
Not sure if this helps multilingual pigs as much as it should, but I'm not much good before coffee and expect there are many fellow mammals who share my plight ... Language classification code reduction (in old fashioned SQL) http://www.rustprivacy.org/faca/languages.php

Making data collection less rude

2013-10-29 Thread Gannon Dick
The granularity of language encoding can be used to make data collection less rude. Depending on what data is being collected, and how it is being collected, systems of language codes can easily overreach their usefulness.  The primary function of Open Government websites is to attract data

Linked Data and Lists

2013-10-05 Thread Gannon Dick
This is a list of Top Level Domains on the Net.  This is not necessarily a list of nice places to live and work.  It is a complete list of places for data tourists to visit. http://www.rustprivacy.org/faca/simTLD/ see also : http://www.rustprivacy.org/faca/simTLD/silk_road.php see also :

Re: Releasing RWW.IO

2013-09-22 Thread Gannon Dick
FWIW, this model may be of some help. http://tinyurl.com/export-cert (direct) http://www.rustprivacy.org/faca/simTLD/silk_road.php Rather than a Central Mint, it has up to 676 Mints roughly corresponding to ccTLD's.  This can be used to prevent currency manipulation by third party tax

Re: Maphub -- RWW meets maps

2013-09-19 Thread Gannon Dick
FWIW, the University of Oxford has an 800th Birthday coming up soon. http://www.rustprivacy.org/2012/roadmap/oxford-university-area-map.pdf The geo coordinates, founding dates etc. for the Colleges and Halls are available on the University site.  The lo-res sunrise and sunset data is available

Re: Maphub -- RWW meets maps

2013-09-19 Thread Gannon Dick
Americans would react, but I am sure the Home Office is aware of the danger  ;-) --Gannon From: Andy Turner a.g.d.tur...@leeds.ac.uk To: 'Gannon Dick' gannon_d...@yahoo.com; 'Kingsley Idehen' kide...@openlinksw.com; public-...@w3.org public-...@w3.org; public

Re: voting assistance applications and use of semantic technologies

2013-08-17 Thread Gannon Dick
not easy being a surveillance state, the fads are unreliable :-) From: ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program metadataport...@yahoo.com To: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com; semantic-web semantic-...@w3.org; public-lod@w3.org public-lod@w3.org Sent: Saturday, August 17

Re: voting assistance applications and use of semantic technologies

2013-08-16 Thread Gannon Dick
Milton, It's only my opinion, but when The Surveillance State seems quite convinced that voter suppression (the opposite of your goal) is possible with semantic methods, then perhaps a step backwards toward determinism might be wise.  I am not suggesting that you change your methods, only that

Re: Sustainable governance for long-term preservation of RDF Vocabularies

2013-07-31 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Ivan, My 2 cents: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-egov-ig/2013Jul/0026.html Eventually every RDF file which identifies (people sameAs culture) will be about dead people.  An obvious key to sustainability is that  present or future discovery of RDF not depend upon the

Re: Licensing advice

2013-07-25 Thread Gannon Dick
My two cents: Isn't Linked Data supererogatory in any Jurisdiction ? http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/supererogation/ --Gannon  From: John Erickson olyerick...@gmail.com To: Víctor Rodríguez Doncel vrodrig...@fi.upm.es Cc: Linked Data community

Re: An ontology for adverts?

2013-07-25 Thread Gannon Dick
I think DOAP is the best bet for advertising a Root Node, but if you think about it in those terms, you are already there so what's the point ? Actually, there is a point.  There are any number of things which can happen after a hyperlink is activated, and as Winston Churchill said; Why, you

Re: Linked Data Glossary is published!

2013-07-02 Thread Gannon Dick
I agree Michael, but if you'll excuse the expression, I think we are arguing semantics.   Datasets often have domain specific names for meta data components.   For example, Data Dot Gov has ~44 terms-of-art.  They are to organizational outsiders, tag soup, to organizational insiders they are a

Re: Linked Data Glossary is published!

2013-07-02 Thread Gannon Dick
Oops. http://www.rustprivacy.org/2013/egov/catalog/DataDotGovMetaTagSoup.html   should be MetaTagSoup From: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com To: Michael Miller michael.mil...@systemsbiology.org; KANZAKI Masahide mkanz...@gmail.com; John Erickson olyerick

Re: Linked Data Glossary is published!

2013-06-28 Thread Gannon Dick
The Linked Data Glossary mentions Meta Data Object Schemes (MODS), a Library of Congress (LOC) citation scheme.  As you know, Bernadette, I (heart) Linked Data to death, and (user) annotations are a great idea. Still for Government Policy, annotations as Crowd Sourced Opinion, Easter Eggs,

Re: Civic apps and Linked Data

2013-06-26 Thread Gannon Dick
I would love to hear from anyone who knows of data sets that may help.  I am also, like you, curious to hear any other civic use cases for the use of this technology. Really, Sands, you Librarians are taking all the fun out of world domination :-) First, you could use

Re: The Great Public Linked Data Use Case Register for Non-Technical End User Applications

2013-06-24 Thread Gannon Dick
Spell Checkers, because there are some jobs Web Visionaries just won't do. Unpaid volunteers have a plan for World Domination and it includes nice penmanship too :-) Reusing patterns does make it easier for tools to aggregate and present data. The perfect might be the enemy of the good, but

Re: Are Topic Maps Linked Data?

