In the last post I introduced the concept from HyTime of a finite coordinate space (FCS) consisting of a number of axes each of which is tied to a measurement domain where the measurement domain might be physical or virtual. In this post we will take a look at Clause 9.2 of the standard which [...]
In this post I’m going to look at Clause 9.1 of the HyTime standard – hit the link to bring it up in a new window if you want to follow along.
Its about time the Semantic Web got a dose of HyTime’s pragmatic approach to defining measured points and extents in n-dimensional space. This is the first in a series of posts to explore that hypothesis and maybe come up with some proposals.
Its a pleasure to announce the first release of Metatribble, an attempt to implement some of the concepts of semantic annotation that I talked about in a previous post. Metatribble is currently packaged as a Ubiquity command and right now doesn’t do an awful lot except for mark up interesting entities with RDFa, but even [...]
Last night’s Oxford SWiG meeting was interesting and sociable as usual. There were three great presentations – Jeni Tennison on rdfQuery, a jQuery-like Javascript library for parsing, querying and generating RDFa markup; Iain Emsley presented a WP plug-in that creates RDF graphs for blog posts showing a nice use of multiple ontologies; Laurian Gridinoc talked [...]
It is very interesting to see that Amazon have now made available over 1TB of public data. Its great that all of this data is now available in one place, ready shredded into queryable structures that allows developers to get to grips with it and start to do something really interesting. But wait a minute, [...]
Recent discussion on the topicmapmail mailing list has been on the creation and maintenance of Published Subject Indicators (PSIs). A PSI is a resource which describes a vocabulary (or part of a vocabulary) and provides URIs for terms in the vocabulary (called Published Subject Identifiers which confusingly then has the same acronym, PSI). The discussion [...]
A new paper has been added to the Publications section of the site. Topic Map Patterns For Information Architecture presents design patterns for modelling some common information organisation constructs from the world of Information Architecture. The paper presents and explains models for hierarchical and facetted classification systems as well as for thesaurii.
A shameless trail for a new paper…