New blog entry: Amazon's failed folksonomy and Kevin Federline — what could go wrong? https://www.bobdc.com/blog/federline/ https://www.bobdc.com/blog/federline/

New blog entry tomorrow: Amazon's failed folksonomy and Kevin Federline — what could go wrong?

A SPARQL endpoint of… information about Vladimir Nabakov’s mentions of trees in 20 different books https://aidanhogan.com/docs/nabokov_trees.pdf

SPARQL endpoint of… information about Vladimir Nabakov’s mentions of trees in 20 different books https://aidanhogan.com/docs/nabokov_trees.pdf

IMDB was recently looking for someone with “Expertise in industry-standard ontology languages and tools (e.g., OWL, RDF, SPARQL, Protégé)” Wouldn’t it be cool to have SPARQL access to all that… https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=fbcd1e2430a213bc

New blog entry: RDF serialization formats — starring TriG https://www.bobdc.com/blog/trig/

New blog entry tomorrow: RDF serialization formats — starring TriG

Another German compound word to love: I recently found out that their word for “musicologist” is “Musikwissenschaftler”, i.e. “music scientist”.

I’m getting tired of web pages that start with “In this article, you’ll learn about the thing that the title of the page says that this page is about”.

New blog entry: Selecting all the triples from all the graphs — but the default graph? https://www.bobdc.com/blog/selectingall/

New blog entry tomorrow: Selecting all the triples from all the graphs — but the default graph?

https://youtu.be/zN-23qB8GvM?si=CREE4119wGCU_F2w

The best thing I've read on why it's silly to expect AI (i.e., machine learning) to create art: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art

I forgot that John Cage could be so funky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maIwkKEWiPs

New blog entry: Editing schemas, ontologies, and SKOS taxonomies with VocBench — A free GUI tool. https://www.bobdc.com/blog/vocbench/

New blog entry tomorrow: Editing schemas, ontologies, and SKOS taxonomies with VocBench