Daniel Lewis

StraightWalker is a new Wordpress 2.3 Theme (not sure whether it works on 2.5), which I (Daniel Lewis) have developed. It is made specifically to be:

Completely valid XHTML 1.0 Strict (some of the code base is from the Cutline theme, but I’ve highly modified it)
Adds a few hCard based microformats (establishing POSH)
Adds some XHTML meta […]

ok the schedule for XTech2008:

Day -1 (today, 4th May 2008): The day before I take the plane to Dublin… at my parents house in North West Kent!
Day 0 (tomorrow, 5th May 2008 = UK Public Holiday): I get the plane from Gatwick airport and arrive in Dublin. Try to find my way from Dublin airport […]

So I have talked about how RDF is really simple, and why Linked Data are the roots of the web… but we need a way of serving this data in a meaningful way, this is where the Data Server steps in!
The allegory continues……

Here we see our home-grower digging up some potatoes.
The potatoes are Linked […]

OK, so in my last post (”RDF: Simpler if you look at it in a different way“) I said that RDF is a modeling framework to link data together in the form of object to object relationships, I briefly mentioned some “vocabularies” (aka ontologies) and some formats (e.g. Notation3, RDF/XML). I want to mention again […]

I have figured out why some people are reluctant to use RDF, and its because they are seeing it as a format and not a model. RDF is a modeling framework, it is not a format!
RDF is supposed to be understood in a visual way:

Which is essentially understood as a triple of URIs:
<http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/danieljohnlewis#this> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/made><http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oWfaoP1Ti2Q>
And […]

Pete and I announced the date and location for BarCampOxford :-

Location: Manor Road Building (part of the University of Oxford)
Date: 20th and 21st September 2008

More information will appear on the BarCampOxford wiki page.
Note: We are still looking for sponsors, so please do get in contact with us.
Thank you,
Daniel

I’ve just heard about the Open Data Definition (ODD), its a good idea, but it has already been done in the form of Semantically Interconnected Online Communities (SIOC)….
SIOC (pronounced “Shock” <– its Irish) “can [also] be used as a syndication format, like RSS”. Plus SIOC has already been deployed in many web systems, and it […]

I have to say, I am very impressed by the online news & events system called Silobreaker. I particularly like the network graphs.
Have a look at the Search for “Semantic Web” on Silobreaker.
I don’t think the system contains any Semantic Web stuff in their Silobreaker technology stack… which might be a good addition.

[Note]This is an adapted version of a comment that I wrote responding to the mentioned blog article. I copy it here in case my comment doesn’t get approved, I have also embedded semantics into this copy and changed a few bits[/Note]
Ian Davis posted “Web 3G: The Third Generation of the Web” at 2:19am this morning. […]

I would like a new computer for my work and studies. I would like to build it rather than buy an all in one package, and I want to do so in a way so that it is optimised for my work and studies (naturally). So here are my requirements:

It must be able to run […]