Re: Deprecating owl:sameAs

2016-04-01 Thread Norman Gray
At which point: ladies and gentlemen, sharpen your weapons; today is a good day for someone to get excommunicated. If you thought httpRange-14 was bad, _this_ one could run and run and run. Happy Friday, Norman -- Norman Gray : https://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy

Re: Please publish Turtle or JSON-LD instead of RDF/XML [was Re: Recommendation for transformation of RDF/XML to JSON-LD in a web browser?]

2015-09-04 Thread Norman Gray
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Re: linked open data and PDF

2015-01-21 Thread Norman Gray
], bits[3])) no_triples = no_triples + 1 pred = bits[2] if pred in scores: score += scores[pred] else: print(---didn't match {}.format(line)) print('{} triples found; metadata-goodness-score={}'.format(no_triples, score)) -- Norman Gray : http

Re: linked open data and PDF

2015-01-21 Thread Norman Gray
is ... that it's embedded, so it can't get lost, and no ConNeg agony is involved in its extraction! All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)

2014-10-07 Thread Norman Gray
-- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK extract-xmp.c Description: Binary data

Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)

2014-10-07 Thread Norman Gray
), but if I ever get a tablet computer, I doubt I'll be able to resist producing versions in a layout which is targeted at that size of screen. All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)

2014-10-06 Thread Norman Gray
magic. It's not very fancy, and still has rough edges, but it only took me 100 minutes, from a standing start. Generating and querying this PDF seems pretty simple to me. $ cat test-xmp.tex \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xmp-management} \title{This is a test file} \author{Norman Gray

Re: representing hypermedia controls in RDF

2013-11-20 Thread Norman Gray
. All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: Simple WebID, WebID+TLS Protocol, and ACL Dogfood Demo

2013-08-09 Thread Norman Gray
this rambling is useful. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: Simple WebID, WebID+TLS Protocol, and ACL Dogfood Demo

2013-08-09 Thread Norman Gray
, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: PURL WebIDs

2013-08-08 Thread Norman Gray
much of spec-writing or grant proposals -- WebID is this week's light relief for me. All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

PURL WebIDs (was: WebID Frustration)

2013-08-07 Thread Norman Gray
Greetings. Replying to myself, here... On 2013 Aug 7, at 13:47, Norman Gray wrote: (I don't think this would _quite_ work with purl.org right now, because of conneg intricacies, but it's near-as-dammit, and one can imagine a very similar service which did). This doesn't _quite_ work (I

Re: PURL WebIDs (was: WebID Frustration)

2013-08-07 Thread Norman Gray
Greetings. Thanks, Kingsley, for the trace of the various steps. On 2013 Aug 7, at 19:14, Norman Gray nor...@astro.gla.ac.uk wrote: Hey -- this stuff is easy! (and nearly works) Walking home, it occurred to me that this is easy in a very _specific_ sense: (given that someone had added some

Re: WebID Frustration

2013-08-06 Thread Norman Gray
://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/posts/62pFBxAm7Ev. This took two goes, because I decided that I should create a certificate with CN Norman Gray (WebID), adding the (WebID) to avoid confusing myself. 3. Add a relation to your Profile Document that associates your WebID with the Public

Re: WebID Frustration

2013-08-06 Thread Norman Gray
, on limited resources -- so that it is now 'bad, but rising 'poor' if you know what you're doing'). All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: WebID Frustration

2013-08-06 Thread Norman Gray
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Re: θΏ”: Proof: Linked Data does not require RDF

2013-06-19 Thread Norman Gray
. I think there's a certain amount of talking past one another in this thread, because arguments in one strand seem muddled or even mischievous when viewed from the other. Does this help this thread at all? All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics

Re: Proof: Linked Data does not require RDF

2013-06-18 Thread Norman Gray
pitch. All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: Final CFP: In-Use Track ISWC 2013

2013-05-09 Thread Norman Gray
Phillip, hello. On 2013 May 9, at 13:09, Phillip Lord wrote: Norman Gray nor...@astro.gla.ac.uk writes: I am not completely familiar with DOI. Am I right, that it more or less provides the same service as http://purl.org . DOI links on the resource-level. You would still need frag ids

Re: Final CFP: In-Use Track ISWC 2013

2013-05-09 Thread Norman Gray
you I'd be there if I was anywhere near Montpellier. Have fun! Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: Petitioning ISWC to allow Web friendly formats

2013-05-07 Thread Norman Gray
, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: Petitioning ISWC to allow Web friendly formats

2013-05-07 Thread Norman Gray
^* OKay: we can allow ourselves JSON and iCal and vCard, too, but not The Tetragrammaton. -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: SPARQL, philosophy n'stuff..

2013-04-18 Thread Norman Gray
to explain and consume; the remaining problem is that providing it on the server side still requires negotiating these bear-traps. All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: Wanted : PURL approval

2012-07-02 Thread Norman Gray
contacted them it was via http://www.oclc.org/research/feedback/form.asp?project=PURL Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: Solar Radiation Vocabulary

2012-04-24 Thread Norman Gray
interested to hear more about your work. I'm working on developing SKOS-based vocabularies within astronomy, and (if the funders smile!) should be able to extend this work in directions which I hope would include solar-terrestrial stuff. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http

Re: WebIDs and Content-Location

2012-04-16 Thread Norman Gray
to match that of browsers. Hrmph! -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: WebIDs and Content-Location

2012-04-15 Thread Norman Gray
exception turning stream into model ,t) 23 t.fail 24 } 25 } ( https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/read-write-web/file/c6520ef80d5c/src/main/scala/util/package.scala ) Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/ Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/ -- Norman Gray

