Re: GLD CubeValidator

2016-07-26 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Jürgen, On 26/07/16 10:06, Jürgen Jakobitsch wrote: hi, anyone feeling responsible for the DataCubeValidator [1]. it's not available anymore. If I recall correctly that was a W3C-supplied (virtual) machine intended just to support the last call process with no promise of continued

Re: ORG implementations

2013-11-05 Thread Dave Reynolds
and I believe personally this is a nice and flexible solution, which I hope you won't change removing one or the other. Many thanks to the WG for the nice contribution! Cheers, Enrico [1] http://data.open.ac.uk On 4 November 2013 15:21, Dave Reynolds dave.e.reyno...@gmail.com mailto:dave.e.reyno

Re: Data Cube implementations

2013-11-04 Thread Dave Reynolds
, qb:parentChildProperty, qb:hierarchyRoot Dave On 31/10/13 16:08, Dave Reynolds wrote: If anyone is using the RDF Data Cube Vocabulary [1] and hasn't yet submitted an implementation report then please could I encourage you to do so. See [2] for details on how to do this or contact me. Dave [1] http

ORG implementations

2013-11-04 Thread Dave Reynolds
The W3C GLD working group is discussing the status of the Organization Ontology [1] which is currently a Candidate Recommendation. While there is evidence of usage [2] we cannot yet meet the CR exit criteria for all the terms in the ontology. The group will need to decide within the next two

Data Cube implementations

2013-10-31 Thread Dave Reynolds
If anyone is using the RDF Data Cube Vocabulary [1] and hasn't yet submitted an implementation report then please could I encourage you to do so. See [2] for details on how to do this or contact me. Dave [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube/ [2]

Re: SPARQL results in RDF

2013-09-25 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Damian, On 25/09/13 14:16, Damian Steer wrote: On 25/09/13 12:03, Stuart Williams wrote: On 25/09/2013 11:26, Hugh Glaser wrote: You'll get me using CONSTRUCT soon :-) (By the way, Tim's actual CONSTRUCT WHERE query isn't allowed because of the FILTER). Good catch... yes - I've been

Re: SPARQL results in RDF

2013-09-25 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 25/09/13 14:57, Sven R. Kunze wrote: On 09/25/2013 03:53 PM, Dave Reynolds wrote: Hi Damian, On 25/09/13 14:16, Damian Steer wrote: On 25/09/13 12:03, Stuart Williams wrote: On 25/09/2013 11:26, Hugh Glaser wrote: You'll get me using CONSTRUCT soon :-) (By the way, Tim's actual CONSTRUCT

Re: Opinions sought: characterisation of relationships in terms of roles and events

2013-09-05 Thread Dave Reynolds
You may find the Membership n-ary relation in the Organization ontology [1] a useful starting point. That current represents person, organization, role bindings over a time interval. There's no reason you couldn't annotate that with location information as well. Dave [1]

Re: Civic apps and Linked Data

2013-06-26 Thread Dave Reynolds
While one could debate the scale of impact I do see some successful civic apps here in the UK. For example, the Environment Agency's (EA) publication of real time data on quality of water at bathing sites [1] has been quite successful. As well as the nice explorer application provided with

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

2013-06-24 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 24/06/13 13:44, Kingsley Idehen wrote: As you've indicated, there have been many attempts at this over the years and they never take-off or meet their goals etc.. The problem is that a different approach is required. Basically, in this scenario lies a simple Linked Data publication usecase

Re: Percentages in Linked Data

2013-06-24 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Frans, On 24/06/13 17:37, Frans Knibbe | Geodan wrote: Hello, I would like to publish some statistical data. A few of these numbers are percentages. What is the best way to make it clear to data consumers that the numbers are to be treated as percentages? As far as I can tell, the XSD data

Re: Help with modeling my ontology

2013-02-28 Thread Dave Reynolds
Just on the question of representing measurements then one approach to that is the RDF Data Cube vocabulary [1]. In that each observation has a measure (the thing you are measuring, such as canopyHeight), the dimensions of where/when/etc the measurement applies to and the attributes that allow

Re: referencing a concept scheme as the code list of some referrer's property

2012-08-29 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 28/08/12 20:39, Antoine Isaac wrote: Sorry, my owl:someValuesFrom should have been owl:allValuesFrom, I guess. Actually I think owl:someValuesFrom is right though the easiest construct is owl:hasValue : some:codeAConcept owl:equivalentClass [ owl:intersectionOf ( skos:Concept

