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Moving from Linux to Mac
Aug 19 2010. I have recently moved from Linux to Mac, with all the advantages and disadvantages involved. In the process, I logged my customisation steps to create a Mac OS Installation Guide for Linux Users that can probably also be useful to other Linux users.
How to migrate emails from Linux to Mac
Aug 6 2010. I recently had to figure out how to migrate emails from KMail to Mac. Hopefully, my description can be of some use to others who move away from KMail for whatever reason. The basic method should work for moving KMail emails to virtually any other email client, and it can be used even if you cannot run KMail any more (as was the case for me since my Linux laptop passed away one morning without warning).
OWL 2 and how to cite it
Oct 27 2009. It's done! The OWL 2 Web Ontology Language is a W3C Recommendation. Many OWL tools are already compatible with the new specs, and it is expected that all are transitioning to the newer version. OWL 2 consists of many (13) documents, but it has a short overview document and an extended Primer as entry points.
Thus, only one question is left open: how should you cite the new standard? I recommend the following bibtex entries for the aforementioned references:
@book{owl2-overview,
author = {W3C {OWL Working Group}},
title = {{OWL~2 Web Ontology Language: Document Overview}},
publisher = {W3C Recommendation},
note = {Available at \url{http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-overview/}},
year = {27 October 2009}
}
@book{owl2-primer,
editor = {Pascal Hitzler and Markus Kr\"{o}tzsch and Bijan Parsia and
Peter F. Patel-Schneider and Sebastian Rudolph},
title = {{OWL~2 Web Ontology Language: Primer}},
publisher = {W3C Recommendation},
note = {Available at \url{http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-primer/}},
year = {27 October 2009}
}
Yes, using @book is a good idea here: bibtex recommends picking reference types by appearance, not by name (and there is no @w3cstandard anyway). The other documents can be cited like the Primer (I just use author for the overview since editor would look inappropriate at this place).
Of course you could also cite a textbook on OWL 2 ;-)
HTML5, RDFa, fights about web semantics
Jul 8 2009. The recent events in the ongoing HTML5 vs. XHTML war, quite unfortunately, are utilised by some to restart a battle of RDFa vs. microformats that appears to be rather pointless. Read more …Theory or Research?
May 5 2009. When doing a review for an IEEE journal, I have been asked to respond to the following question:
Spam without purpose
15 Dec 2008. A spam mail I just received asks me to buy an oil tanker (7,000dwt). Apparently, I am not the first to get such offers. The obvious question is: why? (I note that there is no attachement, no suspicious or different HTML component, not even links to browse to). So here are some hypotheses.Read more …Call for tourists
Sep 17 2008. For making a scientific conference a success, it is of course important to phrase the call for papers in a way that attracts contributions. So what should be written in the first paragraph? Read more …Hard wear
Sep 3 2008. Riding a caster board is a great way of getting to work. It is still important to wear protective gear. In my case, this was my rucksack, filled with a Thinkpad T41p as an additional shock absorber. It still works, though the screen dangles a little on the side where the metal joint has burst. But sitting crouched in front of this laptop for years, my spine had already suffered enough – it was about time for the machine to give something back!How I changed the world
Aug 25 2008. Of course, we all want to change the world, don't we? But in the age of the Web, we may often do so without actually noticing. Quite incidentally, I found out yesterday that I have contributed to possibly thousands of web pages. My contribution is the following:
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Semantic MediaWiki 1.2: bringing OWL to the Web
Jul 11 2008. After a lot of work it finally done: version 1.2 of Semantic MediaWiki has been released and is available for download. The new release does of course include many new features, but it also has some interesting additions regarding proper Semantic Web technologies. Read more …
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