Linked Data | Linked Data - Connect Distributed Data across the Web
Google Fusion Tables
mycrocosm
Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting - v.2.0
Editors The OAI Executive:Carl Lagoze <lagoze@cs.cornell.edu > -- Cornell University - Computer Science Herbert Van de Sompel <herbertv@lanl.gov > -- Los Alamos National Laboratory - Research Library From the OAI Technical Committee:Michael Nelson <m.l.nelson@larc.nasa.gov > -- NASA - Langley Research Center Simeon Warner <simeon@cs.cornell.edu > -- Cornell University - Computer Science Table of Contents 1. The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (referred to as the OAI-PMH in the remainder of this document) provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting. Data Providers administer systems that support the OAI-PMH as a means of exposing metadata; and Service Providers use metadata harvested via the OAI-PMH as a basis for building value-added services. This document refers in several places to "community-specific" practices to which individual protocol implementations may conform. 2.1 Harvester 2.2 Repository 2.3 Item 2.5 Record
SuperWEB | Space-Time Research
With self-service options offering enormous benefits in terms of speed, availability and cost, SuperWEB2 gives beautifully visualised ad-hoc tabulation on the internet. Featuring integrated charts, maps and metadata, users can help themselves to insights using their preferred browser, readily performing queries and selecting from a range of open standard outputs. With demand for timely information growing, SuperWEB2 offers self-service, web-based access to data for external, skilled users such as analysts, researchers and subject matter experts. Previously, organisations offering any degree of transparency were limited to responding manually to information requests – a time consuming and often labour-intensive process. Please contact sales@SpaceTimeResearch.com for more information
COW Home Page
Summary: How the public gets robbed by Monsanto and its shareholders, who are trying to impose their risky seeds monopoly on poor populations WE HAVE written quite relentlessly about what Bill Gates is doing with Monsanto under the umbrella of the Gates Foundation. To name some of last year’s posts on the subject, we have: Last week we got a new example of the health damages claimed to have been caused by Monsanto’s genetically-modified soy. Genetically Modified Soy Linked to Sterility, Infant Mortality in Hamsters[...] Skeptoid, which is a good show, always gets it wrong when it comes to genetically-modified crops (here is just the first example). Of course there are other aspects to it like the political corruption we have covered before. Some days ago it came to our attention that Gates may be promoting more GMO in India. Gates praises Indian rice that can withstand flooding[...] That’s India again. The same article also appears in the Huffington Post (many comments there) and it says:
RDFa, Drupal and a Practical Semantic Web
In the march toward creating the semantic web, web content management systems such as Drupal (news, site) and many proprietary vendors struggle with the goal of emitting structured information that other sites and tools can usefully consume. There's a balance to be struck between human and machine utility, not to mention simplicity of instrumentation. With RDFa (see W3C proposal), software and web developers have the specification they need to know how to structure data in order to lend meaning both to machines and to humans, all in a single file. And from what we've seen recently, the Drupal community is making the best of it. Introducing RDFa RDFa is a set of XHTML attributes meant in particular to augment visual data with machine-readable hints. Actually, RDFa goes beyond this, providing somewhat of a circular benefit. RDFa, RDF, XML and XHTML Okay, too many acronyms you say? RDFa is based upon the principles of RDF. The Heart of RDF RDF in Action <? RDFa is Much Simpler Than RDF
Kartograph – rethink mapping
Plant List Worm Composting. We have always been good recyclers. In July 1999, we decreased our garbage pickup from weekly to once-a-month. Summer 2008, in the Spiral Garden with parsnips and carrots going to seed.
