current-status
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6993622308562453608
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Studying: YES Just getting stuck in to the second year of my PhD. Traveling / events: NO Lots going on, probably more useful to watch my Twitter. Read about past events and past travel adventures. Find out where I'm going next, events and adventures. Writing: YES It's NaNoWriMo season. Read about my writing here. Working: NO and yes Tutoring and doing ongoing freelance work, but not taking on any new projects.
name: Current Status
published: 2013-11-03T01:06:35.000Z
tag: current+status
updated: 2013-11-03T01:06:35.000Z

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digital-media
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6595972298133874806
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content: I'm supervising (created the brief, overseeing and guiding a group of 6 MSc students, grading) a Digital Media Studio Project in the Edinburgh College of Art. I challenged my lot to use responsive web design techniques in a unique and inventive way. You can see what they're up to here.
name: Digital Media Studio Project (DMSP)
published: 2013-01-14T00:00:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
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tag: eca
tag: tutoring
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updated: 2013-04-02T16:10:34.239Z

digital-methods
type: Article
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content: (Write-up about this event by the organisers here). DMMM was a conference aimed at sociologists and anthropologists and the like, so, having never studied these disciplines in any way, I was worried I'd have no idea what was going on. Fortunately everyone was friendly, and everyone's research was really interesting, relevant and mostly made sense to me. You can read all of the notes I took here. Humanities researchers are using and gathering digital data in lots of interesting and unique ways. Using social media and other digital methods to engage with study participants (Jo Belcher, Lorenza Antonucci, Eve Stirling); sentiment analysis (Mike Thelwell); examining archives; image use in online interviews (Emma Hutchinson); e-focus groups (Ibrar Bhatt); digital records (reflections) of a creative arts process (Carole Kirk); crowd-sourcing of commercial ideas (Temitayo Abinusawa); avatars and virtual interaction spaces like SecondLife (Evelyn McElhinney); brilliant playful use of hacking to disrupt discussions about online learning (Jeremy Knox on MOOCs). _I _talked about digital media on the Semantic Web, with as much of a sociology swing as I could give it given my limited expertise in that domain. My slides, beautifully illustrated by Chloe Dungate (available for hire! Academic slides starting at £2 a drawing! Loves topics she doesn't understand so she can be as outrageously creative as possible!), are here. You can see my talk notes there, too. danah boyd, whose work I've followed more or less since my undergraduate, teleconferenced in to give a really interesting keynote called "Making Sense of Teen Life: Strategies for Capturing Ethnographic Data in a Networked Era." She discussed working with young people for the last few years to examine their use of social networks (mostly MySpace), and all of the challenges and considerations that came up along the way. She was surprised a lot. The open discussion at the end raised a lot of discussion about ethics. It was impl…
name: Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology, London, 7 December
published: 2013-01-16T18:57:00.002Z
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tag: Done
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tag: digital+methods+as+a+mainstream+methodology
tag: digital+methods
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updated: 2013-05-18T17:04:08.467Z

dynamic-web
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8222168456378725417
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: For the second year, I'm tutoring PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS and JavaScript to MSc Design and Digital Media students for the Dynamic Web Design course in Edinburgh College of Art. Sometimes this makes me feel like a wizard.
name: Dynamic Web Design
published: 2013-01-14T00:00:00.001Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: dynamic+web+design
tag: eca
tag: tutoring
updated: 2013-04-02T16:11:05.055Z

morrissquirrel
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8807024950496235735
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content: As a farewell present to Beth, who was vacating sunny Scotland for the harsh and unforgiving shores of the US, I made a squirrel. But not just any squirrel. A Morrissquirrel. That's Morrissey-squirrel. Don't question it. I largely followed this pattern for the normal squirrel parts, then improvised to Moz it up.
name: Morrissquirrel (crochet)
published: 2013-01-09T16:15:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: amigurumi
tag: crochet
tag: mbaking
tag: squirrel
tag: wool
updated: 2013-04-13T20:35:31.812Z

