Monthly Archives: August 2008
Fragmentation and the Failure of the Web
What makes an on-line community? In the past two weeks I have received announcements of three new “communities” all interested in using open-source software to retrieve, share, and analyze data from or about governments. Most of these announcements say the … Continue reading
Whither RDF?
RDF is seductive. I can’t get away from it. Something about the ability to represent anything and everything in one consistent model just tugs at my engineer’s heartstrings. The problem with RDF, as I’ve discovered through painful experience, is that … Continue reading
Clojure for the Semantic Web
I dropped in to hear Rich Hickey talk about Clojure at the New York Semantic Web meetup group. Some highlights: • Some programs, like compilers or theorem provers, are themselves functions. They take input and produce output. Purely functional languages … Continue reading