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Excerpted : "The wonkish waters of RDF mailing lists"
Subject: [N3] equivalencies
From: Aaron Straup Cope
Date: 22 Jul 2003 15:01:10 +0000
I'm wondering if you can answer a question for me and save me the
trouble and wading in to the wonkish waters of one or more RDF mailing
lists.
The question is premised on two assumptions :
1) The RDF that describes a thing is *not* public. That is I do not want
to share it and make it available to some other bot scraping the
network. If that makes a me a bad citizen, I'll live.
All of which means I use URNs to describe things:
@prefix uwh: \
<urn:aaronstraupcope:knows:who:> .
2) At some point, I need to be able to resolve all that gibberish. I
need be able to tell the processor about something like this:
@prefix awh:
<user:pswd@http://private.aaronstraupcope.com/knows/who/>
Or simpler yet :
@prefix awh: <file:/home/asc/knows/who/> .
Still with me? Here's the question. Does the spec DWIM (Do What I Mean)
when I say the following:
uwh: = awh: .
That is, will a fully compliant processor be able to figure out that
when it comes time to merge a bunch of RDF documents will fetch stuff
from awh: namespace when it encounters things in the uwh: namespace?
If I feed what I've described to cwm I get the following:
<rdf:Desription rdf:about="urn:aaronstraupcope:knows:who:">
<equivalentTo
xmlns="yadda/yadda/daml+oil#"
rdf:resource=
"user:pswd@http://private:aaronstraupcope.com/knows/who/" />
</rdf:Description>
So it validates. But do I have to specify an equivalently for each
property (e.g. uwh:asc, uwh:bob) or does the spec just, well, DWIM?
Thanks,
Me : http://aaronland.info/html/ed/example.txt
For a brief, terrible moment I thought she was describing their
bond
Tim Bray : "Do we conclude that nobody will ever want to navigate
information spaces using an immersive-VR approach?"
Kendall Grant Clark : The Social Meaning of RDF
Martine Pagé : Je t'aime, me neither
The bendypig on the depths of our wishes.
Me : ASCOPE::Apache::XSLT.pm 0.11
Bob DuCharme : Automatic Numbering [in XSLT] Part 1
Fishing with Saddam
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : recondite
Recondite \Rec"on*dite\ (r?k"?n*d?t or r?*k?n"d?t; 277), a.
[L. reconditus, p. p. of recondere to put up again, to lay up, to
conceal; pref. re- re- + condere to bring or lay together. See
{Abscond}.] 1. Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret;
abstruse; as, recondite causes of things. 2. Dealing in things
abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies. ``Recondite
learning.'' --Bp. Horsley.
web1913
recondite adj : difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to
one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures
were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep
metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography" [syn:
{abstruse}, {deep}]
wn
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : begator
A female alligator. Used as a description of someone or
as a curse.
ex. That begator is very large. OR Begator! Begator
this!
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : ribald
Ribald \Rib"ald\, n./ [OE. ribald, ribaud, F. ribaud, OF.
ribald, ribault, LL. ribaldus, of German origin; cf. OHG hr[=i]pa
prostitute. For the ending -ald cf. E. {Herald}.] A low, vulgar,
brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow. --Spenser. Pope. Ribald was
almost a class name in the feudal system . . . He was his patron's
parasite, bulldog, and tool . . . It is not to be wondered at that the
word rapidly became a synonym for everything ruffianly and brutal.
--Earle.
web1913
ribald adj : humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color
jokes"; "ribald language" [syn: {bawdy}, {off-color}] n : a ribald
person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language
wn
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : purblind
Purblind \Pur"blind`\, a. [For pure-blind, i. e., wholly
blind. See {Pure}, and cf. {Poreblind}.] 1. Wholly blind. ``Purblind
Argus, all eyes and no sight.'' --Shak. 2. Nearsighted, or dim-sighted;
seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole. The saints have
not so sharp eyes to see down from heaven; they be purblindand
sand-blind. --Latimer. O purblind race of miserable men. --Tennyson. --
{Pur"blind`ly}, adv. -- {Pur"blind`ness}, n.
web1913
purblind adj 1: having greatly reduced vision [syn:
{dim-sighted}, {near-blind}, {sand-blind}, {visually impaired},
{visually challenged}] 2: lacking in insight or discernment; "too
obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind
oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to
the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin [syn: {obtuse}]
wn
Me : What have I done to anger the symbol table?