notes-digital
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5133377500037818782
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content: December 7th, 2012. Notes as I scribbled them. Read a proper review. **Peter Webster - Digital Resources for Social Scientists at the British Library** British Library research methods guide under social sciences. Web about individuals and organisations is fragile, things disappear. Most site owners ignore requests for permission to archive stuff. New legal deposit legislation next year will allow scraping the Web and archiving everything without worrying about infringing copyright. Using this data is restricted; library premises or print one copy for non-commercial use. Can't use an item simultaneously with any other user.. (regulation is for print, derp) Full text search for internet archive... open question, very complicated. Consultation going on about this. Legislation is very restrictive; need to look at data derived from dataset and how that can be made available. Mike Thelwell - Sentiment Analysis for the Social Web Sentiment is seen as peripheral, and often ignored, but actually it's core. Emotional reaction to tea or coffee. sentistrength.wlv.ac.uk SentiStrength - detect strength of +ve and -ve sentiment in short text. Takes into account that text might not be gramatically correct. In social media, sentiment expressed in different ways (eg. emoticons, deliberate misspellings to embed sentiment: haaaapppyyyyyy). List of +ve and -ve term stems and strengths from -5 to 4. People disagree about sentiment surprisingly much. Something lots of people tweet about must arouse sentiment. But for big events, surge of quantity of tweets, but not surge in +ve or -ve sentiment. Lots of sentiment is implicit. YT comments are easy to get so good source of social data. No ethical concerns about getting permission to analyse because it's already public. (hmm, no?) Longer the text, less well it works. But does have a long text mode, with slightly different scoring. Used by Yahoo question answering system to work out best people to give answers. Companies use it for product r…
name: [Notes] Digital Methods as Mainsteam Methodology
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tag: digital+methods+as+a+mainstream+methodology
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okfn-meetup-4
type: Article
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content: Which was hosted by the National Library of Scotland. (Information). I reported on the 1st International Open Data Dialogue in Berlin that I'd been to in December, but then had to immediately leave, so I don't have any notes on the rest of the talks..
name: OKFN Meetup #4
published: 2013-01-24T20:00:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
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tag: okfn
tag: open+data
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updated: 2013-05-18T16:53:09.350Z

open-data-dialogue
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-7441300906477194598
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content: Read my complete notes from day one, and complete notes from day two. The 1st International Open Data Dialogue in Berlin in December was broadly a discussion about real-world applications of Open Data. Lots of practice, less theory. Despite this (or perhaps because of this, now I think about it) it wasn't as technical as I expected. Felix Sasaki [1] talked about some basic technicalities of Linked Data and the Semantic Web, kind of the first things you'd learn if you were studying it in a structured way, and I heard a lot of people afterwards complaining that that had been too technical. Importantly, there was a real message of getting things done at this event, and plenty of evidence that a world built on Open Data is not an idealistic pipe dream, but a reality right now. Challenges are being articulated, and solutions are being created, and problems are being overcome. I stress this particularly because a couple of sceptics who weren't at the conference tweeted things along the lines of "Sounds like your conference is a bunch of idealist hippies preaching to the choir…" A genuine concern, but what's really exciting is that this definitely wasn't the case. It was instead a bunch of realist technologists with the expertise and influence to actively overcome barriers to improving the world. Open Data is about social change and empowerment. It is about accountability of organisations with massive influence over the lives of ordinary people. It is not about an abandonment of personal privacy, or everybody knowing everything about everyone else. It should go without saying (yet it still needs to be said) that it is not appropriate to blindly make all data available to everyone about every aspect of everybody's life. But what if you had access to all of the data anyone had ever collected about your life? Think about purchase history (shop loyalty cards, travel tickets), online activities (searches, browsing history, social networking). All this stuff is being stored anyw…
name: 1st International Open Data Dialogue, Berlin, 5-6 December
published: 2013-01-16T18:24:00.000Z
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updated: 2013-05-18T16:45:04.085Z

tutor-demonstrator
type: Article
tmpcontent: # Tutor and demonstrator, Dynamic Web Design ## MSc Design & Digital Media, University of Edinburgh Taught basic web design and development, including responsive design and progressive enhancement, to students from a variety of (mostly non-technical) backgrounds. Marked coursework.
actor: me
content: MSc Design & Digital Media, University of Edinburgh Taught basic web design and development, including responsive design and progressive enhancement, to students from a variety of (mostly non-technical) backgrounds. Marked coursework.
end time: 2013-05-01T00:00:00+0100
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tag: cv
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tag: javascript
tag: mysql
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tag: responsive+web+design
tag: resume
tag: teaching
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week-review-5
type: Article
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content: 31st December - 6th January 2013 Wrote a 6 month plan. It's nice to have solid targets. Here it is in calendar form. Got the flu.
name: Week in review: 6 month plan
published: 2013-01-16T19:05:00.002Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: 6+month+plan
tag: phd
tag: plan
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-04-01T00:08:17.308Z

week-review-6
type: Article
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content: 7th January - 13th January I was subject of Paolo's procedural task labelling pilot experiment. It was quite complicated. I don't know if I did a very good job. I went to TechMeetup and networked like crazy. I talked to Andy Hyde about ALISS getting involved with the ILW hack, and Edinburgh OD scene in general. And a few other people about supporting the ILW hack in various ways. I talked to Felix Gilfedder of Popcorn Horror about novel ways of engaging with creative digital media communities (PhD related!) I briefly met Russell, with whom I hope to discuss digital video metadata (PhD related!) One other thing which isn't related to Open Data or my PhD but is very exciting nonetheless. I went to a Design Informatics talk about the Internet of Things.
name: Week in review: Networking
published: 2013-01-16T19:12:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: aliss
tag: hack
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tag: open+data
tag: phd
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updated: 2013-04-01T00:08:11.844Z

