With the England team just arrived in Miami for their final preparations for the World Cup, Mohammed Bin Hammam is back in the news for further accusations of corruption. This is interesting because we saw Hammam’s name on Friday as we were testing out the NewsReader technology in preparation for our Hack Day in London […]
Book review: Learning SPARQL by Bob DuCharme
The NewsReader project on which we are working at ScraperWiki uses semantic web technology and natural language processing to derive meaning from the news. We are building a simple API to give access to the NewsReader datastore, whose native interface is SPARQL. SPARQL is a SQL-like query language used to access data stored in the […]