Dan Brickley : RDF for mail filtering - FOAF whitelists
"Other folk have been using whitelist based
filtering, which is based on the idea that you keep a 'whitelist' of
known email addresses, and filter unknown senders into a folder for
occasional scrutiny. After a some bad spam weather, I decided to try
combining this technique with content-based filtering, so that genuine
messages from unknown addresses would also be separated from the most
obvious spam. This document is mostly about the use of RDF to exchange
whitelist data, so that we minimise false positives in whitelist based
filtering."
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : abscond
Abscond \Ab*scond"\, v. t. To hide; to conceal. [Obs.]
--Bentley.
web1913
abscond v : run away; usually includes taking something or
somebody along [syn: {bolt}, {absquatulate}, {decamp}, {run off}, {go
off}]
wn
ABSCOND, v.i. To "move in a mysterious way," commonly with
the property of another. Spring beckons! All things to the call
respond; The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. Phela Orm
devils
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is bilious
| source : web1913 | Bilious \Bil"ious\
(b[i^]l"y[u^]s), a. [L. biliosus, fr. bilis bile.] 1. Of or pertaining to
the bile. 2. Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess
of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an
excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms. 3. Choleric; passionate; ill
tempered. ``A bilious old nabob.'' --Macaulay. {Bilious temperament}. See
{Temperament}. | source : wn | bilious adj 1: relating to or containing
bile [syn: {biliary}] 2: suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or
gastric distress [syn: {liverish}, {livery}] 3: irritable as if suffering
from indigestion [syn: {atrabilious}, {dyspeptic}, {liverish}]
Greg Fitzpatrick : A Logical Mnemonic Model for Calendaring and
Scheduling
"If we are going attain any of the
interoperability of Universal Synchronization, where the temporal-spatial
coordinates of businesses, stores, services, work shifts, academic
courses, transport schedules, entertainment and media become an
integrated component of universally machine-understandable resource
description, we will need to agree on effective models for the
representation, storage and querying of reoccurrences. It seems
reasonable that any such model should be optimized for and by the natural
rhythms of everyday human planning and scheduling, as reflected in the
common datetime units and their natural reoccurrences. In this paper we
will try to capture the nature of these reoccurrences in a logical and
mnemonic model."
Me : Perlblog
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is machination
| source : web1913 | Machination
\Mach`i*na"tion\, n. [L. machinatio: cf. F. machination.] 1. The act of
machinating. --Shak. 2. That which is devised; a device; a hostile or
treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot. Devilish machinations come
to naught. --Milton. His ingenious machinations had failed. --Macaulay. |
source : wn | machination n : covert and involved plotting to achieve
your ends [syn: {intrigue}] | source : devils | MACHINATION, n. The
method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable
efforts to do the right thing. So plain the advantages of machination It
constitutes a moral obligation, And honest wolves who think upon't with
loathing Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive clothing. So prospers
still the diplomatic art, And Satan bows, with hand upon his heart.
R.S.K.
Elliotte Rusty Harold : XML Protocols, XML-RPC and SOAP
"For most of this book, my examples are going to
focus on XML protocols. These are XML applications used for
machine-to-machine exchange of information exchange across the Internet
over HTTP. In this chapter I'll show you how such documents move from one
machine to another... However, since this is not a book about network
programming, I'm going to be careful to keep all the details of network
transport separate from the generation and processing of XML documents.
When you work with an XML document, you don't care whether it came from a
file, a network socket, a string, or something else."
Ladies and gentlemen, we're living large and live!