Re: referencing a concept scheme as the code list of some referrer's property

2012-08-23 Thread Dave Reynolds
[Apologies for continuing the cross-posting] A pattern of using sub-classes of skos:Concept to denote a group of concepts (and thus be able to use rdfs:range in associated ontologies) is a good one. It is recommended best practice in data.gov.uk linked data work, for example. This does not

Re: referencing a concept scheme as the code list of some referrer's property

2012-08-23 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 23/08/12 10:22, Thomas Bandholtz wrote: Am 23.08.2012 10:40, schrieb Dave Reynolds: [Apologies for continuing the cross-posting] A pattern of using sub-classes of skos:Concept to denote a group of concepts (and thus be able to use rdfs:range in associated ontologies) is a good one

Re: Linked Data Demand Discussion Culture on this List, WAS: Introducing Semgel, a semantic database app for gathering analyzing data from websites

2012-07-20 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Sebastian, I completely agree with what you say about: o Harish's original post being relevant to linked data and this list o that the culture of this forum can be counter productive o that the evidence for linked data delivering business value needs to be a lot stronger However,

Re: Datatypes with no (cool) URI

2012-04-03 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 03/04/12 16:38, Sarven Capadisli wrote: On 12-04-03 02:33 PM, Phil Archer wrote: I'm hoping for a bit of advice and rather than talk in the usual generic terms I'll use the actual example I'm working on. I want to define the best way to record a person's sex (this is related to the W3C GLD

Re: Thought: 207 Description Follows

2012-03-28 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 28/03/12 14:50, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Wednesday 28. March 2012 14.37.42 Jeni Tennison wrote: I don't think it's web hosters who would find it hard to deploy, rather that people who just want to publish some data on some tiny patch of web space that they own, often actually run by

Re: Thought: 207 Description Follows

2012-03-28 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 28/03/12 17:07, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Wed 28 mars 2012 16:35, Dave Reynolds wrote: This particular piece of the puzzle is not a technology or tools issue. The web hosting in those cases is perfectly capable of publishing static files or allowing content in the head of an html document

Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-26 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 25/03/12 19:24, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Tim, Alternatively, why not use the existing Link: header? Then we end up with the ability to express the same :describedby relation in three places Which is, of course, in the now-submitted proposal. Dave

Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-24 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 24/03/12 13:57, Jonathan A Rees wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Jeni Tennisonj...@jenitennison.com wrote: Where well-behaved sites will have to make a decision is whether to continue to use a 303 or switch to using a 200 and including a 'describedby' relationship. For example, we

Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-23 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 23/03/12 14:33, Pat Hayes wrote: On Mar 23, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Jonathan A Rees wrote: I am a bit dismayed that nobody seems to be picking up on the point I've been hammering on (TimBL and others have also pointed it out), that, as shown by the Flickr and Jamendo examples, the real issue is

Re: Change Proposal for HttpRange-14

2012-03-23 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 23/03/12 15:40, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 3/23/12 10:59 AM, Dave Reynolds wrote: On 23/03/12 14:33, Pat Hayes wrote: On Mar 23, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Jonathan A Rees wrote: I am a bit dismayed that nobody seems to be picking up on the point I've been hammering on (TimBL and others have also

Re: PURLs don't matter, at least in the LOD world

2012-02-18 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 17/02/12 21:08, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 2/17/12 2:18 PM, David Booth wrote: On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 18:48 +, Hugh Glaser wrote: [ . . . ] What happens if I have http://purl.org/dbpedia/Tokyo, which is set to go to http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tokyo? I have (a), (b) and (c) as before. Now

Re: How to express something is-located-at an org:Site

2011-11-10 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 09:42 -0500, Luis Bermudez wrote: Regarding location, there is another W3C activity, that is defining how to express Points of Interest [1] . Thanks for the pointer, I wasn't aware of that. Maybe site is a POI. Don't think it is, but another near match. That page

Re: How to express something is-located-at an org:Site

2011-11-08 Thread Dave Reynolds
[Maintaining the cc: list, apologies for the cross posting. In fact the official home for discussion on maintenance of org is the public-egov-ig. I'll assume for now that public-gld-wg is sufficient.] On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 17:21 +0100, Jakob Voss wrote: On 08.11.2011 15:11, Phil Archer wrote:

