Bob DuCharme
Senior Technical Writer at Graphwise (opinions mine, not theirs). Wrote O'Reilly's "Learning SPARQL." Likes working with semi-structured data and metadata.
Senior Technical Writer at Graphwise (opinions mine, not theirs). Wrote O'Reilly's "Learning SPARQL." Likes working with semi-structured data and metadata.
What does it mean to claim that a SPARQL benchmark proves that one engine is faster than another? A passionate debate about one case is going on at https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7391193877463896064/
The published lyrics of the 1967 Rolling Stones song “2000 Man” (later covered by KISS) include the line “I am having an affair with a random computer”. Wouldn’t “RAND computer” have made more sense in 1967?
@rieyin I never said that; see where I wrote "sure, there are some". Paligo looks cool and makes a nice example of the kind of interconnected datasets that are proving the value of RDF technology. I see that their site doesn't use the phrase "semantic web" anywhere, and from what I could see only uses the word "semantic" when discussing "semantic annotations". I stand by my suggestion that we should all cut way back on the use of the term "semantic web".
New blog entry: Let's stop saying "semantic web" — like a startup pivot, the technology turned out to be great for things other than a new kind of "web". https://www.bobdc.com/blog/stopsemanticweb/
New blog entry tomorrow: Let's stop saying "semantic web" — like a startup pivot, the technology turned out to be great for things other than a new kind of "web".
Gotta love a comic strip that uses XOR as part of the punch line. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/chew
"Top 10 Query Languages Every Developer Should Know in 2025" including, of course, SPARQL https://www.analyticsinsight.net/amp/story/programming/top-10-query-languages-every-developer-should-know-in-2025
“Journey” is the new “experience” to make the use of your simple product sound like a bigger deal than it actually is.
What are some currently running SPARQL endpoints that people like besides Wikidata and DBpedia?
New blog entry: Correcting some outdated "Learning SPARQL" examples https://www.bobdc.com/blog/updating-2nd-ed-examples/
Speaking as a tech writer, I just love the Performing Directions of Terry Riley’s seminal 1964 music piece “In C”: https://thirdcoastpercussion.com//downloads/2015/04/Terry-Riley-In-C-concert2.pdf (second and third page of the PDF)
From "Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix" https://netflixtechblog.com/uda-unified-data-architecture-6a6aee261d8d: "UDA is a Knowledge Graph... We chose RDF and SHACL as the foundation for UDA’s knowledge graph."
With all the new information processing algorithms that are popping up and fading away these days, I love how one of the most popular ones continues to be an algorithm developed over 50 years ago by British computer scientist Karen Spärck Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf
Bitbucket forcing us to upgrade from the free plan to a plan that they say costs $3.30 per month? Not so bad. Oh wait, they were dividing the actual price by 5 to make it look more appealing. They're really charging $16.50 per month.