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Medical Subject Headings ontology. The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry. The Semantic Web is the Cake…but the Technologies are not the La. April 22nd, 2009 by Tom Heath My last post about the relationship between Linked Data, the Semantic Web and the Semantic Web technology stack seemed to create more debate and disagreement than clarity. Not to be discouraged by this, I’ve been giving some more thought to analogies that may help to illuminate the the relationship between different concepts in the Semantic Web space. This got me thinking about the Semantic Web layer cake. The layer cake diagram is probably one of the most used and abused images associated with the Semantic Web vision.

In my view, the technologies aren’t layers in the finished cake, they’re the raw ingredients that must be mixed and baked to make the cake that is the Semantic Web itself. Once we’ve baked our cake, by putting our RDF data online according to the Linked Data principles, we’ll probably want to decorate it. (I see that Jim Hendler’s keynote at ESWC2009 will talk about the layer cake; I’m intrigued to see how he choses to serve up the analogy).

The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized. A hand conversion to HTML of the original MacWord (or Word for Mac?) Document written in March 1989 and later redistributed unchanged apart from the date added in May 1990. Provided for historical interest only. The diagrams are a bit dotty, but available in versioins linked below. The text has not been changed, even to correct errors such as misnumbered figures or unfinished references. This document was an attempt to persuade CERN management that a global hypertext system was in CERN's interests. Other versions which are available are: ©Tim Berners-Lee 1989, 1990, 1996, 1998. This proposal concerns the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN. Overview Many of the discussions of the future at CERN and the LHC era end with the question - ªYes, but how will we ever keep track of such a large project?

Losing Information at CERN CERN is a wonderful organisation. A problem, however, is the high turnover of people. Where is this module used? Fig 1. Fig 2. TRIZ. TRIZ (/ˈtriːz/; Russian: теория решения изобретательских задач, teoriya resheniya izobretatelskikh zadatch) is "a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool derived from the study of patterns of invention in the global patent literature".[1] It was developed by the Soviet inventor and science fiction author Genrich Altshuller and his colleagues, beginning in 1946.

In English the name is typically rendered as "the theory of inventive problem solving",[2][3] and occasionally goes by the English acronym TIPS. Following Altshuller's insight, the theory developed on a foundation of extensive research covering hundreds of thousands of inventions across many different fields to produce a theory which defines generalisable patterns in the nature of inventive solutions and the distinguishing characteristics of the problems that these inventions have overcome. There are three primary findings of this research. §History[edit] §Basic principles of TRIZ[edit] §Essentials[edit] §Basic terms[edit] Online Business Matchmaking. NEPOMUK-KDE. i2010 - A single European Information Space. Demiblog³ CHI 2007 Reach Beyond | welcome. Cartoon: Heir eParent. Geohash for spatial index and search.

2008 Semantic Technology Conference | News. Stencils for OmniGraffle. Engelbart Colloquium: Home Page for "Unrev-II" Website. Martin Fowler. The Semantic Web: Legal Challenges. Brian Harley, Philip Nolan, Liam Ó Móráin and Mark Leyden tease out, from the current state of the emerging technologies, what legal challenges those involved in the development of the Semantic Web and its applications need to be aware of. They also give lawyers who are not familiar with the Semantic Web a glimpse of the potential and pitfalls that these exciting new technologies present. The Semantic Web is about making data smarter and linking that data up. Smarter, interlinked data means data that is easier for computers to access, interpret, process and re-use. The promise of the Semantic Web is of a vast network of interconnected nodes of data, accessible to any computer and application connected to the internet.

This is the vision of a more powerful, better integrated web of data which backers of the Semantic Web see as the core aspect of Web 3.0, the next generation of the World Wide Web. What is the Semantic Web? RDF and OWL: Describing Resources Data Protection in the Web of Data. Milstan with friends. A page about Erich Fromm. Erich Seligmann Fromm (German: [fʀɔm]; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.[1] Life[edit] Erich Fromm was born on March 23, 1900, at Frankfurt am Main, the only child of Orthodox Jewish parents.

He started his academic studies in 1918 at the University of Frankfurt am Main with two semesters of jurisprudence. During the summer semester of 1919, Fromm studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he began studying sociology under Alfred Weber (brother of the better known sociologist Max Weber), psychiatrist-philosopher Karl Jaspers, and Heinrich Rickert. After the Nazi takeover of power in Germany, Fromm moved first to Geneva and then, in 1934, to Columbia University in New York. Psychological theory[edit] Central to Fromm's world view was his interpretation of the Talmud and Hasidism. Relatedness Transcendence Rootedness. What is The Memex? Xerox Presents Trailmeme.

Last week Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt wrote a guest article for the Wall St Journal, discussing the need for new forms of newspaper publishing to replace the old print paradigm. Another not-so-new paradigm, but one more suited to the networked computer age we live in today, is Vannevar Bush's 1945 pre-hypertext concept the Memex. Trailmeme is a product by Xerox that models itself on The Memex. It's a destination site for Xerox Trails, which is being promoted as "a new kind of Web-based publishing technology. " We last saw a product attempting a Memex-like service over 3 years ago, when we reviewed Trailfire in 2006. Trailmeme enables users to map a set of web pages or other digital objects.

So what is the Memex? Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Memex is. Trailmeme includes a "collaboratively filtered" destination site, a bookmarklet and a toolbar for consumers, and a set of plug-ins compatible with WordPress and Media Wiki. Languages - Learn French. Data Lifecycle « Web of Data. The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by. SAVE PETNICA! Projects / x Operator. Instant Messaging is in addition to Web and Email the most popular service on the Internet. With xOperator we present a strategy and implementation which deeply integrates Instant Messaging networks with the Semantic Web. The xOperator concept is based on the idea of creating an overlay network of collaborative information agents on top of social IM networks. It can be queried using a controlled and easily extensible language based on AIML templates. Such a deep integration of semantic technologies and Instant Messaging bears a number of advantages and benefits for users when compared to the separated use of Semantic Web technologies and IM, the most important ones being context awareness as well as provenance and trust.

Inspired by Tim Berners-Lee's Semantic Agent the xOperator lifts personal knowledge exchange to a new level. Imagine sharing exactly the information you want with the people you trust. xOperator tries to create a decentralized network of trust. Kiobo Social Browsing. Prefuse | interactive information visualization toolkit.