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Back when the AI boom began I thought people would regret the failure of the semantic web. I'm at a data event in Barcelona, and baby, it's back. Big time. Time to brush up on your XSLT. I mean, I've been able to mention UNVTD formats and people have understood what I am talking about.

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Huge thunderstorns in Barcelona today; I am still sweaty even as they pass inland to the mountains.

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Kind of; the cross is on the top!

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Announced this morning!

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This is good old-fashioned RDF! So all the work we did in the late 90s and 00s in the XML world is coming back again...

(I had to delete and repost that last one three times because of typos and it's still threaded correctly.)

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It makes it really easy to add a thought to a thread and then have other folk be able to see how it all fits together.

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But this is the type of translation to symbolic references that we need to have an effective semantic layer for agents to operate effectively. Or as we say, "This is where the magic happens."

Cory Doctorow; he's been writing a lot about the issues from a sociological/business perspective.

I am probably giving @nick.gark.net flashbacks here.

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Microsoft adding ontology support to Fabric OneLake. RDF is back baby! (I was one of the RDF leads in an ecommerce consultancy back in 2001 or so. Dublin Core FTW.)

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It is definitely higher than me down by the coast!

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Currently tag-teaming Tim Pratt's The Jewel And The Comet and Premee Mohammed's Wickhills. Both very different spy stories!

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Good morning Barcelona. Thank you for the two phone alerts last night. Four phones. Two alerts. Pandemonium!

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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BokehBirds. Photographing pigeons on our roof with a long lens at short range through the catio wire fence gives interesting bokeh effects. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #putney #pigeon

A white and brown pigeon with pink legs against a bokeh green backdrop.

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No. While it is from that album, it is something I could see down Avenida Diagonale!

The view from the hotel lift instantly gives me an Alan Parsons Project earworm.

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With dirty windows too!

No, it went by so fast!

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Solar farm in Perpignan with fruit trees growing under the panels.

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Terribly dirty windows on this TGV, but the white dots are a potato phone shot of flamingoes near Narbonne. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #narbonne #flamingo

A view of a lagoon in the south of France. The white dots are flamingoes, the dark birds some sort of cormorant.

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Actually saw a pair of Camargue flamingoes from our TGV as it sped along a narrow spit of land alongside the etangs.

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I suspect it is a lot hotter here! (En route to Barcelona by train for Fabcon EU!)

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Sitting in a hotel room in Provence eating crisps and going through my editor's line edits on Chapter 1, as you do.

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There’s Gemini, which is kind of an updated gopher, but it needs its own separate infrastructure from the web…

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Much sympathy. Ours are very important to us too, so I can guess how you’re feeling.

How fast is a TGV? Ours just overtook a light aircraft taking off from an airfield beside the tracks…

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I await Messrs Copain and Dougan’s 85 minute remix with vocals by Elizabeth Fraser.

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🎶“Don Dan Daaann!”🎶 The sound of SNCF.

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Lille Europe. It is concrete and glass.

A very concrete station and plaza. With lots of glass.

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I choose my parents well!

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First time into the EU with an Irish passport. Freedom of movement is back!

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