Derivadow

23 December 2010

Meet the relatives

It is an interesting fact that, to the best of our knowledge, all life on Earth is related, we are all part of the same family tree (yes, even arsenic munching bacteria from California). So when we looked at publishing content about Dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasties it seemed obvious, and far more useful and…

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…

19 May 2010

The web as an ethical layer

If you’ve been around the web for any length of time you’ve probably seen a diagram similar to this: It’s the classic internet hourglass with signal carriers down the bottom, IP in the middle and applications up top. You can see the World Wide Web perched atop HTTP, one more technical layer in a technical…