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07:37:34<EtnaRosso>morning all
08:06:33<mhausenblas>(sort of) good morning, Web of Data ;)
08:06:33<mhausenblas>long night. last day at ESWC09, in use track upcoming presentation on SCOVO.
08:18:26<phrearch>hi
08:18:43<phrearch>anyone knows if xul is still being used today?
08:26:28<drewp>i think http://celtx.com/ is actively using xul (and rdf!)
08:27:22<phrearch>yea, i noticed the connection between xul and rdf, but xul doesnt seem to be actively used :/
08:28:24<phrearch>at least in the webdev community i dont find actual resources
08:28:35<phrearch>only < 2005
08:29:08<phrearch>anyway, i think the xul/rdf combo may be pretty good
08:29:20<phrearch>really easy ui design
08:29:43<drewp>celtx seems to be doing new features, and they're in xul
08:31:01<phrearch>cool
08:31:45<phrearch>so, best is to create a ui with xul, data logics with some rest framework, and offer rdf output, which xul uses then?
08:32:15<drewp>well *i'm* not using xul, but yes that plan might work out in some applications
08:33:46<phrearch>any drawbacks with xul?
08:34:07<drewp>mozilla clients only?
08:34:38<drewp>some of its GUI tricks might already be outdone by plain js/dhtml systems, like extjs
08:35:29<phrearch>yea, i was using jquery before
08:35:37<phrearch>they had some nice widgets as well
08:36:14<drewp>i'm using jquery (not its ui part) right now. i still get surprised at how nice the API design is
08:37:23<kwijibo>there's an RDF XUL project listed in doap-store.org
08:37:44<kwijibo>uses data about ancient rome i think
08:37:54<phrearch>offline site?
08:38:20<phrearch>what i like about xul is that its xml based and simple to use
08:38:37<phrearch>like mxml for flex
08:38:56<phrearch>but then again, it looks like a windows 95 layout
08:39:19<phrearch>it can be styled though
08:45:12<kwijibo>hmm, can't find the project i mentioned
08:45:16<kwijibo>it was pretty old
08:47:24<phrearch>http://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=10&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.huihoo.com%2Fjquery%2Fphp-xul-jquery.pdf&ei=B34nSvDmO47N-QaWkJ3RDw&usg=AFQjCNEDnnDrXaCGLulHTCnwDO0IABNJ9g&sig2=DkZScfxOBbu8ZoAoi1EsIg
08:47:27<phrearch>woops
08:47:29<kwijibo>ah, found the original domain http://www.the325project.org/
08:47:33<phrearch>docs.huihoo.com/jquery/php-xul-jquery.pdf
08:47:43<phrearch>ok thanks
08:47:45<kwijibo>but seems to have been taken over by baddies
08:48:11<phrearch>yup, seems that way
08:48:33<phrearch>the link i pasted is from some guy who used jquery with xul
09:08:08<kwijibo>cygri++ for the sexiness of owl:sameAs :p
09:11:12<gromgull>anyone know where I can get a nice screenshot of talis aspire?
09:11:12<gromgull>or - alternative - is Chris Clarke here?
09:15:05<kwijibo>hi gromgull
09:16:19<kwijibo>ACTION is working on aspire
09:16:22<kwijibo>http://blogs.talis.com/aspire/
09:16:38<kwijibo>there's screenshots in there
09:17:03<kwijibo>gromgull: is http://blogs.talis.com/aspire/2009/05/07/improvements-to-the-bookmarking-experience/ any good ?
09:17:12<kwijibo>what kind of screenshots are you after ?
09:18:08<gromgull>that's great - thanks!
09:21:09<Pipian>Hmm... Question for anyone out there... Any open-social-based photo-sharing servers? I mean, I could set up a flickr account but...
09:24:00<Pipian>ACTION is eternally paranoid about the cloud
09:24:24<gromgull>pipian : zooomr will let you use openid at least
09:24:43<gromgull>probably with good reason - but there is no hope for privacy these days... just give up and sign up to facebook :
09:24:44<gromgull>:)
09:24:48<shellac_>well: http://wiki.opensocial.org/index.php?title=Containers
09:25:16<kwijibo>ACTION wonders if zooomr is any good
09:25:39<Pipian>Oh, I admit I sign up to the public ones, but even so, I like being able to fully own my data.
09:30:17<Pipian>'swhy I host my own e-mail instead of letting Gmail do it for my website :)
09:30:17<Pipian>Or at least, I'm becoming a bit more aware of wanting to own my own data. I mean, I still have a last.fm account (but then I've been involved with them since they were running at Southampton as AudioScrobbler :) ), and haven't really started using libre.fm...
09:44:18<danbri>re xul and rdf, mozilla has been threatening to strip out all the moz rdf stuff for years
09:44:28<danbri>but it's pretty deeply embedded, not sure they'll manage it
09:44:38<danbri>xul templates had an rdf query-like mechanism
09:58:02<Anchakor>danbri: why would they do that, noone understands it any more or what? :)
09:58:45<danbri>i'd like to do a full obituary
09:59:03<danbri>there were some code quality issues, plus general "it's a bit hard and everyone wants xslt"ism too
09:59:30<Anchakor>oh I see
11:08:48<Pipian>http://telegraphis.net/data/currencies/
11:09:18<Pipian>C:|Linked Data currency URIs using ISO 4217 codes.
11:09:21<Pipian>er
11:09:23<Pipian>hm
11:10:14<Pipian>C:Crosslinks with dbpedia only for the time being, but should be nice to unambiguously refer to currencies in linked data and statistical output.
11:10:42<melvster>+1 Pipian, very nice
11:11:21<Pipian>C:Uses some custom vocabs for the time being, at least until I can find some existing ones that work better.