Re: How to express something is-located-at an org:Site

2011-11-08 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Jakob, I understand your use case and personally would not be adverse to adding an aligned superproperty for org:hasSite. The question is what one? As you point out, org:Site is supposed to encompass non-physical sites. This was to cater for organizations which use, for example, shared

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 Dave Reynolds
Hi Leigh, On 21/10/2011 08:04, Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi Dave, Thanks for the response, there's some good examples in there. I'm glad that this thread is bearing fruit :) I had a question about one aspect, please excuse the clipping: Clipping is the secret to focused email discussions :) On

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 Dave Reynolds
On 21/10/2011 12:52, Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi, On 21 October 2011 08:47, Dave Reynoldsdave.e.reyno...@gmail.com wrote: ... On 20 October 2011 10:34, Dave Reynoldsdave.e.reyno...@gmail.comwrote: ... If you have two resources and later on it turns out you only needed one, no big deal just

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 Dave Reynolds
Hi Leigh, On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 17:59 +0100, Leigh Dodds wrote: So, can we turn things on their head a little. Instead of starting out from a position that we *must* have two different resources, can we instead highlight to people the *benefits* of having different identifiers? That makes it

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 Dave Reynolds
Hi Norman, On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 12:13 +0100, Norman Gray wrote: On 2011 Oct 20, at 10:34, Dave Reynolds wrote: Benefit 1: You can provide (meta)data separately about the IR and NIR [...] Counter argument: this is problematic anyway. If your IR can conneg to both an HTML and an RDF

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Michael, On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 10:57 +0100, Michael Smethurst wrote: All of the problems mentioned in this thread could be solved with the addition of a *generic* information resource URI that does the conneg separately from the 303. Target the *generic* information resource in your links

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 15:16 +0100, Michael Smethurst wrote: On 18/10/2011 12:26, Dave Reynolds dave.e.reyno...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Michael, On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 10:57 +0100, Michael Smethurst wrote: All of the problems mentioned in this thread could be solved

Re: Minimum useful linked data

2011-09-03 Thread Dave Reynolds
[Left dist list in place but seems a little broad.] Hi Danny, On Sat, 2011-09-03 at 19:34 +0200, Danny Ayers wrote: On the other hand the linked data API has this covered, e.g. in the deployment example [2]: /doc/school/12345 should respond with a document that includes information

Multi-lingual labels for org ontology

2011-09-01 Thread Dave Reynolds
Thanks to Dominique Guardiola the org ontology [1][2] now has French translations for the label/comment/title strings. It's good to see multi-lingual support in semantic web ontologies and I'm very grateful to Dominique for volunteering to do this translation. Dave [1] http://www.w3.org/ns/org#

Re: Dataset URIs and metadata.

2011-07-22 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 09:59 +0100, Michael Hausenblas wrote: Frans, [snip] Probably VoID metadata/dataset URIs will be easier to discover once the /.well-known/void trick (described in paragraph 7.2 of the W3C VoID document) is widely adopted. greed. But it's not a 'trick'. It's

Re: Dataset URIs and metadata.

2011-07-22 Thread Dave Reynolds
the sort of thing that could easily be on a Rec track somewhere, I just wasn't aware of it. FWIW I'm perfectly happy with VoID's current status as an Interest Group note. Cheers, Dave On 22 Jul 2011, at 15:39, Dave Reynolds wrote: On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 09:59 +0100, Michael Hausenblas wrote

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

2011-06-22 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 15:52 +0100, Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi, On 22 June 2011 15:41, William Waites w...@styx.org wrote: What does WebID have to do with JSON? They're somehow representative of two competing trends. The RDF/JSON, JSON-LD, etc. work is supposed to be about making it

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

2011-06-19 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Hugh, By the way, as is well-known I think, a lot of people use and therefore must be happy with URIs that are not Range-14 compliant, such as http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema . Your general point that there is non-compliant data out there that people are still able to make use of is

Re: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle

2011-06-17 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 21:22 -0400, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: On 2011-06 -16, at 16:41, Ian Davis wrote: The problem here is that there are so few things that people want to say about web pages compared with the multitude of things they want to say about every other type of thing in

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

2011-04-12 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 21:10 -0400, glenn mcdonald wrote: I don't think data quality is an amorphous, aesthetic, hopelessly subjective topic. Data beauty might be subjective, and the same data may have different applicability to different tasks, but there are a lot of obvious and

