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- Notes from the Force11 annual conference
I attended the https://www.force11.org/ conference in Oxford the last couple of days (the conference was previously called ‘Beyond the PDF’). Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Individually and collectively, we aim to bring about […]
- Take control of your digital annotations with ResQuotes.com
Over the last weeks I had a chance to complete a personal project I’ve been working on for a while: www.resquotes.com. This is a personal information management site that allows one to collect and organise snippets of text (‘highlights’) made while reading digitally. It’s an alpha release, still much untested and rough around the edges, […]
- ISWC14 paper: a hybrid semantic publishing architecture combining XML and RDF
I’m posting here a short summary of the paper I’ve given at the last International Semantic Web conference in Riva del Garda (ISWC14) together with my colleague Tony Hammond. The presentation focused on an hybrid data architecture (XML for storage&querying, RDF for modeling&integration) which emerged as the most practical solution during the process of re-engineering […]
- Nature.com subject pages available online!
Subject pages are pages that aggregate content from across nature.com based on the tagging of that content by NPG subject ontology terms. After six months of work on this project we’ve finally launched the first release of the site, which is reachable online at http://www.nature.com/subjects. Hooray! This has been a particularly challenging experience cause I’ve […]
- Annotating the web with Scrible
Scrible is an online tool that allows one to add layers of annotations to webpages, save them in the cloud and share them with others. I had a quick go at it, it’s maybe a bit fiddly to do some of the annotations but the app is definitely feature rich and with lots of potential […]
- ESWC 2013 – report from the conference
Last week I attended the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC’13) in Montpellier and had a really good time meeting old friends and catching up with the latest research in this area. In this post I’ll collect a few pointers to papers and ideas that caught my attention. For a high level summary of the talks, […]
- Annual Bliss Classification Association Lecture: using faceted browsers in the DH
The Bliss Bibliographic Classification is a ‘fully faceted classification scheme that provides a detailed classification for use in libraries and information services of all kinds, having a broad and detailed structure and order’. Last week I was invited to give a talk at the annual Bliss Classification Association Lecture, held here in London at UCL […]
- Agile vs Waterfall… a few misconceptions revealed
Here’s a list of interesting concepts in software development. Now think about it, who do you think might have stated them so clearly? Design for Iteration: ..as each step progresses and the design is further detailed, there is an iteration with the preceding and succeeding steps… Get Feedback: If the computer program in question is […]
- 2012: a look back (for this blog)
With the end of the year comes the time of reviewing the progress made… and with this blog I can’t really complain! Thanks so much to all of you invisible internauts for stopping by and taking part in the conversation. It’s been a real pleasure contributing to this fantastic web of knowledge. In 2013 I’ll […]
- Teaching programming concepts visually with the Online Python Tutor
The Online Python Tutor is a Web-based program visualization for CS education, developed in collaboration with Google. It provides an easy-to-use online environment for writing code and testing it interactively. A great resource for teaching computer science concepts! As part of his CS education work at Google, Philip Guo has been developing an open-source educational […]