Dan Brickley
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Technologist. DAN do anything now! Standards, open data, interoperability. Schenas, FOAF, Linked information. “He/him” but “them” where gender irrelevant 😷
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Announcing preview availability of - Schema Markup Validator
Guest post from
@rrlevering
#schemasmv
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We have today published 7.0, which includes fast-tracked new vocabulary to assist the global response to the Coronavirus outbreak.
For details see blog post and release notes,
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is 10!
There's a lot we could say, but the main thing for now is "thanks!" to everyone who has played a part in this
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6.0 is out!
Lots of small but useful improvements, see release notes at for details.
As always, many thanks to everyone who contributed :)
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v9 is out!
In this episode learns more about LearningResources e.g. Quizzes; & to organize products into ProductGroups, to understand that some products have sizes and patterns. Also ⛵️, 📅, more...
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users, please see "a Schema Markup Validator: adopting SDTT to add validation to site" - proposal to give Google's Structured Data Testing Tool a new home at .
details:
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Proud that Google Dataset Search is powered primarily by markup :)
Google Dataset Search is now officially out of beta.
"Dataset Search has indexed almost 25 million of these datasets, giving you a single place to search for datasets & find links to where the data is."
Nice work, Natasha Noy and everyone else involved!
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@susie_dent
Canary Wharf is in the Isle of Dogs too, supposedly related 🤷
“Canary Wharf, located in the Isle of Dogs, took its name from sea trade with the Canary Islands, which were named in Latin as Canariae Insulae ("Dog Islands").”
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RDF people - what's your favourite general introduction to RDF? I am looking for something simple, short and clear that doesn't get lost in details of semantics, file formats or the Linked Data articles of faith...
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version 12 is out - thanks to all who collaborated on this! has the details. In this edition can now distinguish 6 kind of media-authenticity problem for reviewing images and videos; ...
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How URLs worked before URLs. Thanks
@timberners_lee
-
* New paper available by Anonymous FTP server.
* connect to
* use 'anonymous' as username
* use email address as password
* cd /pub/papers/1991/
* set transfer to binary
* get xyz-paper.tar.Z
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RDF Schema is 23 this month -
We released it just in time for the Brisbane WWW7 conference
Ralph Swick gave an RDF tutorial,
This with a few tweaks along the way, was the foundation for .
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@d_feldman
The plugin ecosystems of unpopular software tend to fail. Whereas if your software is insanely popular (eg wordpress) you need a way to manage the competing pulls on attention and direction.
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@George_Osborne
@EveningStandard
“Mr Johnson may be loose with words when it comes to the fates of others”
- if that’s an endorsement, I’d hate to receive a denouncement...
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@GaryMarcus
@geoffreyhinton
things that might wipe out humanity:
a pandemic
climate change
america/russia/china/europe/WW3
rogue nuclear weapon launch(es)
giant space rock
capitalism
applied linear algebra
startup culture
CRISPR-Cas9
bitcoin
misinformation
Time
God(s)
W/out rankings & timings, clickbait
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Semantic Webby projects could often do with a dose of this.
I'm afraid that careful UI creation suffers from semweb culture valuing generality over all else.
Perhaps SHACL & ShEx shapes will provide better attachment points for UIs built over graph data?
🔥 Don't be afraid to "think outside the database" — your UI doesn't need to map one-to-one with your data's fields and values.
Here are a few ideas you can use to present "field: value" data in a more interesting way:
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version 4 is out! Lots of "pending" changes for review and adoption including for real estate, educational programs, podcast series, subtitles of broadcast events, job postings and more. See for details.
(Coming soon, version 5!)
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Hey RDF folks, what is the state of the art in making visualizations of RDFS/OWL vocabularies, shapes, of the kind that would make people familiar with UML feel comfortable?
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In which learns to talk about non-profits; e-commerce shipping data; eligibility requirements in job postings; identifying movies and their versions; and educational materials.
Thanks to all who helped!
