- ARCHIVE / Semantic Web
- How semantic is the semantic web?
Just read this article thanks to a colleague: I share pretty much everything it says about the SW, so I though it wouldn’t be too bad to pass it on to the next reader. Basically, it is about some very fundamental issues: what do we mean by semantics? Does a computer have semantics? If not, […]
- DBpedia rocks
It’s not the only semweb repository out there, but for sure it’s the more interesting. The whole wikipedia has been translated into RDF and made queryable through SPARQL.. lots of potential mashups waiting to be discovered! At the moment i’m looking at integrating the philosophy KB i’ve created with information from there… but I hope […]
- What can the analytical engine do? Ask Charles Babbage..
I recently read the original article of Charles Babbage – which deals with the work he and Lady Ada Augusta Countess of Lovelace did on the Analytical Engine, one of the (mechanical) predecessors of the modern computer – thanks to a blog post from David Dodds. I guess that his position is representative of that […]
- Discovery: philosophy in the digital Era
It looks like the semantic web rumor is spreading out fast, also in the philosophy circles: Discovery is co-financed by the European Commission under the eContentplus programme and was launched in November 2006. It has a twofold aim: to prepare an extensive collection of scholarly editions of primary sources and scholarly contributions for the study […]
- Article: “The Semantic Web: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence Redux”
Just read a very interesting article from Harry Halpin, whose work stays at the borderline between history of science (of computer science especially I gather) and (S)Web development. I think it should be a must-read for all SW practitioners, so to understand where we (yes – I’m part of them..) stand in relation to the […]
- Carnap on “syntax”
I’m afraid this is just in italian, for now. It comes from the wonderful Abbagnano dictionary: SINTASSI: La scienza che studia le forme grammaticali o logiche del linguaggio: intendendosi per forme le loro possibilita di combinazione. Piu in particolare la S. logica di un linguaggio e’ stata definita da Carnap come “la teoria formale delle […]
- NINES : SW faceted browser – by SpecLab
I tried it out last night, and the interface seems really rich and powerful. It’s NINES, a new digital scholarship tool that puts together SW and collaborative tagging in an application targeted and USABLE by anyone, I believe. Worth trying out.. N I N E S stands for a Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship, […]
- Lisp conference in Cambridge
Only 120£ for students!!! It’s the International Lisp conference 2007 Some of the talks will be about: Jans Aasman, Scalable Lisp Applications Richard Jones, Dynamic Memory Management John Mallery, Lisp/CL-HTTP Ralf Moeller, Building a Commercial OWL Reasoner with Lisp Christian Queinnec, Teaching CS to undergraduates at UPMC Manuel Seranno, HOP: An Environment for Developing Web2.0 […]
- Text Encoding Initiative – a historical paper
I read this interesting paper from Allen Renear, met at SoSornet-06 a few weeks ago in London. Theory and Metatheory in the Development of Text Encoding, Allen Renear, Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University November 3, 1995. I just managed to put my hands on an old working draft, but it seems complete. It’s a seminal […]
- 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 […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
