Articles
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2024
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TAG Nominee Statement
I aspire to help the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) shape the web's technical direction, leveraging my expertise to address societal challenges while keeping the web decentralised and accessible to all.
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Linked Web Storage Invited Expert Request
For transparency, submitted an application to join the W3C Linked Web Storage (LWS) WG as an Invited Expert.
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2023
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Self-Review: Chairing
I reflect on my experience serving as the chair of a group, and mention some technical contributions as an editor, author, and implementer.
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okieli dokieli
dokieli is a socially-aware clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions with an ocean of open web standards at its disposal.
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2019
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2018
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Language and Connectivity
Using language as a technology to attach and detach.
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2017
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Linked Specifications, Test Suites, and Implementation Reports
Structure and linking of technical reports and implementation test results.
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i am here now
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Full Article, Immediate, Permanent, Discoverable, and Accessible to Anyone Free of charge
A proposed agreement to a third-party publisher.
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Decentralised Authoring, Annotations and Notifications for a Read-Write Web with dokieli
dokieli enables the write dimension of the Read-Write Web through decentralised authoring, annotations and notifications.
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2016
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Where is Web Science? From 404 to 200
This article outlines the socio-technical problem space of Web-based academic engagement, and presents a vision of a paradigm shift led by Web Science.
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Sparqlines: SPARQL to Sparkline
Sparqlines: linked statistical data observations fetched from SPARQL endpoints and displayed as inline-charts; sparklines.
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Linked Data Notifications
Linked Data Notifications (LDN) protocol describes the discovery of a resource's inbox to send and consume notifications from, and sending and storage of those notifications.
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2015
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Linked Research: An Approach for Scholarly Communication
Requirements for advancement towards a Web-based ecosystem for scholarly communication: Linked Research
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dokieli: decentralised authoring, annotations and social notifications
dokieli is built on open Web standards and the documents are compliant with Linked Data best practices, allowing: decentralised storage and data ownership.
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Webmention
This is my site’s webmention endpoint. Send POST requests with source, property (optional) and target (optional) parameters. It handles RDF and microformats 2 data patterns found at the source.
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Cooling Down Web Science
Research in Web science is focused on information printability - primarily requiring our vision. Native Web technologies are more flexible and enables our other senses.
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This ‘Paper’ is a Demo
Academic ‘papers’ in Web Science are archaic media forms, and are trying to exist and remain relevant in the age of interactive new media.
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2014
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Enabling Accessible Knowledge
To inspire and enable researchers to discover and share their knowledge using the native Web stack for maximum openness, accessibility, and flexibility.
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Call for Linked Research
To encourage the do it yourself behaviour for sharing and reusing research knowledge.
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Semantic Similarity and Correlation of Linked Statistical Data Analysis
Making sense of Linked Statistical Data and Analysis.
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2013
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Linked Statistical Data Analysis
A path to using federated queries, statistical analysis and reuse of statistical data.
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Linked Research
Linked Research is a proposal for Web researchers to use the technologies in the native Web stack to access, share and discover knowledge.
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Linked SDMX Data
Linked SDMX Data: Transformation of SDMX-ML to RDF/XML with Linked Data design principles.
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2012
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About Brigitte Schuster and Sarven Capadisli.
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Statistical Linked Dataspaces
Investigation of design and implementation of statistical Linked Dataspaces.
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Souvenirs from Lisbon
Short stories from Lisbon demonstrating a Linked Life.
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2011
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Mobile device not found
My personal reasons as to why I don't own a mobile device.
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How-to create a Linked Data site
An article about how-to create a Linked Data site using Fuseki and the Linked Data Pages framework.
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2010
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My path to DERI, Galway
How I ended up at DERI, Galway, Ireland: describing past experiences and future goals.
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One plus one equals three or more, and our experience
One plus one equals three or more (1 + 1 >= 3), in design and psychological experience.
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2009
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On Sarven's bookshelf
Items in Sarven’s library; books, articles, periodicals, journals, manifestos.
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Philosophy of city walking and life
How to walk in cities efficiently and find a personal life philosophy from it.
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2008
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How to reply back to coloured HTML emails
Emails containing text that is marked with HTML colours and why we should avoid them.
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Front-end developer or integrator role: technical assessment
Explanation of the technical qualificiation, responsibilities and nice to haves and sample interview questions for a front-end developer or integrator.
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Communication Protocols
Using the right communication protocols to minimise human cognitive load and improve human interaction.
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Microformats: misconceptions, problems and solutions
Understanding the microformats misconceptions and solving the most common problems on the Web for better semantic data representation.
