I was inspired by XKCD to draw this cartoon for a recent presentation on the Semantic Web. We have this habit of dismembering data when we use relational modeling. Consequently, we spend a lot of our development time figuring out how to reassemble entities to use them in our applications, Read more »
Category Archives: Semantic Web
Using Neo4j Graph Databases With ColdFusion
After last week, I decided to put off picking a new frontend platform for my Semantic Web rubric project and focus a bit on the server backend. Since this is just a proof-of-concept project at this point I can afford to take some risks in choosing technologies. I’ve been following Read more »
WordPress Plugins for the Personal Web
The first thing I looked for after successfully migrating my old blog content to WordPress was some new plugins. The plugin ecosystem for WordPress has always impressed me with it’s diversity and range. The first two plugins I installed have actually changed the way I think a little bit about Read more »
Why Open Rubrics?
In my past few posts, I tried to shed a little light on my interest in an open data model for educational rubrics. If you’re new to the general concept of a rubric, there’s a fine summary on Wikipedia. So what do I mean by an “open data model”? Let’s Read more »
Why many Microformats begin with ‘h’
I’ve been spending some quality time with several Microformats as part of my work for DealerPeak. We’ve been adding semantic attributes, including hCard, hProduct, and hListing, to the pages generated by the DealerPeak Automotive Dealership CRM/CMS system. During a recent redesign of the car listing page, I was adding hCard Read more »
Towards an Open Rubric – Part One
Though it seems like just a short time, almost three years ago my old workgroup at Penn State set out to do something crazy: help our faculty deal with an overnight tripling of class sizes in our college. The College of Information Sciences and Technology had been created by University Read more »
Speaking tonight on the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web has been a strong interest of mine over the last two years. When I came across RDF and OWL through a research project at IST back in 2008, a Web Standard no less, I’d somehow been completely oblivious to its existence. If you’ve never heard of the Read more »