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-28 Thread Norman Gray
details. That seems an inexpensive change which un-breaks a lot of things. All the best (in some puzzlement), Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: NIR SIDETRACK Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-28 Thread Norman Gray
). I think I'll stay out of this discussion from now :-) I think we should draw a veil, here... Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-25 Thread Norman Gray
that they are NIRs. This overall seems to be the intent behind the :isdescribedby proposal. Is that correct? Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-25 Thread Norman Gray
eg:licensed cc-by. That places X in R\IR, and indicates a description document about which anything one wishes can be asserted. All the best, Norman [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/uddp-20120229/ -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

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

2011-10-21 Thread Norman Gray
Nathan, hello. On 2011 Oct 20, at 12:54, Nathan wrote: Norman Gray wrote: Ugh: 'IR' and 'NIR' are ugly obscurantist terms (though reasonable in their original context). Wouldn't 'Bytes' and 'Thing', respectively, be better (says he, plaintively)? Both are misleading, since NIR

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

2011-10-21 Thread Norman Gray
in their own mind about the IR/NIR distinction, and (b) that there should be ways of resolving the ambiguity in a non-heuristic way. Ian's November 2010 suggestion seems to do that. All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University

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

2011-10-21 Thread Norman Gray
or wrong conclusions on the way. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

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

2011-10-21 Thread Norman Gray
, though, if there were a 20x or 30x status code which did mean this names an NIR, and the content is just commentary on, or depictions of, that thing (that's not a suggestion, by the way!) All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University

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 Norman Gray
persuade themselves that they have actually looked through that veil of perception. (Ed: get off the damn soapbox!). -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Norman Gray
on this a little? Is this some HTML5 cleverness that lets one declare in the HTML what the address bar should display? Or is it some Javascript kludge^Wgadget that does it, in which case what is the sense in which this is 'permitted' in HTML5 and wasn't before? All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray

Re: Facebook Linked Data

2011-09-28 Thread Norman Gray
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Re: Facebook Linked Data

2011-09-27 Thread Norman Gray
On 27 Sep 2011, at 08:44, Norman Gray wrote: Because the browser (according to the standard) removes the trailing #. But if you send a GET request manually (telnet etc) and including the # you will get a 404. Well, what did you expect? As you say, the client is supposed to remove

Lightweight Java RDF libraries

2011-09-12 Thread Norman Gray
, that I haven't found, then I'd like to use it, and I imagine the LOD list would know of it. Thanks for any pointers. All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: Lightweight Java RDF libraries

2011-09-12 Thread Norman Gray
it. _That's_ what I'm looking for in Java. I like librdf for all the things it doesn't do, and the comforting air of unshakable stability that it therefore radiates. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

Re: 15 Ways to Think About Data Quality (Just for a Start)

2011-04-12 Thread Norman Gray
, the ancient historian, and the tourist board. But 'solves my problem well' is a pretty good substitute. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-11-08 Thread Norman Gray
David, hello. On 2010 Nov 8, at 09:40, David Booth wrote: On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 22:45 +, Norman Gray wrote: [ . . . ] I take it that Ian is suggesting resolving the ambiguity he has created, and thus the need for any heuristics, by extending the notion of IR in such a way that a URI

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-11-06 Thread Norman Gray
X). If it's a problem, then perhaps the /toucan URI could point towards a /toucan.rdf URI which contains the same RDF as /toucan, but which is still an IR. Then /toucan.rdf is the toucan's webpage. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-11-05 Thread Norman Gray
. In the absence of RDF, this is equivalent to the httpRange-14 finding, so might require only adjustment, rather than replacement, of httpRange-14. All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk

Re: isDefinedBy and isDescribedBy, Tale of two missing predicates

2010-11-05 Thread Norman Gray
user-hostile. No? Hence slash-URIs in this case. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk

Re: isDefinedBy and isDescribedBy, Tale of two missing predicates

2010-11-05 Thread Norman Gray
be maintained without any status code gymnastics. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk

Re: isDefinedBy and isDescribedBy, Tale of two missing predicates

2010-11-05 Thread Norman Gray
slash-hash-URI scheme, but I'm fairly confident it's distinct from what Leo and Richard are describing as their hash-URI scheme. If their hash-URI scheme is intended to cover your scheme, too, then the cooluris document may need a little clarification. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray

Re: destabilizing core technologies: was Re: An RDF wishlist

2010-07-01 Thread Norman Gray
about creating user-accessible tools. Best wishes, Norman [1] O! Hats off! -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk

Re: National Identification Number URIs ( NIN URIs )

2010-03-08 Thread Norman Gray
in the US. The questions about the universal legality of repurposing this ID still remain, of course. My only point is that this wouldn't need to be reinvented. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk

Re: National Identification Number URIs ( NIN URIs )

2010-03-08 Thread Norman Gray
. Which isn't a terribly profound remark. All the best, Norman [1] http://www.dbooth.org/2006/urn2http/ -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk

Re: National Identification Number URIs ( NIN URIs )

2010-03-08 Thread Norman Gray
people used to get terribly upset about XML syntax. But just as XML isn't really about pointy brackets, identifiers are not really about punctuation. People needn't obsess. All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk

Practical Semantic Astronomy -- 2nd call for papers

2008-12-16 Thread Norman Gray
: 2-5 March 2009 Organisers -- Alasdair J G Gray, University of Glasgow, UK Norman Gray, University of Leicester/University of Glasgow, UK Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK Jon Ritchie, University of Glasgow, UK Scientific Organising Committee --- Norman