11:12:18<Pipian>I'll get around to ISO 3166-2 one of these days (next week?) Scraping Geonames for first and second-level administrative subdivisions is tricky.
11:12:21<cygri_>http://iws.seu.edu.cn/services/falcons/api/
11:12:36<cygri_>D: Falcons API
11:12:47<cygri_>D:|Falcons API
11:13:32<cygri_>D:object search, class search, property search, get snippet, get description, get documents. All return RDF/XML.
11:14:56<cygri_>D:The class and property search are unique and potentially very useful
11:40:30<kwijibo_>ACTION wonders best way to model stating that a geo:Point is in/near a city, which is in a country
11:49:05<Pipian>kwijibo_: I believe the geonames ontology has subsumption at least.
11:49:54<Pipian>spacenamespace also had something like that, but I think the vocab isn't available these days
11:53:24<Pipian>kwijibo_: http://www.geonames.org/ontology#locatedIn
11:53:34<kwijibo_>ta Pipian
11:53:56<Pipian>Also: http://www.geonames.org/ontology#nearby
11:54:00<kwijibo_>i think foaf:based_near for the city, since i think all i know is that that's the nearest city
11:54:03<kwijibo_>oh
11:54:07<kwijibo_>that would be good also :)
11:54:26<kwijibo_>and then locatedIn for the city -> country
11:55:07<Pipian>As long as you don't mind the infererence that the subject/object is a gn:Feature
11:55:29<Pipian>But since a gn:Feature is rdfs:subClassOf geo:SpatialThing, that shouldn't be a big issue.
11:57:15<tobyink>geonames also has gn:parentFeature IIRC.
12:02:42<Pipian>Yes, although it implies that both the subject and object are gn:Features, where locatedIn only has such a restriction on the range.
12:03:25<Pipian>(nearby has bothe a domain and range of gn:Feature, so it may not be appropriate for some uses, like saying [ a foaf:Person ] gn:nearby [ a ex:Dog ] .
12:05:13<gromgull>there: http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/pim/contact#nearestAirport
12:05:14<gromgull>logger pointer
12:12:39<gromgull>logger, pointer?
12:12:39<gromgull>.logger, pointer?
12:12:39<logger>See http://chatlogs.planetrdf.com/swig/2009-06-04#T13-12-38
12:13:44<gromgull>sigh
12:13:58<Pipian>(similarly, [ a foaf:Person ] gn:locatedIn [ a ex:Car ] might not work out nicely with the full inferences, although [ a foaf:Person ] gn:locatedIn [ a ex:City ] is fine)
12:13:58<Pipian>(Depends on whether or not you want the gn:Feature inference...)
12:14:04<Pipian>As long as you like working with airports :)
12:14:08<Pipian>ACTION should probably poke frot.org about putting spacenamespace back up
12:14:12<Pipian>ACTION wonders about poking Bernard Vatant about setting up URIs for writing systems on lingvoj, too...
12:15:07<gromgull>goddamn awful wifi at eswc...
12:23:02<Pipian>Hrm
12:23:02<Pipian>What does it mean for data to be licensed under the AGPL? Seems rather thorny an issue. Might need to massage some other source of airport data if it would contaminate data in triple-stores?
12:32:50<shellac>Pipian: I don't think it would make sense to licence data under AGPL at all.
12:33:21<Pipian>I know, and yet I've got data that has been.
12:34:46<shellac>email the copyright holder?
12:35:14<Pipian>I suppose that is the best course of action.
14:28:58<tobyink>Anyone here know much about Jena?
14:30:12<mischat>a little
14:31:00<tobyink>Do you know if it's possible to use SPARQL Update with SDB? Or does SPARQL Update only work on flat files or something funny like that?
14:31:08<tobyink>Because I keep getting errors.
14:31:28<mischat>ah I dont know
14:31:38<mischat>i only tend to use it to interact with jxt
14:31:38<shellac>tobyink: try #jena and ping AndyS:
14:32:08<tobyink>shellac: thanks, will try there.
14:34:23<melvster>quick question: what rdf libraries are available in python, rdflib and ... anything else?
14:34:45<tobyink>Redland has python bindings IIRC.
14:35:13<melvster>thanks!
14:37:37<kwijibo_>openlink got drupal running on virtuso?
14:37:45<kwijibo_>*virtuoso
14:39:59<PvK>kwijibo_: you have question about drupal running under virtuoso?
14:40:54<shellac>melvster: 4suite supports rdf too
14:42:19<kwijibo_>PvK: yes, I just wondered how hard it was
14:42:37<kwijibo_>does it use SPARUL ?
14:43:32<tobyink>kwijibo_: I imagine it uses the relational database facilities of virtuoso - i.e. doesn't use it as a triple store.
14:44:15<PvK>yes, it uses relational db + RDF VIEW to map data into the semantic realm
14:45:04<kwijibo_>thanks PvK
14:45:07<melvster>oh, thanks again
14:45:20<PvK>no problem
14:46:58<PvK>kwijibo_: did you read http://ods.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/ODS/OdsIntegrationDrupal
14:47:10<kwijibo_>not yet :)
14:47:12<kwijibo_>ACTION reads
14:53:37<scor>http://www.deri.ie/fileadmin/documents/DERI-TR-2009-04-30.pdf
14:54:35<scor>E:| Semantic Web Publishing with Drupal
14:54:45<scor>kwijibo_: see also ^^
14:55:07<kwijibo_>ta scor :)
15:49:09<DanC>action-34 due next week
15:49:17<DanC>wrong channel ;-)
21:25:25<tobyink>ping melvster
21:33:36<melvster>hi toby

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