The short-form week of 16–22 Dec 2013
23 Dec 2013; last modified 28 Dec 2013
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:47am
.@jonathan_robie done anything around RDF<-> XQuery since http://www.w3.org/XML/2002/08/robie.syntacticweb.html#ab1b3b7d170 ?
see also http://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/papers/ws10http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2011/presentations/sparql-sql-xquery.pdf—@danbri
@kendall @danbri reducing sparql to xquery isn't good, but queries with full support for xml, json,
and rdf make sense in today's systems.—@jonathan_robie
@jonathan_robie @danbri I'm very skeptical of that, but it's a sound technical idea at least. :>—@kendall
@jonathan_robie Skeptical of "queries with full support of XML, JSON, and RDF". Why? Why not.—@kendall
@kendall i have repositories with xml for document data and json for program data, add RDF
for linked data, now how do i query that?—@jonathan_robie
@jonathan_robie Why stop there? You also have log data, other time series data, CSV, etc.
Where's the database to query all of that too?!—@kendall
@ndw @jonathan_robie No, hey, that's fine: there are multi-modal databases! I just don't think that's
the big unstoppable future trend.—@kendall
@kendall @ndw are graph databases are the big unstoppable trend? my big data is JSON, less XML,
even less RDF. linked data may change that.—@jonathan_robie
@jonathan_robie @kendall @ndw I think sparql on XML&JSON data will be popular. Trees are simple graphs ;)
Graph view on legacy data is easy—@jervenbolleman
@jervenbolleman @jonathan_robie @ndw Maybe. But better to just give a canonical mapping of JSON & XML to RDF and then
declare victory.—@kendall
@kendall @jervenbolleman @ndw the way to prove that is to work the XQuery and JSONiq use cases using that approach.
i'm skeptical.—@jonathan_robie
@jonathan_robie @kendall @ndw Something like this? https://t.co/aTM3xljDYV
Not finished, but I have no more time for it this year.—@jervenbolleman
@jervenbolleman @kendall @ndw Nice! Incidentally, what's the best set of SPARQL use cases to use for a comparison?—@jonathan_robie
@jonathan_robie @ndw I didn't say there was a big unstoppable trend. Don't put words in my mouth.—@kendall
@kendall @ndw ok, sorry to misread you. i do think big data and nosql are unstoppable trends, and
workflow as part of data management.—@jonathan_robie
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 11:01am
XSLT 3.0 is now a Last Call Working Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/—@michaelhkay
#RELAX NG Compact Schema updated http://www.sharexml.com/x/get?k=gfC5oPhTcGjx
“@michaelhkay: XSLT 3.0 is now a Last Call Working Draft: http://t.co/eut2bYa5as”—@sharexml
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:11am
@ndw could you correct the /p:library/p:declare-step[@name='target']/p:option/@cx:type in /p:library/p:declare-step/p:option/@cx:type? Ta!—@tom_yamahito
@ndw (in case you're wondering why, I have to distribute xproc to a bunch of oXygen 13
users ;) )—@tom_yamahito
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:53pm
Anyone know of a Google Refine reconciliation service that works? Can’t seem to impl
the API nor find a public one that I can add.—@ndw
.@PaulZH In Google Refine 2.5, when I use that URL to “Add Standard Service”, refine just
swallows it. No error, no new service.—@ndw
.@ndw it works over here, though using open refine 2.6 https://twitter.com/PaulZH/status/412663856440561664/photo/1—@PaulZH
In a conversation that started on Monday at 02:22pm
.@ndw what do you get in a normal browser using http://data.stelselvanbasisregistraties.nl/stelselcatalogus/api/reconcile—@PaulZH
Monday at 03:56pm
It's pretty liberating once you realize ppl will still like you and respect your ideas
if you're like, "hey, that? I was wrong about that."—@NativeApprops
Monday at 04:47pm
Google motto 2004: Don't be evil
Google motto 2010: Evil is tricky to define
Google motto 2013: We make military robots—@BrentButt
Monday at 08:02pm
You know what's worse than trying to shave a yak?
Finding out the yak is hairless and you're just blind.—@steveklabnik
In a conversation that started on Monday at 08:10pm
Wow. Just wow. Eight events where people cheat death, only to die shortly after
by some other grisly ... https://plus.google.com/+RandalLSchwartz/posts/E6ZH2hX5pNq?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter #gplus—@merlyn
Tuesday at 07:15am
XML Stars, the journal is out! http://paper.li/dominixml/1329135087 Stories via @ndw @JamieXML—@dominixml
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:36pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:38pm
In case anyone is playing along at home, I was able to reverse engineer a simple reconciliation
service for OpenRefine 2.6.—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:36pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:54pm
Oracle proves they’re a dinosaur. They built the new Cover Oregon website. It requires
IE! https://t.co/lUHIcAUYIy—@hunterhacker
@hunterhacker Just speechless.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 12:25am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:16am
"Are your programmers working hard, or are they lazy?" http://mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/are-your-programmers-working-hard-or.html—@j4
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:11am
Displacement of teaspoons: http://www.bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498 < I suspect the results of this study could be reproduced at @ox_IT :-}—@j4
Wednesday at 10:35am
Something else from OS X that I won’t miss: that pointless CPU-sucking mds worker
process.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:46am
Wednesday at 03:28pm
Oxidative metabolism is the main cause of aging. Eat a diet rich in trilobites and
hydrogen sulfide—@Pinboard
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:32pm
For thems that asked and everyone else too. Laugh if you must. http://norman.walsh.name/2013/12/19/LeavingOSX—@ndw
@ndw #BatteriesFTW Yes, The GIMP has improved. Darktable looks interesting but i'm really enjoying Fotoxx
(via GetDEB)—@n1vux
Thursday at 08:05pm
“@ndw: For thems that asked and everyone else too. Laugh if you must. http://t.co/y2ArfqnNH5” thanks!—@fjhirsch
Friday at 07:15am
XML Stars, the journal is out! http://paper.li/dominixml/1329135087 Stories via @JeniT @ndw—@dominixml
Friday at 08:45am
OH: I read a book once on metaphors. Well it wasn't a book; it was a squirrel.—@psd
Friday at 10:22am
Years ago, I had VMWare Workstation for Linux. I got Fusion for Mac before I knew
about VirtualBox. Any reason to get Workstation again?—@ndw
Friday at 07:53pm
Friday at 08:04pm
Friday at 08:23pm
Waiting for the Trial of Lights line to die down over dinner and a beer at #ShadyGrove was very pleasant. Then someone started smoking. Ugh.—@ndw
Friday at 10:22pm
There's nothing like arbitrary limitations on how many, and what, characters I can
use in a password to send me into an apoplectic rage.—@bitworking
Friday at 11:12pm
RT @doctorzaius: RSA you had one job—@ndw
Friday at 11:41pm
Thanks to Edward Snowden I’ll always remember 2013 as the year I stopped laughing
at conspiracy theorists.—@atomicbird
Friday at 11:47pm
The Austin Trail of Lights. Winter in short sleeves. And an exercise in hand-held
frustration. http://photos.nwalsh.com/sets/ndw/2013-12-trailoflights—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 12:52am
Am I supposed to know who "Justine" is? I'm pretty sure I don't care, I just wonder
if I'm supposed to know.—@ndw
Saturday at 08:46pm
Dear Early 2013 Self,
Database column names are no place for your special brand of irony.
Sincerely,
Late 2013 Self—@ftrain
Sunday at 12:11am
Any time you say "the internet of things" or "big data", an angel loses a Bitcoin.—@louisgray