2003.03.11
Is the Relational Database Doomed?
Discusses some of the potential of key/value databases as compared to RDBs. The immediate answer to the inflammatory title is, of course, no. However, it seems increasingly clear that one can find a lot of company in suggesting that there is significant value in and adoption of schema-less database approaches.
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
There are many responses to the above post, so some reading is required, but it may be worth it. I found it interesting though that there were no comments on triplestores. I’m not quite ready to jump in on that though. I’ll try and come back to it later and see what additional comments may have been made.
Eventually Consistent – Revisited
Discusses some of the problems managing reads and writes and keeping everything consistent.
Sesame 3.0 Preview: An Open Source Framework for RDF Data
From a recent DevX.com article. Mentions the concept of “eventual consistency” in the “Transactions” section.
2003.03.19
Microsoft Releases Ontology Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007
Allows authors to add scientific hyperlinks as semantic annotations, drawn from ontologies, to their documents and research papers.
Seeks to make scientific research materials available through adoption of Semantic Web technologies. Has good FAQ
Chrome Experiments – Not your mother’s JavaScript
Sophisticated examples of JavaScript usage that show off Chrome’s fast JavaScript engine.
Debate Over Traditional vs. Agile Software Development as Religious as Ever
2009.03.23
Tim Bray on the Future of the Web
Great comments on REST, JavaScript, agile development
Eight Isolation Levels Every Web Developer Should Know
2009.03.24
Slacker databases break all the old rules
Amazon SimpleDB, Apache CouchDB, Google App Engine, and Persevere, offering far greater simplicity than SQL, may have a better way of storing data for your Web app
2009.03.25
MIT Adopts an Open-Access Policy
also reported in:
2009.04.15
ACRL 2009 Strategic Thinking Guide for Academic Librarians in the New Economy
“… examines the current economic and financial turmoil affecting all of higher education. The current situation is so critical that Gordon Gee, president of The Ohio State University, speaking at the American Council on Education annual meeting in February 2009, issued a call for “intentional upheaval at our colleges and universities just when fiscal chaos already places us on the edge.”2 Our choice, he said, is between “reinvention or extinction.” Gee urged leaders to resist the temptation “to hunker down, hide out, take refuge in the fox hole, and wait for the storm to pass.” The federal government is leading the way: President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget proposal was immediately hailed for its “blockbuster ideas,” “sweeping changes,” and “bold and breathtaking set of proposals.”3 Over the past decade, notable library leaders have also called upon librarians to embrace systemic change; however, the stakes have never been high enough to make radical reinvention imperative.
Twenty-Nine Reports About the Future of Academic Libraries
“Academic Libraries are looking at a death spiral. We are caught in a financial squeeze where we can only do ‘less with less.’ “
2009.04.27
Online Survey reveals: Semantic Web technology has high corporate relevance
“A recent online survey on experiences with and expectations towards Social Software and the Semantic Web, indicates that Semantic Web technologies are maturing and transcending into the corporate domain.”
2009.08.06
2009.08.07
2009.08.17
“Mobile phones get cyborg vision” a new opportunity for ontologists ??
Air Tags – Tagging the Real World
“…a view of the world tagged with rich, location-relevant information whilst your gaze flickers here and there.
But now this Augmented Reality (AR), as it is known, is materialising in the real world.
Mobile phone operators, at least, are hoping it will be the next big thing as programmers learn to corral all the bells and whistles of smart phones – GPS, video, accelerometers – into “killer applications”.
For the first time such AR is available for handsets.”
2009.09.18
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