Posted in Semantic Web, tagtriples on Feb 28th, 2005 Comments
The tagtriples thing has also let me experiment with ways to get around some of the not-so-beautiful areas of the RDF spec. One of these areas is ordered collections.
It occurred to me, (well, actually it occured to Julian Bond and he mentioned it to me a while ago in a conversation about RSS after […]
Posted in Semantic Web, tagtriples on Feb 28th, 2005 Comments
The tag triples idea is going quite well. Have built a simple prototype to test the idea, and have tried populating it with data from work.
It’s interesting working with a sort of triples-soup rather than well structured RDF. Things link when you don’t expect them to (because the tags match) - this is especially handy […]
Posted in Semantic Web, Python, tagtriples on Feb 19th, 2005 Comments
Made some software to explore the tag-triples idea a bit further. It doesnt attempt to do anything with context yet (although it does handle ‘graphs’). It does illustrate the ‘ease of metadata creation’ that I want.
I’ve installed a copy here for demo purposes (this is a temporary URL and may disappear at some point). […]
Posted in Semantic Web, tagtriples on Feb 9th, 2005 Comments
Ok, I think I’ve refined the ‘tags for structured-metadata‘ idea to the point that I’m ready to start a prototype web-based store. Heres the basic gist:
The syntax
Basic syntax is s,p,o triples of tags:
PhilDawes a person
PhilDawes age 23
PhilDawes worksFor drkw
To elaborate on the meaning of a term, you can add stuff in brackets after the term.
b2421 […]
Popped in to cutbarbers at euston station on my way to work. I can’t recommend this place enough:
Cut costs 8 quid (you pay before by buying a ticket), they have a dynamic web page containing the waiting times, and there’s even some crazy hoover technology shit to remove the cut hair from your head so […]
Posted in Semantic Web, tagtriples on Feb 3rd, 2005 Comments
WARNING: this is a collection of ill thought-out ideas!
With all the talk of tags and folksonomies, I’ve started wondering whether it might be possible to pull a similar trick with structured metadata - i.e. reducing the precision and accuracy of the metadata in return for increasing the simplicity of metadata creation.
I suspect this idea would […]
