Lifecycle Ontology
I wrote a RDF Schema for describing lifecycles. The Lifecycle Schema can be used to describe the stages and steps that something goes through as well as any tasks required to move an item from stage to...
View ArticleLaunch of Aiiso
Just published a big long list of the names of organisational units inside academic institutions. It allows you to describe your internal structures. It’s called the Academic Institution Internal...
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Semtech 2010, San Francisco
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...
View ArticleWhat people find hard about Linked Data
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...
View ArticleIn summary, I don't like writing more code than I have to…
* 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...
View ArticleGetting over-excited about Dinosaurs…
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...
View ArticleThere is no “metadata”
For a while I’ve been avoiding using the term metadata for a few reasons. I’ve had a few conversations with people about why and so I thought I’d jot the thoughts down here. First of all, the main...
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Linked Data, Big Data and Your Data
Week five of my new challenge and I figured I really should get around to scribbling down some thoughts. I talked in my last post about RDF and graphs being useful inside the enterprise; and here I am,...
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Pairwise Comparisons of Large Datasets
It’s been a while since I last posted. Work’s been busy, interesting, challenging But now it’s the holidays and I have some time to write. At work we’ve been building a small team around Big Data...
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