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An infrastructure service anti-pattern
Last week I outlined an idea, that of the service anti-pattern, as part of a presentation I gave to the Resource Discovery Taskforce (organised by JISC in partnership with RLUK). The idea seemed to really catch the interest of and … Continue reading
Linked, open, semantic?
During an interesting session called the ‘Great Global Graph’ at the CETIS conference this week I formed the opinion that, in the recent rush of enthusiasm for ‘linked data’, three ‘memes’ were being conflated. These next three bullets outline my … Continue reading
No data here – just Linked Concepts
Over the years I’ve found the ‘Semantic Web‘ to be an interesting though, at times, faintly worrying concept. It has never much impacted on my work directly, despite my having been embroiled in Web development since, well pretty much, Web … Continue reading
OpenID and name authority
In his Science in the Open blog Cameron Neylon has written an interesting post, A Specialist OpenID Service to Provide Unique Researcher IDs? in which he asks: Good citation practice lies at the core of good science. The value of … Continue reading
Posted in Programmable Web, Social Software, Web Infrastructure
Tagged names-authority, openid
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Library hackers FTW
Yesterday I went along to Mashed Library UK 2008 in London. Quickly abbreviated to ‘mashlib’, the event was the brain-child of Owen Stephens. Owen did most of the organising, aided by David Flanders who provided the space at BirkBeck college, … Continue reading
“Any any any old data”
Over on ZDNet, Paul Miller has blogged some thoughts about what he calls the ‘Data Cloud’. He points out that in the evolution of the ‘cloud computing’ paradigm, the: …emphasis for much of this wider discussion remains firmly rooted in … Continue reading
Posted in Programmable Web, SaaS, Web Infrastructure
Tagged cloud-computing, data-cloud, EC2, Paul-Miller, SaaS
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COPAC gets RESTful
Just a quick pointer to the really encouraging announcement from the COPAC development blog that COPAC individual COPAC records are now addressed with a persistent, and RESTful(ish) URL. The example given is: …the work “China tide : the revealing story … Continue reading
The opportunistic developer is allergic to soap
For some time now I’ve been thinking about what I think of as the ascendency of the opportunistic developer in web application development. The phrase has unfortunate connotations for those who remember the ‘personas’ meme from some years ago when … Continue reading
Posted in Programmable Web, Software Development, Web Infrastructure
Tagged iedmonstrator, JISC IE, opportunistic-developer, ReST, SOAP
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Personal profile portability
I haven’t minted a TLA for ages – I think I might be the the first to come up with PPP for Personal Profile Portability as a convenient handle to wrap around the current flavour of ‘data portability’ being touted … Continue reading
Posted in Programmable Web, Social Software, Web Infrastructure
Tagged data-availability, Facebook, friend-connect, Google, myspace, oauth, personal-profile-portability, ppp
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