week-review-7
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-7923782702504521067
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content: 17th December - 23rd December Mostly things not strictly PhD related... 18th - Initial meeting about organising a hack for undergraduates during Innovative Learning Week in February 19th - Discussed how local small scale community groups can benefit from Open Data, and how they could get involved in the ILW hack, with Freda O'Bryne and Euan Jackson. \\\\- Also discussed these things with Ewan, and started on a spreadsheet of decent apps that use Open Data, and links to their data sources.
name: Week in review: Open Data in the community
published: 2013-01-16T19:01:00.002Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: hack
tag: innovative+learning+week
tag: meetings
tag: open+data
tag: phd
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-04-01T00:08:28.716Z

week-review-brainstorm
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-2970790278352814067
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 21st - 27th January Brainstormed about how to work with amateur digital media creators, mostly with the aim of starting to put together a vocabulary for representing various digital media creation processes, collaboration dynamics and audience engagement. More coherent thoughts on that next week, I should think. Lightning-talked about the Berlin Open Data Dialogue at an OKFN meetup in the National Library of Scotland on Thursday 24th. Talked about ontologies for sensor data at Ontologies with a View.
name: Week in review: brainstorm
published: 2013-01-28T00:36:00.001Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: digital+creatives
tag: digital+media
tag: ontologies
tag: phd
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-04-01T00:07:56.723Z

week-review-ilw
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8834169395759849825
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 14th January - 20th January Further discussed ILW hack with various parties, and released a website with information for anyone interested in being involved, and registration for students. I went to the first Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition class. It looks interesting, but might be a bit maths heavy... I might concentrate on learning the maths now, and take the class next year, instead of killing myself with both. Caught up on all my blogging!
name: Week in review: ILW hack, mostly
published: 2013-01-20T15:29:00.002Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: innovative+learning+week
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updated: 2013-04-01T00:08:01.660Z

co-organiser
type: Article
tmpcontent: # Co-organiser, Smart Data Hack ## University of Edinburgh Dropped the ball on my PhD for months to wrangle sponsors, set up the website, recruit participants and generally get shit together. It went well, with feedback from students like "easily the most useful and fun week I've had since I started uni".
actor: me
content: University of Edinburgh Dropped the ball on my PhD for months to wrangle sponsors, set up the website, recruit participants and generally get shit together. It went well, with feedback from students like "easily the most useful and fun week I've had since I started uni".
end time: 2013-02-22T19:00:00+0000
name: Co-organiser, Smart Data Hack
published: 2013-02-18T09:00:00+0000
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co-organiser-open
type: Article
tmpcontent: # Co-organiser, Open Data Day Edinburgh Helped organise the Edinburgh branch of [International Open Data Day](http://opendataday.org/) unconference.
actor: me
content: Helped organise the Edinburgh branch of International Open Data Day unconference.
end time: 2013-02-23T18:00:00+0000
name: Co-organiser, Open Data Day Edinburgh
published: 2013-02-23T09:00:00+0000
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tag: cv
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computer-mediated
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5498466149491463803
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: I was fortunate enough to attend the Computer Mediated Social Sense- Making workshop, conveniently situated on the ground floor of the building I work in, on the 14th of February. Whilst more technical than the Digital Methods conference I went to in December, the talks and panel sessions served to build upon things I started to think about then. Namely, beginning to situate my research interests amongst many concepts from the currently quite alien fields of sociology and anthropology. The talks were varied, and key themes that emerged were the collection/use of data for social improvement (health and wellbeing, teaching and learning, disaster recovery), and the importance of context in making collected data genuinely useful. A notable challenge is that one piece of data might have a thousand different contexts from the perspectives of a thousand different human beings. So how to communicate these variations to software that processes this data, and perhaps makes decisions using it? Perhaps not to worry too much about that at all. Process things locally instead of globally, using local contexts and understandings, but make sure everything is annotated such that information can still be exchanged across the whole network, and differences in understanding can be accounted for or reasoned out if a need occurs. For the record, I'm looking at how Semantic Web technologies could be used to better connect human and machine in the context of amateur digital content creation (movies, comics, music, art), including how semantically annotating creative (often collaborative) processes as well as the end products of these processes and the engagement of an audience with these products, could improve the overall experience of creating content (along a number of dimensions). A massive part of this will be creating tools that actually collect the necessary data from users. Ultimately, these tools will need to be invisible, ie. easily integrated into existing online routines, with n…
name: Computer Mediated Social Sense-Making
published: 2013-02-14T22:39:00.001Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: annotation
tag: attendee
tag: big+data
tag: brainstorming
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tag: data
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updated: 2013-05-18T16:45:29.863Z

