I made many changes to gnowsis in this prerelease phase. Today i focussed on updating my foaf file. To do it right, I made some hacks:

* Written a Jena Model accessed another Jena Model through XML/RPC. Great to have models remote with a fingersnip.

* Written a ExoBot, that takes some Jena commands (liststatements, query, etc) and executes the commands to build a new model. Fine to do recursive queries and sub-queries.

* exo-foaf, my foaf file creator now talks to the gnowsis server through XML/RPC.

Result is a foaf file that finally looks like all the other foaf files out there.

https://www.gnowsis.com/leo/foaf.xml

17 work days left unti release...

I plan to publish the gnowsis alpha on 28th September, 12:00 berlin time.

So I still have 20 workdays to go, to ....

write the documentation, test it, build tarballs, write an installer, test it, drink coffee, hate my computer, write ontologies, hire new employees, obfuscate the dirty hacks, work on my todo lists, create new todos, hate todo lists, talk to developers, talk to my people, get the website running, get the website looking decent, test the website, use gnowsis, integrate our research project, write papers, love god + my neighbor + myself ...

So the time is not enough, but something will be done.

I will post updates here from time to time (probably daily) to keep you udpated and to keep myself on track.

hello world,

today is my 27th birthday. 30th of august.

I had to google some facts:
27
https://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&q=27

a conference
www.icps2004.org/

what you can do on "27th birthday"
google answers:
https://www.consultingp.com/~britt/bday04/
https://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pw240/Photo/BD2004.html

Cameron Diaz has also birthday
https://en.thinkexist.com/birthday/August_30/3_1.html

so inferencing from these interesting facts, I would say that I should drink something and post some photos. As I am in Kaiserslautern and my Rat Pack is in Vienna, drinking will be non-excessive.

We have the answer to ABBA:
how to save a kiss?

use the Kissology, the definite ontology for people who kissed each other.

simple, plain, kissology.

https://www.gnowsis.org/ont/kissology.html

RDFS:
https://www.gnowsis.org/ont/kissology

a good thing to ánnounce:

Jim Ley and me integrated www.foafnaut.org and www.gnowsis.com. a little foafnaut now runs here on my local dekstop and shows me my foaf network,

https://foafcamp.asemantics.org rules!

see more at this announcement
https://rdfweb.org/topic/FoafCampGnowsisAndFoafNaut

and the screenshots:

https://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~sauermann/2004_08_21_foafcamp/foafnaut_gnowsis.png

https://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~sauermann/2004_08_21_foafcamp/monochrom.png

https://www.manipulator.com/website/monkey/html/monkey_fs.html

great. posted on boingboing

yeah, foaf camp. Jip

cannot describe him, you have to check his site:
https://www.kwark.org/x/lsgfx