Re: SPARQL results in RDF

2013-09-21 Thread William Waites
Hi Hugh, You can get results in RDF if you use CONSTRUCT -- which is basically a special case of SELECT that returns 3-tuples and uses set semantics (does not allow duplicates), but I imagine that you are aware of this. Returning RDF for SELECT where the result set consists in n-tuples where n !=

Linked Prolog

2013-06-20 Thread William Waites
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:28:54 +, エリクソン トーレ said: >> ex:distance ex:earth ex:moon 381550 25150 u:km. > (Ab)using RDF I was able to (barely) document my semantics > directly in turtle. Where is the semantics and syntax of your > example described? Your data might be linked, but

Re: Proof: Linked Data does not require RDF

2013-06-19 Thread William Waites
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:32:42 +, エリクソン トーレ said: > I would be interested in seeing some linked data that is > incompatible with RDF while still adhering to rules like using > global identifiers and typed links. @prefix ex: @prefix u:

Re: Content negotiation for Turtle files

2013-02-06 Thread William Waites
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:45:10 +, Richard Light said: > In a web development context, JSON would probably come second > for me as a practical proposition, in that it ties in nicely > with widely-supported javascript utilities. If it were up to me, XML with all the pointy brackets

Re: Linked Data Dogfood circa. 2013

2013-01-04 Thread William Waites
hmmm not so tasty: warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in /var/www/drupal-6.22/sites/all/modules/dogfood/dogfood.module on line 1807. digging deeper: The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.

Re: WebID vs. JSON (Was: Re: Think before you write Semantic Web crawlers)

2011-06-22 Thread William Waites
even start on working on whatever they were meant to be working on. On the other hand, arranging things so that access control can be done by existing tools without burdening the clients is a lot easier, if less general. And easier is what we want working with RDF to be. Cheers, -w -- William W

WebID vs. JSON (Was: Re: Think before you write Semantic Web crawlers)

2011-06-22 Thread William Waites
amples of non-WebID aware clients: rapper / rasqal, python rdflib, curl, the javascript engine in my web browser that doesn't properly support client certificates, etc. -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://river.styx.org/ww/ F4B3 39BF E775 CF42 0BAB 3DF0 BE40 A6DF B06F FD45

Re: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle [was Re: Schema.org in RDF ...]

2011-06-15 Thread William Waites
publishers with a lot of influence will balk. If we're lucky we can convince them to fix it, otherwise writers of software that consumes the data and tries to reason with it have to work out a way to be robust in the face of this kind of ambiguity. That's all. -w -- William Waites

Re: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle [was Re: Schema.org in RDF ...]

2011-06-14 Thread William Waites
be interpreted in the local (graph) context. ] Well, now you are stepping into an ocean of cans of worms. Oh, well aware of that :) Cheers, -w -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://river.styx.org/ww/ F4B3 39BF E775 CF42 0BAB 3DF0 BE40 A6DF B06F FD45

Re: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle [was Re: Schema.org in RDF ...]

2011-06-13 Thread William Waites
w that we aren't interested in information resources. Cheers, -w -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://river.styx.org/ww/ F4B3 39BF E775 CF42 0BAB 3DF0 BE40 A6DF B06F FD45

Re: Schema.org in RDF ...

2011-06-09 Thread William Waites
the creator of LiveJournal, now at Google, and I don't think his view expressed there is uncommon). So perhaps not the *near* future. Some other arrangement that does not use the Accept header (and that seems to mean different URIs then) is probably more likely, but this is just a guess. Che

data vs. information (Was Re: implied datasets)

2011-05-23 Thread William Waites
e for ISSNs. If that happens I will be the first to agree that this is far better than URN. At that point it becomes an actual dataset instead of a supposed one. But in the meantime... Cheers, -w -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://river.styx.org/ww/ F4B3

Re: implied datasets

2011-05-23 Thread William Waites
s of the same type. In fact what type assertions are appropriate to clarify the relationship between these datasets is the type of analysis that I would want to facilitate, not try to do up front. What I can say is they both have references (that may or may not be strictly believable) to this

Re: implied datasets

2011-05-23 Thread William Waites
easy for people to use datasets in my collection, would then invent this imaginary "join" dataset to help them find what they are looking for. Cheers, -w -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://river.styx.org/ww/ F4B3 39BF E775 CF42 0BAB 3DF0 BE40 A6DF B06F FD45

