Phil Dawes’ Stuff

I’ve made a new release of the Veudas RDF Knowledge manager. This release incorporates the latest veudastore package, along with some UI tweaks and documentation.
Get it from the Sourceforge project page

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Text searches were becoming a big bottleneck in the knowledge base deployment at work. The grep solution allows speedup of pure text searches (such as a label search), but doesn’t work so well when the text search is part of a bigger query.
Ideally I would have used mysql’s fulltext indexing capability to index the […]

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Made another release of my veudastore triplestore: Fixed a couple of bugs, and added an optimisation - see changelog for details.
Download it (0.2) from the usual place

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I keep meaning to perfect these packages, but it doesnt happen so here’s another ‘release-early’ package.
Veudastore is a standalone version of the mysql RDF backend store that runs the veudas knowledge manager. It can be downloaded from the veudas sf project page.
From the readme:

INSTALL:
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- Install mysql and create an empty database
USAGE:
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import veudastore
ctx = veudastore.init()
ctx.setDatabaseConnectParams(USER,PASSWD,DB,HOST)
ctx.createTables()
ctx.importFromURISource(sourceuri, graphuri)
q […]

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I’m in danger of underusing this blog - I wrote the stuff for this post a while back, but didn’t get round to posting it:
Have put together a package of wrapper code I’ve been developing as I write python RDF applications. It wraps the rdflib and sparta behaviour to present a nice (readable) api. well […]

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Have fixed my wordpress after somebody deleted all the public writable files on the (shared) server. Was impressed by how easy it was to fix - just unpacked a new version of wordpress and ran the upgrade script.
Thanks Dan for pointing out that it wasn’t working.
BTW, Merry Christmas everyone!

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