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Benjamin Habegger

Semantic Web: Stop the format war !!

To me, there’s a lot of confusion out there about what the “Semantic Web” is really about. Recently, I participated in a debate on whether to use JSON or RDF/XML within a project I’m working on. Arguments were rather at the format level (e.g. verbosity of XML/RDF). There was also …

JSON or XML ? Both, use json-n-xml

Both XML and JSON are widely spread data formats with both their pros and cons. That’s why I decided to write and put on GitHub json-n-xml, a library which allows switching from one format to the other (bi-directionnally). With it, you can build a DOM of a JSON and query …

BLEND: A followup of WWW’2012

The presence of WWW’2012 about one year ago had made the city of Lyon the captial if the web for time of the most reknown scientific conference to researchers on the web. This has lead to the will among different local actors (entrepreneurs, researchers, politics, and many more) to surf …

“Hymen 1954” d’après Denise Bonal

La Cie 2 trois bricoles présente Hymen 1954 d’après Denise Bonal Mise en scène : Hervé Hartmann Mardi 4 juin à 20h30 Mecredi 5 juin à 20h30 Jeudi 6 juin à 20h30 à la MJC d’Oullins 10 rue Orsel 69600 Oullins C’est un mariage auquel les spectateurs sont conviés. “Nous …

EEXCESS: Pushing quality content

I have just recently joined the INSA of Lyon to work on the European EEXCESS project. More particularly I’ll be working on ensuring that the service will give the best privacy guarantees to its users (but that will be the topic for another post). Finding content on the web Before …