Clever XSL/JavaScript hack for returning the name of the current
node
Tim Bray : "Because once you've got an XML-based application
interface that runs over HTTP,
and you've documented the XML vocabulary, you've
invented an API. Yes, you could dress it up with additional layers like
XML-RPC or SOAP, and that might be a good idea, but there's really not
that much need; an HTTP-XML interface is one of the easiest things in the
world to do application integration with. ... Most important, you need to
create some well-written human-readable documentation explaining what the
tags and attributes mean and what goes inside them. Once you've done
this, you've provided an interface that any reasonably-competent
programmer in the world can deal with." see also :
XML
structures for existing databases
.
Damian Conway : "And, yes, eventually there will be a complete
Perl-in-Klingon module: Lingua::tlhIngan::yIghun.
The really scary part is that, based on my
previous experience with Lingua::Romana::Perligata, Coy, and
Quantum::Superpositions, I am certain that somewhere out there is someone
who will actually use it. see also :
Never Trust
a Klingon
(via
rebecca's pocket
)
OpenInteract sounds like a Perl-ified Zope
"[The abstraction layer called SPOPS, for Simple
Perl Object Persistence with Security,] allows you to use any supported
data store to fetch, create, update and remove objects. Current data
stores include DBI (which supports most SQL databases), GDBM and
configuration files. However, SPOPS can be easily extended to support
CORBA objects, LDAP directories or even simple text files. ... SPOPS
exploits the power of perl as a glue language and allows coders to use a
common paradigm (object-as-hashref) to perform some amazing tasks."
Michel Rodrigues : Simple XML Transformation with Perl
WBOSS (Web Based Open Source SpellChecker)
"is designed to work with any text input form on
any web page. It is called from a second form, opens a pop-up window,
allows the user to check the text, then inserts the text back in the main
window's form field."
Scott McLemee : I Am a Camera
"Whatever its implications for the study of
celebrity (or narcissism, for that matter), Webcam broadcasting defies
the usual categories applied to the media. Cinematic theory has dealt
exhaustively with the question of how the "gaze" operates in film. And in
television studies, researchers refer to the "glance," in keeping with
Raymond Williams's observation that television often serves as the
background to ordinary life (something you leave on and look at while
doing other things). Alluding to these notions but tweaking them a bit,
Senft suggests that the relevant term for Webcam watching is "grab": The
bored viewer will "grab" a quick look at another individual's
no-longer-private life. With its aggressive and almost tactile
connotations, the "grab," according to Senft, carries suggestive
overtones of life under late phallocentric capitalism. After all, "grab"
is something a sexual harasser does to an ass. But "grab" is also what a
hurried consumer does to the Extreme Taco Meal Deal at a fast-food
restaurant."
Thomas Frank 7#34;A lot of business thinkers thought they had
happened onto a kind of Golden Age,
onto a new world. There's a business magazine out
there calling itself Business 2.0, as if all of, all of history was,
like, version 1.3, 1.4, that sort of thing — and then now we've
turned this Grand Corner, and market populism is kind of the expression
of that feeling, of business at its most righteous, and at its most
self-confident, and most willing to take on its enemies and, and shout
them down if you will. Basically, market populism understands
corporations and the workings of the market as more LEGITIMATE than
government, as closer to the people, as something the people understand
— and that's why they, according to market populism, even C.E.O.'s
as wealthy as Bill Gates are men of the people in a way that someone like
Al Gore, because he spent his life in government, can never be."
Andy Wardley : Building and Managing Web Sites with the Template
Toolkit
"These demonstrate the construction of both
static and dynamic HTML pages using the standard toolkit utilities,
custom CGI scripts and Apache/mod_perl handlers. The use of standard
plugin modules is included to demonstrate integration with CGI [ 2 ], XML
[ 3 ] and DBI [ 4 ], and methods for extending the Template Toolkit by
binding to external data and user-defined code are also covered."
mmmmm....planibuses.
The mountain, good cheese and killer public
transportation. What more do you need in life? via
YULblog
G4 Cube question :
Dave Olszewski : Silly::Werder.pm
"is used to create pronouncable yet completely
meaningless language. It is good for sending to a text-to-speech program
(ala festival), generating passwords, annoying people on irc, and all
kinds of fun things."
I think websites need more sound effects
project-flash
"is a new shell replacement for Windows 98 made
from Macromedia's Flash 4 vector based technology."
