Category: Social Software
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Tales From the SIOC-O-Sphere #10
SIOC is a Social Semantic Web project that originated at DERI, NUI Galway (funded by SFI) and which aims to interlink online communities with semantic technologies. You can read more about SIOC on the Wikipedia page for SIOC or in this paper. But in brief, SIOC provides a set of…
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Book launch for "The Social Semantic Web"
We had the official book launch of “The Social Semantic Web” last month in the President’s Drawing Room at NUI Galway. The book was officially launched by Dr. James J. Browne, President of NUI Galway. The book was authored by myself, Dr. Alexandre Passant and Prof. Stefan Decker from the…
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Another successful defense by Uldis Bojars in November
Uldis Bojars submitted his PhD thesis entitled “The SIOC MEthodology for Lightweight Ontology Development” to the University in September 2009. We had a nice night out to celebrate in one of our favourite haunts, Oscars Bistro. This was followed by a successful defense at the end of November 2009. The…
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Haklae Kim and his successful defense in September
This is a few months late but better late then never! We said goodbye to PhD researcher Haklae Kim in May of this year when he returned to Korea and took up a position with Samsung Electronics soon afterward. We had a nice going away lunch for Haklae with the…
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Call for bid proposals for hosting BlogTalk 2010 / 2011: The International Conference on Social Software
BlogTalk, the International Conference on Social Software, is designed to allow dialogue between practitioners, developers and academics who are involved in the area of social software (blogs, wikis, forums, IM, social networks, microblogging, etc.). As well as a programme of peer-reviewed presentations, BlogTalk features prominent speakers from successful social media…
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Some of my (very) preliminary opinions on Google Wave
I was interviewed by Marie Boran from Silicon Republic recently for an interesting article she was writing entitled “Will Google Wave topple the e-mail status quo and change the way we work?“. I thought that maybe my longer answers may be of interest and am pasting them below. Disclaimer: My…
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Open government and Linked Data; now it's time to draft…
For the past few months, there have been a variety of calls for feedback and suggestions on how the US Government can move towards becoming more open and transparent, especially in terms of their dealings with citizens and also for disseminating information about their recent financial stimulus package. As part…
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BlogTalk 2009 (6th International Social Software Conference) – Call for Proposals – September 1st and 2nd – Jeju, Korea
BlogTalk 2009 The 6th International Conf. on Social Software September 1st and 2nd, 2009 Jeju Island, Korea Overview Following the international success of the last five BlogTalk events, the next BlogTalk – to be held in Jeju Island, Korea on September 1st and 2nd, 2009 – is continuing with its…
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"The Social Semantic Web": now available to pre-order from Springer and Amazon
Our forthcoming book entitled “The Social Semantic Web”, to be published by Springer in Autumn 2009, is now available to pre-order from both Springer and Amazon. An accompanying website for the book will be at socialsemanticweb.net.
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Tales from the SIOC-o-sphere part #9
It’s been another exciting six months in terms of SIOC-related developments. Here’s a summary: In today’s blog post entitled “Obama?s Groundbreaking use of the Semantic Web“, David Peterson references a recent presentation by George Thomas about recovery.gov at Transparency Camp where he details a variety of Semantic Web technologies (including…