Re: implied datasets

2011-05-23 Thread William Waites
ionships between CSV files. Cheers, -w -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://river.styx.org/ww/ F4B3 39BF E775 CF42 0BAB 3DF0 BE40 A6DF B06F FD45

implied datasets

2011-05-23 Thread William Waites
[1] http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2011-May/001269.html -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://river.styx.org/ww/ F4B3 39BF E775 CF42 0BAB 3DF0 BE40 A6DF B06F FD45

Re: See UK

2011-05-21 Thread William Waites
:( Cheers, -w -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://river.styx.org/ww/ F4B3 39BF E775 CF42 0BAB 3DF0 BE40 A6DF B06F FD45

Re: ANN: Semantic CKAN - Revisited

2011-04-17 Thread William Waites
icket to add an API call to CKAN to address this. Cheers, -w -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://river.styx.org/ww/ F4B3 39BF E775 CF42 0BAB 3DF0 BE40 A6DF B06F FD45

ANN: Semantic CKAN - Revisited

2011-04-17 Thread William Waites
-bbf3-35933da795a5.html Linked Library Data http://semantic.ckan.net/group/?group=http://ckan.net/group/lld -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://river.styx.org/ww/ F4B3 39BF E775 CF42 0BAB 3DF0 BE40 A6DF B06F FD45

Re: LOD Cloud Cache Stats

2011-04-05 Thread William Waites
disk space and slow down queries? Cheers, -w -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://river.styx.org/ww/ F4B3 39BF E775 CF42 0BAB 3DF0 BE40 A6DF B06F FD45

Re: Introducing Vocabularies of a Friend (VOAF)

2011-01-25 Thread William Waites
as easy as possible for humans to understand. That Hugh, an expert in the domain, had trouble figuring it out due to poetic references to well known concepts suggests that there is some room for improvement. Cheers, -w -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://

Re: URI Comparisons: RFC 2616 vs. RDF

2011-01-20 Thread William Waites
rison throughout the stack and specs (so implementations ] remain simple and fast.) ] ] Does anybody find the above disagreeable? Sounds about right to me, but what about port numbers, http://example.org/ vs http://example.org:80/? -w -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.o

Re: URI Comparisons: RFC 2616 vs. RDF

2011-01-19 Thread William Waites
://example.org/> . Cheers, -w [1] https://bitbucket.org/okfn/curate/src/1f6ba3c360c3/curate/builtins.py#cl-9 [2] http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/url/Howto.html -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://eris.okfn.org/ww/ F4B3 39BF E775 CF42 0BAB 3DF0 BE40 A6DF B06F FD45

Re: Property for linking from a graph to HTTP connection meta-data?

2011-01-17 Thread William Waites
y [ a opmv:Process; opmv:used foo:ResponseMetaData; opmv:used <http://example.org/foo.xml> ]. This would have the side-effect of making your graph an opmv:Artifact but that actually makes sense. Cheers, -w -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http:/

Re: Property for linking from a graph to HTTP connection meta-data?

2011-01-17 Thread William Waites
URI (it will not always be, of course) you can link in the other direction from http:Request using http:requestURI. I am not sure that http:requestURI has a standard inverse though. Cheers, -w -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://eris.okfn.org/ww/ F4B3 39B

Re: Is it best practices to use a rdfs:seeAlso link to a potentially multimegabyte PDF?, existing predicate for linking to PDF?

2011-01-10 Thread William Waites
unnecessariy. Cheers, -w -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://eris.okfn.org/ww/ 9C7E F636 52F6 1004 E40A E565 98E3 BBF3 8320 7664

Re: Is vCard range restriction on org:siteAddress necessary?

2011-01-04 Thread William Waites
hierarchy which might be a little verbose for this use case. Cheers, -w -- William Waites<mailto:w...@styx.org> http://eris.okfn.org/ww/ 9C7E F636 52F6 1004 E40A E565 98E3 BBF3 8320 7664

CKAN Curation Tool

2010-12-06 Thread William Waites
s and good bunch of example rulesets would be necessary at the very least. Comments and suggestions most welcome -- indeed eagerly sought. Cheers, -w -- William Waites http://eris.okfn.org/ww/foaf#i 9C7E F636 52F6 1004 E40A E565 98E3 BBF3 8320 7664

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-11-28 Thread William Waites
: MISS from localhost:80 Via: 1.0 localhost (squid/3.0.STABLE19) Connection: close Cheers, -w -- William Waites http://eris.okfn.org/ww/foaf#i 9C7E F636 52F6 1004 E40A E565 98E3 BBF3 8320 7664

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-11-26 Thread William Waites
that this is a reasonable arrangement? Cheers, -w -- William Waites http://eris.okfn.org/ww/foaf#i 9C7E F636 52F6 1004 E40A E565 98E3 BBF3 8320 7664

