Zachary Ives presented at CIDR about combining data from a large number of sources. Generally the DB community thinks of this as a hard problem for sophisticated data integration professionals. But what about, e.g.
combining data for an emergency management effort—need for speed
a scientist gathering data from many bio portals for data relating to some specific [...]
If you listen to Steve Yegge (and he is a smart guy to listen to), then sooner or later we’re all going to end up learning JavaScript. As far as back-end web developers are concerned, this possibility has recently become a little bit more real, with the release of server-side JavaScript hosting frameworks. Both Aptana’s [...]
This post was going to be an email to a project mate in my database class, but I found myself wanting to markup the text in HTML so I figured I’d put it here.
Unlike web specifications like HTML, which have only one representation on paper/disk, RDF is just an abstract model — it doesn’t matter [...]