- ARCHIVE / November, 2006
- Knowledge Elicitation: playing with cards
If you want to work with knowledge, you need firstly to ‘extract’ it. No doubt about that. There’re various techniques for doing this, and a whole research area called knowledge elicitation. I’ve recently had an inspiring meeting with Gordon Rugg, who convinced me it was worth spending time to validate my ontology, using a card […]
- The Nora Project
The Nora Project aims at putting together a big pool of digital texts in the humanities in order to develop and test data mining techniques specific to this domain. Various collaborations with other institutions have provided them already a testbed of about 10,000 literary texts in English, from the 19th century, or about 5 GB […]
- Pathway: Wiki Semantic Navigator
Just found a very cool app that lets you organize and store the navigation on any mediawiki site, Pathway. It basically represents visually the link’s structure of a wiki-page, all the departing nodes centered around the page of interest. The whole navigation can thus be stored in the form of a a net with nodes […]
- MultimediaN semantic navigator
Winner of the Semantic Web challenge 2006, the MultimediaN e-Culture demonstrator looks at […] the development of a set of e-culture demonstrators providing multimedia access to distributed collections of cultural heritage objects. The demonstrators are intended to show various levels of syntactic and semantic interoperability between collections and various types of personalized and context–dependent presentation […]
- Web 3.0 ?
Just read an article by John Markoff, in the New York Times. I always like to discover new attempts to introduce and describe the semantic web research to the non-orthodox … The projects aimed at creating Web 3.0 all take advantage of increasingly powerful computers that can quickly and completely scour the Web. “I call […]
- Free learning resources from the OU
The Open Learn project has been launched not many weeks ago: The Open University’s commitment to broadening access to education is being taken to another level with the launch of OpenLearn, its major new open content initiative. The OpenLearn website will make educational resources freely available on the internet, with state of the art learning […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