gibbering-about
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8004853494497573865
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Recently I read and brainstormed some things about interesting ways of creating a decentralised network (social or otherwise). Tent.io is still coming out on top as having the most potential for something I could actually implement and build upon. Tent server is originally Ruby, but there are already Python and PHP implementations. PHP might be the most useful as the mostly widely supported by cheap shared hosting providers, reducing the barrier for people wanting to run their own Tent server. Depot in particular has the goal of targeting the technical lowest common denominator, and making installation and maintenance as easy as possible for a non-expert. Problems with having nodes of a network, whereby people who don't want to set up their own node can sign up to someone else's node, include ensuring consistent URIs for things. If someone wants to up and move to another node, what are the best ways of maintaining connections? Obviously anyone who buys their own domain name and hooks it up won't have a problem, but not everyone can or will. A centralised permanent URI service like PURL (or just use PURL..)? Unhosted and their remoteStorage protocol are interesting. The idea is that a user registers with a remoteStorage provider, then signs into Unhosted apps with that identity. Unhosted apps are all frontend JavaScript, and no data is sent to a server. Anything that needs to be stored - content you creating whilst using the app - is sent to your personal remoteStorage account. There are only two remoteStorage providers listed though, and one of those is a test one that could get wiped at any time. The other, 5apps.com, doesn't appear to provide an interface for browsing and exporting what you have stored with them. Obviously this is an early project, and since anyone with a webserver can theoretically set up a remoteStorage service, has lots of potential. In the short time I spent investigating, I couldn't work out possibilities for sharing data in your remoteStorag…
name: Gibbering about decentralised networks
published: 2013-02-04T17:22:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: decentralised+social+networks
tag: diaspora
tag: freenet
tag: p2p
tag: peer+to+peer
tag: remotestorage
tag: tent+server
tag: tent.io
tag: unhosted
updated: 2013-04-01T00:04:36.778Z

large-handwarmers
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1911880712985871370
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: One of the first useful things I crocheted were these extremely masculine handwarmers. The extremely soft and fuzzy wool was from Age Scotland I believe. I used no pattern and had never made handwarmers before, so they came out far too big. Not to worry, at least you can fit a Tigo in them! I just repeated dc ch1 around, dc-ing in the gap left by the chain each time. I reduced a bit around the wrist area to shape it, but it wasn't particularly effective. I chained about four, instead of carrying on, to make the gap for the thumb, then continued as normal. One of them is shorter than the other, because I didn't count anything. They serve their purpose though, and the lucky owner has even gone so far as to wear them in public in the chilly heights of Appleton Tower.
name: Large handwarmers (crochet)
published: 2013-02-28T20:38:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: crochet
tag: handwarmers
tag: mbaking
updated: 2013-04-13T20:47:44.654Z

week-review-brainstorming-2
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5846713180357961537
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 28th January - 3rd February I read Annotation of Multimedia using OntoMedia by K. Faith Lawrence et al., and we discussed it during Ontologies with a View. OntoMedia might well prove useful in that describing the content of digital media can improve searching, sorting and sharing. I started reading a couple of other papers by Faith, but haven't finished them yet, so expect summaries in the near future. I brainstormed about decentralised networks, with thinking of ways of individuals sharing linked data about themselves and their projects without surrendering all that data to a server in mind.
name: Week in review: more brainstorming
published: 2013-02-04T17:24:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: decentralised+networks
tag: k.+faith+lawrence
tag: multimedia
tag: ontologies
tag: ontologieswithaview
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updated: 2013-04-01T00:07:50.092Z

week-review-planning
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-4701969289450916472
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 4th - 10th February When helping to organise an event, it's impressive how much time sending emails, updating websites and spreadsheets, having meetings and generally coordinating things can take up. So that's a lot of what I've done this week. Not PhD, but related enough to be excusable... sort of... (Smart Data Hack and Open Data Day: Joined Up Edinburgh) I have finally booked plane tickets to Serbia for Resonate new media festival, at which I'm hoping to make useful contacts with independent digital media producers, learn some stuff about big data visualisation at the workshops (my places at the ones I've applied to haven't been confirmed yet though), and generally learn more about the digital art scene (and figure out ways SW technologies can benefit people who are part of it). And also to enjoy Belgrade, as I'll have a spare couple of days either side of the festival. Because the flights were cheaper then! Honest! I actually lost an entire afternoon hunting for cheapest flights on websites that weren't obviously scams (Cheap-o-Airlines? Really?? Ultimately booking through JAT directly was the best option), then negotiating cheapest trains to London in order to catch flights, then sending CouchSurfing requests, because why spend money on a hostel when you can meet wonderful new people and get tourist advice for free? I also applied for a place at the Semantic Web Summer School in Spain in July. It looks fantastic and educational and stuff. And I applied for funding to help cover then 900EUR entry cost (a whole week, accommodation and meals included), and SICSA are providing £500, yay! Two thirds of Ontologies with a View met this week, and we discussed BBC use of Linked Data. I only managed to skim the paper, but knew the general principles from articles I'd read about their work before... I will read it properly at some point, though I think a more technical discussion of what they did might be useful.
name: Week in review: Planning trips!
published: 2013-02-10T23:56:00.002Z
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tag: Doing
tag: belgrade
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tag: festival
tag: innovative+learning+week
tag: joined+up+edinburgh
tag: joinuped
tag: madrid
tag: open+data+day
tag: phd
tag: resonate
tag: semantic+web+summer+school
tag: serbia
tag: smart+data+hack
tag: spain
tag: trips
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-04-01T00:07:45.549Z

