From the smoking cauldrons in Arlington comes an effort to track every electronic, and some not so electronic, bit of data surrounding a persons life. The electronic data mesh this conceives would be capable of making incredible connections between information, the needs for which are being questioned by government and private agencies alike… Wired News:
Here is a list of links which explain, in increasing levels of sophistication, an initiative which is attempting to make sense of the glut of information on the web. The plan is to make it so computer programs can make logical assumptions and relationships between resources on the Web based on the semantics of their
Usability News: CHI 2003 Feature: Testing… 1 2 3 4 5 … Testing… The validity of Usability Testing, thought by many to be infallible at detecting a products defects, is called into question by industry leaders. In a panel discussion at CHI2003 it was discussed whether a) the majority of defects in an application are
from Ben on RDFWeb list In an upcoming spin off on Movable Type, the folks at Six Apart are including support and networking of Friend of a Friend files from their upcoming product TypePad. It will be exciting to see where they go with this service. If they just link between their hosted page it
Eric Miller is the World Wide Web Consortium’s Activity Lead on the Semantic Web Initiative. He was previously a Senior Research Scientist for OCLC, as well as co-founder and Associate Director of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. …”The Semantic Web is all about data integration, and much richer ways of organizing things based on contextual
Only in the SNA category because RDF seems an important vehicle for conecting related information. A good place to start for the begining technical explorer. RDF Tutorial – Part I: basic syntax and containers
My rekindled interest in the Semantic Web has inspired me to fish out resources to put together a map of where things are going, and this is one important way point. Tim talks of many things in this interview, and in hearing his voice one can’t help but to be inspired by his intellect, his
This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. Now, for many, this appears to be
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OSCOM is an international, not-for-profit organization dedicated to Open Source Content Management. The goal is to bring together as many great brains as possible to build a network and grow the community of open source content management. We want to show the world that there are already great and easy-to-use open source content management solutions