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Adrian Gschwend

@ktk.netlabs.org
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The ktk @ netlabs.org. Co-founder and director of zazuko.com, I'm doing cool stuff with Linked Data.

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The applications of Solid are endless. If your project uses personal data then check out this open call from the @odihq.bsky.social KUTGW
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Context for Belfast riots
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 10/06/2026
Hey @jimsalter.bsky.social regarding email hosting, I can't remember that Stalwart was ever mentioned on 2.5 Admins. For those who want to self-host definitely an interesting alternative. Just started playing with it and hope to replace my stone old qmail setup with it mid-term. stalw.art
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Stalwart Mail & Collaboration Server
Open-source mail and collaboration server with JMAP, IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV support. Written in Rust, designed to be secure, scalable, and easy to operate.
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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Ora Lassila and @ktk.netlabs.org lead the W3C working group that is tackling the #RDF reification problem. RDF 1.2 introduces the reifier, which lets you annotate individual graph relationships with provenance, confidence, and source. knowledgegraphinsights.com/rdf12/
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Ora Lassila and Adrian Gschwend: RDF 1.2 working group update
Ora Lassila and Adrian Gschwend lead the W3C RDF 1.2 working group, which is focusing on improvements to how RDF handles reification.
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 12/05/2026
I had the pleasure of talking with Larry Swanson and my co-chair colleague Ora Lassila about the next version of RDF in Larrys podcast. Thanks for having me!
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Dave Beckett @dajobe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I’ve spent the last 9+ months using AI coding tools heavily and I have thoughts: • The harness is becoming more important than the model • Agents are mostly code-writing loops with tools • Code might be becoming the new assembler www.dajobe.org/blog/2026/03...
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The Harness Is The Product (and Other Hot Takes) : Dave Beckett
The Harness Is The Product (and Other Hot Takes)
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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 06/03/2026
“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit
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My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you.
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Larry Swanson @larry.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
25 years ago, @jahendler.bsky.social, web inventor @timbl.bsky.social, and early #AIagent expert Ora Lassila set out their #semanticWeb vision in Scientific American. Listen in on this fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the origins of their work. knowledgegraphinsights.com/jim-hendler/
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Jim Hendler: scaling AI and knowledge with the semantic web
Jim Hendler is a long-time AI expert and a co-creator of the semantic web, which has given meaning to the content on the internet.
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 18/11/2025
Super proud to share a new QLever milestone. We loaded one trillion triples on a single AMD Ryzen 9 machine with 16 cores and 128 GB RAM 🚀. Index size is 6.5 TB and the dataset runs even with less memory. Dataset: qlever.dev/one-trillion/ #RDF #SPARQL #knowledgegraph #scaling
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 13/11/2025
rdf-fusion, a SPARQL engine on top of Apache DataFusion (and thus Apache Arrow behind): github.com/tobixdev/rdf...
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GitHub - tobixdev/rdf-fusion: A SPARQL implementation built on top of Apache DataFusion
A SPARQL implementation built on top of Apache DataFusion - tobixdev/rdf-fusion
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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 02/10/2025
show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
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DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I have tried my very hardest to make this read about Indonesia's last 48 hours as accessible and easy to digest as possible. The goal here is that there is NO assumed knowledge (except for Jokowi, i think I always assume him sorry) darimulut.substack.com/p/indonesia-...
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🇮🇩 Indonesia shakes as protests turn to police violence and death
There's no coming back from this one
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 30/08/2025
Read this. Millions of Indonesians are in the streets protesting the policies of a corrupt president and his legislative flunkies. 🦅 🇮🇩 Selamat berjuang 🇮🇩 🦅
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 22/08/2025
Good reflections, reminded me of the quote "I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." Apparently wrongly attributed to Twain, did not google enough to find the original though. www.reddit.com/r/todayilear...
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TIL Mark Twain is often wrongly credited with the quote: "I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." Earliest credit goes to French mathematician and philospher Blaise Pascal i...
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 22/08/2025
I had to check if this was for real, but he actually posted it and even defends it, saying anyone who disagrees just doesn’t get it. QLever codebase is ~ 130k lines of C++, after 10 years (minus tests). Just to give you an idea of how stupid this statement is.
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 20/08/2025
@doriantaylor.com in case you missed it, you were quoted here wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/g...
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Google is killing the open web
The juggernaut is taking advantage of its dominant position to enclose and destroy the commons.
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Patrick Seemann @nohillside.ch · 15/08/2025
Die #dnip-Freitagskolumne dreht sich heute um die #eid und die Argumente der Nein-Kommittees. Und um eine Scheindebatte dnip.ch/2025/08/15/vogt-am-freitag-…
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 01/08/2025
@jimsalter.bsky.social @allanjude.com re the current episode of 2.5: there is this ultra long blog post about the FreeBSD installer & what's in the works. Talks about accessibility as well freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/jou...