weeks-review
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5732083218834733501
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 11th to 24th February I went to the Computer Mediated Social Sense-Making workshop; read about it. I helped organise and run the Innovative Learning Week Smart Data Hack (18th - 22nd), and Edinburgh's version of International Open Data Day (23rd). Both were successful.
name: Week(s) in review: ILWhack and JoinUpEd
published: 2013-02-25T01:54:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: conference
tag: conferences
tag: events
tag: hack
tag: hackathon
tag: ilwhack
tag: joined+up+edinburgh
tag: joinuped
tag: open+data+day
tag: open+data
tag: organising
tag: phd
tag: smart+data+hack
updated: 2013-04-01T00:06:50.598Z

i-have-just
type: Note
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-7916792147361427041
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/14496078324895787574
content: I have just checked out the website for Resonate. A little bit jealous now!
published: 2013-03-18T09:58:02.819Z
summary: Amy wrote about something
updated: 2013-03-18T09:58:02.819Z

notes-meervisage
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6273670315176074344
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Rowe, M. (2007) Meervisage - A Community Based Annotation Tool. ‘Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0’ Conference at the University of York 5-6th September, 2007. How SW can benefit from incorporation with existing 'Social Web'. "...collaborative generation of metadata... using social networks as a user base..." Uses fb groups created for sharing and organisation of research. Suggests posting links to useful resources is comparable to annotating the resource. Comments are more metadata. Points out usual stuff of actually generating semantic data being a problem for SW. System requirements: Annotations must be shared in a community. Annotations can be reviewed and edited (/audited) (by group) Collaborative Central repo. Annotations contain semantic metadata. Content of resource annotated, not URL. Communication layer that doesn't interrupt annotation (uses external services). Review of existing systems: Annotea [9] [13] _J. Kahan, M.R. Koivunen, E. Prud Hommeaux, R.R. Swick. Annotea: an open _RDF infrastructure for shared Web annotations. Computer Networks. 2002. __ _M Koivunen. Annotea and Semantic Web Supported Collaboration. Proc. Of ___ the ESWC2005 Conference, 2005. No communication layer (but has discussion threads, wat?). Can only be edited by author, but can be reviewed by others. Can be local, private or shared. RDF. Piggy Bank [10] _D Huynh, S Mazzocchi, D Karger. Piggy Bank: Experience the Semantic Web _Inside Your Web Browser. Springer-Verlag GmbH. 2005. RDF. Auto and manual. Bundled with scrapers; if they fail, manual. Only of one type. Share group or global, or save to local 'semantic bank' <\\\\-- find="" is="" out="" this="" what=""> Reviewed by all, edited by author. Community of users, but no SNS integration. KIM [14] A Kiryakov, B Popov, D Ognyanoff, D Manov, A Kirilov, M Goranov. Semantic Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval. Journal of Web Semantics, Springer. 2004. Automatic named entity recognition. Links to knowledgebase with ontology. Creates ne…
name: Notes about Meervisage - A Community Based Annotation Tool (for the Semantic Web)
published: 2013-03-15T23:35:00.002Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: annotation
tag: folksonomies
tag: matthew+rowe
tag: meerkat
tag: meervisage
tag: online+communities
tag: ontologies
tag: paper
tag: phd
tag: practical
tag: semantic+web
tag: social+machine
tag: tagging
updated: 2013-04-01T00:05:17.791Z

notes-ontomedia
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-3415710226505767261
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Michael O. Jewell, K. Faith Lawrence, Adam Prugel-Bennett, and m. c. schraefel (200?) Annotation of Multimedia Using OntoMedia Check out a bit of discussion about this paper on Ontologies with a View. OntoMedia for representing "diverse range of media". Others for media: CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (museums) ABC Ontology (multimedia in libraries and digital archives) Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (attribute and relationshops for task performed when consulting bibliographic records) FictionFinder - FRBR to Online Computer Library Centre WorldCat db - Metadata about characters and fictional places Describe contents of films & comics etc for tracking things down to share you forgot? None quite did what was needed. So created to map to current models but specifically describe media content. Hierarchical approach. 1\\\\. Overview Entity / Event system Entity: object, concept Event: interaction between one or more entities 0 or more Entities are modified OR new Entity created Entities not destroyed, but may have not-exists attribute Decompose to sub-ontologies. ontomedia.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ontologies Mediate? Graphical interface. interaction.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ir/projects/ontomedia/ontomedia Sub-ontologies Core Expression (primarily elements and subclasses; Entity, Event) Media (binding between media and Expression objects) Space (extension of Signage Location Ontology, buildings, and regions of structures) Extensions (more detailed subclasses to Core) Being (people) Trait (attributes of Entities) Events (extends Core->Event) Action Gain Loss Travel & properties thereof Fiction Character (on Being) spoiler info. and accuracy Media More detailed than the one in Core; includes audio, image, photo, text and video subclasses Misc - classes used by any or all of other classes, eg. colour, geometry Specified in OWL Developed in Protege and SWOOP. 2\\\\. Case Study Scene from Total Recall annotated. Represent script and characters, and characters from related …
name: Notes about Annotating Multimedia with OntoMediaLawrence, K.F., schraefel, m.c.: Bringing communities to the semantic web and the semantic web to communities. In: Proceedings of WWW2006. (2006)
published: 2013-03-03T20:38:00.001Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: digital+media
tag: online+communities
tag: ontologies
tag: ontomed
tag: paper
tag: phd
updated: 2013-04-01T00:06:44.021Z

