RDF API, JSON Serialization and Standardization – webr3.org: "RDF API, JSON Serialization and Standardization
Since there's been a lot of discussion about JSON serializations of RDF, and the need for an RDF API, I thought I'd offer my own personal thoughts on what we need from a JSON serialization and an RDF API."
30 December 2010
BigQuery - Google Code
BigQuery - Google Code: "Interactively analyze large datasets
BigQuery is a web service that enables you to do interactive analysis of massively large datasets. Scalable and easy to use, BigQuery lets developers and businesses tap into powerful data analytics on demand.
Features
Speed - Analyze billions of rows in seconds
Scale - Terabytes of data, trillions of records
Simplicity - SQL-like query language, hosted on Google infrastructure
Sharing - Powerful group- and user-based permissions using Google accounts
Security - Secure SSL access
Flexibility - REST APIs, JSON RPC, Google Apps Script"
BigQuery is a web service that enables you to do interactive analysis of massively large datasets. Scalable and easy to use, BigQuery lets developers and businesses tap into powerful data analytics on demand.
Features
Speed - Analyze billions of rows in seconds
Scale - Terabytes of data, trillions of records
Simplicity - SQL-like query language, hosted on Google infrastructure
Sharing - Powerful group- and user-based permissions using Google accounts
Security - Secure SSL access
Flexibility - REST APIs, JSON RPC, Google Apps Script"
The Semantic Puzzle | EU-Report on the requirements for a paneuropean Open Government Data Portal
The Semantic Puzzle | EU-Report on the requirements for a paneuropean Open Government Data Portal: "EU-Report on the requirements for a paneuropean Open Government Data Portal
December 15, 2010 By: Thomas Thurner Category: Linked Data & Open Data, Open Government Data, Tools & Software
The recently published report on a hearing of an experts in Luxembourg this November, provides a snap-shoot on the discussion if a central open data infrastructure may make sense. The experts group list several positive effects like union-wide comparability of some government data set, as well as the role of being motor for national and regional initiatives. It is stressed several times, that a swift progress, in coming those plans reality, is crucial for success.
Read more at: Report – Technical workshop on the goals and requirements for a pan-European data portal"
December 15, 2010 By: Thomas Thurner Category: Linked Data & Open Data, Open Government Data, Tools & Software
The recently published report on a hearing of an experts in Luxembourg this November, provides a snap-shoot on the discussion if a central open data infrastructure may make sense. The experts group list several positive effects like union-wide comparability of some government data set, as well as the role of being motor for national and regional initiatives. It is stressed several times, that a swift progress, in coming those plans reality, is crucial for success.
Read more at: Report – Technical workshop on the goals and requirements for a pan-European data portal"
Happy New Year: What’s Ahead for the Semantic Web (Part 1) - semanticweb.com
Happy New Year: What’s Ahead for the Semantic Web (Part 1) - semanticweb.com: "The New Year’s almost here, and of course that brings with it a time to reflect on what’s been and muse on what’s ahead. To that end, the Semantic Web Blog asked some industry names to share their perspectives – and concerns about some of the direction, as well. Start reading about them today, and join us again tomorrow for their insights, Part 2."
Reaching the pinnacle: truly open web services and clouds - O'Reilly Radar
Reaching the pinnacle: truly open web services and clouds - O'Reilly Radar: "Free software in the cloud isn't just a nice-sounding ideal or even an efficient way to push innovation forward. Opening the cloud also opens the path to a bountiful environment of computing for all. Here are the steps to a better computing future."
Cloud 2011: The Year of the Network - O'Reilly Broadcast
Cloud 2011: The Year of the Network - O'Reilly Broadcast: "The pace of innovation in the cloud in the last few years has been astounding. It's difficult to recognize today's cloud computing landscape as having any relationship to where it was a year ago. In spite of all the innovation that's been going on, one area remains in the dark ages—the network. My 2011 prediction is simple: 2011 will be the year of the network in the cloud."
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » OpenCorporates: the Open Database of the Corporate World
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » OpenCorporates: the Open Database of the Corporate World: "OpenCorporates: the Open Database of the Corporate World
December 20th, 2010
This is a guest post by Chris Taggart, a member of OKFN’s open government working group and creator of OpenlyLocal, who today launched a new website OpenCorporates in collaboration with Rob McKinnon (a project they first demoed at the Open Government Data Camp in November)."
December 20th, 2010
This is a guest post by Chris Taggart, a member of OKFN’s open government working group and creator of OpenlyLocal, who today launched a new website OpenCorporates in collaboration with Rob McKinnon (a project they first demoed at the Open Government Data Camp in November)."
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Exploring European Energy Data
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Exploring European Energy Data: "Exploring European Energy Data
December 16th, 2010
The following post is from Jonathan Gray, Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation.