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Installer Usability | FreeBSD Foundation
Installer Usability Installer Usability by Pierre Pronchery Dear reader, Writing this article, I have no idea who you are. This might be the first article you’ve ever read about FreeBSD; or you might ...
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 07/07/2025
/cc ‪‪@jimsalter.bsky.social‬ @allanjude.com as you guys talked about the problem some episodes ago. Have to try it myself, my TRAC is getting hammered.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
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Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."
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Adrienne Fichter @adfichter.eurosky.social · 22/05/2025
💡 Ich kann endlich den Namen lüften: AMAZON will NICHT dass ich und damit auch die Schweizer Bevölkerung die Cloud-Rahmenverträge mit dem Schweizer Staat erhalte. 😡 Und: ich darf auch nicht die Verträge der 4 anderen einsehen: Microsoft, Oracle, IBM und Alibaba. Die Gründe für die Totalblockade⬇️
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Amazon will nicht, dass die Republik Verträge mit dem Bund sieht
Der Tech-Gigant wehrt sich gegen Transparenz – bis vor Bundes­verwaltungsgericht.
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Chris Mungall @cmungall.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We carried this convo on offline, but for everyone else, happy to announce Adrian will be talking about this work at the LinkML community call tomorrow! go.lbl.gov/linkml-commu...
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LinkML Community Meeting rolling agenda
LinkML Community Meeting Agenda (and minutes) Meeting time: Third Thursday of the month 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM ET Zoom link: https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/97903562170?pwd=ajNZNFFRUE1COWo1Y2JZdlJtWGpqUT09 ...
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 03/04/2025
I see the same on some websites I host from my OS/2 netlabs past. Crazy amount of traffic on the wikis I still run there and archives like edm2. com
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 02/04/2025
How close is every building 🏠 in Switzerland to the nearest public transport stop? 🚆 With QLever and some clean RDF data, this is easy. Magdalena and I show it in our new demo, crazy fast, super visual. youtu.be/gnocVIoHVKk?... #SpatialAnalytics #KnowledgeGraphs #OpenData #RDF
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Swiss Spatial Analysis: Buildings vs. Public Transport with QLever + PetriMaps
YouTube video by Qleverize your data
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opendata.swiss @opendataswiss.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
📢 Wir suchen eine/n IT-Projektleiter/-in OGD 📢 📍 Ort: Neuenburg und Homeoffice 📊 Beschäftigungsgrad: 80-100 % ⏳ Eintrittsdatum: sofort 💼 Erforderliche Erfahrung: fortgeschritten 🔗 Link zur Stellenausschreibung: jobs.admin.ch/offene-stell...
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 12/03/2025
@cmungall.bsky.social we play with Link-ML at Zazuko at the moment, very impressive work! What I couldn't figure out so far, is there an "internal" model that is the "source of truth" or are YAML, RDF, etc representations/serializations interchangeable?
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Olaf Hartig @olafhartig.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I just saw that DBLP (@dblp.org) has recently started to provide a public query service for everyone to run SPARQL queries over their database with information about computer science publications. Each author page includes links to relevant example queries. Very nice! blog.dblp.org/2024/09/09/i...
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
She is my new best friend.
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 24/02/2025
ROFL "data doesn't lie"!? Who tells him?
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 24/02/2025
Proud to announce our second venture! We teamed up with Hannah Bast and Johannes Kalmbach, the makers of the incredibly fast and scalable RDF triplestore QLever, to provide commercial support and services under @qleverize.com. If you have hard problems where graphs could help, let’s talk.
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 20/02/2025
Good comment about the current student protests in Indonesia by the Jakarta Post www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2025...
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A return to the streets - Editorial - The Jakarta Post
This week’s protests, the fastest that any president has faced since taking office since the Reform era, are a visible sign of this renewed vigor.
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.
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On Ukraine, Europe must step into the void | Virgin
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Bruce Schneier writes about how the recent DOGE actions are extremely concerning from an infosec perspective. www.schneier.com/blo...
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DOGE as a National Cyberattack - Schneier on Security
In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. And the implications for national security are profound. First, it was reported that people associated with the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had accessed the US Treasury computer system, giving them the ability to collect data on and potentially control the department’s roughly ...
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 11/02/2025
@bcantrill.bsky.social not sure if you still care but did you see this regarding SmartOS/Triton & Parler? discord.com/channels/979...
