Physics and the Social Web
by Jen Golbeck
I gave a talk at Fermilab in November and a similar talk at Sandia National Labs last month, describing how the Semantic Web, provenance, and social networks could combine to create a new way of doing collaborative scientific research on the web. The talk has been very well received, and efforts are underway to implement some of the ideas I presented.
January 2007’s issue of Physics World includes a discussion of this (and quotes some of my work) in their article “Talking Physics on the Social Web”. It’s an easy five page read and does a nice job discussing all of the ways social web activities are impacting science.
February 8th, 2007 at 3:28 am
Is it just me or is there really no way to know who writes these posts? In general. Some mindswap bloggers sign their posts.
February 9th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Tim: Check the SIOC profile of this post (e.g., follow this link to SIOC browser) and it should become clear (who’s the author).
That is one of nice properties of SIOC-enabled blogs - even when a blog template may miss out on some information you can look at RDF data which should contain most of the information that there is about the post.
P.S. It is even easier if you have the Semantic Radar installed - a “SIOC” icon appears in a presence of SIOC autodetect link and all that you have to do is press the icon and see a rendering of RDF data. I find it useful, but then I am also the author of Semantic Radar and may have a subjective view.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Well, it’s not pretty, but the author link is now there.