The Web Semantic

ARQ is able to update RDF graphs, and I'm just beginning to realize how powerful that can be.  I've been playing with geonames and found that the ontology defined population as: (Geonames.org has a fantastic set of data and public api's by the way, if anything points the way to a semantic web it's them.) I was using their ontology to experiment with binding and it shows one of the ...

While working on jenabean I began to wonder if dynamic languages had features that would make editing ontology instance data easier.  The traditional method for bindind a schemas to objects normally involves creating some kind of binding descriptor file in XML.  The tedium of that process is well known and so painfull that it may not even continue to be a viable pattern.  What I discovered is that it's ...

I've recently been working with Jena and Pellet. At the outset I was enthusiastic about all the interesting implications a reasoner had for my ontology. Being familiar with the "classify ontology" buttons in Protege, as well as the "inferred types" tabs, I had in mind that Pellet would be able to take instance information and classify my instances. I imagined interesting tid bits about anonymous Instances coming in, ...