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Generating websites with SPARQL and Snowman, part 1

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Cool to see a project(Snowman[0]) I'm the creator of mentioned here on HN.

I created Snowman to allow one to use RDF/SPARQL even in the user-facing parts of ones stack(and to learn Go).

[0]: https://github.com/glaciers-in-archives/snowman/

E.g. Hugo-academic has Microdata RDF (Go) Templates; and supports Markdown, Jupiter, LaTeX: https://github.com/wowchemy/starter-hugo-academic

"Build pages from data source" https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/5074

Nice to see some RDF projects evolving outside the Java (RDF4J) ecosystem- RDF is vastly undervalued in industry IMHO.

It is undervalued because it only offer value to third party search engines and web scrapers. The site owner does not derive any returns from implementing RDF which is often a non-trivial amount of work. The biggest search engine on the planet has enough scale that RDF offers it negligible value. Academia won't be able to convince anybody soon until they can show improvements in $.

BBC thought differently - they don't expose it externally, but BBC website uses semantic Web technologies on the backend to automatically link relevant information including making it easier to author new content.

I wonder what happened to RDF at BBC.

There must have been an earthquake around 2014?

I was deeply impressed and inspired to my toy-project radio recorder. Check $ rapper -i grddl -o turtle 'http://rec.mro.name/stations/b2/2022/05/23/1005.xml'

Not completely agree, I work at a company who makes money with semantic web consulting. It is really powerful technology, which we use to index and unify customer data, but also for dynamic React front-end generation.

I was a bit hesitant to start working at this company, because of the many negative notes here on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?q=why+the+semantic+web)

This contrasts with what I experience, we have a growing customer base, both in healthcare and finance. Just do a LinkedIn job search with a keywords like 'sparql' or 'semantic', you'll see many jobs.

Completely agree. I'm hoping to one day see Jena [0] compiled to a native image [1]. Having a persistent triple store with transactions, and an inference api in owl/rdfs/shacl with a prolog-like "logic programming engine", running in-process like SQLite, would be awesome.

[0] https://jena.apache.org/

[1] https://www.graalvm.org/22.0/reference-manual/native-image/

What great timing! I was just thinking about wanting something to generate a static website for graph data I've gathered in AWS Neptune. I'm definitely going to play around with this when I have some time.

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