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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 […]
- Working toward meritocracy in Italy
It’s no news that thousands of italian researchers left their home-country in order to be able to carry on doing what they like; the news though is that now we’re got also a scientific study shedding some light on the phenomena. It’s been done by the Via Academy, an association dedicated to the creation of […]
- Social Reference Manager: Mendeley
A colleague mentioned the existence of Mendeley to me – a new and free reference manager. I’ve stuck with Papers for a while and was really really happy with it, but I have to admit that Mendeley seems to have quite a few cool features there. For example: 1) it’s free (and hopefully it’ll remain […]
- 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, […]
- 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 […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
