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 entirely making
stuff up" <-> "not entirely useless"). Where classic engineering has points of
failure, linked data has points of non-reproducibility, a "not entirely
useless" concept in relation to The Scientific Method.
I am going to work in some "utterly opaque notation"(*) so important people
will understand.
--Gannon
* see also: Talking to Myself (Private Communication)
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From: Christopher Gutteridge <[email protected]>
To: "<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 8:33 AM
Subject: Triple Checker
Hi, thanks for everyone's sense of humour about uri4uri.net -- I had fun
writing it. I'm now working on taking out the silly bits and leaving it up
indefinitely as I think it's not entirely useless. Suggestions welcome.
Now it's past April 1st, I'd like to show off a few more useful tools I've
built:
http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/checker/
This catches common mistakes people (me, for example) make when producing RDF:
it checks for minor typos in common namespaces, and for terms & classes which
have a namespace which resolves to a schema/ontology but the term in question
isn't there. It's saved me loads of silly mistakes. It's on github if people
want to suggest improvements.
http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/browser/
I wrote this RDF browser as a lightweight alternative to the existing ones.
It's aimed at developers wanting to see inside an RDF file with a bit less
headache than raw RDF (or RDFa, etc). Again, suggestions welcome and you can
run a local copy if you want, once again all the code is on github.
http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/geo2kml/
Looks for lat/long data in RDF and makes a Google Earth (or maps) KML file.
Handy for spotting obvious mistakes in your data.
http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/stuff2rdf/
This is a bit of a personal swiss army knife if I need to quickly munge RDF
between the common formats.
Share and enjoy!
-- Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
University of Southampton Open Data Service: http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
You should read the ECS Web Team blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
