This is a brief note on my perception of the ISO 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) standard, including my perception of its relation to W3C Semantic Web standards.

I enjoyed Rich Hickey’s talk on deconstructing the database, whereby he shows an unbundling of the concerns of transaction processing and durable storage from the concerns of a query engine, of live indexing, and of caching.

Eliot is a Python logging system that outputs a stream of JSON objects detailing causal chains of actions.

What matters for application of knowledge – what substantiates it? I think two things do: shared conceptualizations, and use cases.