An Efficient Link Store

• Another web of data store that produces a subset of RDF/XML, Astoria, is from an unlikely source, Microsoft. Instead of a proprietary Semantic Web, Danny sees it as going to town with URIs and REST.


• Silverlight was the other surprising Microsoft development, nothing beats running code - except maybe browser-based dynamic code 2000 times faster. Applets are cool again.


• Some ideas for static triple indexing "Most mature triplestores also index a 4th query element ‘graph’ or ‘context’. I intend to support this query type without expanding the index by using a trick: In my triples format the fact that the subjects are auto-generated and local to the graph means I can choose them to be sequential and effectively re-use them as graph indexes..."


• Plugged In/Invisible Worlds/Tucana/Northrop/TKS/TMex/Kowari/Mulgara podcast (links to the Talis page).


• PAGE a distributed triple store using DHT and YARS (the original). It does seem to miss the DELIS work on P2P RDF which scaled up to 64 nodes.


• Haskell and the Faith of Programming Languages Phillip Wadler gives a rather brilliant talk on programming languages. Covers Haskell, Java generics, combining different typed languages (weak, strong, very strong) as well as monads and Links.