IRC log of dig on 2007-01-03

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15:13:47 [DanC]
<timbl_> I am preparing for the semantic web boot camp course next week.
15:13:47 [DanC]
<timbl_> About 12 hours of lectures which Danny reckons should take 36 hours to prepare
15:13:47 [DanC]
<timbl_> Of that 3 or maybe 6 hrs will be from the N3 tutorial
15:13:57 [DanC]
how many of the 12 hours do you expect to deliver, timbl?
15:14:37 [timbl]
Jim H is up for 3 of the 15.
15:15:01 [timbl]
If you were local, you'd be doing some, danc :-)
15:15:29 [DanC]
yes, I'm sure I would
15:15:37 [timbl]
This is practical how to actually get sem web workin on existing daa, for folks in life sci, libraries, mit IT
15:16:37 [DanC]
DanC has changed the topic to: prep for Semantic Web Boot Camp http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/01/camp/
15:16:59 [DanC]
oops; there's no dig pointer on the boot camp page, so I gotta keep it in the /topic ...
15:17:17 [DanC]
DanC has changed the topic to: prep for Semantic Web Boot Camp http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/01/camp/">http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/01/camp/ (MIT Decentralized Information Group http://dig.csail.mit.edu/ )
15:17:52 [DanC]
riding the "Web 3.0" meme... mixed emotions about that...
15:18:27 [DanC]
page still lists Lalana Kagal, counter to her email of Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:55:54 -0500
15:19:13 [DanC]
how many registered so far? (suggestion: have procmail copy amy and/or me on mail to timbl+iap@w3.org )
15:19:51 [DanC]
it's been on my someday pile for a while to go over the cwm/n3 tutorial and migrate to slidey and fix typos
15:20:27 [DanC]
how about s,RDF,RDF/XML, in "Write in N3. Install cwm. Convert to RDF and publish"
15:20:42 [timbl]
20 have registered so far.
15:20:57 [DanC]
20... so you can't cancel. ;-)
15:21:04 [timbl]
I have them in a a thunderbird addressbook group fwiw
15:21:22 [DanC]
ah... so you're already tracking them. very well.
15:21:27 [timbl]
I was going to make a data.n3
15:21:48 [timbl]
I could send you a screen shot :-/
15:22:57 [DanC]
you could run http://www.w3.org/2000/04/maillog2rdf/aboutMsg.py over the 20 messages
15:23:58 [DanC]
hmm... "Real/Legacy data" doesn't come until Friday. Are you sure you don't want to start with data that they know?
15:24:10 [DanC]
perhaps now is not a good time to change the top-level outline.
15:25:01 [DanC]
hmm... data-you-know shows up on Tuesday under "Ontology" too.
15:25:49 [DanC]
another approach would be to start with data that they know, convert to RDF, and then run sniffSchema.n3 to extract/estimate an ontology.
15:26:46 [DanC]
wow... "Hacking tabulator views"... that looks scary. But I suppose for somebody who doesn't know *any* of this stuff, it's not much more scary than the rest.
15:27:45 [timbl]
Maybe I should lower the target
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21
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"I'm a first year
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Department of Urban Studies and Planning masters student, interested
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in spatial information (GIS)"
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first GIS
15:40:42 [timbl]
Hmmm ldiff is interesting
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dn: cn=Josh Aresty,mail=jaresty@mit.edu
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objectclass: top
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objectclass: person
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objectclass: organizationalPerson
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objectclass: inetOrgPerson
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objectclass: mozillaAbPersonAlpha
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cn: Josh Aresty
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mail: jaresty@mit.edu
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modifytimestamp: 0Z
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company: MIT LLARC Computer Specialist
15:41:12 [timbl]
Many classes, including 'top'!
15:42:37 [DanC]
yes, there's lots of real-world data in LDAP (and hence, potentially, ldif)
15:42:50 [timbl]
(I wonder whether I am an organizational person! )
15:43:00 [DanC]
I can't remember how far I got into ldif; did you find it from http://www.w3.org/2000/04/maillog2rdf/ ? or independently?
15:43:38 [timbl]
I found it from thunderbird/Tools/Export
15:43:58 [timbl]
Thunderbird does not do vcard at all
15:44:28 [timbl]
The mc exported my addresss as a binary .vcf file which it handles but I can't parse. I epxected text
15:46:18 [DanC]
http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/icslex.py also lex's .vcf , I think...
15:46:34 [DanC]
vcardin -- convert vCard .vcf data to hCard XHTML
15:46:37 [DanC]
http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/vcardin.py
15:47:38 [timbl]
But they take text files, right?
15:48:19 [DanC]
yes, .vcf is text
15:48:30 [DanC]
I'm not sure what you mean by " binary .vcf file"
15:48:39 [DanC]
maybe it's just gzip'd?