notes-social-machines
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5367982028562504625
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: J. Hendler, T. Berners-Lee, From the Semantic Web to social machines: A research challenge for AI on the World Wide Web, Artificial Intelligence (2009), doi:10.1016/j.artint.2009.11.010 Powerful human interactions enabled by futuristic high-speed infrastructure. Empower Web of people via coupling of AI, social computing and new technologies. "humanity in the loop". Social machine: "...processes in which people do the creative work and the machine does the administration." (Weaving the Web, p172). Struggling with social mechanisms to control predatory behaviour and threats to privacy. -> Tech must be developed that allows user communities to construct / share / adapt social machines, so successful models evolve through trial, use and refinement. Claims a new generation of Web Technologies needed to overcome barriers to this; cross-disciplinary approach needed. creating tools creating principles and guidelines extending Web infrastructure re: information sharing and address privacy and user expectations of data use. "...a revolutionarily more powerful platform for the individual, enabled by realizing that the individual is also a member of a community" (/ies) "architecture of the future Web must be designed to allow the virtually unlimited interaction of the Web of people" (vs. documents now) Giant Global Graph - dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215 SW deployment: [3] T. Berners-Lee, J. Hendler, O. Lassila, The semantic web, Scientific American (May 2001) 28–37. [10] J. Hendler, Web 3.0 emerging, IEEE Computer 42 (1) (January 2009). [11] I. Jacobs, N. Walsh (Eds.), Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One, 2004, W3C Recommendation 15 December 2004, http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-webarch-20041215/. "disruptive potential" of SWt, "important paradigm shift" "little work in understanding the impact of their new capability" "the smaller we can make the individual steps of this transformation, the easier it will be to find humans who can be incentivized to perform th…
name: Notes about the Semantic Web and social machines
published: 2013-03-03T20:44:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: online+communities
tag: paper
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
tag: social+machine
tag: social+machines
updated: 2013-04-01T00:06:35.494Z

notes-sw-communities
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8620292265331813029
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Lawrence, K.F., schraefel, m.c.: Bringing communities to the semantic web and the semantic web to communities. In: Proceedings of WWW2006. (2006) Research into SW communities: Communities of practice Social networks, eg. FOAF Compare with other definitions of communities outside of SW. Concept: Internet Based Community Network, has properties of COP and SN. Case study: Amateur Fiction Online. Early community definitions, Howard Rheingold: "..webs of personal relationships in cyberspace." 1996 CSCW Conference defined prototypical attributes of communities (Whittacker): Shared goal / interest / need Repeated active participation, emotional ties and shared activities. Shared resources and access policies Information, support and services reciprocated between members ( overlap with ^ ?) Shared context (culture, language) Can be applied to virtual and offline communities. -> More attributes = clearer example of community. Preece: Social interaction Shared purpose Common set of expected behaviours Computer system that facilitates and mediates communication ^^ Things in common. Whittacker's is more inclusive/broad. So for a SW SN: Accessible via browser Explicit links between users System supports creation of these links Links are visible and browseable COP or SN may describe a community, not necessarily. IBCN will do, and could be a COP or SN too. Problem of Amateur Fic. is fluctuation of archive. Personal sites go down etc. How to find a story you remember a bit of? IBCN is also combination of WBSN and virtual community. Lack of incentive to use FOAF (eg. on LiveJournal etc) (Plus ignorance). Doesn't offer anything they don't already have. They don't use much metadata, just tons of human-readable stuff. SW would allow: "better integration of distributed systems" "improved searching and filtering" "more personalised services" experienced users expand options new ways to interact new users ease introduction re: unwritten rules, expectations, terminologies FOP extension to …
name: Notes on SW and Communities
published: 2013-03-03T20:43:00.001Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: online+communities
tag: ontologies
tag: ontomedia
tag: paper
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
tag: social+media
updated: 2013-04-01T00:06:39.795Z

