There is a helpful article on how to make Nepomuk a lot faster by switching its default storage backend to Sesame2:

• Pimp my Nepomuk

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Read announce on ViceVersaTech.com »

RDFBeans framework (see “Simple RDF data binding“) is a Sourceforge project now:

http://rdfbeans.sourceforge.net

Laboranova People-Concepts Networking Server is opened for beta-testing since today, Jul 1, 2009.

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Today at University of Nottingham, we’re deployed an alpha of the People-Concept Networking platform prototype. It’s the alpha, so it doesn’t do a lot as yet and is released only for internal overview and testing of the basic infrastructure. It is however, an occasion to disclose what I am working at now, along with an introduction to some PCN theory.

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A large part of SW development is representing the information as RDF for persistence and interoperability. It’s usually done with lots of the glue code to map the programming object model to RDF triples and vice versa.

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Well my dear readers, Cyberborean Chronicles is moved to standalone hosting here at http://blog.cyberborean.org. The old version at wordpress.com is still available for historical purposes and all archives (posts and comments) are imported into new version. Comments in old version are turned off; please submit your comments here.

RSS of Cyberborean Chronicles now is http://blog.cyberborean.org/feed.

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SCAN plugin for adding web-locations is released.

If you haven’t noticed already, there was no simple way to just enter a web URL in SCAN and get a document in the repository. One had to add web documents via del.icio.us or fetch them from RSS. Now it is fixed – with Web plugin you can add web-pages with their URL’s and more – you can tell the plugin to follow hyperlinks and crawl web-pages recursively, thus adding whole web-sites to SCAN document repository.

More on Web-plugin »

To install new plugin, click on “Check for updates” button in Plugins manager window (“Tools?Manage plugins”). Web plugin will appear in “Location type plugins” section.

SCAN Version 1.3.1 is released. The release focus is to fix a number of bugs found in 1.3 version (though some of them are really old).

• Download SCAN 1.3.1

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Finally moved my main working machine to Kubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron”. Yeah, late a bit, but it is my everyday working environment so I have to take these upgrades very seriously to not put my work into mess even for a day. Fortunately, no bad things were happened and in a lucky weekend I got Kubuntu 8.04 installed with all software I needed.

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