I was catching up with my old friend Paul Prescod the other day. We have not only known each other since the early days of XML, but actually before that: “since XML was a four-letter word”, to quote Paul.
The following blog entries give a brief introduction to the RDF data model, the most important of the other W3C standards that build on it, and what people do with those standards:
I recently wondered “could I run a Python script that includes the rdflib library on my Samsung Android phone?” Five minutes later, I was doing it, and about three of those minutes were spent installing Python.
OriginTrail is doing one of the most interesting combinations of blockchain technology and RDF that I have seen. In November I spoke with CTO and co-founder Branimir Rakić.
Justin Dowdy recently created an open source project to convert the metadata in a git repository to RDF, and I’ve been having some fun with it. Before getting into the details, as a brief demo I’ll start with a sample SPARQL query that I did to list all of the 2019 commits in my misc github repo:
There are a few tutorials out there about how to start up your own free-tier Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance and then run your own publicly available web server. I’ve planned for a while to try this with a Jena Fuseki triplestore and SPARQL endpoint, but I postponed it because I thought it might be complicated. It turned out to be pretty easy.