New blog entry: Appreciating the SPARQL property path slash character more—querying for labels and more. https://www.bobdc.com/blog/slashnote/

New blog entry tomorrow: Appreciating the SPARQL property path slash character more—querying for labels and more.

This weekend I saw two movies where the big climax at the end was a long auto race through back country and small towns. One of the movies starred Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz and the other starred Elvis and Ann Margaret.

Over the last 24 years, the Dublin Core term sets have aged surprisingly well considering what a moving target the publishing domain that they describe is. https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dces/ and https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcmi-terms/

I added a widget showing recent Mastodon posts to my home page at https://www.bobdc.com/. It was easy to generate the widget code using https://mastofeed.com/.

If you celebrate New Year's with any martinis, make sure that they are ANSI-compliant martinis. https://www.docdroid.net/p2oN41n/k1001-1974-ansi-requirements-for-dry-martinis-revised-pdf

I loved Yahoo Pipes. https://retool.com/pipes

https://www.bobdc.com/blog/checking-out-yahoo-pipes/

And now, Bluesky, too: @bobdc.bsky.social

New blog entry: Triples about existing triples — the easy way and the hard way. https://www.bobdc.com/blog/etriplesabout/

New blog entry tomorrow: Triples about existing triples — the easy way and the hard way.

This old book of mine "Object-oriented Software Engineering" by George Wilkie certainly started off with the basics.

Check out my brother’s rockin’ pop album “Given to Rhythm”: https://peterducharme.com (Fun fact: the title tune is built on the tracks of a legendary Volkswagen that ad he scored in 1999.)

New blog entry: Querying for labels — The normal way and the wikibase:label service way https://www.bobdc.com/blog/wikibaselabel/

New blog entry tomorrow: Querying for labels — The normal way and the wikibase:label service way

As I gradually migrate away from using Twitter, I have learned that a personal LinkedIn URL of the form https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobdc/recent-activity/all/ is good to give people because it just shows recent postings (like a Twitter feed) without my work history and all the LinkedIn clutter.

Great "immersive opera" performance at UVA's Fralin last night. String players playing a high tremolo chord led the audience from room to room as the opera characters moved among the audience performing the piece. https://www.cbs19news.com/story/49941313/immersive-opera-in-charlottesville

New blog entry: Human-readable names in RDF — sometimes simple, sometimes not. https://www.bobdc.com/blog/rdflabels/

New blog entry tomorrow: Human-readable names in RDF — sometimes simple, sometimes not.