A search engine for the semantic web … nice ! Now we’re getting somewhere. “Swoogle is a crawler-based indexing and retrieval system for the Semantic Web — RDF and OWL documents encoded in XML or N3. Swoogle extracts metadata for each discovered document, and computes relations among them. Discovered documents are also indexed by an [...]
Entries from July 27th, 2005
BBC vs classical music protectionists
July 14th, 2005 Comments Off
Its a classic case of a failing business model and cultural elitism working hand in hand . . . . more interesting though is that the BBC is leading the action against these forces. Bring it on. As the BBC prepares to announce the tremendous success of its free Beethoven downloads, the Independent reports that [...]
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Negativland
July 8th, 2005 Comments Off
Negativland are interviewed, and, not surprisingly have interesting things to say. In the end, we came up with a sampling license that was saying, in effect, “You can reuse bits and pieces of our work for profit. You can sell it. But we’d like it if you mention where your sources come from.” And the [...]
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