Dave Beckett: Presentations and annotated Publications
Published
Twitter Presentations 2016-2022
- Accelerating Hadoop at Twitter with NVMe SSDs: A Hybrid Approach - Matthew Singer, Dave Beckett, Varun Sampat ,Mark Schonbach at Intel Flash Memory Summit, 2019. PDF
- Boosting Hadoop* Performance and Cost Efficiency with Caching, Fast SSDs, and More Compute, Dave Becket, Matt Singer, Millind Damle, Rakes Radhakrishnan, Barrie Wheeler, white paper with Intel, 2019
- Why Twitter moved its big data into Google Cloud with Derek Lyon. Promotional video for Google Cloud, 10 Aug 2018.
- How @TwitterHadoop Chose Google Cloud with Derek Lyon, Google Cloud Next 2018, San Francisco, 25 July 2018. Source: Internet archive copy of cloud.google.com/twitter from 2019-08-03
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
N-Triples: a line-based syntax for an RDF graph
Learn about SPARQL 1.1
Command Line Semantic Web with Redland
Open Source Semantic Web
Redland : Free Software / Open Source RDF
Yahoo! Semantic Web in Production
A little semantics goes a long way at Yahoo!
<XML/> without the X - the return of {{Textual}} markup
Web 2.0 meet Semantic Web at Yahoo!
Semantics Through the Tag
Introduction to RDF Query with SPARQL
Bootstrapping the Semantic Web with Redland
SKOS: A language to describe simple knowledge structures for the web
Implementing SPARQL in Redland
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
Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language
Workshop on Semantic Web Storage and Retrieval
Semantic Web Technologies for UK HE and FE Institutions
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
CORES Standards Interoperability Forum
SWAD-Europe report on Scalability and Storage: Survey of Free Software / Open Source RDF storage systems
Connecting XML, RDF and Web Technologies for Representing Knowledge on the Semantic Web
Web Crawling High-Quality Metadata using RDF and Dublin Core
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.
N-Triples
Text format for representing RDF test case results, an
RDF Core WG
document.
The Design and Implementation of the Redland RDF Application Framework
See also the Redland home page.
RDF PNG Icon
Practical RDF Tools Towards a Semantic Web
Presentation given at Knowledge Technologies 2001 (KT2001), Austin, Texas, USA, 5 March 2001.
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
30% Accessible: A Survey of the UK Wide Web
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
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.
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
Real Time Image Scanning on Transputers (A Case Study in Parallel Design)
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.
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.