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 08/02/2025
Drivers for the delivery app Grab complained that Google Maps couldn’t navigate Southeast Asia’s complex and unpredictable streets. So Grab enlisted its 5 million drivers to chart the streets as they worked, creating its own, more-accurate map restofworld.org/2024/grab-go...
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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealedA photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.
Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."
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JayBadran @jaybadran.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Längst Zeit, zu benennen was wir sehen und hören und Bagatellisierungen dessen sofort zu stoppen. www.tagesanzeiger.ch/jacqueline-b...
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Der Neofaschismus ist mitten unter uns
Es gibt nichts zu verharmlosen. Trump zerstört gerade alles, was unter dem Banner der Aufklärung an demokratisch-rechtsstaatlichen Institutionen aufgebaut wurde.
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 21/01/2025
At least I don't have to argue anymore with people when I call Musk a Nazi
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Denny Vrandečić @vrandecic.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
How to combine LLMs, Knowledge Graphs and Search Engines? What are the strengths and limitations? Aidan Hogan @aidhog.bsky.social , Luna Dong, Gerhard Weikum, and I were invited to talks about this topic and now wrote a paper together to capture some of the ideas. arxiv.org/abs/2501.06699
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Renato Beck @wozbeck.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Egal ob SRF, CH Media oder die Zeit: überall wurde nach dem Nein zum Autobahnausbau das rechte Narrativ bedient, die Ablehnung sei eine Kritik an der Zuwanderung. Die tatsächlichen Gründe, wie Umweltbewusstsein oder Angst vor Mehrverkehr waren auf vielen Redaktionen völlig undenkbar:
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Analyse zur Abstimmung: Zuwanderung war beim Autobahn-Nein nicht entscheidend
Eine Mehrheit stimmte im Herbst gegen den Ausbau der Nationalstrassen. In einer Vox-Studie wurde nach den Gründen gefragt.
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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2024
Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-… Table of contents:

    The GPT-4 barrier was comprehensively broken
    Some of those GPT-4 models run on my laptop
    LLM prices crashed, thanks to competition and increased efficiency
    Multimodal vision is common, audio and video are starting to emerge
    Voice and live camera mode are science fiction come to life
    Prompt driven app generation is a commodity already
    Universal access to the best models lasted for just a few short months
    “Agents” still haven’t really happened yet
    Evals really matter
    Apple Intelligence is bad, Apple’s MLX library is excellent
    The rise of inference-scaling “reasoning” models
    Was the best currently available LLM trained in China for less than $6m?
    The environmental impact got better
    The environmental impact got much, much worse
    The year of slop
    Synthetic training data works great
    LLMs somehow got even harder to use
    Knowledge is incredibly unevenly distributed
    LLMs need better criticism
    Everything tagged “llms” on my blog in 2024
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 27/12/2024
I did my first brew tap today for "sop", a swiss-army knife for processing RDF and Linked Data on the command line. This is a very cool Rust based cli for RDF by Pierre-Antoine Champin. Feedback & pull requests welcome! sop repo: github.com/pchampin/sop... my brew tap: github.com/ktk/homebrew...
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GitHub - pchampin/sophia-cli: sop, a swiss-army knife for processing RDF and Linked Data on the command line
sop, a swiss-army knife for processing RDF and Linked Data on the command line - pchampin/sophia-cli
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Pierre Monnin @piermonn.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
📢 Internship offer: interested in combining #semanticWeb #knowledgeGraphs and #LLMs? We have a 6-month internship on Semantic Web Retrieval Augmented Generation @fabien-gandon.bsky.social! Details and application: recrutement.inria.fr/public/class... #artificialIntelligence #largeLanguageModels
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6-month research internship: SemWebRAG (Semantic Web Retrieval Augmented Generation)
Offre d'emploi Inria
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Sangsin Lee @sslee.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
1. Why did Yoon declare martial law? This is likely the question on everyone’s mind. And the answer, encapsulated in Oxford's 2024 Word of the Year, “brain rot”, might surprise you.
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Adrian Gschwend @ktk.netlabs.org · 05/12/2024
🚍🏙️ Spatial analytics in QLever is crazy good! Here’s a query from the OpenStreetMap dataset showing all Jakarta buildings within 400m of a public transport stop. You can play with the examples on their endpoint: qlever.dev/osm-planet/ #SpatialAnalytics #openstreetmap #RDF #SPARQL #QLever #Jakarta
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2024
Good stuff from a seasoned veteran: www.sandofsky.com/end-of-twitter
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Holger Knublauch @holgerk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A new official SHACL WG working towards version 1.2 has been proposed and can be voted on by W3C members: www.w3.org/2024/10/data...
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Data Shapes WG Group Charter
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