Source: Think Links It’s nice to see where I work (VU University Amsterdam) putting out some nifty promotional videos on YouTube. Here are two from the Computer Science department and the Network Institute both of which I’m happy to be part of. Filed under: academia Tagged: computer science, network institute, vu university amsterdam
Read MoreSource: Semantic Web world for you I’m currently spending some time at Yahoo labs in Barcelona to work with Peter Mika and his team on data analysis. Last week, I was invited to give a seminar on how we perform network-based analysis of Linked Data at the VU. The slides are embedded at the end […]
Read MoreSource: Think Links This past Tuesday, I had the opportunity to give a webinar for Elsevier Labs giving an overview of altmetrics. It was a fun opportunity to talk to people who have a great chance to influence the next generation of academic measurement. The slides are embedded below. At the VU, we are also […]
Read MoreSource: Think Links This past Tuesday, I had the opportunity to give a webinar for Elsevier Labs giving an overview of altmetrics. It was a fun opportunity to talk to people who have a great chance to influence the next generation of academic measurement. The slides are embedded below. At the VU, we are also […]
Read MoreWe have opened up a Data2Semantics GitHub organisation for publishing all (open source) code produced within the Data2Semantics project. Point your browser (or Git client) to http://github.com/Data2Semantics for the latest and greatest!
Read MoreThe COMMIT programme was officially kicked-off by Maxime Verhagen, minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation at the ICTDelta 2011 event held at the World Forum on November 16, in The Hague. Throughout the day, members of the Data2Semantics project manned a very busy stand in the foyer, featuring prior and current work by the […]
Read MoreSource: Semantic Web world for you Scaling is often a central question for data intensive projects, making use of Semantic Web technologies or not, and SemanticXO is no exception to that. The triple store is used as a back end for the Journal of Sugar, which is a central component recording the usage of the […]
Read MoreSource: Think Links The Journal of Web Semantics recently published a special issue on Using Provenance in the Semantic Web edited by myself and Yolanda Gil. (Vol 9, No 2 (2011)). All articles are available on the journal’s preprint server. The issue highlights top research at the intersection of provenance and the Semantic Web. The […]
Read MoreThe Botari application from the LarKC project has won the Open Track of the Semantic Web Challenge. Botari is a LarKC workflow running on servers in Seoul, plus a user frontend that runs on a Galaxy Tab. The workflow combines open data from the city of Seoul (Open Street Map, POI’s) with twitter traffic and combines […]
Read MoreSource: Semantic Web world for you Over the last couple of years, we have engineered a fantastic data sharing technology based on open standards from the W3C: Linked Data. Using Linked Data, it is possible to express some knowledge with a set of facts and connect the facts together to build a network. Having such […]
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