Recent Bookmarks 11-Aug-2009

Breaking the Cost Spiral
Robert Martin and Andrew Gillen. Inside Higher Ed. 07-Aug-2009.
“It has now become apparent that American higher education has an insatiable appetite for more money; it is a black hole that cannot be filled.”

Will Higher Education Ever Change as It Should?
Robert Zemsky. Chronicle of Higher Education. 03-August-2009.
“Can you imagine a dislodging event of sufficient magnitude that it breaks the gridlock that now holds hostage any attempt to reform higher education?”

Semantic Web Client Library
“The Sematic Web Client Library represents the complete Semantic Web as a single RDF graph. The library enables applications to query this global graph using SPARQL.”

Sig.ma – Live views on the Web of Data on Vimeo
‘Sig.ma is an experimental application that consumes and visualizes the ‘Web of Data’. Users can navigate and create mashups with information about any entity coming from possibly dozens of different but relevant sites.’