I _Really_ Don't Know

I had the great pleasure, a few weeks ago, of working with Tom Scott and Michael Smethurst at the BBC on extensions to the Wildlife Ontology that sits behind Wildlife Finder.

In case you hadn’t spotted it (and if you’re reading this I can’t believe you haven’t) Wildlife Finder provides its information in HTML and RDF — Linked Data, providing a machine-readable version of the documents for those who want to extend or build on top of it. Readers of this blog will have seen Wildlife Finder showcased in many, many Linked Data presentations.

This post originally appeared on the Talis Consulting Blog.

Chris Keene at Sussex is having a tough time making a decision on his URIs so I thought I’d wade in and muddy the waters a little.

• This post first appeared on the Talis Consulting blog.

I opened my mailbox the other morning to a question from David Norris at BBC. They've been doing a lot of Linked Data work and we've been helping them on projects for a good while now.

This post originally appeared on Talis Consulting Blog.

Following on from the post I put up last talking about Linked Data training, I got asked what people find hard when learning about Linked Data for the first time. Delivering our training has given us a unique insight into that, across different roles, backgrounds and organisations — in several countries. We've taught hundreds of people in all.

** This post originally appeared on Talis' Platform Consulting Blog **

So, the blog is fairly new, but we've been here a while. For those of you who know us already you may know that Talis is more than 40 years old!

cat quads.nq | sed -e "s/^(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)\s+(\S+)\s+./\1 \2 \3 ./" > triples.nt

Someone with regex and sed (or awk) foo may well be able to improve on this.

find ./from -type f | awk '{ str=$0; sub(/.//, "", str); gsub(///, "-", str); print "mv " $0 " ./to/" str }' | bash

The chorus of Chesney Hawkes' song goes "I am the one and only", a huge pop hit with teenage girls in the 1990s, but what does that have to do with SemTech 2010?

I was in the exhibit space yesterday evening and there was so much really interesting stuff. I had some really great conversations. Talking about storage implementations with Franz and revelytix (and drinking their excellent margaritas), looking at vertical search with Semantifi and having a great discussion about scaling with the guys from Oracle.

San Francisco is such a very beautiful city. The blue sky, clean streets and the cable cars. A short walk and you're on the coast, with the bridges and islands.

I've been to San Francisco before, for less than 24 hours and I only got to see the bridge from the plane window as I flew out again so it's especially nice to be here for a week.

Yaz4J is a wrapper library over the client-specific parts of YAZ, a C-based Z39.50 toolkit, and allows you to use the ZOOM API directly from Java. Initial version of Yaz4j has been written by Rob Styles from Talis and the project is now developed and maintained at IndexData. ZOOM is a relatively straightforward API and with a few lines of code you can write a basic application that can establish connection to a Z39.50 server. Here we will try to build a very simple HTTP-to-Z3950 gateway using yaz4j and the Java Servlet technology. from Building a simple HTTP-to-Z39.50 gateway using Yaz4j and Tomcat | Index Data.

I write Yaz4J a couple of years ago now and it's great to see it getting some use outside of Talis.