2013-06-23 Thread Gannon Dick
Topic Maps keep help keep RDF NULLs honest.  So, they have a big impact on systemic transparency.  That emphasis is on the O in LOD, IMO. --Gannon From: Dan Brickley dan...@danbri.org To: public-lod public-lod@w3.org Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 9:04 AM Subject:

Re: Representing NULL in RDF

2013-06-14 Thread Gannon Dick
1. Trivial Use Case:  If you ask my big sister's age, *you* are the dead person.  Her motto is 39 'till the end of time. 2. Wonky version (Autoclass (A Bayesian Classifier from NASA) documentation) Truncation error will often dominate measurement error.  Here the classical example is human age:

Re: There's No Money in Linked Data

2013-06-07 Thread Gannon Dick
I agree, Andrea, and would further point out that how much money is a relativistic question.  Money has an associated Time Value. Money, Light and Linked Data get no Birthday Party, sadly, which is to say they have no Birthday.  Money tries to cheat by having a Time Value but no Birthday. 

Re: There's No Money in Linked Data

2013-06-07 Thread Gannon Dick
for that :-) --Gannon From: Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com To: public-lod@w3.org public-lod@w3.org Cc: Semantic Web semantic-...@w3.org Sent: Friday, June 7, 2013 9:59 AM Subject: Re: There's No Money in Linked Data On 6/7/13 10:47 AM, Gannon Dick wrote

Re: There's No Money in Linked Data

2013-06-07 Thread Gannon Dick
Data On 6/7/13 11:25 AM, Gannon Dick wrote: Lots of people make lots of money from data, structured data and Linked Data.  This is a good thing. But data is a perpetuity not an annuity. Depends on who is claiming the annuity. For instance, imagine a world in which you charge the annuity

Re: Request for Help: US Government Linked Data

2013-05-22 Thread Gannon Dick
j.jakobit...@semantic-web.at To: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com Cc: Eric Mill konkl...@gmail.com; Luca Matteis lmatt...@gmail.com; David Wood da...@3roundstones.com; community public-lod@w3.org; eGov W3C public-egov...@w3.org Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 6:17 PM Subject: Re: Request for Help: US

Re: Request for Help: US Government Linked Data

2013-05-21 Thread Gannon Dick
. On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Jürgen Jakobitsch SWC j.jakobit...@semantic-web.at wrote: On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 08:19 -0700, Gannon Dick wrote: Dave, IMHO, the W3C Cookbook methods do not go far enough to define the short-term strategy game of which Americans are so fond.  The Federal

Re: Request for Help: US Government Linked Data

2013-05-19 Thread Gannon Dick
Dave, IMHO, the W3C Cookbook methods do not go far enough to define the short-term strategy game of which Americans are so fond.  The Federal Government must plan Social Policy from ante Meridian (AM) to post Meridian (PM).  Playing statistical games with higher frequencies or modified time

Re: Given a university's name, retrieve URL for university's home page.

2013-05-14 Thread Gannon Dick
://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt (page 28). --Gannon From: Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net To: Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com Cc: public-lod public-lod@w3.org Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 11:25 PM Subject: Re: Given a university's name, retrieve URL for university's

Re: Given a university's name, retrieve URL for university's home page.

2013-05-14 Thread Gannon Dick
From: Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net To: public-lod public-lod@w3.org Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:32 AM Subject: Re: Given a university's name, retrieve URL for university's home page. On 14/05/2013, Gannon Dick gannon_d...@yahoo.com wrote: Affiliation

Re: Is science on sale this week?

2013-05-13 Thread Gannon Dick
If the game is knowledge, then the coaches don't matter, only the players do - the size of the playing field and the number of players is constant [1,2].  Nonetheless, RDF and SKOS list processing implies non-negative dissociation constant [3].  If you integrate to an area outside the playing

Re: Is science on sale this week?

2013-05-13 Thread Gannon Dick
We, as content creators, are holding all the cards. This is worth bearing in mind when one has to deal with demands of e.g. specialist book editors - the publisher needs the content creator to survive, but the inverse is not so true these days. -- Leon R A Derczynski Research Associate, NLP

Re: Given a university's name, retrieve URL for university's home page.

2013-05-13 Thread Gannon Dick
Hi Sam, The problem is already solved in fine detail, but the parameter names may be a little difficult to relate to LOD usage. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25497/ Good luck :-) From: Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net To: public-lod public-lod@w3.org

Re: predatory journals and conferences article in NY Times

2013-04-23 Thread Gannon Dick
+1 The Nominations in the Semantic Asset Utilization Category: Best catch: Milton Best Intelligent Life in Journalism Discovery: NOAA New York Times Best Village Idiot Impersonation, don't believe it for a minute: Phil I'm just a ... Best Monte Carlo Simulation Marksmanship: Leon ... Mission

Re: Restpark - Minimal RESTful API for querying RDF triples

2013-04-17 Thread Gannon Dick
would you also say that a ferrari is a slow car if you see it cruising in a speed limit zone? Don't laugh, the US Census uses Free Fall distance Commuting because a Ferrari stopped in traffic has the same rest mass as my ... um ... an actual slow car. just started to read this paper The

Re: Triple Checker

2013-04-03 Thread Gannon Dick
Thanks Christopher.  not entirely useless are all the initial conditions one needs to solve a differential equation by the Monte Carlo Differentiation Method I invented two days ago.  In retrospect, this inverse of Monte Carlo Integration leads me to believe there is a resonant point (not

Re: Why is it bad practice to consume Linked Data and publish opaque HTML pages?

2013-03-30 Thread Gannon Dick
+1 verified, maybe a lot more if people took this advice :-) From: Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com To: public-lod@w3.org public-lod@w3.org Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 9:35 AM Subject: Why is it bad practice to consume Linked Data and publish opaque

Re: Visualizing Linked Data - did we miss anything?

2013-03-27 Thread Gannon Dick
Thanks Oscar.  Your presentation is much nicer than mine. re: * Matrices, parallel co-ordinates * Timeline and topology plots, map and landscape views A problem for visualizations (and a huge concern of mine) is that the underlying physics of the visualization be a Socio-Technical

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