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Semantic Web: Video Interviews
Posted in browser, linked data, online search, online video, semantic web, Uncategorized, video, web evolution
Tagged Abraham Bernstein, Alon Halevy, Alon Y. Halevy, British people, Chris Dixon, Clay Shirky, Computing, David Karger, David Weinberger, Entertainment/Culture, Jason Shellen, John Hebeler, Kate Ray, Lee Feigenbaum, New encyclopedism, Nova Spivack, NYU, semantic web, semantic web service, Tim Berners-Lee, Web Search Engine, web searches, Weinberger, World Wide Web, World Wide Web Consortium
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Semantic Browsing of Video using Ontologies
Semantic browsing
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Interesting presentation of a web-based tool for a semantic browsing of video collections, useful for media sharing networks like YouTube, Flickr and twitter… (Read more…)
Posted in browser, online search, online tools, online video, semantic web, social media, video, web evolution
Tagged Andrea Ferracani, collective intelligence, Giuseppe Serra, Information, Information science, Internet application, Knowledge engineering, Knowledge representation, Marco Bertini, Marco Meoni, media sharing networks, Microformat, Ontology, PDF, semantic web, Social Media Ventures Inc, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, web evolution, Web-based semantic browsing, web-based tool, World Wide Web, YouTube Inc
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Tangible Knowledge & Social Media
Here’s an interesting description by D. Roberts about social media as a collection of knowledge assets that have to be organized, in order to achieve what he calls “Tangible Knowledge, the Holy grail of finance”.
Some highlights from my transcription below. (Read more…)
Posted in collective intelligence, community, online collaboration, online video, social media, social networking, web evolution
Tagged Artificial intelligence, collective intelligence, Culture, Cyberspace, finance, Futurology, Holy Grail, Information Age, Innovation, Knowledge, knowledge management, knowledge sharing, Philosophy, Science, social media, Superorganisms
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Microformats for News Articles: the hNews Standard
A new microformat for online news has been developed by the Media standards Trust and the Web Science Reaseach Initiative: it’s called hNews.
The goal is to make relevant elements of news articles machine-readable, and at the same time, to disply these metadata in a user-friendly format. (Read more…)
Posted in data portability, linked data, online search, semantic web, social media, social networking, web access, web evolution
Tagged HNews, Index term, Information retrieval, Knowledge representation, Metadata, Microformat, online news, Semantic HTML, semantic web, Technology/Internet, Web Science Reaseach Initiative
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Collective Intelligence & Cyberspace
09 Ci Civilization
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Interesting slides, that
“introduce the necessity of a new language that can set a link between the machine process of cyberspace and the uman collective intelligence, which is dynamic, in constant change and made in different languages, from different approaches.”
Posted in blogging, collective intelligence, community, creativity, online collaboration, open, social networking, web evolution, writing
Tagged collective intelligence, Information science, Knowledge representation, Ontology, Semantic interoperability, semantic web, semantics, Technical communication, Technology/Internet
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Online Music & P2P Networks: artists-to-fans-to-artists
A new blog is officially online for discussing music on the Web, with debates on payments to artists and issues related to copyright.
It’s called a2f2a (artists to fans to artists), and here’s the mission statement as stated on the blog page: (Read more…)
Posted in art, community, creativity, new business models, online collaboration, online music, p2p, social media, social networking, web evolution
Tagged Billy Bragg, digital music, Entertainment/Culture, Music Platform Relaunch Open Source/Free Music, official web site, online music, p2p, Selling Music Online Online Music Studio, technological solution, Technology/Internet
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Open Access Week for Web Resources
The first International Open Access Week is scheduled to take place October 19-23; it is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research.
This includes access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public.
So, what exactly is Open Access? (Read more…)
Posted in network neutrality, online collaboration, online search, online tools, open, web access, web evolution
Tagged Academia, Academic publishing, Access, Education, Open access, Open Access movement, Public Knowledge Project, Public Library of Science, Publishing, Scholarly Publiching & Academic Resource Coalition, Technology/Internet, the Public Library of Science, web access
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Semantic Data: Twine and its Successor T2
Hopefully by the end of the year, the semantic search technology of Twine will make a further step into the construction of structured data on the Web, and its successor T2 will be released.
From an interview with Nova Spivack (CEO of Radar Networks, the company behind Twine) we can argue four main points: (Read more…)
Posted in collective intelligence, community, linked data, online collaboration, online search, search engine, semantic web, social networking, web evolution
Tagged dozen search results, Nova Spivack, Radar Networks, RDF, RDFa, Semantic search, semantic search technology, semantic web, Technology/Internet, Twine, Web standards, World Wide Web
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Semantic Web Search Engine: the SWSE Mission Statement
I’d like to quote the mission statement from the SWSE homepage, a “Semantic Web Search Engine” project attempting to crawl the web of data – including RSS, FOAF, RDF vocabularies… (Read more…)
Posted in data portability, linked data, online tools, search engine, semantic web, web evolution
Tagged Computing, FOAF, HTML, Ontology, RDF, Resource Description Framework, RSS, search engine, Semantic publishing, Semantic search, Semantic technology, semantic web, SWSE Official, Technology/Internet, Web Search Engine, World Wide Web
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Generative Movies & the Open Source Processing Software
The Snail on the Slope from tadar on Vimeo.
The video above is a generative movie developed with Processing 1.0, and based on a book of the same title by the Strugatsky brothers.
Processing 1.0 is an open source programming language and environment, created by Ben Fry and Casey Reas to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. (Read more…)
Remix Culture, Creative Commons & a Short Stories Project in Literature
A Brisbane-based, international remixable literature project named Remix My Lit released this summer their first publication, “Through the Clock’s Workings”: it’s defined as the world’s first remixed and remixable anthology of literature.
That means you have the rights to download, share, reuse the book as you wish – obviously for free – under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license (Attribution – Non Commercial – ShareAlike)… (Read more…)
Semantic Web: Some Key Points
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The Semantic Web is primarily an infrastructure technology that will bring new informations to the Web, helping to link sites to each other & to create more information that can be somehow “understood” by the computer. This is supposed to happen through an actual integration with the current Web.
Posted in blogging, linked data, online search, semantic web, social media, web evolution
Tagged Calais, Freebase, linked data, RDFa, Semantic search, semantic web, Technology/Internet, Twine
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The Open Video Alliance, Open Source Video & the Kaltura Platform
Kaltura is an open source video platform, from its video codec to its back-end systems for uploading, hosting, embedding, syndicating, analyzing and inserting advertisements into videos.
Anyone can use the code for free: clients pay only for custom installation, integration, and support, depending on their level of traffic.
Kaltura is also co-founder of the Open Video Conference that took place in NYC on June 19-20, along with the Participatory Culture Foundation, Yale Internet Society Project and iCommons.
So, what is actually Open Video? (Read more…)
Posted in art, community, creativity, online collaboration, online video, open, social media, video
Tagged creativity, Entertainment/Culture, online video, open source, open video, Technology/Internet
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