0The project to produce a 'directory' (whatever that means when working with these kinds of sources) of UMWBlogs took an interesting turn a few weeks ago when I thought that getting at the connections between posts might be a more interesting starting point, and that the most natural way to expose those would be through a sidebar.

0I'd been mulling over what to write in response to the talk Eric Miller gave to a small crowd here at UMW -- it was quite a treat. Fortunately, Gardner beat me to the punch with this post in response, so I'll go with responding to Gardner.

0For a variety of small to medium-sized projects (at least as things are measured here), I've needed to model bits of pieces of the elements of my university, University of Mary Washington.

0SPARQL me this:

0
PREFIX dbpedia2: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
SELECT ?drink
WHERE { ?drink dbpedia2:bourbon "yes"@en}


0(For the non-semantic webby, this is a basic semweb query for asking DBpedia for info in wikipedia about drinks with bourbon)

0Frédérick Giasson revealed a pre-release of the zitgist semantic web browser. It's a great leap forward in making RDF data readable and browsable to people who would be perfectly happy in their lives never needing to see the acronym RDF.