Daniel’s Blog

Web 2.0 was all about making the web more socially aware, however, was it really a good idea to start a versioning system for the Web?
When Web 2.0 was coined, I got quite excited about it, it was “Yes! this is a new way of thinking, this makes the web more personal”… but I did […]

Good news for the Semantic Annotator tribe: RDFa is now a candidate recommendation of the W3C “RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing“… which means that RDFa is ready for the mainstream… and actually… RDFa is already being used
Some examples:

The London Gazette
Digg
Various blogs and wikis

If you haven’t checked out RDFa then please do, I was involved […]

1995 (and the early 90’s) must have been a visionaries time of dreaming… most of their dreams are happening today.
Watch Steve Jobs (then of NeXT) discuss what he thinks will be popular in 1996 and beyond at OpenStep Days 1995:

“The Future of Objects, 3/5″ by Steve Jobs (YouTube Video)
“The Future of Objects, 4/5″ by Steve […]

OK. It’s a funny title for a blog post, but it is an acronym which I don’t want to start up as a buzzword, but it where I see things going.
A lot of people know about Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), its a set of protocols and formats to allow you to just plug a […]

As some of you know, I am a member of the ACM and this lovely bit of news was released last week at some point, but I’ve only just noticed today because it was in the recent ACM MemberNet mailing list email.
The Semantic Web Expert Professor Wendy Hall CBE FREng of the University of Southampton, […]

Intro
In the past I have written and talked about the fact that URIs are the key (or ticket) towards making data more semantic (aka “meaningful”). A URI is a unique label for a data object, by giving a unique label to the object you can build relations up with that object, making the object more […]

Following my previous post on “The Tribes of the Semantic Web“. There is another Semantic Tribe: The RDFization Tribe.
The RDFization(or RDFisation to be slightly more English English) Tribe. RDFization is quite a simple term to understand if you think about it, because “isation” means the process of turning into something, and RDF is RDF…. therefore […]

Kingsley Idehen, my boss, Talked with Talis earlier this month. I’ve just listened to it.
He specifically talked about the business benefits of Linked Data and the Semantic Web.
It is available: “Talking with Talis: Kingsley Idehen talks about OpenLink Software, Linked Data and the Semantic Web“.
This talk is very well worth a listen because it is […]

I’ve decided two things to do for the StraightWalker wordpress theme:

Start an independent StraightWalker blog (with the latest release). DONE: http://vanirsystems.com/straightwalker
Release the code on googlcode. DONE: http://code.google.com/p/straightwalker/

I haven’t had much chance to look at the bug that is causing problems loading up specific posts/pages, and hopefully I will be able to soon. The code […]

The Tribes of the Semantic Web
There are actually tribes within the Semantic Web:

These include:

The Linked Data Purist
The Semantic Annotator
The Semantics Purist
The Semantic Insider

Generally this is because they prefer a certain architecture over another, but I am not saying that each is exclusive. There are people in the community which straddle two or more of the […]