Jul
31
2008
One part of the DERI technology suite is an ontology/vocabulary called SIOC, an effort led by John Breslin.
While in China earlier this year at the WWW 2008 conference, John mentioned that DERI was preparing to export all of the boards.ie data in SIOC format, and to run a competition for the most imaginative use/mashup of that data.
Well, on his blog, John has just announced that competition. If you have any interest in the semantic or programmable web, check it out.
On a related note, John has mentioned that he has been appointed to a faculty position within NUIG. Best of luck with the new job!
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Jul
31
2008
Mike Butcher, of TechCrunch UK fame (who incidentally also writes a column in the Friday Irish Times), has written up a brief piece on how London needs to emulate Dublin’s Digital Hub.
To quote:
Fantastic. Totally and utterly fantastic.
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Jul
8
2008
Check out this video of an excellent speech given by Malcolm Gladwell from a recent New Yorker conference.
In it he mentions his new book on the mismatch problem – the problem of matching skills with the analysis of those skills. Coming out in November, apparently. I’m there.
With thanks to Guy Kawasaki.
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Jul
8
2008
Recently, SFI started a consultation process on open access for SFI funded research.
STM, the international association of scientific, technical and medical publishers, has recently published its response to this proposed policy.
I haven’t studied the open access movement too much, but will have to follow up on this some more.
With thanks to Open Access News.
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Jul
8
2008
Just came across an article entitled Tangler: An API for Discussion Forums in programmableweb which talks about a new API for discussion forums.
I wonder how this relates to the SIOC ontology developed at DERI?
While diversity and multiple approaches are great, one of the real benefits of the programmable web (and indeed programming in general) has got to be standardisation and predictability.
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