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Data, Models, Metamodels, Cosmologies

when i recently tweeted about the fact that the semantic web or linked data (choose your preferred brand name) had this troubling attitude of one metamodel to rule them all, i got some feedback saying that this was wrong. it's... Read more →

Retrofitting RETRO

ICWE 2009 was an interesting conference, and one of the good parts of it was the fact that even though it still has a substantial model-driven engineering bias, there are signs that other communities start recognizing the conference as well.... Read more →

Link Discovery for XML

one of the main principles of REST is what unfortunately most often is called Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOAS), which must be the worst acronym ever invented. regardless of that, this is one of the central REST... Read more →

REST Programming Toolbox Requirements

REST is all the rage, and everybody claims they're doing REST. REST is a style of designing web services, and the question is how this style can be best supported by a programming environment. there are two possible perspectives of... Read more →

REST and RDF Granularity

bob ducharme's recent post about Semantic web technology and humanities research and our recent WWW2009 tutorial talking about the route from SOA to REST (to be repeated in june at ICWE 2009) made me think about the fundamental tension between... Read more →

Atom's Future as a General-Purpose Format

subbu allamaraju recently raised the question of Atom as a General-Purpose Format, and showed one example (Google Code Search Data API) that looked like a not-so-great way of using Atom. in my comment on his blog, i agreed to his... Read more →

Feeds as Query Result Serializations

Many Web-based data sources and services are available as feeds, a model that provides consumers with a loosely coupled way of interacting with providers. The current feed model is limited in its capabilities, however. Though it is simple to implement... Read more →

RESTful XML is Graphs

the debate about XML vs. RDF (or about a web-based semantic web vs. a semantic web built on a new suite of technologies) will not calm down anytime soon. there is a lot at stake on both sides, arguments are... Read more →

Stimulus Feed Guidelines

published february 18, the Initial Implementing Guidance for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act guidelines created an impressive echo on the web, because they were an exciting sign that government openness and transparency make one significant further step, setting up... Read more →

Finding Stimulus Agencies

starting from Finding Stimulus Feeds and figuring out that this requires Finding Stimulus Sites, we are now back to square one, so to speak, trying to just figure out how to start the search for sites, so that we can... Read more →