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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nice quote from this week's Benedict Evans newsletter about anthropomorphizing AI: "When Word ate your essay and undo didn’t work, you didn’t claim that Word ‘decided’ to destroy your work and then ‘lied’ about it. "

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New blog entry: Making an LLM turn a flat vocabulary list into a hierarchical taxonomy — automating the increase of metadata value. www.bobdc.com/blog/llm-aut...

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Bob DuCharme (@bobdc@mas.to)

230 Posts, 80 Following, 495 Followers · Long-time user of and writer about standards-based knowledge graph technology. Most recent book: “Learning SPARQL”.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New blog entry tomorrow: Making an LLM turn a flat vocabulary list into a hierarchical taxonomy — automating the increase of metadata value.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

New blog entry tomorrow — What to do with old computer books? Send them to prisons.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Recent slide deck "Is the Semantic Web Vision Still Relevant?" from @jahendler.bsky.social and Ora Lassila is really good. www.slideshare.net/slideshow/is...

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Every product I use is pushing some sort of AI features on me, and my first reaction to Jira doing this was an eye roll. I have since learned that, because their search has always been so awful, the "Ask AI" version of their search is soooo much better.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

New blog entry — The best way to talk about AI: don't say 'AI' so much; say what you really mean www.bobdc.com/blog/stopsay...

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The best way to talk about AI: don't say 'AI' so much; say what you really mean

Be more specific to help reduce the hype.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

New blog entry tomorrow — The best way to talk about AI: don't say 'AI' so much; say what you really mean.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Nice presentations on what's new in RDF 1.2 and SPARQL 1.2: www.w3.org/Talks/2025/i...

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An Introduction to RDF and SPARQL 1.2

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

New blog entry: My GraphRAG Curator interview — discussing RDF graphs, RAG, GraphRAG, music... www.bobdc.com/blog/graphra...

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My GraphRAG Curator interview

Discussing graphs, RAG, GraphRAG, music...

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

What does it mean to claim that a SPARQL benchmark proves that one engine is faster than another? A passionate debate about one case is going on at www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The published lyrics of the 1967 Rolling Stones song “2000 Man” (later covered by KISS) include the line “I am having an affair with a random computer”. Wouldn’t “RAND computer” have made more sense in 1967?

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

@theatlantic.com Is it possible for authors to look themselves up in the books3 database without giving a credit card number to The Atlantic first?

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

New blog entry: Let's stop saying "semantic web" — like a startup pivot, the technology turned out to be great for things other than a new kind of "web". www.bobdc.com/blog/stopsem...

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Let's stop saying 'semantic web'

Like a startup pivot, the technology turned out to be great for things other than a new kind of 'web'.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

New blog entry tomorrow: Let's stop saying "semantic web" — like a startup pivot, the technology turned out to be great for things other than a new kind of "web".

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Gotta love a comic strip that uses XOR as part of the punch line. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/chew

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Chew

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

"Top 10 Query Languages Every Developer Should Know in 2025" including, of course, SPARQL www.analyticsinsight.net/amp/story/pr...

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

“Journey” is the new “experience” to make the use of your simple product sound like a bigger deal than it actually is.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

What are some currently running SPARQL endpoints that people like besides Wikidata and DBpedia?

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

New blog entry: Correcting some outdated "Learning SPARQL" examples www.bobdc.com/blog/updatin...

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Correcting some outdated

Revising some queries to accommodate revised data.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

New blog entry tomorrow: Correcting some outdated "Learning SPARQL" examples

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Speaking as a tech writer, I just love the Performing Directions of Terry Riley’s seminal 1964 music piece “In C”: thirdcoastpercussion.com//downloads/2... (second and third page of the PDF)

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

From "Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix" netflixtechblog.com/uda-unified-...: "UDA is a Knowledge Graph... We chose RDF and SHACL as the foundation for UDA’s knowledge graph."

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Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix

Introducing UDA, the knowledge-graph-based architecture that translates conceptual domain models into consistent schemas and data…

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

With all the new information processing algorithms that are popping up and fading away these days, I love how one of the most popular ones continues to be an algorithm developed over 50 years ago by British computer scientist Karen Spärck Jones en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%8...

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tf–idf - Wikipedia

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

The reason that I switched from DOS to MS Windows 3.1 many years ago.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Bitbucket forcing us to upgrade from the free plan to a plan that they say costs $3.30 per month? Not so bad. Oh wait, they were dividing the actual price by 5 to make it look more appealing. They're really charging $16.50 per month.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

New blog entry: ChatGPT and Copilot as OWL processors — pretty impressive. www.bobdc.com/blog/chatgpt...

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ChatGPT and Copilot as OWL processors

Pretty impressive.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

New blog entry tomorrow: ChatGPT and Copilot as OWL processors — pretty impressive.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I had a great idea for a domain name, but I was 67 days too late.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. [Charles] Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." (from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage...)

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

New blog entry: Converting RDFS schemas to SHACL constraints — with SPARQL, of course. www.bobdc.com/blog/rdfs2sh...

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Converting RDFS schemas to SHACL constraints

With SPARQL, of course.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

New blog entry tomorrow: Converting RDFS schemas to SHACL constraints — with SPARQL, of course.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Out of curiosity I let gmail's "AI" rewrite something I wrote and it replaced the word "features" with "functionality." I guess I'll wait a few years before I try that again. www.bobdc.com/blog/writing...

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Using ChatGPT every few weeks has changed the way I do regular Google searches. Now I think of them as prompts where my incorporation of more context terms will get better answers, and that actually helps.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Causal AI is a promising field (see upcoming Graphwise webinar at lnkd.in/erXtR726) and a fun side effect of the interest is all the discussions of it out there that include “casual AI” as a typo.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

New blog entry: Filtering foreign literals out of SPARQL query results — and only the foreign literals. www.bobdc.com/blog/filterf...

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Filtering foreign literals out of SPARQL query results

And only the foreign literals.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

New blog entry tomorrow: Filtering foreign literals out of SPARQL query results — and only the foreign literals.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

New blog entry tomorrow: Filtering foreign literals out of SPARQL query results — and only the foreign literals.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I was looking for a Linux command line date math utility and it turns out that the Linux date command already does what I want, e.g. $ date --date "+ 30 days" Thu Feb 13 12:49:45 PM EST 2025

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I wish Amazon and Yelp reviews had a checkbox where we could filter out the ones where people talk about themselves too much. It wouldn’t even need AI. It could just count what % of words were "me", "I", "my", or "mine".

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

New W3C SHACL Working Group: www.w3.org/2024/12/data...

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Data Shapes WG Group Charter

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Account creation form: "password must include a special character" Me: "zt34,L9m" Account creation form: “OMG ARE YOU INSANE A COMMA IS BEYOND MY UNIVERSE"

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

New blog entry: Parsing JSON with Python — my personal quick reference. www.bobdc.com/blog/pythonj...

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Parsing JSON with Python

My personal quick reference

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

New blog entry tomorrow: Parsing JSON with Python — my personal quick reference.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

What I've learned by switching from Twitter to Mastodon and Bluesky: everyone in my bubble agrees with me about all the big important issues.

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Bob DuCharme @bobdc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

New blog entry: Amazon's failed folksonomy and Kevin Federline — what could go wrong? www.bobdc.com/blog/federli...

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Amazon's failed folksonomy and Kevin Federline

What could go wrong?

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