open-data-day
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1954966101405721767
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: The 23rd of February was International Open Data Day. Since this fell at the end of the ILWhack week, it seemed like a good opportunity to take advantage of the momentum and engage the stirring Edinburgh Open Data scene. Many ODD were organised around the world; most of them were hacks. In Edinburgh we went for a different approach, thanks largely to input from local community activists like Freda, Leah, Andy and Ally. Some might call it 'social hacking'. Our aim was to gather together people with little knowledge of Open Data, people with data that may or may not be open, and developers and technical types. With Open Data stuff exploding worldwide, and developers going nuts creating cool apps and services that make use of data being released, it's important, you see, for {local, small-scale, voluntary, grassroots} groups and individuals to get involved early on. Such parties are arguably likely to benefit the most from empowerment by data, and if they're not part of the discussion early on we might well see a lot of services developed that meet needs imagined by a not-quite-connected but well-meaning tecchie. So on that note, we want to spread the word about Open Data to those who might normally be left behind. When these groups know what the possibilities are (we can show them successful projects, locally (eg. ILWhack) and worldwide), what is available, and what could and should be available, we empower them to take action that will benefit them. More specifically, people can find out that the English government has released data about such-and-such-of-interest, and politely demand that the Scottish Parliament or local councils do similarly. They can interface early on with developers who are keen to start making, and make sure their real problems get solved (or at least prioritised over potential imaginary ones). They can get involved with things like ILWhack, and have a better idea of what it's all about. Between 10am and 2pm, we gathered around 35 people in the…
name: Open Data Day: Joined Up Edinburgh #joinuped
published: 2013-03-15T23:13:00.002Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: events
tag: joined+up+edinburgh
tag: joinuped
tag: open+data+day
tag: open+data
tag: organiser
updated: 2013-05-18T16:46:26.894Z

scotland-public
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-3302927277885043572
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Tell Me Scotland publish public notices for things like traffic, planning permissions... And they have a SPARQL endpoint! I'm hacking around with the ultimate goal of creating an interface that allows people to generate a GeoRSS feed for a particular area. Ally of GreenerLeith suggested this, so that they can use this to feed into their own apps. A stage beyond that is to smoosh the whole lot into a Wordpress plugin, to make it accessible to anyone (who uses WP). So far I've got the notices on an OpenStreetMap. I haven't had a whole lot of time, but will make more soon. I'm using the PHP library ARC2 to deal with the linked data. NB. the TMS endpoint is, at the moment, flaky at best. I think they're working on this.
name: Scotland Public Notices experiments
published: 2013-03-05T01:56:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: greener+leith
tag: hacking
tag: learning
tag: linked+data
tag: open+data
tag: openstreetmap
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/rdf
tag: sparql
tag: tellmescotland
updated: 2013-03-23T01:57:34.241Z

smart-data-hack
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8170665767287717018
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: I spent a good deal of time during January and February helping to organise a couple of Open Data oriented events. At least, that's the excuse I'm sticking to for not having done much of my PhD in that time. The Smart Data Hack, also known as ILWhack (Innovative Learning Week* hack) came first, between the 18th and 22nd of February. Innovative Learning week at the University of Edinburgh is an annual week of off-timetable activities for students, designed to enhance their learning experience. Arguably every week in higher education should be innovative and striving provide the best possible education... And Innovative Learning implies the student should be making the special effort and I don't think many would be happy with the idea of paying so their tutors can have a week off, so maybe Innovative Teaching week would be more... better. But that aside. The hack was targeted at first and second year undergraduates in Informatics on the basis that third and fourth years would be busy with final projects. This was by no means a restriction however, and we harboured hopes of enticing along design students and data buffs from other departments to mix up the skill set a bit as well. I knocked up a website with two primary functions. Students could pre-register, add some info about themselves and start to form teams online. Anyone interested in getting involved who wasn't a student could figure out where they might fit in and get in touch. This included people who could sponsor prizes, present real-world challenges to solve, offer data to be wrangled, or provide technical support to participants. We anticipated about 50 students, and invited them to form teams of up to 5. In parallel with gathering sponsorship, we came up with five prize categories of equal merit: Best for travel Best for health and wellbeing Best for communities Best visualisation or UI (First year prize for) Best data mashup We hoped to encourage students to make whatever they wanted, using whatever tech…
end time: 2013-02-22T18:00:00+00:00
in reply to: smartdatahack.org
name: The Smart Data Hack #ilwhack
published: 2013-03-15T20:48:00.000Z
start time: 2013-02-18T09:00:00+00:00
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: events
tag: hack
tag: ilwhack
tag: innovative+learning+week
tag: joined+up+edinburgh
tag: joinuped
tag: open+data+day
tag: open+data
tag: organiser
tag: rsvp
tag: smart+data+hack
updated: 2013-05-18T16:45:40.632Z