Re: Failed to port datastore to RDF, will go Mongo

2010-11-24 Thread William Waites
ary package they got with their OS might be out of date or has to be compiled from source or even patched - the horror!). These things prevent people from getting on with what they see as the task at hand. Cheers, -w -- William Waites http://eris.okfn.org/ww/foaf#i 9C7E F636 52F6 1004 E40A E565 98E3 BBF3 8320 7664

Re: FW: Failed to port datastore to RDF, will go Mongo

2010-11-24 Thread William Waites
easy to follow recipes that can immediately plugged into some web app. Cheers, -w -- William Waites http://eris.okfn.org/ww/foaf#i 9C7E F636 52F6 1004 E40A E565 98E3 BBF3 8320 7664

FW: Failed to port datastore to RDF, will go Mongo

2010-11-24 Thread William Waites
sc...@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wdmmg-discuss ----- End forwarded message - -- William Waites http://eris.okfn.org/ww/foaf#i 9C7E F636 52F6 1004 E40A E565 98E3 BBF3 8320 7664

Re: [open-bibliography] ANN: British National Bibliography

2010-11-22 Thread William Waites
s a SPARQL construct for that URI as a subject is done. I've turned on sameAs processing in the query (only that one) and now it should give some more useful information. Time will tell how well that scales. Cheers, -w -- William Waites http://eris.okfn.org/ww/foaf#i 9C7E F636 52F6 1004 E40A

Re: [open-bibliography] ANN: British National Bibliography

2010-11-22 Thread William Waites
ttp://bibliographica.org/entry/c4bb7da2c60413acc06f2369746da92b (anyone with a suggestion about how to make better identifiers please pipe up). As far as downloading the source data, I would suggest using wget(1). Cheers, -w -- William Waites http://eris.okfn.org/ww/foaf#i 9C7E F636 52F6 1004 E40A E565 98E3 BBF3 8320 7664

Re: ANN: British National Bibliography

2010-11-22 Thread William Waites
e what kinds of inconsistencies we can find. A bit easier, what we really need now is a good way to make these corrections and feed them back into the BL. For the RDF clued like yourself, I could take a patch in the form of a corrected graph and put it in the store. Cheers, -w -- William Waites http://e

ANN: British National Bibliography

2010-11-22 Thread William Waites
-british-library-data-release/ 2. http://www.bl.uk/ 3. http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/natbib.html 4. http://openbiblio.net/ 5. http://bnb.bibliographica.org/sparql 6. http://ordf.org/ -- William Waites http://eris.okfn.org/ww/foaf#i 9C7E F636 52F6 1004 E40A E565 98E3 BBF3 8320 7664

Re: Possible Idea For a Sem Web Based Game?

2010-11-21 Thread William Waites
, the difference between 'say' and 'yell', etc? -w -- William Waites http://eris.okfn.org/ww/foaf#i 9C7E F636 52F6 1004 E40A E565 98E3 BBF3 8320 7664

Re: data.gov.uk ontologies

2010-11-16 Thread William Waites
/data we have things like http://research.data.gov.uk/def/project which neither dereference nor appear to exist in the triplestores. but we do find some schema information here: http://source.data.gov.uk/data/research/bis-research-explorer/2010-03-04/ hrmmm... -w -- William Waites

Re: Semantic Ambiguity

2010-11-14 Thread William Waites
work itself out. Cheers, -w -- William Waites http://eris.okfn.org/ww/foaf#i 9C7E F636 52F6 1004 E40A E565 98E3 BBF3 8320 7664 pgpUQHUVhWR40.pgp Description: PGP signature

Semantic Ambiguity

2010-11-12 Thread William Waites
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 08:40:14AM -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote: > > Semantic ambiguity isn't going to go away. It is part and parcel of the > very act of communication. > > [...] > > Witness the lack of uniform semantics in the linked data community over > something as common as sameAs. As the

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-11-05 Thread William Waites
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 09:34:43AM +, Leigh Dodds wrote: > > Are you suggesting that Linked Data crawlers could/should look at the > status code and use that to infer new statements about the resources > returned? If so, I think that's the first time I've seen that > mentioned, and am curious

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-11-04 Thread William Waites
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 01:22:09PM +, Ian Davis wrote: > Hi all, > > The subject of this email is the title of a blog post I wrote last > night questioning whether we actually need to continue with the 303 > redirect approach for Linked Data. My suggestion is that replacing it > with a 200 is

