Source: Data2Semantics For over a year now, Data2Semantics organizes biweekly lunches for all COMMIT projects running at VU Amsterdam under the header ‘COMMIT@VU’. These projects are SEALINCMedia, EWIDS, METIS, e-Infrastructure Virtualization for e-Science Applications, Data2Semantics, and eFoodLab. On October 29th, we had a lively discussion about opportunities to collaborate across projects (see photo). Concretely: SEALINCMedia […]
Read MoreSource: Think Links From November 1 – 3, 2012, I attended the PLOS Article Level Metrics Workshop in San Francisco . PLOS is a major open-access online publisher and the publisher of the leading megajournal PLOS One. A mega-journal is one that accepts any scientifically sound manuscript. This means there is no decision on novelty […]
Read MoreSource: Data2Semantics A quick heads up on the progress of Data2Semantics over the course of the third quarter of 2012. Management summary: we have made headway in developing data enrichment and analysis tools that will have use in practice. First of all, we developed a first version of a tool for enriching and interlinking data […]
Read MoreSource: Think Links For International Open Access Week the VU University Amsterdam is working with other Dutch universities to provide information to academics on open access. Here’s a video they took of me talking about the relationship between open access and social media. The two go hand-in-hand! Filed under: academia, altmetrics Tagged: oa, oaweek, open […]
Read MoreSource: Think Links For the last 1.5 years, I’ve been working on the Open PHACTS project – a public private partnership for pharmacology data integration. Below is a good video from Lee Harland the CTO giving an overview of the project from the tech/pharma perspective. Filed under: academia
Read MoreSource: Think Links I just received 50 copies of this in the mail today: Literature is so much better in its electronic form but its still fun to get a physical copy. Most importantly, this proceedings represents scientific content and a scientific community that I’m proud to be be part of. You can obviously access […]
Read MoreSource: Think Links If you read this blog a bit, you’ll know I’m a fairly big fan of RDF as a data format. It’s really great for easily mashing different data sources together. The common syntax gets rid of a lot of headaches before you can start querying the data and you get nice things […]
Read MoreSource: Semantic Web world for you Here it is: the first fully featured release of SemanticXO! Use it in your activities to store and share any kind of structured information with other XOs. The installation procedure is easy and only requires and XO-1 running the operating system version 12.1.0. Go to the GIT repository and […]
Read MoreSource: Semantic Web world for you Reblogged from The World Wide Semantic Web: Opening of the festival (see more photos) This year Open Knowledge Festival took place in Helsinki between from September 17 and September 22. Victor de boer and myself (Christophe Guéret) went to this huge (1000 participants from 100 nations) conference to speak […]
Read MoreSource: Think Links Today, I was teaching the second class of our Semantic Web class here at the VU University Amsterdam on RDF and RDFS. After the first half of the class in a very warm lecture room, the students were fading. After a quick poll, we decided to take the course outside. So I […]
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