The Big Trip
Gimp Savvy : Copyright Free Photo Archive
"To improve the archive's usefulness, full
indexing of the images is planned. However, this job would be taxing for
a single person, and would probably produce only mediocre results.
Consequently, the solution is to provide an interactive environment
allowing the community to participate in the labelling of archive
images."
Meta is as meta does
Okay, so I finally got around to hiding the meta
information behind foofy dhtml/css silliness. I haven't had a chance to
debug all around the world so if it breaks,
please let me know
. Thanks.
A quick shout-out to Luke
for finding the correct URL for the
MP3::Napster
Perl module and for being good enough to pass it on!
Builder.com on the Open Source Flash player
"By placing particular emphasis on the SWF file
format, the compressed end product optimized for Web playback, Macromedia
has downplayed the importance of its still very proprietary FLA format.
FLA is essentially the true Flash format because it includes all the
important structural details, such as scenes and layers, as well as the
uncompressed audio and bitmap source objects and the symbol library. "
Boston Phoenix : Annals of Confection
Slashdot
Meanwhile
The Electrohippies : WTO Virtual Sit-in
"This page has been developed from a similar
facility - The Zapatista Tactical FloodNet. This page is a less flashy
but equally functional alternative. The purpose of this page is simple.
By accessing the WTO's websites using the Javascript-based pages you are
in effect accessing repeatedly - as if you were pressing the 'reload'
button on your browser every few seconds." via
slashdot
Angela Gunn : Control Freak-Alt-Delete
"Make no mistake about it, the voluminous
Findings of Fact issued by federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson is no
ordinary legal document. It has a plot. It has conflict. And what
characters! Victims, villains, opportunists, and a company whose leader
wished for something and got it, forgetting the well-known adage about
being careful what you wish for . . ."
Michael Kimmelman : The Importance of Matthew Barney
"Matthew hates anything obvious," Chelsea
Romersa, his assistant, says. "Like the color red. The crew's job is to
buy the scrims for the windows, to get the materials, to build the sets,
and often we have to ask practical questions, but we never ask direct
questions about content. By osmosis, you begin to make connections
yourself, which is the real point of art anyway, don't you think?"
Flatfishnight
Dave Beech talks to Keith Tyson
Clive Thompson : Why Your Fabulous Job Sucks
"Chained to their keyboards, working far longer
hours than they are paid for and blurring the boundaries between their
jobs and their lives, digital employees paradoxically present the kind of
compliant workforce that would have pleased Henry Ford, Nelson
Rockefeller and probably Chairman Mao." via
slashdot
.
Margaret Wente
"And so, come September, the 1,700 students at
Meadowvale will get 2 minutes of TV commercials in the classroom every
day of the week, as will the students in at least 30 more schools across
Canada."
The Street Performer Protocol and Digital Copyrights
We introduce the Street Performer Protocol, an
electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of
public works. Using this protocol, people would place donations in
escrow, to be released to an author in the event that the promised work
be put in the public domain. This protocol has the potential to fund
alternative or "marginal" works.
wtf?
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dude, where's my car
This document uses
CSS
kung-fu and a small amount of JavaScript for rendering its
contents. Efforts have been made to separate the form from the
content so if you are viewing this in a text-based browser it
shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand it may look funny if you are viewing it in a
browser with incomplete
CSS
and/or JavaScript implementations. Internet Explorer 6 comes to
mind.
It's not that I don't love you. However, my time is limited and
I no longer feel very good about spending it working around any one
browser's inconsistencies with little, or no, confidence that they
will ever be fixed or otherwise made more inconsistent at some
later date.
On the other hand, if something is down-right
unreadable
please let me know and I will endeavour to fix it.
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yes, we have no bananas
This page may not validate. It's not that I don't care, it's
just that I'm not aware of it yet. Part of the reason that I
rewrote the entire back-end for managing this site is that the old
stuff made it too easy for these kinds of mistakes to slip through
the cracks.
See also :
W3C::LogValidator.pm
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it's the software, stupid
Use the source, Luke.
