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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 […]
- Using Impromptu to visualize RSS feeds
Some time ago I’ve been experimenting with the processing and display of RSS feeds within Impromptu, and as a result I built a small app that retrieves the news feed from The Guardian online and displays on a canvas. I’ve had a bit of free time these days, so last night I thought it was […]
- Event: THATcamp Kansas and Digital Humanities Forum
The THATcamp Kansas and Digital Humanities Forum happened last week at the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, which is part of the University of Kansas in beautiful Lawrence. I had the opportunity to be there and give a talk about some recent stuff I’ve been working on regarding digital prosopography and computer ontologies, […]
- Python links (and more) 7/2/11
This post contains just a collection of various interesting things I ran into in the last couple of weeks… they’re organized into three categories: pythonic links, events and conferences, and new online tools. Hope you’ll find something of interest! Pythonic stuff: Epidoc Epydoc is a handy tool for generating API documentation for Python modules, based […]
- 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 […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