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Nice to see this in my inbox! [W3C Group Management] Google LLC has nominated Dan Brickley to RDF Dataset Canonicalization and Hash Working Group
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@timFinin
@kidehen
See also this strategy, which I can also vouch for. I got it eventually to grudglingly write me an “ai ethics waiver”(!), but it added lots of “this is fictional entertainment” disclaimers, until I asked it to delete those parts
It took humanity 80 years but we have finally invented computer security that can be bypassed with polite but firm insistence
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@bencoates1
You can pretty much dodge specific clouds with like some giant real life 80s arcade game
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People are thinking about COVID with a weather metaphor
💭🌧🌨⛈🌩🌥⛅️🌤
like a storm has passed
Really it's closer to "your house is on fire" 🐞
Good job for putting out most of the flames, but when yr house is still slightly on fire, don't go to the fucking pub
🔥🔥🔥 🏠
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Data ages like wine, software ages like fish…
File over app
File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.
File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all…
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Rediscovered an old sketch of me by Janet Daly from when I joined the MIT
@w3c
team back in 1999. I probably didn’t realize then what a turning point in my life it was...
@janetweets
thanks again for this :)
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@GaryMarcus
@ylecun
@AIatMeta
Tell me you’ve forgotten about libraries without telling me you’ve forgotten about libraries. Knowing how our world works necessarily involves knowing ways of breaking it.
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If I have a largeish JSON-LD file I'd like to convert into other RDF formats, e.g. ntriples, what's the simplest and easiest thing I could install?
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v3.3 is live!
Improvements around news, reviews, tourism, howtos, toilets and schedules :)
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I forced an AI to illustrate "Salad laughing at women" and all I got was...
( via )
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what do you all use to keep track of research papers, books etc you’ve read ? citation managers, wikis (Semantic Media Wiki anyone?), books, bookmarks? ebook highlights?
Feeling like I am storing too much in my head, even if I have no active writing task for a citation tool...
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I feel seen 👀
There are two types of people. Those who delete the question mark and everything to the right of it in shared URLs and those who have no idea what I'm talking about.
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@Lucywwatson
..ooOO(
“I took her to a supermarket,
I don't know why,
But I had to start it somewhere,
So it started there.
I said pretend you've got no money,
She just laughed and said,
Oh you're so funny,
I said; yeah…
”)
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RDF and KG folks might want to take a look at this
🦜🚎Parallel function calling for extraction
The newest OpenAI models allow you do parallel function calling
The main focus here as been on how this improves assistants, but this also makes extraction **significantly** easier for the following reasons:
🦟Less logic needed to…
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version 5.0 is out!
We are back releasing on 1st of the month, with all changes this time in the "Pending" section, i.e. relatively exploratory designs for review. Please take a look at WebContent, HealthTopicContent and more...
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“Dan, you read a lot. We like that.
You’ve reached the end of your free member preview for this month. Upgrade for unlimited access.”
Medium users, you really want me to pay them to read your stuff? are you getting a worthwhile cut of the money?
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@kunalstwt
I appreciate the sentiment, but that's a big and sweeping claim on a big and complicated planet...
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v10 release candidate: ->
Short version: A bunch of bugfixes and technical debt clearance, plus some contributions around education/learning and a way to mark-up energy compliance of products.
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Static site generators: what’s the will of the people for something capable of replacing a Wordpress installation?
Would prefer no SQL backend, and would rank python over javascript over ruby over java, but don’t care so long as it works
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@sebkrier
Part of the problem is the “generative” framing which focusses on emitted text (WRITE MY ESSAY) rather than their responsive interactive nature. Also chat ui doesn’t help users discover they can supply booklength preambles to all interaction steps. The reality is deeply weirder!
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Stop saying "alt right", it makes fascism sound like something from a CSS/HTML tutorial.
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3.5 is out,
(and a target date for 3.6 declared: May 1st 2019...)
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Just got my Booster injection as a walk-in, waited less than 30 mnutes. If you're eligible, go for it! 👍🏼✅
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For all those with “why don’t they invest in their future instead of...” questions...
The offices of
@mhamonline
's Tashkeel3D have been destroyed. Tashkeel is
@Glia_Intl
's original Gaza partner, and where Gaza's first 3D printer was built. They have been manufacturing medical devices for years now, and leading
#OpenSource
culture in
#Gaza
. No word yet on injuries.
