Watson, FabilT, and the OU

I really love the Open University and the Knowledge Media Institute. They do good work. Today I am reading about Watson, the Semantic Web Gateway. I am also looking into FabilT which combines PowerAqua with Watson so you can do natural language queries of the underlying data. Pretty cool!

JSON-LD and Manu Sporny

Manu Sporny is one of the editors of the JSON-LD specification, which is JSON for Linked Data, a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee in 2006. Since it is a simple extension to JSON, it is promoted as a simple serialization format for web developers to adopt.

JSON-LD is used by schema.org, which is a library used for structured markup of web pages to provide information to search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and by Mozilla Science Lab in their code as research project. It is also being considered by the badge alliance a spinoff of Mozilla's Open Badges for badge portability and interoperability with additional data in other places on the web(Also see Nate Otto's extension proposal on the W3C Credentials Community Group Mailing List as well as Manu Sporny's recent review). An overview of JSON-LD is provided by Manu on Youtube.

Manu has spoken at various venues globally including the 2nd Google Edge Conference in New York City, the Internet Governance Forum, W3C's first Payment Workshop,the Bay Area Node.js Meetup, as a keynote speaker at the 2014 Semantic Technology and Business Conference, and others.

One way to get involved with Manu Sporny is to join the W3C Credentials Community Group or the Web Payments Community Group, or just jump on a weekly/monthly conference call :). You can also find him in many other places with the W3C such as the Web Payments IG.

Just trying to get this to work...going through a FreeCAD Tutorial

http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Basic_Part_Design_Tutorial

The status of things

 Concerning the mind controlled robot project I have been thinking, Beau is someone who you do not meet everyday. He literally did design for the Parallax Propeller chip (as far as I know). With respect to programming Arduino, I have some experience with the C language family. I have a book I've looked at several times, and I have even studied pointers, although I do have confidence issues. I do hope that I will be able to get around these. Mike Douglas was awesome and donated to the project. I'm not sure if other people will jump in just yet, but I have been considering devoting most of what little income I have to bring this to project to fuition. 

I have put a lot of time into EISPP, and it concerns me with respect to starting other projects. It has brought it's rewards though. I've met some interesting people. Some Sensoricans seem to like it, and it seems to fit well with what is going on at the Open App Ecosystem. Right now I am studying FreeCAD to illustrate merging it with sections 2 and 4 of ISO15926 to allow for labeling of objects with sematic interoperability with the rest of EISPP.

The filament extruder project has not gone anywhere, and the same can be said about building a website for web payments. But I have seen a lot of Mozilla recently, and I expect to see more of that. Bill Mills seems like an awesome character. Speaking of which, Software Carpentry, although no longer affiliated with Mozilla, has helped me get a little more warmed up about teaching. I remember earlier I had the opportunity, but I had bitter feelings.

Troubles getting Fuseki working.

I needed to install MySQL through synaptic.

I needed to reset MySQL (http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/mysql-resetting-a-lost-mysql-root-password).

I needed to create a new database:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/creating-database.html
as described in Ankit Jain's document:
https://baach.de/Members/jhb/getting-started-with-jena-fuseki-and-owl-reasoning

I was confused by what: bin/sdbconfig --sdb=sdb.ttl --create  meant. (i.e. where it was executed, etc.)

I am unsure whether I am getting lost, but I started looking at SDB with links:
https://jena.apache.org/documentation/sdb/installation.html
https://jena.apache.org/documentation/sdb/store_description.html
https://jena.apache.org/documentation/assembler/assembler-howto.html


which can be downloaded at:
https://github.com/apache/jena/tree/master/jena-sdb

bookmarks

http://software-carpentry.org/v5/novice/sql/01-select.html

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2013/06/cut-command-examples/

http://teaching.software-carpentry.org/2014/10/01/assessment-pipes-and-filters-2/

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_sort.htm

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/j-sparql/

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jena/

RDF Graph Normalization

During the conference call at the web payments community group, I was curious what Dave Longley meant by normalization.

http://json-ld.org/spec/latest/rdf-graph-normalization/