Dave Beckett: Presentations and annotated Publications

Published

N-Triples: a line-based syntax for an RDF graph

• N-Triples: a line-based syntax for an RDF graph, W3C Working Group Note 09 April 2013

Digg Blog Posts 2010-2012

• How Facebook Changed our Mobile Traffic, Dave Beckett, post to Digg blog, 29 March 2012
• Digg Mobile is now in a relationship with Digg Social Reader, Dave Beckett, post to Digg blog, 6 March 2012
• Digg IOS App with Newsrooms and commenting, Dave Beckett, post to Digg blog, 20 October 2011
• Digg IOS App for iPhone and iPod Touch, Dave Beckett, post to Digg blog, 30 September 2011
• Digg API updated with Newswire, Dave Beckett, post to Digg blog, 17 August 2011
• How Digg is Built, Dave Beckett, post to Digg blog, 29 March 2011
• Explaining the Story View Counts, Dave Beckett, post to Digg blog, 6 February 2011
• Pics or it didn't happen, Dave Beckett, post to Digg blog, 4 November 2011

Learn about SPARQL 1.1

• Learn about SPARQL 1.1 presented at Silicon Valley Semantic Technology (SVST) Meetup, 5 May 2011.

Command Line Semantic Web with Redland

• Talk Command Line Semantic Web with Redland presented 15th March 2010 at the The Semantic Web Austin Meetup during SXSW at Texas Coworking, Austin, TX, USA.
• Screencast of presentation hosted here or on vimeo .

Open Source Semantic Web

• Talk Open Source Semantic Web presented 14 June 2009 at the Semantic Technoogy Conference 2009 open source Code Camp with Palo Alto Semantic Web Meetup group (PAWS) in San Jose, California, USA
• HTML slides

Redland : Free Software / Open Source RDF

• Talk Redland : Free Software / Open Source RDF presented May 14 2009 at the San Francisco Semantic Web Meetup - Meetup with Freebase, Redland and related technologies at Freebase, San Francisco, California, USA
• HTML slides

Yahoo! Semantic Web in Production

• Talk Yahoo! Semantic Web in Production presented 20 May 2008 at the 2008 Semantic Techology Conference in San Jose, California, USA.
• PDF slides

A little semantics goes a long way at Yahoo!

• Talk A little semantics goes a long way at Yahoo! presented at the Semantic Technology - Here and Now panel 22 May 2007 at the 2007 Semantic Techology Conference in San Jose, California, USA.
• PDF slides

<XML/> without the X - the return of {{Textual}} markup

• Talk <XML/> without the X - the return of {{Textual}} markup presented at XTech 2007, Paris, 17 May 2007.
• Paper in PDF

Web 2.0 meet Semantic Web at Yahoo!

• Talk Web 2.0 meet Semantic Web at Yahoo! presented at the The Role of Semantic Web in Web 2.0 panel 8 Nov 2006 at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006) in Atlanta, GA, USA.
• Slides in Powerpoint

Semantics Through the Tag

• Talk at XTech 2006, Amsterdam 19 May 2006.
• Paper in HTML
• Paper in PDF

Introduction to RDF Query with SPARQL

• Talk Introduction to RDF Query with SPARQL, Stanford University, Palo Alto, 1 Mar 2006.

Bootstrapping the Semantic Web with Redland

• Talk XTech 2005, Amsterdam, 27 May 2005.
• Paper in HTML

SKOS: A language to describe simple knowledge structures for the web

• XTech 2005, Amsterdam, 27 May 2005.

Implementing SPARQL in Redland

• WWW2005, Japan. 14 May 2005.

SPARQL Query Results XML Format

• SPARQL Query Results XML Format, Dave Beckett and Jeen Broekstra (editors), W3C Candidate Recommendation, 6 April 2006.
• SPARQL Query Results XML Format, Dave Beckett and Jeen Broekstra (editors), W3C Working Draft, 25 January 2006.
• SPARQL Query Results XML Format, Dave Beckett (editor), W3C Working Draft, 1 August 2005.
• SPARQL Query Results XML Format, Dave Beckett (editor), W3C Working Draft, 27 May 2004.
• SPARQL Variable Binding Results XML Format, Dave Beckett (editor), W3C Working Draft, 21 December 2004.

Modernising Semantic Web Markup

• Talk XML Europe 2004, Amsterdam, 20 April 2004
• Paper in HTML
• Slides in HTML
• RXR schemas

Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language

• Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language
• announced 19 January 2004.
• Implemented with collections in Raptor 1.3.0
• Previously called N-Triples Plus
• New Syntaxes for RDF, pre-print of paper on new syntaxes submitted to WWW2004 (rejected)

Workshop on Semantic Web Storage and Retrieval

• A deliverable for the SWAD Europe project on the workshop held 13-14 November 2003 at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. 12 January 2004
• Workshop homepage
• Workshop report, 12 January 2004

Semantic Web Technologies for UK HE and FE Institutions

• Invited lecture Institutional Web Management Workshop 2003, University of Kent, Canterbury 12 June 2003
• session details
• Slides in HTML
• Slides in PowerPoint

A retrospective on the development of the RDF/XML Revised Syntax

• paper, 4 June 2003, ILRT Research Report Number: 1017, University of Bristol, UK

Semantic Web Update W3C RDF, OWL Standards, Development and Applications

• Talk presented at XML Europe 2003, London
• Paper in HTML
• Slides in HTML with PNG images
• Slides in PowerPoint
• Slides in PDF

CORES Standards Interoperability Forum

• Presentation given at CEN, Brussels, Belgium, 18 November 2002
• Slides in HTML
• Slides in PowerPoint

SWAD-Europe report on Scalability and Storage: Survey of Free Software / Open Source RDF storage systems

• Work done for the SWAD Europe project
• changes section for the details of the updates.