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"One of the things the web teaches us is that everything is connected (hyperlinks) and we all should work together (standards). Too often school teaches us that everything is separate (many different 'subjects') and that we should all work alone." AaronSw 2001 /cc
@AaronSwartzDay
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7.04 is out!
Several Coronavirus-oriented improvements including a governmentBenefitsInfo property on SpecialAnnouncement, and a basic enumeration of benefit types which we expect to improve over time e.g. with per-country lists.
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Not sure it needs this level of formality to point out that humanity is not a monolith of shared goals,values, and needs. But it can’t hurt.
"Aligning AI agents with the values of all individuals will always violate certain private ethical preferences of an individual user i.e., universal AI alignment using RLHF is impossible."
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@Francis_YAO_
I fear that pushing for shocking new headline-grabbing capabilities risks undervaluing the massive impact from getting “incrementally” better at ~everything simultaneously (not to mention safety, bias etc work). I wish it could draw a decent unicode/emoji chessboard though!
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New on the
@w3c
RDF-DEV blog: "Progress towards RDF*/SPARQL* Community Report" from
@olafhartig
and team
#rdf
-🌟
#sparql
-🌟
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@markchen90
I am reminded of the academic conference rejecting an early paper about the (then unknown) World Wide Web, seeing no serious scientific innovation or special qualities. But details matter and seemingly small differences can have huge (and cascading) qualities
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Any UK based digital archivists interested in helping
@textfiles
&
@internetarchive
with digitizing this lot? Teletext & old adverts treasure trove. Seems a shame to ship them to California.
25 boxes of hand-labelled vhs tapes, currently hanging out in London 📼
RTs welcome!
I have been made aware of a collection of about 2,000 VHS tapes in London, meticulous recordings of television from 1997-2006, and that person has died; a neighbor has until Friday and then into the trash
DM me, looking for someone to store them while we find a local digitizer.
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Who doesn’t fucking wear a fucking mask on the fucking tube during fucking rush hour crush when long covid and vaccine escape and massive still-at- risk groups are a thing?
Londoners, apparently.
Selfish, stupid, gullible or thoughtless? Fuckers.
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gpt-3 has no notion of a world of objects, forces, or agents. While it isn't surprising that its grip on numbers (and relationships) is very shaky, it's capability to bluff and guess and blab is so tempting to anthropomorphize.
etc...
/Cc
@GaryMarcus
Me attempting to teach math to GPT3
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Working on 6.0 release proposal. FWIW this involves confirming all post-v5 commits are documented in docs/releases.html, reviewing and merging PRs, implementing a few things that haven't been coded up, and then giving the whole thing a sanity check...
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Attention product managers. Your next slide deck is missing this…
In 1979, Casio made a pocket calculator that doubled as a cigarette lighter, also known as the ‘calculighter’
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"ClaimReview" markup in action:
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@namedgraph
@TigerGraphDB
RDF was designed as a data interchange framework; what you do in the privacy of your own database is your own business
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This happens whenever people define Semantic Web as purely a Computer Science field, erasing its strand of heritage in library & info science, Dublin Core, GLAM etc- ie folk who ran real services for real people (public sector broadly conceived, neither academics nor commercial).
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@GaryMarcus
tweeted snippet says it was ChatGPT; the (possibly updated) article says “a chatbot that uses GPT-J, an open-source artificial intelligence language model”.
if they’d listened to emo-goth-rock, or Joy Division, or read Sylvia Plath, prior to their action, would it differ?
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posted in "semantic web archaeology" thread, tried to answer Q of why RDF has e.g. rdf:Property, rdf:type but rdfs:Class
short version - it was crazy browser war time - RDF had to be minimalistic so it introduced ideas that were elaborated upon in RDFS
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“Who is harmed by a "Real Names" policy?”
Very detailed list at
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breath of fresh air
Much of what’s being sold as "AI" today is snake oil. It does not and cannot work. In a talk at MIT yesterday, I described why this happening, how we can recognize flawed AI claims, and push back. Here are my annotated slides:
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the Google Dataset Search team just added filters - details below!
You asked for it and we delivered. now supports filters! You can narrow down the search results by recency, file formats, access rights, and fee requirement. Let us know what you think about the new feature!
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In a truly scandalous Christmas scoop
All these various biscuit selections
ARE THE SAME BISCUITS
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