Re: Linked Data, Blank Nodes and Graph Names

2011-04-07 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Nathan, On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 18:45 +0100, Nathan wrote: Hi All, To cut a long story short, blank nodes are a bit of a PITA to work with, they make data management more complex, new comers don't get them (lest presented as anonymous objects), and they make graph operations much more

Re: Design issues 5-star data section tidy up

2011-03-10 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 15:15 +0100, Adrian Pohl wrote: Hello Martin, [snip] And yes, I agree with Christopher that the extreme notion of open is an ideology, not a technology. Being able to automate the evaluation of what you can do with the data is a technology. Requesting that all

Re: URI Comparisons: RFC 2616 vs. RDF

2011-01-20 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 21:45 +, Nathan wrote: David Wood wrote: On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:59, Nathan wrote: ps: as an illustration of how engrained URI normalization is, I've capitalized the domain names in the to: and cc: fields, I do hope the mail still come through, and hope that

Re: URI Comparisons: RFC 2616 vs. RDF

2011-01-20 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Nathan, I largely agree but have a few quibbles :) On 20/01/2011 2:29 PM, Nathan wrote: Dave Reynolds wrote: The URI spec (rfc3986[1]) does allow this usage. In particular Section 6 Normalization and Comparison says: URI comparison is performed for some particular purpose. Protocols

Re: URI Comparisons: RFC 2616 vs. RDF

2011-01-19 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 19/01/2011 3:55 AM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: The information on how to fully determine equivalence according to the URI spec is distributed across a wide and growing number of different specifications (because it is schema dependent) and could, in principle, change over time. Because of the

Re: URI Comparisons: RFC 2616 vs. RDF

2011-01-18 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 18:16 +, Nathan wrote: Dave Reynolds wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 16:52 +, Nathan wrote: I'd suggest that it's a little more complex than that, and that this may be an issue to clear up in the next RDF WG (it's on the charter I believe). I beg to differ

Re: URI Comparisons: RFC 2616 vs. RDF

2011-01-17 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 16:51 +0100, Martin Hepp wrote: Dear all: RFC 2616 [1, section 3.2.3] says that When comparing two URIs to decide if they match or not, a client SHOULD use a case-sensitive octet-by-octet comparison of the entire URIs, with these exceptions: - A

Re: URI Comparisons: RFC 2616 vs. RDF

2011-01-17 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 16:52 +, Nathan wrote: Dave Reynolds wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 16:51 +0100, Martin Hepp wrote: Dear all: RFC 2616 [1, section 3.2.3] says that When comparing two URIs to decide if they match or not, a client SHOULD use a case-sensitive octet

Re: Semantics of rdfs:seeAlso (Was: Is it best practices to use a rdfs:seeAlso link to a potentially multimegabyte PDF?)

2011-01-13 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 06:29 -0500, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: This is the Linked Open Data list. The Linked Data world is a well-defined bit of engineering. It has co-opted the rdf:seeAlso semantics of if you are looking up x load y from the much earlier FOAF work. Where is this

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

2011-01-13 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 11:43 +, Nathan wrote: linked data is not some term for data with links, it's an engineered protocol which has constraints and requirements to make the whole thing work. Where is the spec for this engineered protocol and where in that spec does it redefine

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

2011-01-04 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Phil, On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 10:32 +, Phil Archer wrote: I'm doing a bit of grunt work on some data about companies and want to remodel relevant sections using the org vocabulary [1]. But... I'd rather not be forced to use vCard for the address info (because UK addresses don't fit

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

2011-01-04 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 13:28 +0100, William Waites wrote: * [2011-01-04 11:49:43 +] Dave Reynolds dave.e.reyno...@gmail.com écrit: ] Is VCard that bad? It fits your example below just fine. The only problem I see with the example is that we don't have counties in Scotland, we have

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

2011-01-04 Thread Dave Reynolds
/TeamSubmission/turtle/#longString On 04/01/2011 13:39, Dave Reynolds wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:38 +, Alexander Dutton wrote: On 04/01/11 11:49, Dave Reynolds wrote: The separation between the Site and the address isn't necessary in general, but it is necessary in order to reuse

