http://fgiasson.com/blog Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:14:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For few months now at Structured Dynamics we have been developing what we call "Semantic Components". A semantic component is an ontology-driven component, or widget, based on Flex. Such a component takes record descriptions, ontologies and target attributes/types as inputs and outputs some (possibly interactive) visualizations of the records. Depending ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/05/semantic-components/ Today we released a simple structWSF nodes statistics report. It aggregates different statistics from all know (and accessible) structWSF nodes on the Web. It is still in its early stage, but aggregated statistics so far are quite interesting. This global statistics reports has two aims: Monitoring the ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/09/global-structwsf-statistics-report/ One thing that was hard to do with structWSF was explaining what structWSF is, and how users can interact with it. For most people, structWSF was abstracted behind conStruct and they didn’t know that each single functionalities of conStruct was bound to one, or multiple queries to one, or multiple, ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/18/structwsf-web-services-tutorial/ Benjamin Nowack, creator of ARC and Trice, wrote an interesting blog post about the place of Microformats and RDFa in the HTML 5 specification. I am not deep into the specification itself, and so may lack some history context. However, the most interesting point in this article is not related ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/27/behind-ozs-curtain/ We just released a new (major) version of both structWSF and conStruct. Though some months had passed since we last released this software, we finally got the time and opportunity to make these important upgrades. Many things have changed in both packages. I don’t want to iterate all the changes in ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/20/new-versions-of-structwsf-and-construct/ High Visibility Problems with NYT, data.gov Show Need for Better Practices When I say, "shot", what do you think of? A flu shot? A shot of whisky? A moon shot? A gun shot? What if I add the term "bank"? Do you now think of someone being shot in an armed robbery ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/16/when-linked-data-rules-fail/ Two days ago we released irON: Instance Record and Object Notation (irON) Specification. irON is a new notation that has been created to describe instance records. irON records can be serialized in 3 different formats: irXML (XML), irJSON (JSON) and commON (CSV: mainly for spreadsheet manipulations). The release of irON has ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/20/common-and-irjson-php-parsers-released/ Eight months ago we announced the dissolution of Zitgist LLC. This event led to the creation of a "sandbox" to keep alive all the online assets of the company. Since this sandbox server was not owned by Structured Dynamics, it was becoming hard for us to update UMBEL and its ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/18/a-new-home-for-umbel-web-services/ I am pleased to announce that we resumed our work with UMBEL. We just released the version v0.72, which is based on the OpenCyc version 2009-01-31. This new version is intermediary and has been created mostly to check the evolution of OpenCyc vis-à-vis UMBEL. Within the next month or so, ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/21/new-release-of-umbel-v072/ We have been running different structWSF instances for about two months now. Each instance is hosting different dataset(s) that are queried for different purposes. I think that it worth taking some time starting to analyze the querying stats of two of these instances of the early Alpha version of structWSF. The ... http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/18/structwsf-early-querying-metrics/