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Semantic Web: Video Interviews

Posted on November 15, 2010 by admin

A story about the Semantic Web:

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 | Leave a comment

Semantic Browsing of Video using Ontologies

Posted on November 11, 2010 by admin

Semantic browsing View more documents from Andrea Ferracani. Interesting presentation of a web-based tool for a semantic browsing of video collections, useful for media sharing networks like YouTube, Flickr and twitter…

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 | 1 Comment

Tangible Knowledge & Social Media

Posted on January 22, 2010 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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 | 2 Comments

Microformats for News Articles: the hNews Standard

Posted on November 23, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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 | 3 Comments

Collective Intelligence & Cyberspace

Posted on November 10, 2009 by admin

09 Ci Civilization View more documents from gloriagdiago. 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 … Continue reading →

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 | 5 Comments

Web Evolution & Social Media

Posted on October 28, 2009 by admin

The Magic of Social Networks View more presentations from Pew Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center. Nice slide presentation from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, about the evolution of the Web, with reference to social networks … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, collective intelligence, community, social media, social networking, web evolution | Tagged blogosphere, collective intelligence, community building, Cultural economics, Digital Revolution, internet, Knowledge Sharing & Collective Intelligence, Pew Research Center, Polling, Social information processing, social network, Technology/Internet | 2 Comments

Online Music & P2P Networks: artists-to-fans-to-artists

Posted on October 26, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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 | Leave a comment

Open Access Week for Web Resources

Posted on October 19, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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 | 1 Comment

Semantic Data: Twine and its Successor T2

Posted on October 9, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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 | Leave a comment

Semantic Web Search Engine: the SWSE Mission Statement

Posted on October 5, 2009 by admin

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…

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 | 1 Comment

Generative Movies & the Open Source Processing Software

Posted on September 23, 2009 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in art, collective intelligence, community, creativity, online collaboration, online video, open, video | Leave a comment

Remix Culture, Creative Commons & a Short Stories Project in Literature

Posted on September 15, 2009 by admin

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, … Continue reading →

Posted in art, collective intelligence, community, creative commons, creativity, online collaboration, online tools, open, social media, writing | Tagged creative commons, Remix, Technology/Internet | Leave a comment

Semantic Web: Some Key Points

Posted on September 1, 2009 by admin

Photo credit: Fotos by Dee 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 … Continue reading →

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 | 2 Comments

The Open Video Alliance, Open Source Video & the Kaltura Platform

Posted on July 30, 2009 by admin

video platform video management video solutions free video player 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 … Continue reading →

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 | 2 Comments

Remix Culture & Fair Use: Best Practices for Online Video

Posted on July 14, 2009 by admin

An interesting video I came across about the main issues concerning fair use, copyright, and video mashups. Highlights from my transcription below: We’re seeing this blossoming of amateur cultures, video remixes and creativity, and a lot of these works are … Continue reading →