Bob DuCharme

What does it mean to claim that a SPARQL benchmark proves that one engine is faster than another? A passionate debate about one case is going on at www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

The published lyrics of the 1967 Rolling Stones song “2000 Man” (later covered by KISS) include the line “I am having an affair with a random computer”. Wouldn’t “RAND computer” have made more sense in 1967?

@theatlantic But yeah, isn't it terrible what these for-profit companies are doing to make money off of writers who have no control or even visibility over what's happening to their writing.

@theatlantic.com Is it possible for authors to look themselves up in the books3 database without giving a credit card number to The Atlantic first?

New blog entry: Let's stop saying "semantic web" — like a startup pivot, the technology turned out to be great for things other than a new kind of "web". www.bobdc.com/blog/stopsem...

New blog entry tomorrow: Let's stop saying "semantic web" — like a startup pivot, the technology turned out to be great for things other than a new kind of "web".

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Chew Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Chew

Gotta love a comic strip that uses XOR as part of the punch line. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/chew

"Top 10 Query Languages Every Developer Should Know in 2025" including, of course, SPARQL www.analyticsinsight.net/amp/story/pr...

“Journey” is the new “experience” to make the use of your simple product sound like a bigger deal than it actually is.

What are some currently running SPARQL endpoints that people like besides Wikidata and DBpedia?

New blog entry: Correcting some outdated "Learning SPARQL" examples www.bobdc.com/blog/updatin...

New blog entry tomorrow: Correcting some outdated "Learning SPARQL" examples

Speaking as a tech writer, I just love the Performing Directions of Terry Riley’s seminal 1964 music piece “In C”: thirdcoastpercussion.com//downloads/2... (second and third page of the PDF)

Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix Introducing UDA, the knowledge-graph-based architecture that translates conceptual domain models into consistent schemas and data…

From "Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix" netflixtechblog.com/uda-unified-...: "UDA is a Knowledge Graph... We chose RDF and SHACL as the foundation for UDA’s knowledge graph."

With all the new information processing algorithms that are popping up and fading away these days, I love how one of the most popular ones continues to be an algorithm developed over 50 years ago by British computer scientist Karen Spärck Jones en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%8...

The reason that I switched from DOS to MS Windows 3.1 many years ago.

Bitbucket forcing us to upgrade from the free plan to a plan that they say costs $3.30 per month? Not so bad. Oh wait, they were dividing the actual price by 5 to make it look more appealing. They're really charging $16.50 per month.

New blog entry: ChatGPT and Copilot as OWL processors — pretty impressive. www.bobdc.com/blog/chatgpt...

New blog entry tomorrow: ChatGPT and Copilot as OWL processors — pretty impressive.

You can also verb and noun adjectives if you really want to harsh someone's mellow.

Philosophy students and CS students typically need to learn some prepositional logic, so that's an even quicker way to go.

First Draft Note of RDF 1.2 Primer is now available from the W3C at www.w3.org/TR/2025/DNOT...

I had a great idea for a domain name, but I was 67 days too late.

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. [Charles] Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." (from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage...)

New blog entry: Converting RDFS schemas to SHACL constraints — with SPARQL, of course. www.bobdc.com/blog/rdfs2sh...

New blog entry tomorrow: Converting RDFS schemas to SHACL constraints — with SPARQL, of course.

Out of curiosity I let gmail's "AI" rewrite something I wrote and it replaced the word "features" with "functionality." I guess I'll wait a few years before I try that again. www.bobdc.com/blog/writing...

Using ChatGPT every few weeks has changed the way I do regular Google searches. Now I think of them as prompts where my incorporation of more context terms will get better answers, and that actually helps.

Now you're being irrational.