I used to post my editorials here, but in the past few months I’ve finally migrated them to RPI, so please look for my new editorial, entitled “We’ve come a long way, maybe…”  at the RPI Tetherless World Weblog.

This is a preprint of the third, and I’m happy to say final, entry in my “Reinventing Academic Publishing” trilogy.  There is a lot more to be said on this topic, and I suspect I’ll be one of the people saying it, but for now it’s time for me to stop writing about it and […]

Following a few links from Planet RDF (thanks to Kingsley Idehen and to Henry Story) I got to Tim O’Reilly’s article “Freebase will Prove Addictive” (or as Henry referred to it “O’Reilley groks the Semantic Web.”) Reading the post I felt compelled to reply - rather than sending you to my response, I […]

Something hit me the other day — in late 1998 I went to DARPA and took over the “Control of Agent Based Systems” (CoABS) program.  This program focused on developing middle ware for agent-based systems, essentially an interoperability program aimed at making different agent architectures work together.   At the time, there were a number of […]

Since I hear rumors are flying, I thought I had better fess up - I did indeed give a talk entitled “The Dark Side of the Semantic Web” at Edinburgh last week (download the slides - pdf - from here). However, before you all start to beat me up - let me point out that […]

I was totally frustrated that I was unable to stay at ISWC this year -unfortunately politics and science often go hand and hand, and I found myself in the vortex (no, not those politics, but I must admit it’s the first time in a long time I’ve enjoyed watching election returns come in). […]

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 […]

It’s now official, MIT and Southampton have announced the formation of a “Web Science Research Initiative” to try to enhance research in Web-related areas (with Semantic Web clearly up there on the list).  The paper in Science back in August outlined the goals of Web Science (that paper is now available for free via the […]

Hi again from Montpellier, France. Let me start by saying the Montpellier is very very beautiful city, and if you ever have a chance to come through, you definitely should. Wonderful architecture, great food, perfect weather…its been really nice.
As I said in an earlier post, I’m here attending ODBase 2006. Over the past two days, […]

For a while now I have been using Google to find OWL during my demos.  If one uses a search key and “ext:owl” or “ext:rdf” one can find files with the searched term- and since most OWL users are ignoring the recommendation to use “rdf” as the extension and using “.owl” the ext:owl search tends […]