Category: Metadata

• 1 July 2010

  Linked things

  

  So this is the question: do you always need separate URIs for non-information resources and the information resource? That is do you need an identifier for both the document and the thing the document is about? Your answer to that question will depend a lot on your attitudes to the semantic web project. Now until […]
• 11 October 2009

  There’s only metadata and URIs

  On the web I reckon there’s only metadata and URIs or perhaps there’s no metadata and only data. Either way the metadata, data/content distinction isn’t helpful. Linked Data allows you to bind HTTP URIs to an object and to information about that object. This is useful because it’s more useful to talk about real world […]
• 17 February 2009

  Linked Data making the web human centric

  The lovable Mr Stephen Fry recently noted [iTunes link] that the challenge isn’t to help people become “computer literate” instead it is to make computers “human literate”. And when you think of the last 25 years, as an industry, we’ve done a pretty good job.  1984 saw Apple launch the Macintosh and with it the world was introduced to the […]