- ARCHIVE / Semantic Web
- A few useful Linked Data resources
Done a bit of semantic web work in the last couple of weeks, which gave me a chance to explore better the current web-scenario around this topic. I’m working on some example applications myself, but in the meanwhile I thought I’d share here a couple of quite useful links I ran into. Development Tools: Quick […]
- Survey of Pythonic tools for RDF and Linked Data programming
In this post I’m reporting on a recent survey I made in the context of a Linked Data project I’m working on, SAILS. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a data model and language which is quickly gaining momentum in the open-data and data-integration worlds. In SAILS we’re developing a prototype for rdf-data manipulation and […]
- KR workshop #2: introducing CIDOC-CRM and FRBR-OO
This is the second appointment with the knowledge representation seminar we’re having at CCH (Kings College, London). If you are in the area and are interested in taking part in this, please drop me an email. We’re looking at these topics from the specific perspective of the digital humanities, but even if your take on […]
- Knowledge Representation workshop @ CCH
Last month or so I started a Knowledge Representation workshop with my colleagues at CCH. The basic idea is to take a broad perspective on the various topics related to KR, and then focus on the digital humanities so to see how these approaches and technologies can be best applied to our domain. What is […]
- Getting back to the ontological work..
I’ll be working in Osaka for three months on ontologizing a couple of datasets with the help of Riichiro Mizoguchi. This means that I’ll have enough time to revise various notions about ontology engineering during this period. Here’s a first and fundamental one, regarding the difference between ontologies and data models: The difference between ontologies […]
- Logic and Ontology
I found an interesting article on the SEP this morning, it seemed to me well written and clearly argumented. ‘Logic and ontology‘, by Thomas Hofweber. Defining logic and ontology is not an easy thing – maybe because it is just a truism to say that there is one unifying view of what they they are. […]
- Layer the web with Blerp!
I really dig the concept – but after playing with it for a little I think that the whole thing is still too convoluted (lots of forms to fill in, popups etc.). Ideally, I’d just like to go to a website and start off the discussion, using their terminology, annotate it. Anyways, definitely worth having […]
- A Sneak Preview of Wolfram Alpha
It’s the new brainchild of Stephen Wolfram, author of Mathematica. It does look impressive in my opinion – can’t wait to try it live (due to launch some time in may)! Defined as a Computational Knowledge Engine. It does an awful lot of number-crunching but looks more as a giant closed database than a distributed […]
- New Book on Knowledge Technologies
A new interesting book on Knowledge Technologies from Nick Milton is available online. It is meant to be read also by novices so it’s deliberately not too technical or complex. I had a quick look at it this morning, and I think that it is interesting even for who’s already familiar with all this stuff, […]
- Epistemic Logic
It’s nice when a few people’s interests happen to converge. You start tackling problems together, and learning as a group. This is what happened KMi recently with the Epistemic Logic interest group. We’ve decided to start a seminar, trying to make sense of the ‘epistemic logic‘ area and possibly draw some useful tips from it. […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
