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Back in town and a Virtuoso

17 July 2007

Vacations and GECCO were great. I am still trying to catch up. Hope everything gets up to speed soon. Just a quick note to jump start: Dealing with relational databases, metadata stores, DAV servers? If so, take a look at Virtuoso, you won’t be disappointed
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Metadata, RDF, and the browsers

28 November 2006

Recently I have been playing on implementing some extension for Firefox. When I started working on it, I was not aware on how far they have taken the use of metadata—I blogged before on metadata stores here. Actually, now you can query RDF data sources, which contain information ranging from your browsing history or bookmarks—to […]

Metadata stores, RDF, Mulgara, MySQL, and Oracle

19 September 2006

I have been using Kowari for a while. I am quite happy with it, but I am planning to ditch it in favor of the new release of Mulgara (Open Source for of Kowari) lead by Paul Gearon. If you haven’t check it out yet, take a look at it because is more than worth […]

Metadata stores and D2K

21 April 2006

Today I gave a presentation for the ALG group in NCSA about metadata stores and how they can be used in D2K. The presentation has two parts. The first one covers and introduction to metadata in general with some examples. The second one, is about how to wrap a metadata store (Kowari, see the previous […]

Metadata stores

13 March 2006

The DISCUS project has always supported that intuition that annotation capabilities are a must for knowledge and information exchange. For instance, imaging that you are analyzing the KeyGraph generated from a particular discussion (here you can find an example). You may want to enrich such graph with your analysis, comments, or related information. Basically, you […]