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

2011-01-04 Thread Dave Reynolds
VCards into information about a Social Entity (or an Organization or a Person), and not a card. Tim On 2011-01 -04, at 09:03, Dave Reynolds wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 13:28 +0100, William Waites wrote: * [2011-01-04 11:49:43 +] Dave Reynolds

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

2010-11-25 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Friedrich, On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 00:43 +0100, Friedrich Lindenberg wrote: Anyway, I'd like to raise some additional points for the future: 1. I'd like to get a better picture of who is currently developing end-user open government data applications based on linked data. Given that

Re: data.gov.uk ontologies

2010-11-16 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 19:50 -0200, Percy Enrique Rivera Salas wrote: Hello everyone I only found the educational ontology of data.gov.uk (school.rdf) Anybody knows, Where could I get the other ontologies of this dataset? Which dataset, the education dataset? If so that then

Re: What is a URL? And What is a URI

2010-11-12 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 12:52 -0500, Kingsley Idehen wrote: All, As the conversation about HTTP responses evolves, I am inclined to believe that most still believe that: 1. URL is equivalent to a URI 2. URI is a fancier term for URI 3. URI is equivalent to URL. I think my opinion on

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 22:17 +0100, Lars Heuer wrote: Hi Ian, Even if I come from a slightly different camp (Topic Maps), I wonder if your proposal hasn't become reality already. Try to resolve rdf:type or rdfs:label: I think we agree that these resources describe abstract concepts and

Re: 200 OK with Content-Location might work

2010-11-08 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi John, On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 15:12 +, John Sheridan wrote: However, three points from my perspective: 1) debating fundamental issues like this is very destabilising for those of us looking to expand the LOD community and introduce new people and organisations to Linked Data. To

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-11-08 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 15:34 -0500, David Booth wrote: On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 10:11 +, Toby Inkster wrote: On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 13:22:09 + Ian Davis m...@iandavis.com wrote: http://iand.posterous.com/is-303-really-necessary Ian brings up numerous difficulties with 303

Re: isDefinedBy and isDescribedBy, Tale of two missing predicates

2010-11-05 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 20:58 -0400, Kingsley Idehen wrote: When you create hypermedia based structured data for deployment on an HTTP network (intranet, extranet, World Wide Web) do include a relation that associates each Subject/Entity (or Data Item) with its container/host document. A

Re: [Request for Input] Linked Data Specifications

2010-11-05 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Michael, A good idea. Could I request you more clearly separate the formal specifications from the de facto community practice documents. The Change Set vocabulary, to pick one example, doesn't really have the same standing, adoption or level of scrutiny as the RFCs, does it? Dave On Fri,

Re: isDefinedBy and isDescribedBy, Tale of two missing predicates

2010-11-05 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 07:19 -0400, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 11/5/10 4:51 AM, Dave Reynolds wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 20:58 -0400, Kingsley Idehen wrote: When you create hypermedia based structured data for deployment on an HTTP network (intranet, extranet, World Wide Web) do

Re: Is 303 really necessary?

2010-11-05 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 12:11 +, Norman Gray wrote: Greetings, On 2010 Nov 4, at 13:22, Ian Davis wrote: http://iand.posterous.com/is-303-really-necessary I haven't been aware of the following formulation of Ian's problem+solution in the thread so far. Apologies if I've missed it,

RE: Domain of Dublin Core terms

2010-10-13 Thread Dave Reynolds
-road Andy -- Andy Powell Research Programme Director Eduserv t: 01225 474319 m: 07989 476710 twitter: @andypowe11 blog: efoundations.typepad.com www.eduserv.org.uk -Original Message- From: public-lod-requ...@w3.org [mailto:public-lod-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Dave

Domain of Dublin Core terms

2010-10-11 Thread Dave Reynolds
This is a back to basics kind of question ... What sorts of entities are we happy to describe using Dublin Core Terms? The Dublin Core Abstract Model [1] talks about described resources which are described in the FAQ [2] as anything addressable via a URL ... including various collections of

Re: PUBLINK Linked Data Consultancy

2010-10-07 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 01:38 +0200, Sören Auer wrote: On 07.10.2010 1:13, Georgi Kobilarov wrote: So, now the EU also takes that burden off the small linked data consultancies and businesses. Not at all! PUBLINK is not aimed at organizations which already precisely know what they want

Re: Best Practices for Converting CSV into LOD?

