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A JSON Format for GPS Data on the Web

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has revolutionized many things, and has become an integral part of many mobile computing scenarios. Also, it has become essential for many outdoor and sports enthusiast, or simply fitness-interested people, by using GPS-enabled wearables (such... Read more →

Nothing Lasts Forever (and some things disappear according to a schedule)

It is generally considered to be good practice to make URIs (the identifiers of resources on the web) as stable as possible. However, there are many things on the Web that will not last forever; many of those by design.... Read more →

JSON or RDF? Just Decide

A little while ago (almost three years), Mark Nottingham wrote his excellent article JSON or XML? Just Decide, and it seems that it's time to update that a little. But it also is a good opportunity to put it in... Read more →

LocWeb 2015: Call for Papers

The 5th International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2015) Held in conjunction with WWW2015, the 24th International World Wide Web Conference Florence, Italy, May 19, 2015. We are very happy to announce that LocWeb 2015 will take place... Read more →

Why Wear Wearables?

With the iWatch hype reaching all-time highs, it seems clear that the landscape of wearables will change quite dramatically over the next year or so. But as usual, it's much harder to predict how things will change, instead of just... Read more →

What's WoT?

At the recent W3C Workshop on the Web of Things in Berlin (workshop report blog post coming soon!), one of the obvious and non-trivial questions of course was: what, exactly, is the Web of Things? And how does it relate... Read more →

DataEdge 2014: Day 2

DataEdge 2014 Conference UC Berkeley School of Information, May 8-9, 2014 Notes of Day 2 (May 9, there are also notes for day 1): Panel: Where's the Beef: Is Big Data Having a Real Impact on the Economy? Panelists: Adam... Read more →

DataEdge 2014: Day 1

DataEdge 2014 Conference UC Berkeley School of Information, May 8-9, 2014 Notes of Day 1 (May 8, there are also notes for day 2): Workshop: Introduction to Date Science with Hadoop Speaker: Michael Ernest (Cloudera) Michael is defining "Data Science"... Read more →

Two Sides of Data Science

Data Science is a subject that is mentioned a lot, and many people are saying that they're doing it. but the term often seems to take on different meanings, and depending on who's referring to it, it may mean surprisingly... Read more →

Getting Link Information: Design Time, Runtime, and on Demand

on the web, links use URIs as identifiers, and while in theory each REST service should provide a single URI as an entry point, in practice, the exact concept of an entry point is hard to nail down. that's because... Read more →