About the social semantic web
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New Springer-Book: Social Semantic Web
It took a while and I was waiting for the book to come like a child waiting for Christmas. But now it´s out – our new book: Social Semantic Web (Web 2.0 – was nun?). Web 2.0 – and now? This question is answered by 49 authors in 24 articles. One hypothesis which is discussed … Continue reading
Digital natives are here…
When Nova Spivack says: “It’s the wisdom of crowds and the wisdoms of computers working together” it sounds a bit like a romantic imagination of a young man or – more likely – it sounds like the next new marketing slogan. Crowds can´t be wise at all. It´s always a single human being who is … Continue reading
The “career” of a website can be strange sometimes…
When I first stumbled upon “StumbleUpon” about two years ago or so, I was fascinated by the idea of this application using “collaborative filtering” – the wisdom of the crowd. But after a while more and more friends were using del.icio.us, which wasn´t that brilliant at all to my opinion but simply more often used. … Continue reading
Is there a Social Semantic Web?
From September 26 – 27 a Conference on the Social Semantic Web (CSSW) will be held in Leipzig. The conference will end with a panel discussion on the question “Is there a Social Semantic Web?”. My opinion is: Yes, there is only a social semantic web. The internet as a whole is of course a … Continue reading
Reminder: Call for papers TRIPLE-I
TRIPLE-I The Innovation Conference for Knowledge Management, New Media Technology and Semantic Technologies 5 – 7 September 2007 Graz, Austria http://www.triple-i.info The TRIPLE-I Conference series is a joint venture of the conferences I-KNOW – International Conference on Knowledge Management I-MEDIA – International Conference on New Media Technology I-SEMANTICS – International Conference on … Continue reading
Nova Spivack gave an interview…
Nova Spivack gave an interview to the Semantic Web School where he points out again, that it´s time to bring the Semantic Web to ordinary non-technical end-users. Read more….
Vilém Flusser`s comments on Web 2.0
The always inspiring Flusser has anticipated Web 2.0 about 15 years ago: His “telematic society” is what we call the blogosphere today. “Social network dialogues would no longer be dominated by discourses, but would be fully dialogic and supported in their democratic character by a technological infrastructure that is organized itself as network dialogue.” (C. … Continue reading
Semantic Puzzle
- Re-vamped PoolParty Knowledge Discoverer has been releasedPoolParty team has released a brandnew version of its knowledge discoverer to showcase the power of knowledge models in combination with linked data and text mining. First of all: PoolParty Knowledge Discoverer is more about collecting context information about documents … Continue reading →
- Has Google hi-jacked the Semantic Web?Just recently Google has launched the ‘Knowledge Graph‘ (GKG) which “understands real-world entities and their relationships to one another: things, not strings.” Has Google hi-jacked the idea of the ‘Semantic Web’ or at least its vocabulary? Sean Golliher has compared … Continue reading →
- PoolParty PowerTagging – bringing semantics to enterprisesPoolParty PowerTagging (PPP) is on its way: By extending Confluence´s label management, new application scenarios which make use of content recommendation and semantic indexing will be supported soon. PPP will be published at this year´s Atlassian Summit and at SemTechBiz … Continue reading →
- Exploiting Big Data: Linked Data and SKOSYesterday I gave a webinar covering the question which role SKOS plays in the linked data game. Just the day before I discovered an interesting white paper published by Fujitsu which clearly states that linked data and SKOS are excellent … Continue reading →
- reegle.info – linked (open) energy data cloudAccess to the latest high quality information on renewables, energy efficiency and climate change is fundamental to the acceleration of the clean energy marketplace, facilitating investments, promoting new legislation and regulations and broadening interest and knowledge in the sector. reegle.info … Continue reading →
- LOD2 Plenary Vienna (March 2012) – 3rd day – afternoon sessionPromising title. After two and a half day (well for almost all of us) we entered the final phase of the plenary. So two and a half days of intense and interesting discussions catching up with all that has been … Continue reading →
