- ARCHIVE / Information Architecture
- GAE SQL Designer
GAE SQL designer is a simple app that allows you to Draw E-R designs, Edit tables and rows, Manage keys, Create relations (FK constraints), Save & Load designs and Import DB schemas. Finally – it’s online and it’s free! Check it out at http://gaesql.appspot.com/ (docs).
- Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project
Monday morning, I’m trying to re-structure the knowledge base about wittgenstein according to the re-newed version of the ontology. It’s not as much fun as playing guitar, but i gotta do it anyway! But some good news came in too: the project for semanticiz-ing (my word) the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is getting more robust, […]
- Modeling Representations (take 2)
I wrote something in the last weeks about the difficulties related to the modeling of representations and their contents. So today I just read this article by Stefano Mazzocchi, which basically hints at the same issue, but from an ‘RDF perspective’. It’s a very interesting article, so I just wanted to quote and comment a […]
- Ontology of Representations
It’s been three days that I’m struggling with concepts of content, form, representation and so on.. I wonder whether there’s a well-formalized theory of representations out there.. the one in DOLCE is a useful design pattern, but I’m still reluctant to say that it is complete (I hope I’ll find out to be wrong). Another […]
- 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 […]
- Compendium vs Nestor
Spent some time trying to figure out the key features of two knowledge-organization tools, Compendium and Nestor. Here is a an initial report on them.. Compendium http://compendium.open.ac.uk/institute/ Compendium has a database in the background so all the searches are faster and more efficient, plus it is strongly based on argumentation theory. That means that you […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
