Posts tagged with: w3c

Putting my Talis' money where my mouth is, I've set up a SemWeb T-Shirt shop in coordination with the W3C Communications team (which, btw, is working on an official W3C shop :).

The Community shop features a couple of cube-based designs, but it's also meant to support the broader SemWeb Interest Group and their members' open-source projects. I'm happy to help with designs and product creation (as time permits). Profits will go straight to the respective project maintainers.

Update/Note: This is not an official RDFa button, those (in the known colours) will be provided by W3C's Communications Team once RDFa is a Rec or CRec. A couple of days ago I created an RDFa technology button, and I was asked to share it, so here it is:


(PNG, GIF, SVG source file)

Please see the W3C Semantic Web Logos and Policies page for license details. This button is derived from the original W3C ones.

I guess I already pushed out enough ARC spam today, so I'll keep things short: SPARQL is now a W3C Recommendation!

What I'm personally very happy about is the Implementation Survey which features two pure-PHP implementations*. This really opens the door for mainstream Web Developers to start exploring RDF and SPARQL on off-the-shelf hosted web servers. Everything I create these days (e.g. the ARC site, including the bots and archive generators there, or this blog) is powered by SPARQL. It's an amazing productivity booster as you never have to worry about complicated JOINs or evolving database schemas again. You can just code away and it's great fun to work with. Want more Testimonials? The Data Access Working Group collected quite a number of them from W3C member organizations.

* Don't let yourself be fooled by RAP's low report scores, their SPARQL engine is quite mature, they just didn't run the whole test suite.

Yesterday, SWEO's 3rd F2F took place at the MIT, and although I couldn't afford in-person attendance, Leo Sauermann from AI research center DFKI enabled a near-equivalent in Germany. I missed the first agenda item due to the usual Deutsche "zanks for traffelink wizz us" Bahn delays, but apart from that it was a fun event and worth the 4 + 6 hour train journey. Super-modern DFKI was impressive, and the multi-screen polycom with remote-controlled cam truly rocked.


pic by Leo

The train back had power sockets, so I could hack a bit, and when I arrived in DDorf at 7am this morning, I had a working RDFa parser for ARC's next release. Almost there, now..