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How to approach writing HTML
Writing HTML depends on the environment and discussion for the best approach: minimal and verbose.
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Web typography guide: readability and legibility
Overview on Web typography and how to improve reading experience for users by selecting the right typeface and values.
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HTML and human communication
Human language and communication, and our expectations from user-agents concerning error-handling in HTML.
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HTML overview: validity, conformance, semantics, order and relevancy
Summary of HTML by defining syntax, semantics and relationships in Web documents.
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Microformats introduction to content and user experience
An introduction to microformats: what they are, why we need them and briefly how to use them.
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2007
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Logo, identity information and document titles in HTML
Explanation of logo for branding and providing identity information with document headings in markup.
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Acknowledgment of systems and making choices
Understanding the scope of knowledge systems and acknowledging our need to make leaps of faith to make sense of our reality.
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Food service tricks for better tips
A list of simple serving habits for waiters, baristas and counter clerks to get better tips from their customers. Essential practices for the best customer experience can be improved.
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CSS specificity and selectors tutorial
CSS tutorial explaining specificity and selectors and how styles get applied in HTML documents. Understanding these core concepts can help integrators build well-written stylesheets.
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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a social networking platform
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) allows real-time social networking and it is a convenient way to interact with one another on the Web. Communicating more efficiently can be achieved with this technology.
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2006
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SEO guidelines for a site's internal structure
An SEO coverage on page relevancy and how to follow best web development practices for better rankings in search engine results pages.
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Soliloquy of the Solipsist by Sylvia Plath
A poem by Sylvia Plath: Soliloquy of the Solipsist. I? I walk alone; The midnight street Spins itself from under my feet; When my eyes shut, These dreaming houses all snuff out;
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Where are my Web Standards?
The Web standards movement endorses best practices in the development community. It is important to understand W3C recommendations' benefits and its shortcomings.
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CSS background order and W3C specification ambiguity in browsers
W3C specifications are interpreted by user-agents since the recommendations are ambigious and inconsistent. How can we minimize the confusion and establish a set of standards to be followed?
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Future of CSS Naked Day
CSS Naked Day event is established to promote Web Standards. This article proposes questions with respect to its future and adaptation of the movement.
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Googlebot anchor indexability test
Anchors within HTML headings do get crawled and indexed by Google. The dance from Google datacentres however may temporarily provide false information.
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2005
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Identical tabindex values and group iterations
Discussion on creating W3C's logical tab order among a group of tabable elements. An organized HTML requires no tabindexing which is the best solution.
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Google Deutschland stole my article
Google used to categorize a page's language by the type (language) of the most backlinks. An old article is no longer seen as a German (Deutsch).
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Mingling of the Lover and the Warrior
The warrior traditionally used to be seen as a lover that went through life by sacrifice, compassion, partnership and a strive towards elegance.
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Dandelion design for Web site
Dandelion site design made from a black and white photograph.
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Five Months
The relationship of events all corresponding to number five in these series.
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Mirror and Self
Is our mind merely a reflection of the external world? What is the relationship between the self and the mirror?
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Interview with Steven Pemberton
Is text/html mime-type harmful for XHTML? This interview asks Steven Pemberton some of the questions surrounding XHTML and its use.
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The Complexity of Web Development (part 1)
Look at the complexity involving Web Development especially in the case of using a template driven programming. A mathematical proof is provided.
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Hide email address in source code
A list of methods to hide email address from spam harvester bots using; css, javascript, forms, images, obfuscation, authentication, unicode, encryption, flash and more. Each technique is explained with their advantages and downfalls.
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Three Significant Modes of Human Organisation and Learning
The misconceptions of religions are all around us. I believe in its true sense this passage illustrates the false common views about religion and how to look at it more objectively.
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tr Border Trick for IE (Internet Explorer)
A way to apply tr table borders in Internet Explorer (IE6). There is a trick without any hacks.
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How to reach your site's audience (part 1)
A coverage on Web technologies and how to use them properly on Web sites. Illustrating the points on how to identify and pick the proper technologies for implementation.
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2004
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Site upgrades, modifications and other funny stuff
An update on the site covering general areas which has been modified.
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The paths which lead me into standards-compliant practices
A short overview looking at the roots of an approach to standards-compliant design and the site author's steps into this practice.
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Lorem Ipsum
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old.
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About Sarven Capadisli and csarven.ca
I am Sarven Capadisli and this Web site contains a collection of my thoughts and interests.
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1978
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mu in Zen philosophy
The term 'mu' is used as a response to nullify a question in Zen philosophy and offers an opportunity for the individual to reflect, grow, and strengthen ones mind, body and soul.
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