So the past two days have been very busy. Lots of talks went on. The IBM folks’ A-Box summary talk went well, and was nominated for Best Paper Award. The paper on SPARQL semantics is also nominated for Best Papaer Award. Yours truly gave two talks. One on Tuesday (A […]
Most of us sat in the SWUI workshop today. There were a lot of posters/demo and discussions. Tim demoed the Timulator.. err.. Tabulator, a generic browser of RDF data. It incorporates SPARQL query on a multiple-select then query interfaces. The results of queries can be displayed on a calendar or a map (if they […]
Sat in the Semantic Web Policy Workshop today, where Vlad had a presentation. There are a couple of papers speaking of constrained natural language as a device to allow (computer savvy) people to author policies. One paper claimed that prior to this GUI/CNL approach, no one other than the policy buffs can write a policy […]
After last night’s “buffet” (which really means light snacking) at the Edinburgh Castle and a night of scripting, Chris and I are presenting “Tools for the Semantic Web” — Swoop (debugging/visualization) and PhotoStuff. Chris had been taking pictures around the conference for annotation. The conference’s wireless is… terrible (11b, and obviously the relay points are […]
Today’s opening panel had Tim, Jim, and two industry representatives. The focus is the next wave of the semantic web. Questions for the panelists range from the perspectives of the last few years to looking ahead of the future. The surprising thing of importance, according to Jim, is the speed of growth of the semantic […]
W00t! It’s sunny out today, though the weather forecast foretells rain and cloud. The main auditorium is opened an opening ceremony. A pair of bagpipte players and traditional dancers led the organizers and guests in. Wendy Hall and Sir TBL both gave short talks. The opening key note was given by David Brown, CEO of […]
The first two days of the conference are scheduled only for
workshops. Both ROW (Reasoning on the Web) and EON (Evaluation of
Ontologies for the Web), where Chris and I are presenting
respectively, are held today. I attended the first two and half sessions
of EON, giving my talk just before lunch break. Then I went to
ROW to see […]