Re: Please allow JS access to Ontologies and LOD

2010-10-27 Thread William Waites
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:00:52PM +, Hugh Glaser wrote: > Great stuff - thanks for the advice. > Done for sameas.org and *.rkbexplorer.com > > However, did it via .htaccess, and would prefer to do it in > /etc/httpd/http.conf, not least because the vhosts seems to make it end up > with two of

Re: WordNet RDF

2010-09-21 Thread William Waites
esented with GOLD). Thank you for the link! -w -- William Waites Mob: +44 789 798 9965 Fax: +44 131 464 4948 CD70 0498 8AE4 36EA 1CD7 281C 427A 3F36 2130 E9F5 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: WordNet RDF

2010-09-20 Thread William Waites
9/cataloguing-bibliographic-data-with-natural-language-and-rdf/ [1] http://pastebin.ca/1913826 -- William Waites Mob: +44 789 798 9965 Fax: +44 131 464 4948 CD70 0498 8AE4 36EA 1CD7 281C 427A 3F36 2130 E9F5 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: New LOD ESW wikipage about Data Licensing

2010-09-19 Thread William Waites
aph relative to a predicate by taking vertices from subject and object and edges from IEXT(predicate). Is this spliting hairs? -- William Waites Mob: +44 789 798 9965 Fax: +44 131 464 4948 CD70 0498 8AE4 36EA 1CD7 281C 427A 3F36 2130 E9F5 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Next version of the LOD cloud diagram. Please provide input, so that your dataset is included.

2010-09-08 Thread William Waites
as and (constructive) criticism alike are more than welcome. Cheers, -w -- William Waites Mob: +44 789 798 9965Open Knowledge Foundation Fax: +44 131 464 4948Edinburgh, UK RDF Indexing, Clustering and Inferencing in Python http://ordf.org/

Re: Next version of the LOD cloud diagram. Please provide input, so that your dataset is included.

2010-09-08 Thread William Waites
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CKAN API Preformance Fixed

2010-09-05 Thread William Waites
further problems, but with luck it should be smooth sailing from now on. Cheers, -w -- William Waites Mob: +44 789 798 9965Open Knowledge Foundation Fax: +44 131 464 4948Edinburgh, UK RDF Indexing, Clustering and Inferencing in Python http://ordf.org/

Open Registry vs. Open Data

2010-09-05 Thread William Waites
nobody objects I'll change it to "CKAN is an open registry of data and content packages" It seems to me the case that packages in the curated LOD group should all be themselves open, by definition. Cheers, -w -- William Waites Mob: +44 789 798 9965Op

Re: Org. Namespace Example

2010-06-23 Thread William Waites
On 10-06-23 23:31, Toby Inkster wrote: > Firstly, bridges and beaches are not typically considered organisations. > Sentient, self-organised bridges and beaches? On second thought maybe they should be foaf:Person -w -- William Waites Mob: +44 789 798 9965Open Kno

Re: Organization types predicates vs classes

2010-06-08 Thread William Waites
rdf:type fresnel:allProperties ) . to use as a default. [1] http://knowledgeforge/pdw/ordf/ [2] http://bibliographica.org/ -- William Waites Mob: +44 789 798 9965Open Knowledge Foundation Fax: +44 131 464 4948Edinburgh, UK

Re: Organizations changing status

2010-06-08 Thread William Waites
lap. They may share the same name and informally be referred to as the same but technically they are different organisations. I think this suggests two predicates that are not present in the ontology -- org:successor and org:predecessor -w -- William Waites Mob: +44 789 798 9965O

Re: Organization types predicates vs classes

2010-06-08 Thread William Waites
elp with modification, you could easily do the same thing with rdf:type and still run up against the problem that there is no good way of specifying *when* a particular statement is true (OPMV notwithstanding) Cheers, -w -- William Waites Mob: +44 789 798 9965Open Knowledge

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-08 Thread William Waites
Unclear. As I said, rather a tangent... Cheers, -w -- William Waites Mob: +44 789 798 9965Open Knowledge Foundation Fax: +44 131 464 4948Edinburgh, UK

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-07 Thread William Waites
human) reading some data in N3 without necessarily reading the details of the vocabulary would understand the rough meaning. I think Membership is not "membership" in the usual sense and is confusing. Cheers, -w -- William Waites Mob: +44 789 798 9965Open Knowledge Foundation Fax: +44 131 464 4948Edinburgh, UK

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-03 Thread William Waites
nship to that corporation, for example. I think there might be more, but I don't think its a problem of "embedding westminister assumptions" because I don't think the vocabulary fits very well even in the UK and commonwealth countries when you start looking at it closely