Source: Think Links Sunbelt is the annual meeting for Social Network Analysis researchers. It’s been going on since 1981 (a couple of years before analyzing twitter graphs became hip) and this year it’s being held in Tampa. Two of my colleagues-Julie Birkholz and Shenghui Wang- are attending and presenting some joint work. The abstracts are below. If […]
Read MoreSource: Semantic Web world for you Google recently announced a new project, named the Google Art, which give access to paints from around the world in very high definition. It also provides some information related to these paintings.This is a very cool service but the data is not provided in a machine-friendly way. So we […]
Read MoreSource: Think Links In preparation for Science Online 2011, I was asked by Mark Hahnel from over at Science 3.0 if I could do some analysis of the blogs that they’ve been aggregating since Octobor (25 thousand posts from 1506 authors). Mark along with Dave Munger will be talking more about the role/importance of aggregators […]
Read MoreSource: Semantic Web world for you Althought being commonly depicted as one giant graph, the Web of Data is not a single entity that can be queried. Instead, it’s a distributed architecture made of different datasets each providing some triples (see the LOD Cloud picture and CKAN.net). Each of these data source can be queried […]
Read MoreSource: Think Links The university where I work asks us to register all our publications for the year in a central database [1]. Doing this obviously made me think of doing an ego search on my academic papers. Plus, it’s the beginning of the year, which always seems like a good time to look at […]
Read MoreWe are glad to announce that the LarKC Platform Release v2.0 is now available in our repository on SourceForge. The redistributable package can be downloaded via the following URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/larkc/files/Release-2.0/larkc-release-2.0.zip/download (OS independent) The source code belonging to this release can be checked out from SVN: http://larkc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/larkc/branches/Release_2.0_prototype/platform/ A complete manual for both users and developers can […]
Read MoreSource: Think Links One of the nice things about using cloud services is that sometimes you get a feature that you didn’t expect. Below is a nice set of stats from WordPress.com about how well Think Links did in 2010. I was actually quite happy with 12 posts – one post a month. I will […]
Read MoreSource: Semantic Web world for you A few days ago, I posted about SemanticXO and how you will see how to install a TripleStore on your XO. Here are the steps to follow to compile&install RedStore on the XO, put some triples in it and issue some queries. The following has been tested with an […]
Read MoreSource: Semantic Web world for you The three XOs received for the project The project One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has provided millions of kids world wide with a low-cost connected laptop helping them to enhance their knowledge and develop learning skills. Learning a foreign language, getting an introduction to reading/writting or preserving/revive an endangered/extinct […]
Read MoreSource: Semantic Web world for you This is the first post on this blog, aimed at giving and pointing to information about the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web (or Web 3.0) is a new technology and research topic aimed at putting more semantic into the Web as we know it. The changes are happening, in […]
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