The central idea of the Semantic Web is to extend the current human-readable web by encoding some of the semantics of resources in a machine-processable form. Moving beyond syntax opens the door to more advanced applications and functionality on the Web. The Semantic Web Challenge offers participants the chance to show the best of the […]

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 […]

Monday marked the first canine visitor to the lab. π came in and relaxed in my office while recovering from surgery. She reports good interactions with all members of the lab.
-Jen

Today, I was building up my list of social networks at
http://trust.mindswap.org/cgi-bin/relationshipTable.cgi
I was adding in a new network called Gazzag.com and in the process they emailed everyone who was on my Orkut list from my address and told them that I invited them to join my network at Gazzag.com. Thus…
Gazzag.com is my new enemy
I have […]

I am in Leicester at DeMontfort University for a meeting about developing a trust management system. This is a collaborative project funded partly by NATO to encourage work among researchers in NATO countries. We have had some very interesting discussions of what trust means in software systems rather than social systems as well as how […]

As Jordan posted, he and I presented our paper yesterday. I think it went very well. We had lots of interested questions at the end of the talk and after the session.
In addition to our session, I visited some others. I was particularly interested in the
Intelligent User Interfaces session, which included a paper co-authored […]

The PASS (Provenance Aware Storage Systems) Workshop held at Harvard May 31 covered issues related to provenance and file systems.
We began with Margo Seltzer presenting an introduction to the PASS system (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/syrah/pass/) and how it stores the full provenance of files. This includes all of the operations performed, libraries opened in creating the file, […]

This week I was lucky enough to attend the International Provenance and Annotation Workshop in Chicago. On one hand, there was a very small contingent of Semantic Web researchers here. While some people knew of RDF, the focus was much different than I was used to or expected.
While our community (or at least, me as […]

Last week I attended the iTrust Conference in Pisa. The conference brings together researchers from many fields who are looking at issues of trust. While the majority of people there were looking at computational aspects of trust, there were also sociologists, philosophers, and economists.
We discussed how to model trust, how trust worked in networks, and […]