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Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web

Monday, April 17th, 2006

The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group has published Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web as a Working Group Note.
In Semantic Web languages like RDF and OWL, a property links two individuals or an individual and a value. The Note presents patterns and considerations for representing relations between more than two […]

SPARQL and XSLT

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

In my quest to learn XSLT (it didn’t work), I wrote two generic XSLT scripts to transform SPARQL results into HTML.
The table xslt is dead simple - it just translates the results into a table format, with the order of the query variables dictating the columns of the head.
The list xslt was developed […]

Thinking about the Semantic Web

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Just a quick note until I have time for a longer one (which is a piece I promised to have to Kendall Clark for publication in XML.com by November, but it was November 2004, so I despair a bit on getting it out).
I recently was approached about a workshop called “The Semantics in the Semantic […]

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