I’ve been looking for a tee-shirt slogan for the Semantic Web - the title of this derives from somethign Keiron O’Hara wrote in an article we are working on - spun by me to resemble a more famous one… It’s not quite there yet, but I thought I would capture it here before I forgot, […]
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 […]
Sorry to be so far behind everyone else on blogging about the WW2006, but this has been my first chance to really sit down and write. Let me just begin by saying that I had a terrific time and learned a great deal more than I thought I would. My lack of technical […]
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 […]
Today opened with a keynote by two speakers one from Oracle and one from Microsoft. Mary-Ann Davidson, from Oracle, addressed security and was a good talk, however really oriented towards the industry ‘persons’ in the audience. After this discussion, Tony Hey from Microsoft gave a second keynote which was focused around Microsoft’s interest e-Science etc. […]
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 […]
This conference has been keeping me hopping - past few days were meetings, various politics, a Scottish Ceilidh (hey, I didn’t say it was all work - check out http://www.scottishdance.net/ceilidh/dances.html) and some receptions at the castle. However, my paying gig was the opening plenary panel, which seemed to go pretty well - I even […]
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 […]
This will be the first of many entries I write, recounting my experiences and episodes (both good and bad) at this years WWW conference. First I’ll start with a general overview of the day’s events.
Today was the first of two days of workshops. I participated in two workshops; Semantic Web Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia […]
Eric Miller has announced his imminent departure from the World Wide Web Consortium as Semantic Web Activity Lead. Eric has been Activity Lead for the last five years and was instrumental in producing the core technical infrastructure standards (RDF, RDFS and OWL). He has recently directed the formation of working groups to work […]
