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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It’s been quite the week for the reincarnation of the Semantic Web vision in the age of AI. I had the pleasure of participating in a spontaneous and raw recorded chat with Robert Scoble about this fascinating and important topic. youtu.be/4OQEXG5JukU?... #SemanticWeb #LinkedData #AgenticWeb #AI

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The Semantic Web vision in the age of AI.

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

If you’re interested in what’s possible across both consumer and enterprise use cases, this repository is for you. Note that everything we build is grounded in open standards—so what we share can be easily reused by anyone.

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I do a lot of hands-on work with AI Agent Skills that are loosely coupled with Data Spaces (databases, knowledge bases, filesystems, and APIs). OpenLink Software now has a publicly accessible AI Agent Skills repository on GitHub that I contribute to directly.

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Why Should Anyone Care? This skill returns important power to both content publishers and consumers. It frees everyone from the dysfunction of algorithmic content discovery—you subscribe to the content you find interesting rather than leaving that choice to a third-party algorithm.

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Github Repo Link: github.com/OpenLinkSoftware/ai-agent-skills/blob/main/rss-feed-generator/SKILL.md

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Here’s a Feed Generator Skill I knocked up that generates feeds for pages that lack this important content syndication and discovery feature. How do you use it? From any AI or AI agent environment that supports skills packaged using SKILLS.md docs. Read on.. /cc @scripting.com

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 03/09/2025

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

LLMs + the Model Context Protocol (MCP) are the Yang to the Semantic Web Project's Yin. We now have a solution to the final hurdle—visualization. Years of Linked Data work now come alive. I explain this, with demonstrations, in a new newsletter post. www.linkedin.com/pulse/semant... #MCP

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The Semantic Web Project Didn’t Fail — It Was Waiting for AI (The Yin of its Yang)

TL;DR: The Semantic Web Project — often dubbed the most successful marketing failure ever — has quietly evolved into the foundational layer of today’s Web. Made finally usable by AI, particularly thro...

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OpenLink Software @openlink.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We’re excited to introduce the latest Virtuoso Maintenance Release—Virtuoso 08.03.3333—packed with feature enhancements and bug fixes across the platform. community.openlinksw.com/t/virtuoso-0... #AI #GenAI #VirtuosoRDBMS #DataSpaces #SQL #SPARQL #KnowledgeGraph #SemanticWeb #LinkedData

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OpenLink Software @openlink.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Using the MCP services at: awsnews.remotemcp.directory Operations bound to the services offered via the following Streamable HTTP endpoint: awsnews.remotemcp.directory Chat UI Options: * linkeddata.uriburner.com/chat * inspect.mcp.garden#chat (via linkeddata.uriburner.com/chat/mcp/mes...)

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AWS News MCP Server

MCP Server for hourly updated AWS News

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OpenLink Software @openlink.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

One more thing, OPAL implements MCP as both a Client and Server, so it can bind to operations (tools) published by other MCP Servers that support SSE or Streamable HTTP. Links in the next reply for a quick example.

Integrating services (tools) published by a 3rd party MCP Server

Screenshot capturing use of services provided by 3rd party MCP server

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OpenLink Software @openlink.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🧰 This is what modern AI infrastructure looks like. Here’s a quick showcase featuring AnthropicAI’s Claude Desktop interacting with a live OPAL instance that queries the DBpedia Knowledge Graph—entirely instructed using natural language. #MCP #OPAL #Screencast

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OpenLink Software @openlink.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

⚙️ Deploying to the cloud? It’s simple: 1. Go to the AWS Marketplace 2. Instantiate the OPAL AMI 3. Open {cname}/chat and log in 4. Plug in your favorite LLM API key from providers Enjoy! 3/N 🧵

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OpenLink Software @openlink.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Another major benefit of Anthropic’s Claude Desktop support for remote MCP servers is the ability to combine powerful data access and visualization in notebooks that can be shared via web links. OPAL MCP server example: an earlier demo ⤵️ claude.ai/share/11cb40...

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OpenLink Software @openlink.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

What’s happening here? An A2A Orchestrator is interacting with an LLM-powered AI Agent that exposes procedures, functions, 3rd party APIs etc., as MCP-accessible tools. All made possible by the, in deceptively simple manner, by the OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL). #MCP #A2A #GenAI

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OpenLink Software @openlink.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🚀 Just Released: The New Cloud-Deployable OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL) We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of the latest edition of the OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL)—now equipped with powerful MCP and A2A protocol support, on both the client and server sides. 1/N 🧵 #MCP #OPAL #A2A

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Do you have a link to a doc about how to setup Remote MCP Servers that support OAuth or Bearer Token based authentication? Right now, you aren’t handling 401’s that trigger the OAuth handshake and I don’t know what you support regarding Authentication Headers.

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) brings Unix-style loose coupling to AI Agents. I built a visual explainer (JSON-LD metadata included) using Google Gemini’s new Canvas feature—with an embedded Knowledge Graph to illustrate. Check it out: openlinksw.com//data/html/u... #MCP #Unix #Explainer

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

What’s going on here? Prompts are being processed through queries executed against a Knowledge Graph (KG)—all thanks to loose coupling. The target KG could reside locally, live on the Web, or be part of the vast Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. #A2A #MCP #VirtuosoRDBMS #AI #Agentic #GenAI

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Architecturally, as depicted in the attached image. BTW -- @Google Gemini can generate pretty accurate diagrams using @drawio XML! #A2A #MCP #OPAL #VirtuosoRDBMS #AI #Agentic

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Quick screencast demo of the @OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL) in action—showcasing how MCP + A2A enable loosely coupled, agentic workflows. 🧠 Agent hosts route tasks via A2A ⚙️ Agents use MCP tools (APIs, functions, stored procs) 📄 Tools described using OpenAPI (JSON/YAML) #OPAL #MCP #A2A #VirtuosoRDBMS

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

It's been a while! BTW -- I am working pretty extensively on MCP right now, so I would certainly like to have a play with Xogot. Is there a repo link?

