A new article by Dan Brickley looks at RDF through the lens of beloved comic strip, Dilbert. The article begins, “How can we package, manage, mix and merge graph datasets that come from different contexts, without getting our data into a terrible mess? During the last W3C RDF Working Group meeting, we were discussing approaches to packaging up ‘graphs’ of data into useful chunks that can be organized and combined. A related question, one always lurking in the background, was also discussed: how do we deal with data that goes out of date?” Read more

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The TopQuadrant blog recently compared Spin with RIF. According to the post, “Since SPIN (SPARQL Inferencing Notation) aka SPARQL Rules became W3C
member submission,we find ourselves responding to the growing interest to it. With this, a question some may ask is how SPIN is different from or similar to RIF – W3C’s standard for rules interchange. While I have heard this asked a couple of times, I was pleasantly surprised that it was is not a very common question. Pleasantly, because a certain level of confusion is to be expected about new things and, both, SPIN and RIF are relatively new. Read more

 Wolfram Alpha has been launched and is available for the public to try. I sat down to play with it.

FIrstly (using the rare American adverb here – don’t be confused), you can’t expect Wolfram Alpha to act like Google. It is a new kind of search engine, as one should expect from Stephen Wolfram. Wolfram is famously the inventor of Mathematica and author of A New Kind of Science.

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