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I hoped to have a mini reports done day-by-day, but a restricted Internet service at my hotel and the venue meant that I wasn’t as able to as I wanted. So here it is, a bigger report. I’ll do it in an interview style.
What was XTech 2008 generally about?
XTech 2008 was about “The Web on […]

So I have talked about how RDF is really simple, and why Linked Data are the roots of the web… but we need a way of serving this data in a meaningful way, this is where the Data Server steps in!
The allegory continues……

Here we see our home-grower digging up some potatoes.
The potatoes are Linked […]

OK, so in my last post (”RDF: Simpler if you look at it in a different way“) I said that RDF is a modeling framework to link data together in the form of object to object relationships, I briefly mentioned some “vocabularies” (aka ontologies) and some formats (e.g. Notation3, RDF/XML). I want to mention again […]

I’ve just heard about the Open Data Definition (ODD), its a good idea, but it has already been done in the form of Semantically Interconnected Online Communities (SIOC)….
SIOC (pronounced “Shock” <- its Irish) “can [also] be used as