Monthly Archives: March 2010

….more what you’d call “guidelines”….

By Lorna | March 29, 2010

Owen Stephen’s has written a helpful post which makes a very useful contribution to the debate regarding the interpretation of Tim Berners Lee’s Linked Data Design Issues. See my earlier post for a summary of the debate. With all these attempts to clarify the ambiguity I couldn’t help being reminded of [...]

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Mary Lacy, the female shipwright

By Lorna | March 24, 2010

Something a bit left field for Ada Lovelace Day this year as the woman I’ve chosen to write about was born 75 years before Ada herself, and I’m perhaps stretching the definition of “technology” a bit. Allow me to introduce Mary Lacy, the female shipwright, whose contemporary autobiography written in 1773 has recently been [...]

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When is Linked Data not Linked Data? - A summary of the debate

By Lorna | March 16, 2010

One of the activities identified during last December’s Semantic Technology Working Group meeting to be taken forward by CETIS was the production of a briefing paper that disambiguated some of the terminology for those that are less familiar with this domain. The following terms in particular were highlighted:

Semantic Web
semantic technologies
Linked Data
linked data
linkable [...]

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Dev8D: where were the women? A response.

By Lorna | March 8, 2010

I’m writing this in response to MShaw’s post on DevCSI asking why there were so few women at Dev8D. I’m answering over here rather than over there because this is something I’ve been pondering for a while. And, as my colleague John Robertson pointed out on twitter:
Appropriate for International Woman’s Day? discussion on [...]

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