CAR, CDR, CONS, Oh My!
While I am trying to round out the content management aspects of OokOok this year, I'm starting to think ahead to next year's work on databases and processing. Part of the goal is to offer a platform...
View ArticleStreams, Part II
In the last post (back in 2012—this post has been in draft for some time), we talked a bit about streams. Eventually, I want to see how we might use streams to write a parser that can parse the...
View ArticleMarkov Chain Text Generation
With the recent postings elsewhere about Markov Chains and text production, I figured I'd take a stab at it. I based my code on the Lovebible.pl code at the latter link. Instead of the King James Bible...
View ArticleMy DH Agenda
A few months ago, I accepted a job outside the academy. This doesn't mean that I'm abandoning digital humanities. In this post, I lay out what I want to do in DH going forward. The common thread...
View ArticleFun with Functions
I'm building a language designed to be natural with linked data just as programs today are natural with local memory. The result is highly functional and data-relative in nature and reminds me of how...
View ArticleArticle 3
The RDF equivalent of "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" is "If you can't assert something, then don't assert anything at all."
View ArticleLinked Open Code
I've been working off and on over the last six months on a programming language that sits on top of linked open data. Think of it as linked open code. von Neumann ArchitectureBefore von Neumann made...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Designing a Linked Open Code Schema
As I start thinking about what should go into the core of a linked open code schema, I'm tempted to put a lot of high-level operations into the core so they run faster. History tells us that's the...
View ArticleAlgorithmic Provenance of Data
It doesn't seem like it's been over four years since I joined MITH and started working with Project Bamboo. Just because I've moved on to a startup and the project's been mothballed doesn't mean we...
View ArticleLinked Open Code: Libraries
A while back, I talked about how linked open code complements linked open data if we consider the web to be a computer system. This time, I explore what a linked open code (LOC) library might look...
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