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15:49:39 [timbl]
Ah ... its just 16 bit I think
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0000000 \0 B \0 E \0 G \0 I \0 N \0 : \0 V \0 C
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utf-16 maybe
15:51:37 [timbl]
Textedit goes away for a long time thinking aboutit
15:51:47 [DanC]
mail it to me?
15:52:10 [DanC]
yes, it looks like utf-16 .vcf syntax.
15:52:21 [timbl]
That was my entire addressbook including spam whitelist
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oh.
15:52:42 [timbl]
I think textedit just has memory problems maybe
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only 4,245,884 bytes
15:53:34 [DanC]
a bit over that 32K textedit limit. ;-)
15:53:40 [timbl]
Thundderbrd is completely non-vcf
15:54:02 [DanC]
"The mc"?
15:54:10 [DanC]
ah... the mac?
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?
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AddressBook
15:54:21 [DanC]
"The mc exported my addresss as a binary .vcf" ...
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Mac sorry
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Ooops ... I think textedit was loading fonts! Got the bit order wrong maybe? 䈀䔀䜀䤀一㨀嘀䌀
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Not impressed that Mac Textedit can't read Mac AddressBook's ujnicode
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㨀䈀漀猀琀漀渀 匀礀洀瀀栀漀渀礀 伀爀
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etc
15:57:48 [DanC]
can you get thunderbird to spit out the group of 20 in any format whatsoever?
15:58:03 [timbl]
YEs, in dif like I pasted above.
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dn: cn=Robin Stewart,mail=stewart@csail.mit.edu
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dn: cn=Stuart Kiang,mail=skiang@MIT.EDU
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dn: cn=Josh Aresty,mail=jaresty@mit.edu
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dn: cn=Gil Alterovitz,mail=gil@mit.edu
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dn: cn=Scott Brinker,mail=sbrinker@MIT.EDU
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dn: cn=Carl Jones,mail=carlj@MIT.EDU
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dn: cn=William Reilly,mail=wreilly@mit.edu
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dn: cn=Randy Rettberg,mail=randy@rettberg.com
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dn: cn=Rich Wenger,mail=rwenger@MIT.EDU
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dn: cn=Bomee Jung,mail=bomee@MIT.EDU
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dn: cn=mark pearrow,mail=mpearrow@csail.mit.edu
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dn: cn=V. Alex Brennen,mail=vab@MIT.EDU
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dn: cn=Ali Taalebi,mail=taalebi@MIT.EDU
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dn: cn=Quentin Smith,mail=quentin@MIT.EDU
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dn: cn=Chaki Ng,mail=chaki@eecs.harvard.edu
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dn: cn=Christefano,mail=christefano@parahuman.org
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dn: cn=MacKenzie Smith,mail=kenzie@MIT.EDU
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dn: cn=Jordana Riley,mail=jordana@csail.mit.edu
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dn: cn=andrew m. boardman,mail=amb@MIT.EDU
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dn: cn=Robert Samuel Rudin,mail=bobrudin@MIT.EDU
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dn: cn=Frank Hebbert,mail=fkh@mit.edu
16:01:16 [DanC]
mail me the ldif?
16:05:27 [timbl]
I guess I should ask them
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16:11:37 [timbl]
DanC, Yosi has been getting cwm more solid ... found a couple of busg introduced by uripath changes in November
16:12:20 [DanC]
I saw him surface in public-cwm-bugs...
16:15:55 [DanC]
date: 2006/12/25 21:53:06; author: syosi; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1
16:15:55 [DanC]
fix unification a bit
16:16:05 [DanC]
^ that's the only edit from yosi that I see; are there more, yosi?
16:16:45 [yosi_lap]
oops, I have not checked in my changes yet
16:16:51 [yosi_lap]
wait a minute
16:16:57 [DanC]
don't rush it
16:17:19 [DanC]
good change comments are worth a few minutes
16:19:00 [yosi_lap]
now I need to create the test for my fix of Dec 25
16:19:57 [yosi_lap]
now that the tests are running again
16:20:05 [yosi_lap]
it's checked in now
16:20:51 [DanC]
tests running again... eikeon and I were trying to run them a week or so ago.
16:21:01 [DanC]
They mostly worked for me, but not for him. We didn't finish diagnosing.
16:21:17 [DanC]
did you commit fixes for the tests? or was the fix on your end?
16:23:52 [yosi_lap]
the problem was that you changed uripath.py, and did not change retest.py to match
16:26:11 [yosi_lap]
also, you changed test/reason/socrates.n3 but not the reference output thereof, but that is only one test
16:37:47 [DanC]
I didn't realize socrates was a real test. I wonder what I broke w.r.t. uripath.py ...
16:39:13 [DanC]
eikeon doesn't have CVS write access to swap. I wanna switch to hg. I don't want to use AFS for the shared repository; I want to use something public-key based.
16:39:37 [timbl]
Even more interesting topics
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.ns foaf
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<link rel="schema.foaf" href="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" />
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(from my homepage)
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tx