RDFLib 7.0.0 has been released and published to PyPI. This is a major release with relatively slight breaking changes, new features and bug fixes. Detailed information about the release can be found at github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/… #RDF #SPARQL #Python #RDFLib #SemanticWeb

Seize the fast-closing window of opportunity for a liveable future petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6406…

2014 Nadine Dorries needs to have a word with 2023 Nadine Dorries. Here she is, arguing that constituents should have "more democratic control" over recalling their MP, saying "where MPs fall down is when they ignore their constituents". Would be terrible if this went viral. ~AA

We’ve lost quite a few followers this week for being critical of the Conservatives. But we can’t just sit back and watch them destroy the NHS. So please follow and RT if you stand with us and help us fight for better.

Our article on "In-Memory Dictionary-Based Indexing of Quoted RDF Triples" has been accepted at QuWeDa 2023 (co-located with International Semantic Web Conference)! It discusses and compares various indexing approaches for quoted RDF 1.2/RDF-star triples. #rdfstar #rdf12 #indexing rubensworks.github.io/article-quoted…

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site sparql-anything.cc and code github.com/SPARQL-Anythin…

Just been thinking about how the UK AI Safety Institute might practically play out. It is difficult for costly organisations set up in the dying days of Government, and closely associated with the Prime Minister, to survive the transition to a new administration.

New blog entry: Triples about existing triples — the easy way and the hard way. bobdc.com/blog/etriplesa…

If Computer Science Is Doomed, What Comes Next? After 50 years of programming, we humans still suck at it. "And I don't think another 50 years is going to solve it," Fixie co-founder Matt Welsh tells Harvards CS50 class. See it on YouTube. #AI #LLM #CS thenewstack.io/if-computer-sc…

New blog entry: Appreciating the SPARQL property path slash character more—querying for labels and more. bobdc.com/blog/slashnote/

Just missing the tests now, but soon Jena Fuseki UI will have improved pagination for people with a lot of datasets/graphs 👍🤺 github.com/apache/jena/is… #opensource #javascript #VueJS #UIUX #TheASF #SemanticWeb

Apache Jena 5.0.0 released! lists.apache.org/thread/hn1d1mp…

This is not a drill. Linux users must check their xz installations A remote SSH-based backdoor has been found in the widely used data compression library and tool, and has made its way into public distributions, including recent Fedora and Kali Linux

The standards process is never quick. Getting consensus from a wide community takes time and diligence. This one has been talked about for *decades* but the actual standardization process was pretty quick. Finally: RDF Canonicalization is a W3C Rec w3.org/news/2024/rdf-…

Apache Jena 5.1.0 released! lists.apache.org/thread/hx8zljq…

Apache Jena 5.2.0 released! lists.apache.org/thread/ynf70r2… Includes experimental support for CDT (Composite Datatype Literals) github.com/w3c/sparql-dev…

Apache Jena 5.3.0 released! lists.apache.org/thread/4gk0kpf… Modular Fuseki server; preview of new IRI provider.

So far, declarative mapping languages for knowledge graph construction (RML and the likes) have lacked a solid formal foundation 😶‍🌫️ ⚡ Our #ESWC2025 paper changes that: We introduce an algebra for mappings, provide a formal semantics of RML, and more. 🔎 arxiv.org/abs/2503.10385

Related to our approach to represent and to query lists as composite values in RDF-based Knowledge Graphs, I developed a tool to convert RDF files in which lists are represented as RDF collections (rdf:List) into files that use our cdt:List approach. Repo: github.com/hartig/SPARQL-…