I am pleased to announce that as of now, Jen Golbeck has agreed to be
the co-director of the Maryland INDSWA Project (a/k/a/ MINDSWAP) - at some point in the
near future I will step down as the other codirector, leaving Jen as
MINDSWAP head. This means MINDSWAP will live on for the foreseeable
future.
So rather than closing the […]
Ora Lassila and I have an article by this name that appeared in the recent (May-June) issue of IEEE Internet Computing. Please download it from them if you can (to be nice and legal). If you can’t, there’s a version on the MINDSWAP site. We welcome your comments via blog, email or letter to the […]
Given the proliferation of version numbers on the Web, I thought I’d throw this into the mix. The ultimate goal of the Web will be achieved when search engines can find the answer to the question of Life, the Universe and Everything - obviously that will occur in Web 42.0
sorry, couldn’t resist
Jim H.
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 […]
I’ve recently seen a number of posts that point to my Dark Side articles as Hendler gives up on URIs, says we don’t need semantics, etc. I want to be very clear - I believe that “A little semantics goes a long way” which is amazingly different than “no semantics is needed”!!
Here’s a […]
I blogged a while ago that a good way to find ontologies on google was to use “filetype:owl” (i.e. “person filetype:owl” will find ontologies with the term person in them) and then that if you used the “-” trick in Google to use a word that wasn’t in the ontology, and chose something not in […]
The perfect is the enemy of the good – a theme echoing through this post. On November 30 and December 1 I attended a conference entitled Ontology for the Intelligence Community: Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources. I took extensive notes, had many ideas, and was going to write a veritable Ontologiad about […]
I was recently asked by a reporter about when the term “Semantic Web” was first used. I gave the usual answer - that it had been mentioned in “Weaving the Web” (1999) and that the usual “academic” citation was the Scientific American article (2001), but I know that some folks were using it well before […]
Coming out in tomorrow, August 11 Science Magazine, an article entitled “Creating a Science of the Web” by TimBL, Wendy Hall, Me, Nigel Shadbolt and Danny Weitzner. Link should be up tomorrow, those looking for a preview, there’s a short summary (giving me too much of the credit) on the RPI web site.
It has now become official, as of January 1, 2007 (or thereabouts) I will be leaving Maryland and taking a position at RPI where I will be creating a new research center dedicated to a “web science” agenda (Stay tuned, Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt, Danny Weitzner and I have had a “perspectives” accepted […]
