Author Archives: pm286

XTech2007 – XForms – do I need them?

Posted on May 15, 2007 by pm286

Now in XTech2007 – arrived in time for the afternoon session of XForms by Steve Pemberton. XForms allow you to pass XML into/out of forms rather than relying on HTML. In includes things like validation – if you tell it … Continue reading →

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Data validation and Protocol validation

Posted on May 14, 2007 by pm286

In response to a lively blog interchange on quality and validation of data Antony Williams has produced a useful comment (into which I insert annotations): Thanks for the feedback on the definitions. I have connected with our collaborators at ACD/Labs, … Continue reading →

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XTech2007 and Open Data

Posted on May 13, 2007 by pm286

I had got lazy about tagging my posts until Brian Kelly gently reporoached me for not adding “WWW2007” as a tag. The point is that Technorati and other engines index the tags and you can search on them. (What, you … Continue reading →

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WWW2007 postscript

Posted on May 13, 2007 by pm286

I am delighted that I had the chance to go to WWW2007 – at one stage I’d wondered whether there would be anything of interest other than the session I was in (Open Data). Or that I would know anyone… … Continue reading →

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What's in a namespaceURI?

Posted on May 13, 2007 by pm286

On more than one occasion we had heated debates about whether a namespaceURI may/must be resolvable. In the session on linked Data TimBL made it clear that he thought that all namespaceURIs must be resolvable. This conflicted with my memory … Continue reading →

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Web 2.0 and/or Semantic Web

Posted on May 12, 2007 by pm286

Web 2.0 and Semantic Web are sometimes used synonymously, sometimes distinct. I’ve come in halfway through a presentation (missed speaker’s name) and taken away: Web 2.0 blogging AJAX small-scale mashups proprietary APIs niche vocabularies screenscraping whereas Semantic Web is large-scale … Continue reading →

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Parsing Microformats (revised post)

Posted on May 12, 2007 by pm286

Useful presentation online (in S5) from Ryan King (of Technorati) on parsing microfomats. (I’ve been out of touch with HTML4 and I’m learning things.) We’ll need a day or two of virtual Blue Obelisk discussion to make sure we are … Continue reading →

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ChemZoo IS 2.0! AND I am Jester of the Month!

Posted on May 12, 2007 by pm286

I have been enlightened. ChemZoo IS 2.0, and I’ll explain why…. One of the features of Web 2.0 (WP) is that communities arise by the very fact of being in the Internet “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! pipes – yet another workflow?

Posted on May 11, 2007 by pm286

Nice presentation about YP – looks like they are going to start allowing custom web services. Drastically reduces coding – often to zero: 10% of the web 2.0 pyramid (coders, remixers, bloggers) assume prior knowledge (loops, data types) Heart of … Continue reading →

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the chemical semantic web has arrived! just do it NOW

Posted on May 11, 2007 by pm286

I have been overwhelmed with excitement about the new maturity of semantic technology and RDF data that is available for our construction of the chemical semantic web. Note that I used to write “Chemical Semantic Web” with the assumption that … Continue reading →

Posted in chemistry, semanticWeb, www2007 | 2 Comments