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

No, but a link-relation would be a neat addition to the spec since centralized registries will never solve the discovery problem. The following should do. <link rel="service" href="https://api.example.com/mcp"> I'll propose it :)

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

What a journey it’s been—starting with the ambitions of CORBA, the data connectivity standards of ODBC and JDBC, the global reach of the Web, and now, in the age of AI, it all converges through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Why Should You Care? MCP-accessible, free, widely used edition of an innovative multi-model DBMS and application server—powered entirely by open protocols and query language implementations. #OpenSource #VirtuosoRDBMS #KnowledgeGraph #SPARQL #SQL #GraphQL #DBMS #DataSpaces #MCP

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Yes—if the MCP servers support Server-Sent Events (SSE) or Streamable HTTP, it’s possible. The main challenge right now is that most MCP clients are still STDIO-based, primarily due to lagging implementation of OAuth 2.1 for authentication.

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Links: 1. github.com/OpenLinkSoft... -- ODBC 2. github.com/OpenLinkSoft... -- JDBC 3. github.com/OpenLinkSoft... -- pyODBC 4. github.com/OpenLinkSoft... -- ADO.NET

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Very interesting stuff will happen, as demonstrated by the sheer number of MCP Servers. On our part, we offer MCPs for the following database connectivity protocols: 1. ODBC 2. JDBC 3. pyODBC 4. ADO.NET Why? To reintroduce DBMS independence in the age of AI :)

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Yep! DNS – Enables scalable machine name lookups across the Internet. HTTP – Enables lookups of entities, their types, and their relationships at Web scale—where the Web serves as an abstraction layer over the Internet. MCP – Enables access to tools (functions, operations) at Web scale.

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Here's the prompt: Using JDBC with the following connection details: URL: jdbc:oracle:thin:@oracle-host:1521:XE Credentials: UID=hr, PWD=openlink Write a query to produce a dashboard summarizing job history by employee. Link to the Claude Artifact generated: claude.ai/public/artif... #MCP

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

An example of what’s now possible—thanks to our sophisticated MCP Server for JDBC, Oracle’s native JDBC Driver, and Anthropic's Claude Desktop as the MCP client: A dashboard generated from Oracle’s HR database using the following natural language prompt.

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Tobias Müller @tobilg.com · 05/05/2025

Over the weekend, I had some time to experiment more with remote MCP servers, and created one that consolidates the AWS news articles from more than 40 sources, and lets you access them via the MCP client of your choice: awsnews.remotemcp.directory The data is updated on an hourly basis.

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AWS News MCP Server

MCP Server for hourly updated AWS News

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

These operations include: - Native and virtual database queries via SQL, SPASQL, SPARQL, and GraphQL - Metadata exploration across relational tables and knowledge graphs - DB Admin & Governance - Interaction with all bound Large Language Models (LLMs) - Integration with AI agents - etc..

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

On the client side, OPAL can bind to operations (tools) published by any MCP server that supports Streamable HTTP or Server-Sent Events (SSE). On the server side, its operations (tools) are exposed to any MCP-compliant client.

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

💥Boom! The MCP Server for our OpenLink Software AI Layer (OPAL for short) is now generally available for both cloud-based and on-premise deployment. This sophisticated and secure implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) supports both client and server roles: #MCP #VirtuosoRDBMS

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Historically, software quality has been weakened by the dilution that occurs as conceptual ideas are handed off from specification → coding → QA → documentation—each step involving people with different skill sets, incentives, and interpretations. A new era begins, where that gap can finally close.

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is the real game-changer that AI introduces—finally making software more powerful and flexible through direct domain expert engagement.

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Just last week, we demonstrated how, in the age of AI, OPAL fuses product conceptualization, coding, documentation, and QA into a single activity—all using Markdown. In this new model, a natural language-based article-writing task produces an AI Agent.

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The EU (across many key projects) has been one of our major customers—successfully rolling out and expanding their use of #VirtuosoRDBMS for over a decade. #UseCase #OPAL #VirtuosoRDBMS #AI #GenAI

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This week’s edition of my @LinkedIn newsletter shines a light on the impact of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across multiple computing eras—leading right up to today. We’ve arrived at a moment where loose coupling principles are cool (and super useful) again. 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/model-...

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Attached is a simple MCP demo using the new mcp-odbc-server with our multi-model Virtuoso platform for data access, integration, and management. #MCP #ODBC #VirtuosoRDBMS #SQL #SPARQL #DataConnectivity #LinkedData #HowTo

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) acts as a universal translator between LLMs and data sources, eliminating complex platform-specific requirements. Our new open source MCP server for ODBC enables seamless integration of any ODBC-accessible data into RAG pipelines. www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-...

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Jon Udell @judell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2025

How can we prepare for a future migration from Bluesky to Mastodon? Bridgy Fed — a service that enables you to connect together your website, fediverse account and Bluesky account — will help. But Bridgy Fed needs to be easier to use. So I recruited Claude’s new Sonnet 7 model to help me do […]

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Boost is massive on my end too!

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

You and I need to chat, its been way to long since we last brainstormed :)

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Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Motivated individuals should be able to build user-friendly solutions in this new era of GenAI—and what you’ve demonstrated is a great example! In the past, coding was a tedious, time-consuming process that impeded bringing ideas to digital life. LLM-based coding agents fix that :)

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