Today was the Eurostat Hackday, where coders and designers in several European cities gathered to dig into the Eurostat data, the biggest source of statistical information about Europe and European member states. We met at the Centre for Creative Collaboration in London, who very kindly agreed to host us for the day."
December 16th, 2010
The following post is from Jonathan Gray, Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation.
Today was the Eurostat Hackday, where coders and designers in several European cities gathered to dig into the Eurostat data, the biggest source of statistical information about Europe and European member states. We met at the Centre for Creative Collaboration in London, who very kindly agreed to host us for the day."
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Cultural Heritage rights in the age of digital copyright
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Cultural Heritage rights in the age of digital copyright: "On December, 10th the COMMUNIA WG3 gathered in Istanbul for the final workshop, with the aim of producing a set of recommendations about cultural heritage and the public domain."
Name matching strategy using bibliographic data | Open Biblio (graphic) Projects
Name matching strategy using bibliographic data | Open Biblio (graphic) Projects: "One of the aims of an RDF representation of bibliographic data should be to have authors represented by unique, reference-able points within the data (as URIs), rather than as free-text fields. What steps can we do to match up the text value representing an author’s name to another example of their name in the data?
It’s not realistic to expect a match between say, Mark Twain to Samuel Clemens, without using some extra information typically not present in bibliographic datasets. What can be achieved however, is the ‘fuzzy’ matching of alternate forms of names – due to typos, mistakes and omitted initials and the like. It is important that these matches are understood to be fuzzy and not precise, based more on statistics than a definite assertion."
It’s not realistic to expect a match between say, Mark Twain to Samuel Clemens, without using some extra information typically not present in bibliographic datasets. What can be achieved however, is the ‘fuzzy’ matching of alternate forms of names – due to typos, mistakes and omitted initials and the like. It is important that these matches are understood to be fuzzy and not precise, based more on statistics than a definite assertion."
JISC OpenBibliography: Development ideas | Open Biblio (graphic) Projects
JISC OpenBibliography: Development ideas | Open Biblio (graphic) Projects: "Now that we have a queryable British National Bibliography dataset, we are investigating useful functionality to take advantage of the data.
The team have listed a few development ideas based both on our own interests and on discussion with others in the community:
flagging – attaching notes to bibliographic records highlighting possible updates
wikipedia – link to wikipedia by author / title / ISBN for further information
book crossing – search an ISBN, find where a copy of it is available
public libraries – search by ISBN and find out which local public library it is in
exporting records – for example to bibtex
google scholar lookup"
The team have listed a few development ideas based both on our own interests and on discussion with others in the community:
flagging – attaching notes to bibliographic records highlighting possible updates
wikipedia – link to wikipedia by author / title / ISBN for further information
book crossing – search an ISBN, find where a copy of it is available
public libraries – search by ISBN and find out which local public library it is in
exporting records – for example to bibtex
google scholar lookup"
URL Design — Warpspire
URL Design — Warpspire: "URL Design
You should take time to design your URL structure. If there’s one thing I hope you remember after reading this article it’s to take time to design your URL structure. Don’t leave it up to your framework. Don’t leave it up to chance. Think about it and craft an experience.
URL Design is a complex subject. I can’t say there are any “right” solutions — it’s much like the rest of design. There’s good URL design, there’s bad URL design, and there’s everything in between — it’s subjective.
But that doesn’t mean there aren’t best practices for creating great URLs. I hope to impress upon you some best practices in URL design I’ve learned over the years and explain why I think new HTML5 javascript history APIs are so exciting to work with."
You should take time to design your URL structure. If there’s one thing I hope you remember after reading this article it’s to take time to design your URL structure. Don’t leave it up to your framework. Don’t leave it up to chance. Think about it and craft an experience.
URL Design is a complex subject. I can’t say there are any “right” solutions — it’s much like the rest of design. There’s good URL design, there’s bad URL design, and there’s everything in between — it’s subjective.
But that doesn’t mean there aren’t best practices for creating great URLs. I hope to impress upon you some best practices in URL design I’ve learned over the years and explain why I think new HTML5 javascript history APIs are so exciting to work with."
Mining of Massive Datasets
Mining of Massive Datasets: "This book is placed on the Web for free use of all who wish it. We do, however, retain copyright on the work, and we expect that you will acknowledge our authorship if you republish parts or all of it. We are sorry to have to mention this point, but we have evidence that other items we have published on the Web have been appropriated and republished under other names. It is easy to detect such misuse, by the way, as you will learn in Chapter 3."
IT History Society - Resource Sites
IT History Society - Resource Sites:
[About Archive-It and the collection]
This catalog of resource sites concerning IT history is the only one of its kind. If you know of any additions we should make to the database, please submit them here.
Learn more about the ITHS Archive Database Project"
[About Archive-It and the collection]
This catalog of resource sites concerning IT history is the only one of its kind. If you know of any additions we should make to the database, please submit them here.
Learn more about the ITHS Archive Database Project"
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