Bill Roberts on the Web of Data

I’ve just moved this blog over to a new platform: SemanticJournal, written mainly by Ric Roberts, my Swirrl co-founder (with a little bit of help from me here and there).

The platform automatically generates and inserts RDFa markup describing the blog and each post. So far, this is rather limited – just title, author, date and licensing info. To see the details, do a View Source on this page, or use the W3C RDFa Distiller.

SemanticJournal was written as a testing ground for some semantic web tools we are working on: so in the coming few months we plan to add some more interesting capabilities.

We’ve released the code for SemanticJournal as open source: you can download it from Github. It uses Ruby on Rails and CouchDB.

As part of the blog makeover, I’ve started using Disqus for comments. I haven’t yet ported comments on old posts over to Disqus, but I plan to do that soon, as there have been lots of great contributions to the articles here from the readers.