Archive for the 'semanticWeb' Category
Mapping Connections and the Zitgist Browser
0 Comments Published June 25th, 2007 in semanticWeb, structuredWeb, umwronco, zitgistFrédérick Giasson revealed a pre-release of the zitgist semantic web browser. It’s a great leap forward in making RDF data readable and browsable to people who would be perfectly happy in their lives never needing to see the acronym RDF. (That said, I did hear tweets from a couple people who didn’t find [...]
Visions of Slicing and Dicing
0 Comments Published June 18th, 2007 in semanticWeb, structuredWeb, umwroncoA small group of the faculty and instructional technology staff have been thinking hard about how to reinvent — or at least re-present — the intellectual life of students and faculty on campus. Martha Burtis has started the discussion here. She’s getting us started trying to nail down what, exactly, it [...]
Bibliography Ontology–almost makes me wish I were a grad student again. Almost.
0 Comments Published June 9th, 2007 in Bibliography Ontology, semanticWeb, structuredWeb, zoteroRecently there’s been a renewed vigor in an effort to develop a new bibliography ontology for semantic web applications. Bruce d’Arcus, Frédérick Giasson, Mike Bergman and others are working to create an ontology with these goals:
Should be a superset of legacy formats like BibTeX, RIS, and so forth
Must support the most demanding needs in [...]



