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- SN SciGraph: latest website release make it easier to discover related content
The latest release of SN SciGraph Explorer website includes a number of new features that make it easier to navigate the scholarly knowledge graph and discover items of interest. Graphs are essentially composed by two kinds of objects: nodes and edges. Nodes are like the stations in a train map, while edges are the links that […]
- Navigating through the people of medieval Scotland… one step at a time
Navigating through the people of medieval Scotland… one step at a time! This is, in a nutshell, what users can do via the Dynamic Connections Cloud application, a prototype tool I’ve been working on recently, in the context of the People of Medieval Scotland project (PoMS), which was launched last week at the University of […]
- 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 […]
- A Random Walk through the 20th Century
I wanted to post something about this since a long time ago, but never got down to it. A random walk through the 20th century is an old narrative/hypermedia system, dates back to 1996, realized by a bunch of people in MIT around the influence/direction of Glorianna Davenport. This hyper-portrait introduces the audience to a […]
- Review: Automatist storyteller systems and the shifting sands of story, by G. Davenport and M. Murtaugh
A few notes after reading a seminal paper (1997) by MIT research Glorianna Davenport on ‘storyteller systems’. I would say that these systems can be seen as the precursors of current systems that support semantic exploration through stories (the only difference is the technology being used). This is a very good article in terms of […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