2010-08-10 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 10:37 -0600, Wood, Jamey wrote: Are there any established best practices for converting CSV data into LOD-friendly RDF? For example, I would like to produce an LOD-friendly RDF version of the 2001 - Present Net Generation by State by Type of Producer by Energy Source

Re: [ANN] Uberblic Search API

2010-07-21 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Georgi, Does that mean you are back on the lists? :) Great API - congratulations! A suggestion would be to add some form of disambiguating description to the keyword completion. If I type Scarlet then the completion options look something like: Scarlett Scarlett Johansson Scarlett

Re: FOAF DL

2010-07-16 Thread Dave Reynolds
Looks interesting. In the description you say (1) foaf:mbox_sha1sum, foaf:jabberID, foaf:aimChatID, foaf:icqChatID, foaf:yahooChatID and foaf:msnChatID are not owl:InverseFunctionalProperties anymore; instead, they are defined as owl:Keys for foaf:Agents, which is practically the same I agree

Re: FOAF DL

2010-07-16 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 16:17 +0100, Antoine Zimmermann wrote: Beware, technical stuff follows. Le 16/07/2010 13:07, Dave Reynolds a écrit : Looks interesting. In the description you say (1) foaf:mbox_sha1sum, foaf:jabberID, foaf:aimChatID, foaf:icqChatID, foaf:yahooChatID

Re: Show me the money - (was Subjects as Literals)

2010-07-11 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 22:44 -0500, Pat Hayes wrote: Jeremy, your argument is perfectly sound from your company's POV, but not from a broader perspective. Of course, any change will incur costs by those who have based their assumptions upon no change happening. Your company took a risk,

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-08 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 22:27 +0100, William Waites wrote: On 10-06-03 16:04, Dave Reynolds wrote: It would be great if you could suggest a better phrasing of the description of a FormalOrganization that would better encompass the range of entities you think should go there? Or are you

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-08 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 01:03 +0300, Emmanouil Batsis (Manos) wrote: Sorry for jumping in. I was thinking that a) the way i get FormalOrganization, it could as well be called LegalEntity to be more precise. Not quite, there are other LegalEntities that are not Organizations. The LegalEntity

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-07 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 09:34 +0100, Ian Davis wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Dave Reynolds dave.e.reyno...@googlemail.com wrote: We would like to announce the availability of an ontology for description of organizational structures including government organizations

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-06 Thread Dave Reynolds
/org.html#changes On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 08:50 +0100, Dave Reynolds wrote: We would like to announce the availability of an ontology for description of organizational structures including government organizations. This was motivated by the needs of the data.gov.uk project. After some

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-03 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 09:29 -0400, Bob DuCharme wrote: Is any sample instance data available, whether it's using real or fake organizations? Not yet, but there will be. Dave

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-03 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:07 +0100, William Waites wrote: On 10-06-03 09:01, Dan Brickley wrote: I don't find anything particularly troublesome about the org: vocab on this front. If you really want to critique culturally-loaded ontologies, I'd go find one that declares class hierarchies

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-03 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 12:41 -0400, Bob DuCharme wrote: Dave, Does this mean that no sample data has been created yet, or that samples used in the course of development are not data that you are free to share? Given the rather ... short ... timescale we were working under the sketchy

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-02 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 17:06 +1200, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Dave Reynolds dave.e.reyno...@googlemail.com wrote: We would like to announce the availability of an ontology for description of organizational structures including government organizations

Organization ontology

2010-06-01 Thread Dave Reynolds
We would like to announce the availability of an ontology for description of organizational structures including government organizations. This was motivated by the needs of the data.gov.uk project. After some checking we were unable to find an existing ontology that precisely met our needs

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-01 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 09:26 +0100, Michael Hausenblas wrote: Dave, We would like to announce the availability of an ontology for description of organizational structures including government organizations. Brilliant! I submitted it now to Sindice [1] and 'registered' the org prefix in

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-01 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 11:04 +0200, Christophe Guéret wrote: On 06/01/2010 10:26 AM, Michael Hausenblas wrote: Dave, We would like to announce the availability of an ontology for description of organizational structures including government organizations. Brilliant! I

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-01 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:37 +0100, Damian Steer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/06/10 08:50, Dave Reynolds wrote: We would like to announce the availability of an ontology for description of organizational structures including government organizations

