Archive for March, 2003
64 bit Computing
Thursday, March 13th, 2003Introduction to 64 bit Computing
Arstechnica has a good overview of 64 bit computing in an x86 world.
Time Zones in MySQL
Thursday, March 13th, 2003Trying to figure out the relationship between timezones and MySQL. I’m thinking that MySQL just stores DATETIMEs as raw. That is, I tell it “2002-02-02 08:08:08″ and that’s it, with no timezone information to it at all. This makes me miss Java and Oracle.
First Post From KungLog
Sunday, March 9th, 2003Just testing Kung Log.
SWAD-Europe
Friday, March 7th, 2003
The SWAD-Europe project aims to support W3C’s Semantic Web initiative in Europe, providing targeted research, demonstrations and outreach to ensure Semantic Web technologies move into the mainstream of networked computing.
The TAO of Topic Maps
Friday, March 7th, 2003
It’s subtitle: Finding the Way in the Age of Infoglut. This is one of my main areas of interest. With so much information out there, how does one filter out the useless stuff and absorb the interesting stuff? This is a large question. I think it has a lot to do with trust, which hasn’t been touched on with RDF yet. I believe the SWAD-E has to come up with some stuff on that.
Using Topic Maps to Extend Relational Databases
Friday, March 7th, 2003
Topic Maps have never had the publicity as RDF does. This is probably due to RDF having W3C’s blessing. In any case, it’s good to start to pick up on what Topic Maps offer.
O’Reilly Weblogs
Thursday, March 6th, 2003
The homepage for all O’Reilly’s blogs.
Model Theory
Wednesday, March 5th, 2003
Model theory began with the study of formal languages and their interpretations, and the kinds of classification that a particular formal language can make.
Social Meaning of RDF
Wednesday, March 5th, 2003
he RDF Concepts and Abstract Syntax specification (hereafter, “Concepts”) says that an RDF graph (”a set of triples”, according to Concepts 3.1) has two kinds of meaning: a formal and a social meaning. The formal meaning of an RDF graph results from applying the RDF semantics , based on model-theoretic semantics, to the graph. But, as both Concepts and the RDF semantics documents suggest, there is another aspect to the meaning of an RDF graph, the social meaning.