2020

Knowledge Graphs!

Semantic Linked Knowledge Web Data Graphs?

For several years I thought of “knowledge graphs” as the buzzphrase that had partially replaced “Linked Data”, which was the buzzphrase that had partially replaced “Semantic Web”. In a 2012 blog entry I explained how Hadoop and the new-at-the-time NoSQL databases had convinced me that even if a technology has a funny name, selling it based on the problems it solves makes more sense and ages better than selling a buzz phrase vision and then, if that goes well,…

GeoSPARQL queries on OSM Data in GraphDB

Or, Querying geospatial data with SPARQL Part 2

Over a year ago, in Querying geospatial data with SPARQL: Part 1, I described my dream of pulling geospatial data down from Open Street Map, loading it into a local triplestore, and then querying it with queries that conformed to the GeoSPARQL standard. At the time, I tried several triplestores and data sources and never quite got there. When I tried it recently with Ontotext’s free version of GraphDB, it all turned out to be quite easy.

Generating MODS XML from RDF with Go templates

Using a built-in Go(lang) feature to drive an RDF application.

I had heard that Go (also known as “golang”) was an increasingly popular newish programming language before I migrated my blog from being generated by handmade XSLT scripts on snee.com to using the Hugo platform to generate it on bobdc.com. Hugo is written in Go, which was invented at Google (get it?) by three people, two of whom had contributed to the development of C, Unix, and important related technology at Bell Labs. Go provides an excellent basis for a website generation…

Converting CSV to RDF with Tarql

Quick and easy and, if you like, streaming.

I have seen several tools for converting spreadsheets to RDF over the years. They typically try to cover so many different cases that learning how to use them has taken more effort than just writing a short perl script that uses the split() command, so that’s what I usually ended up doing. (Several years ago I did come up with another way that was more of a cute trick with Turtle syntax.)

SPARQL in a Jupyter Notebook

For real this time.

A few years ago I wrote a blog post titled SPARQL in a Jupyter (a.k.a. IPython) notebook: With just a bit of Python to frame it all. It described how Jupyter notebooks, which have become increasingly popular in the data science world, are an excellent way to share executable code and the results and documentation of that code. Not only do these notebooks make it easy to package all of this in a very presentable way; they also make it easy for your reader to tweak the code in a local copy of your…