Re: Organization ontology

2010-06-01 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Bernard, On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 17:03 +0200, Bernard Vatant wrote: Hi Dave Great resource indeed. One remark, one suggestion, and one question :) Remark : Just found out what seems to be a mistake in the N3 file. org:role a owl:ObjectProperty, rdf:Property; rdfs:label role@en;

Re: Java Framework for Content Negotiation

2010-05-20 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 20/05/2010 11:03, Story Henry wrote: There is the RESTlet framework http://www.restlet.org/ There's also Jersey [1] and, for a minimalist solution to just the content matching piece see Mimeparse [2]. Dave [1] https://jersey.dev.java.net/ [2] http://code.google.com/p/mimeparse/ On 20

Re: Announce: Linked Data Patterns book

2010-04-06 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Leigh, On 06/04/2010 16:10, Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi folks, Ian Davis and I have been working on a catalogue of Linked Data patterns which we've put on-line as a free book. The work is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution license. This is is still a very early draft but already

Re: AW: Linked Data API

2010-02-25 Thread Dave Reynolds
von Leigh Dodds Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2010 12:47 An: Linking Open Data Cc: Jeni Tennison; Dave Reynolds Betreff: Linked Data API Hi all, Yesterday, at the 2nd Linked Data London Meetup, Dave Reynolds, Jeni Tennison and myself ran a workshop introducing some work we've been doing around

Re: Linked Data API

2010-02-25 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 25/02/2010 18:11, Nathan wrote: Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi all, Yesterday, at the 2nd Linked Data London Meetup, Dave Reynolds, Jeni Tennison and myself ran a workshop introducing some work we've been doing around a Linked Data API. The API is intended to be a middle-ware layer that can

Re: Linked Data API

2010-02-25 Thread Dave Reynolds
Nathan wrote: Dave Reynolds wrote: On 25/02/2010 18:11, Nathan wrote: Leigh Dodds wrote: Hi all, Yesterday, at the 2nd Linked Data London Meetup, Dave Reynolds, Jeni Tennison and myself ran a workshop introducing some work we've been doing around a Linked Data API. The API is intended

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-17 Thread Dave Reynolds
Dave Reynolds wrote: Jeni Tennison wrote: I don't know where the best place is to work on this: I guess at some point it would be good to set up a Wiki page or something that we could use as a hub for discussion? I'd suggest setting up a Google Code area and making anyone who

Re: APIs and Lists

2009-12-15 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Jeni, Sorry to be slow to reply to this one. Jeni Tennison wrote: Dave (Reynolds) raised the point that lists are an integral part of most APIs. This is another thing that we know we need to address in the UK linked government data project, but are unsure as yet how best to do so

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-14 Thread Dave Reynolds
Jeni Tennison wrote: On 12 Dec 2009, at 22:27, Danny Ayers wrote: I can't offer any real practical suggestions right away (a lot to digest here!) but one question I think right away may some significance: you want this to be friendly to normal developers - what kind of things are they actually

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-14 Thread Dave Reynolds
Jeni Tennison wrote: It's worth noting that most of these APIs support a callback= parameter that makes the API return Javascript containing a function call rather than simply the JSON itself. I regard this as an unquestionably essential part of a JSON API, whether it uses RDF/JSON or RDFj or

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-14 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Jenni, Jeni Tennison wrote: On 13 Dec 2009, at 13:34, Dave Reynolds wrote: I agree we want both graphs and SPARQL results but I think there is another third case - lists of described objects. I absolutely agree with you that lists of described objects is an essential part of an API

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-14 Thread Dave Reynolds
Mark Birbeck wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Jeni Tennison j...@jenitennison.com wrote: One thing that we want to do is provide JSON representations of both RDF graphs and SPARQL results. I wanted to run some ideas past this group as to how we might do that. Great again. :) In the

Re: Creating JSON from RDF

2009-12-13 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Jeni, Jeni Tennison wrote: As part of the linked data work the UK government is doing, we're looking at how to use the linked data that we have as the basis of APIs that are readily usable by developers who really don't want to learn about RDF or SPARQL. Wow! Talk about timing. We are

Re: Dons flame resistant (3 hours) interface about Linked Data URIs

2009-07-13 Thread Dave Reynolds
Steve Harris wrote: On 10 Jul 2009, at 11:00, Toby Inkster wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:40 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: Personally I think that RDF/XML doesn't help, it's too hard to write by hand. MicroTurtle, the sloppy RDF format: http://buzzword.org.uk/2009/microturtle/spec