Technology writing by Ian Piper

For 22 years I've used this site to publish the work of Tellura Information Services. I'm now retiring, but will continue to publish my articles here. Feel free to browse around and read.

The latest article set on here is about using the popular and powerful Xojo tool. Xojo is a cross-platform development system, creating native applications for MacOS, Windows, Linux, IOS, Android and the web with a common code base. These articles are on how to make this easy-to-use system even more friendly by creating templated applications, where a lot of the hard work has already been done.

I've also published a series of articles on designing and building content graphs, focusing on practical architectural design and implementation.

Just enough SKOS

In this article I'll be describing the Simple Knowledge Organisation System (usually abbreviated to SKOS, and that's how I'll be referring to it from now…

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