Other News

Community

Screenscraping the Senate

(Paul Ford) The United States government and the Semantic Web are a perfect match: imagine all of those senators and representatives, each query-able by age, party affiliation, bills proposed, committee membership, and voting record. For the last few years, I’ve wanted to collect as much data on the

Community

Waiting for Yukon

(Michael Otey) Competition in the database arena has never been fiercer. Remember the year 2000? Clinton was in the White House, the tech economy was booming, and Microsoft had just released SQL Server 2000. The new SQL Server release quickly broke through the wall from department-level to enter