I got invited to the DRH 2003 Conference to provide a presentation on Managing the Semantic Web. The conference takes place from August 31 – September 3, my talk is scheduled at Tuesday, September 2.
UPDATE: Due to some urgent work for a customer, I had to cancel my talk at DRH 2003. Also Peter from DAASI did not have time to go there instead of mine. It’s a pitty because I was looking forward to the conference very much.
John Baronian from Edison Schools proposed Howard Gardner’s “Frames of Mind: The theory of multiple intelligences” to me and pointed me to the bibliography of Gardner writings. I plan to read it during my summer vacation.
Tim O’Really wrote some thoughts about network aware software [1]. With CONESYS [2], we provide a middleware and administration infrastructure for Content Management Systems that want to be able to connect with other applications via XML. For data exchange, it makes use of the OAI harvesting protocol. CONESYS will be presented at LinuxTag [4].
via blog.bitflux.ch [5]
[1] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3422
[2] http://www.conesys.net
[3] http://www.openarchives.org
[4] http://www.zzoss.com/weblog/index.php?m=200304#43
[5] http://blog.bitflux.ch/p1077.html
Jan Algermissen’s list of publicly available Topic Maps: http://www.topicmapping.com/registry.html
“At GooseWorks [1] we develop open source software that facilitates the widespread adoption of the topic maps paradigm, especially as specified in the draft ISO Reference Model for Topic Maps (the “RM”).”
Reto pointed me to the Jena Semantic Web Toolkit [1] which has some RDF-specific APIs and query language implemented. Jena is part of HP Labs Semantic Web Research [2].
via Reto Bachmann-Gmuer, private email
[1] http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/jena.htm
[2] http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/index.htm
Monday October 20 to Thursday October 23, 2003
Sundial Beach Resort, Sanibel â??Captiva Islands, Florida, USA
During my stay in NYC I bought two books which are next on my list of must-reads:
“AI Application Programming” by M. Tim Jones: Seems like a very worth read to dive deeper into artificial intelligence programming. The paperback says “Covers cutting edge AI concepts such as neural networks, genetic algorithms, intelligent agents, rules-based systems, ant algorithms, fuzzy logic, unsupervised learning algorithms, and more”. The code examples are easy to follow. Met by chance Bruce Lokeinsky (whom I have not known before) while waiting in the queue to pay. He looked at my book, we started chatting about the real benefit of AI technologies. We are both skeptical, but I am confident that the KISS paradigm (keep it small, simple) of the open source community might break down those mainly scientific concepts to what can be done and is useful in the Semantic Web.
“Working Knowledge. How Organizations Manage What They Know” by Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak: Florian Stahl from University of St. Gallen pointed me to this book – thanks Florian! Obviously a classic that I haven’t come across before. It’s a shame, there’s so much I should have read already. The problem is that I often forget what I have read. Oh not, it’s not gone, it’s there for intuitive thinking. I go with Einstein, who said that it’s not necessary to know everything, but to know where it is written… So, let’s read how organizations manage this problem 🙂
Weblogs and Discourse. Weblogs as a transformational technology for higher education and academic research, Blogtalk Conference Paper, Vienna, May 23rd-24th 2003, by Oliver Wrede:
“This paper discusses different questions of weblogs in context of higher education. It is focussing on three loosely coupled questions:
1. How can the weblog format improve discourse?
2. How it can weblogs support teaching at universities?
3. What are the insitutional benefits of weblogs in universities?
It seems obvious that these questions relate to each other and therefore probably should be discussed in context. The document grew out of a wild collection of speculative thoughts and notes. It is also based on some daily experience with weblogs in an educational setting.” [1]
[1] http://weblogs.design.fh-aachen.de/owrede/publikationen/weblogs_and_discourse
The metaphor of a desktop does not suffice the needs created in knowledge environments. What we need is a “natural” look and feel. Just like the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project [1] and Jo Walsh’s collaborative mapping project [2] suggest: we need to build neighborhoods of knowledge. Very appealing are maps of our minds and thoughts which are at best closely related to the “real” world we live in, because there we could relate information to geographical locations we know very well. The location itself serves as the two or maybe three dimensional context that the information is related to or derives its meaning from.
Why is geographical mapping of knowledge so appealing? Because the development of an indivduals knowledge has very much been influenced by its culture and its physical surroundings. Thus, virtual neighbourhoods of knowledge resemble this evolution and conform to our everyday experience of geographic environments, but also decouple communication from the physical location of the human being sharing his knowledge.
Sandro Groganz 