NISO/CLIR/RLG – Technical Metadata Elements for Images Workshop (18-19th...
Maybe this is a record for delayed blogging. Nine and a half years late, here’s a writeup I found (on a corpsed hard-drive) of an image metadata workshop held by NISO, in Washington. I wrote it up for...
View ArticleSKOS deployment stats from Sindice
This cropped up in yesterday’s W3C Semantic Web Coordination Group telecon, as we discussed the various measures of SKOS deployment success. I suggested drawing a distinction between the use of SKOS to...
View ArticleCross-browsing and RDF
Cross-browsing and RDF While cross-searching has been described and demonstrated through this paper and associated work, the problem of cross-browsing a selection of subject gateways has not been...
View ArticleFamily trees, Gedcom::FOAF in CPAN, and provenance
Every wondered who the mother(s) of Adam and Eve’s grand-children were? Me too. But don’t expect SPARQL or the Semantic Web to answer that one! Meanwhile, … You might nevetheless care to try the...
View ArticleSkosdex: SKOS utilities via jruby
I just announced this on the public-esw-thes and public-rdf-ruby lists. I started to make a Ruby API for SKOS. Example code snippet from the readme.txt (see that link for the corresponding output):...
View ArticleSkosdex progress: basic lucene search
I now have a crude Lucene index derrived from SKOS data. It is more or less a toy example, but somehow promising also. Example below is a test against FAO‘s AGROVOC. Each concept becomes a “document”,...
View ArticleSubject classification and Statistics
Subject classification and statistics share some common problems. This post takes a small example discussed at this week’s ODaF event on “Semantic Statistics” in Tilberg, and explores its expression...
View ArticleLonclass and RDF
Lonclass is one of the BBC’s in-house classification systems – the “London classification”. I’ve had the privilege of investigating lonclass within the NoTube project. It’s not currently public, but...
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Linked Literature, Linked TV – Everything Looks like a Graph
Ben Fry in ‘Visualizing Data‘: Graphs can be a powerful way to represent relationships between data, but they are also a very abstract concept, which means that they run the danger of meaning...
View ArticleSchema.org and One Hundred Years of Search
A talk from London SemWeb meetup hosted by the BBC Academy in London, Mar 30 2012…. Slides and video are already in the Web, but I wanted to post this as an excuse to plug the new Web History Community...
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