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- Installing ClioPatria triplestore on mac os
ClioPatria is a “SWI-Prolog application that integrates SWI-Prolog’s the SWI-Prolog libraries for RDF and HTTP services into a ready to use (semantic) web server”. It is actively developed by the folks at the VU University of Amsterdam and is freely available online. While at a conference last week I saw a pretty cool demo (DIVE) […]
- Installing GraphDB (aka OWLIM) triplestore on mac os
GraphDB (formerly called OWLIM) is an RDF triplestore which is used – among others – by large organisations like the BBC or the British Museum. I’ve recently installed the LITE release of this graph database on my mac, so what follows is a simple write up of the steps that worked for me. Haven’t played […]
- Textmate bundle for Turtle and Sparql
I recently ran into the Textmate bundle for Turtle, an extension for the Textmate osx editor aimed at facilitating working with RDF and SPARQL. If you happen to be using these technologies, well I’d suggest you take a look at the following post. The Resource Description Framework is a general-purpose language for representing information which […]
- The Future of the Book: reading and annotating online
In the last weeks I happened to run into a few online products that look at the future of the book, that is, at how reading (and the things we normally do when we read) will change, now that the digital world is so pervasive and accessible. To be fair, I’ve been intrigued by this […]
- HTML5 Canvas Cookbook
HTML5 Canvas Cookbook is a new publication from Packt publishing that discusses in details the new drawing functionalities the html5 canvas element makes available; in the last weeks I’ve been looking at this book in more details and since it’s been a quite useful learning experience I wanted to mention it here too. The book […]
- Setting up the new ‘staticfiles’ app on Django 1.3
Even if I’ve been using Django 1.3 for a while now, I’ve been holding off on some of it new features, such as the new way to handle static files via a new app called (guess what) staticfiles . Essentially, what the new static app does is allowing you to leave all static files within […]
- Django B_project available on gitHub
I’ve put together and shared on gitHub all the files needed to get started with a Django project – essentially this is a clean file structure usable to get going with a Django project nice and easy. The idea is that after downloading this, you just have to change a couple of names (see the […]
- First steps with Canvas and HTML5
I’ve been postponing experimenting with HTML5 for quite a while, so today I finally set aside a few hours to play with it. This is a very simple example of the graphic effects you can create using javascript and the HTML5 canvas element.. Note that the examples below will work only on HTML5-compatible browsers, such […]
- Inspecting an ontology with RDFLib
RDFLib (homepage) is a pretty solid and comprehensive rdf-programming kit for Python. In a previous post I already discussed what pythonic options are currently available out there for doing semantic web programming; after some more in depth testing I realized that Rdflib is the most accessible and complete of them all (in fact many of […]
- DJFacet: a faceted browser for Django
DJFacet is a pluggable module for the Django web application framework that allows you to navigate the data in your webapp using an approach based on ‘facets’. DJFacet relies entirely on the django models you’ve already defined within your project and on a configuration file where you can create the facets and assign them behaviour. […]