Connecting XML, RDF and Web Technologies for Representing Knowledge on the Semantic Web

• XML Europe 2002, Barcelona, 22 May 2002.
• Paper in HTML

Web Crawling High-Quality Metadata using RDF and Dublin Core

• WWW2002, Hawaii, 10th May 2002
• Paper and the earlier report
• RDN-WSE projects

RDF Test Cases / N-Triples

A W3C Recommendation by the RDF Core WG

• RDF Test Cases, Jan Grant and Dave Beckett (editors), W3C Recommendation, 10 February 2004
• RDF Test Cases, Jan Grant and Dave Beckett (editors), W3C Proposed Recommendation, 15 December 2003
• RDF Test Cases, Jan Grant and Dave Beckett (editors), W3C Working Draft, 10 October 2003
• RDF Test Cases, Jan Grant and Dave Beckett (editors), W3C Working Draft, 5 September 2003
• RDF Test Cases, W3C Working Draft, 12 September 2001 edited by Art Barstow and myself. Includes an updated version of N-Triples and will be the place that defines it in future.
• My Raptor RDF parsing toolkit now includes an N-Triples parser that handles this format

RDF/XML Syntax (Revised)

A W3C Recommendation by the RDF Core WG

• RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised), Dave Beckett (editor), W3C Recommendation, 10 February 2004
• RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised), Dave Beckett (editor), W3C Proposed Recommendation, 15 December 2003
• RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised), Dave Beckett (editor), W3C Working Draft, 10 October 2003
• RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised), Dave Beckett (editor), W3C Working Draft, 5 September 2003
• RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised), Dave Beckett (editor), W3C Working Draft, 8 November 2002
• RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised), Dave Beckett (editor), W3C Working Draft, 25 March 2002
• Refactoring RDF/XML Syntax, W3C Working Draft, 6 September 2001 edited by me based on RDF/XML Syntax Grammar Experiments)
• CVS log of the refactoring document including the experiment doc below.
• Summary of public feedback so far

RDF/XML Syntax Grammar Experiments

RDF Core WG has been revising RDF, so I tried to summarise the work on the grammar and try to do it better.

• RDF/XML Syntax Grammar Experiments

N-Triples

Text format for representing RDF test case results, an RDF Core WG document.

• Document
• Raptor N-Triples parser
• Parser demo

The Design and Implementation of the Redland RDF Application Framework

• WWW10 conference in Hong Kong, 3 May 2001.
• WWW10 Developers Day presentation, 5 May 2001.
• Pre-print of paper in HTML
• Pre-print of paper in PostScript
• Pre-print of paper in PDF
• Software

See also the Redland home page.

RDF PNG Icon

• announced on www-rdf-Interest, April 2001

Practical RDF Tools Towards a Semantic Web

Presentation given at Knowledge Technologies 2001 (KT2001), Austin, Texas, USA, 5 March 2001.

• HTML Slide presentation
• All slides in one big HTML page

Internet Technology

Chapter in Sample chapter (mine!)

Standards in the CHIC-pilot distributed indexing architecture

• Report on the TERENA CHIC-Pilot - Distributed Indexing Pilot Project,
• Paper with Peter Valkenburg, Martin Hamilton, and Simon Wilkinson in Towards Networking and Services in the Year 2001, Proceedings of TERENA Networking Conference 1998, volume 30, pages 1571-1578, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 1998. TERENA, Elsevier.

Polishing your searches

• Article in Ariadne magazine, July 1998.

30% Accessible: A Survey of the UK Wide Web

• A W3C 6th World Wide Web Conference (WWW6) in Stanford, California, USA, April 1997.
• UK Internet Sites service that formed the basis of the survey.
• Slides of WWW6 Presentation
• Survey Results (1st August 1997)
• Survey Results (1st April 1997)
• Survey Results (1st December 1996)

Dublin Core Element Substructure (Why the Dublin Core Needs Qualifiers)

A 4th Dublin Core Workshop (DC 4) in Canberra, Australia, 2-5 March 1997.

A strict occam Design Tool

• Paper with Peter Welch in Proceedings of UK Parallel 96, 3-5 July 1996 at University of Surrey, Guildford. Published by Springer-Verlag, London.
• Software is available .

The ACademic DireCtory - AC/DC

with Neil G. Smith in Ariadne magazine published by UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN), University of Bath, UK and as UKC Computing Laboratory Technical Report 96-8.

• Paper available in the on-line version of Ariadne.
• Academic Directory WWW service.

Emulating a Secure Multicasting Bus using occam 2.1

with Peter Welch in Proceedings of WoTUG 19 held in March 1996 at University of Nottingham. Published by IOS Press, Amsterdam.

IAFA Templates as Internet Metadata

• Paper in Proceedings of WWW4, Boston, USA, 10-14 December 1995.
• Local area containing paper (HTML and PS), slides, references.

Real Time Image Scanning on Transputers (A Case Study in Parallel Design)

• Paper given at World Transputer Congress 1995 (WTC '95), Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK, 3-6 September, 1995.

Combined Log System

A software system for working with log files from multiple Internet access daemons (WWW, gopher, ftp, ...) and getting statistics across them for large log files.

• Paper in Proceedings of WWW3, Darmstadt, Germany, April 1995.
• Or at Elsevier, Holland (requires password).
• The slides of the presentation given at Darmstadt, in HTML.
• The software

Obsolete

Proposed Encodings for Dublin Core Metadata

A draft / working paper containing proposals of how to embed Dublin Core metadata into various document formats such as HTML, IAFA Templates, PNG Image files, etc.