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Data in the City
On Monday of this week I attended a hearing in New York City organized by the Technology and Government Committee of the New York City Council. On the agenda was a proposal (Int. No. 991) regarding the use of open...
Reflections on SemTech 2009
SemTech 2009, along with W3C's significant participation in it, is now behind us. Besides catching upon on emails, I have spent the past week reflecting on the enthusiasm, presentations, and flurry of activities that constituted this year's event in San...
WCAG 2.0 in your mother tongue
I come from Egypt, live in Austria, work in France, and when I start speaking, some people think I'm American. I speak fluent German and English, but no matter what I do, some expressions and thoughts will always be easier...
W3C team at SemTech
Some of us on the team had a pretty busy last week: indeed, Karen Myers, Sandro Hawke, Dave Raggett, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Ralph Swick, and I were at the Semantic Technologies 2009 conference in San Jose. Dave (together with Dianne Mueller...
- semantic-web
- sparql
- w3c
- xbrl
Orthogonality of Specifications
HTTP,HTML,URI The general principle of platform design is that platforms consist of a set of standard interfaces. Standard interfaces allow substitution of components across the interface boundary, while independence of interfaces allow evolution of the interfaces themselves. In a PC,...
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