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• Hello World in RDF | Squid's Blog

  As always, the first step it to start with a “Hello World” type of exercise. In my case, I had armed myself with a good cappuccino at Starbucks and decided to set myself with a purl link and FOAF page. FOAF (Friend of a Friend) is one of the most ... Carin Meier is a Software Developer who lives in Cincinnati, OH with her husband and two children. When she is not coding, she can be found in the garden, tending the vegetables and their small flock of geese and chickens. ...
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• Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition, Version 6.1.2

  OpenLink Software is pleased to announce the official release of. Virtuoso Open-Source Edition, Version 6.1.2: New product features as of July 09, 2010, V6.1.2, include: * Database engine - Added FOAF+SSL based authentication for ODBC, ...
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• Mia edited MW2010 machine-readable data unconference session

  Ilya - neighbourhood project - Open Source Software Foundary - implemented RDFa as a demonstration - FOAF is format to describe social networks and DOPE - description of a project. What kind of aggregation service could we endorse to ...
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• The end of social networking or just the beginning?

  Researchers also hoped - and continue to hope - for open applications making greater use of machine readable data on foaf:persons using, erm, FOAF. The bottom line is that it's simply too difficult to move social networks. ...
  ljmuinfostrategy.blogspot.com

• FOAF Spec Updated; Twitter/FOAF Bridge | Semantic Universe

  By adding the following to your site, you can make the information discoverable by software on the lookout for this kind of metadata: ...
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• All Your News and Free Gaming Gear: Increase your salary

  That way, I could add a nice triple to my FOAF file: <#cygri> owl:sameAs < http://sameas.org/rdf?uri=http://richard.cyganiak.de/foaf.rdf%23cygri#this . (Okay, I like this mostly because of the recursive cleverness of the idea. ... Best Ian Millard and Hugh Glaser -- Hugh Glaser, Reader Dependable Systems & Software Engineering School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ Work: +44 (0)23 8059 3670, Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3045 ...
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• Semantic Crawler Library | Networld

  Easier use of Semantic Web Technology for Software Engineers and Programmer. Easy to extend the parsing step. OpenSource (as all stuff on this website); More time for the essential parts of Semantic Web programs. For example: Reasoning ... And of course let me know in what application you use my library. And keep in mind that at the moment the best working parts is the parsing of FOAF files but I will for sure extend the library with other useful ontologies. ...
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• Features of a federated social web | StatusNet

  Unfortunately, it's also not often implemented on software that aspires to federation, like StatusNet. Some possible contenders here are FOAF for the social graph plus SIOC for events, and ActivityStreams for a stream of events that ...
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