taming-blogger
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6704022083938612491
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Experimenting with running this entire website from the age-old Blogger backend. Beating it gradually into submission with help from Temple of Doom stripped down Blogger template, and some pro tips from Blogger Sentral. Because, why not? I have a lot of stuff on this blog. Time to organise it how I want.
name: Taming Blogger
published: 2013-03-23T01:50:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: blogger
tag: hacking
tag: learning
updated: 2013-03-23T01:50:03.469Z

tigo-tablet-cover
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5534111577713409746
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Lovingly crocheted over a couple of days. No pattern, all approximated, with scraps of wool of the appropriate colours I just happened to have. I started with a chain the length of the width (shortest side) of my Nexus 7, and single crocheted in each stitch down both sides, and carried on round; so I did the very bottom first and worked my way up in a flat rectangular spiral. I dunno if that makes sense, but it immediately begins to take shape. When I got to the right height, I carried on across the back, then just chained across the front, and continued as before, to make the opening. Though it may look deliberate that the 'tail' sticks out a bit at each side, I actually made it too wide. So I had to decide whether to carry on making it too big and pad it on the inside, or tuck the ends in and make it tighter with the green. I chose the latter and it worked far better than I anticipated. Most of it is just double crochet for no particular reason, but his fuzzy lil' chest is a pattern of alternating front-post triple crochet and back-post triple crochet (triple to compensate so it stays level with the 'normal' double crochet around the triangle, as front- and back-post double crochet are slightly shorter than regular double crochet). His feet and wings are just chains; his eyes made just the way you'd make small circles, but skewed a bit to be ovals (I can't remember, I probably chained three, then [sc, hdc, hdc, tc, hdc, hdc, sc]x2, then sc in each stich around. Don't hold me to that though). The black centres are literally just threaded through and through until they looked right, and the loose ends used to attach. I shaped the beak by periodically crocheting two together. I'm surprised it's as remotely symmetrical as it is, because I didn't count anything. The resemblance is uncanny!
name: Tigo tablet cover (crochet)
published: 2013-03-08T20:12:00.000Z
tag: tigo
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: crochet
tag: mbaking
tag: nexus+7+case
tag: parrot
tag: Tigo
updated: 2013-04-13T20:35:09.647Z

week-review-belgrade
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5566755934157742271
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 18th - 24th March I went to Belgrade for Resonate.io, and wrote about it here.
name: Week in review: Belgrade
published: 2013-03-24T15:28:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: belgrade
tag: digital+creatives
tag: digital+media
tag: digital+methods
tag: new+media
tag: phd
tag: resonate
tag: serbia
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-04-14T20:32:03.212Z

week-review-foreverreading
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1152639463394072081
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 11th - 17th March Had a sensible conversation with Ewan about when I should stop reading and start actually producing something. The answer is sooner, rather than later. I'm aiming for a literature review that is "neither a first nor final" draft by the end of April. I started outlining topics that should be in it, and began faffing about with LaTeX (and Markdown and Pandoc). Then started panicking and promptly quadrupled the amount of things on my to- read list. Oops. I blame Matthew Rowe. I finished reading his first year review (2007) as well as his paper about Meervisage: Community-based Annotation for the Semantic Web. I compiled a massive list of more things to read from his lit. review, and then looked up what he's been doing since then. A lot. Mostly relevant. At the very least, interesting. Damn. Don't worry, I'll prioritise that list, and don't aim to finish it before I start writing. Going to Serbia on Tuesday, for Resonate.io. What should I bring back? Information about creative processes for digital artworks. Anything to do with open data or decentralized social networking movements. Potential case studies or people to work with. ... to be discovered? Had a chat with Russell of Makur Media about video metadata and ontologies for describing film/TV production processes. We're doing some of the same research and keeping in touch is likely to be mutually beneficial. Note to self: Summerhall Cafe is nice and the food is cheap; go there for lunch one day.
name: Week in review: foreverreading
published: 2013-03-17T23:07:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: annotation
tag: matthew+rowe
tag: online+communities
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-04-01T00:05:08.339Z

week-review-reading
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-4369784383717498857
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 25th Feb - 3rd March I spent most of this week in a remote village by the sea in the Scottish Highlands. When I came back I read and made notes about the Semantic Web and social machines by TBL; and typed up some notes from a while ago about OntoMedia and the Semantic Web and communities by K. Faith Lawrence. I also translated all of my written meeting notes into Evernote, which promptly glitched out and doubled the amount of typing I had to do. (I considered switching back to Google Docs, but I need labels). I sure love technology. _ I refamiliarised myself with the structure OWL. Awesome diagrams here. _I did some more thinking about how I need to work with amateur content creators to make an ontology that fits their workflow. I should have finished the planning stage of this ages ago, but.. I blame the ILWhack. I keep wondering about the best way to have a system of consistent URIs across a network where the information can move from server to server on the whim of a user. During this wonderment I discovered that purl.org's login system is broken. I joined the mailing list, and people complain about it and have it re-fixed fairly regularly, so I'll just wait..
name: Week in review: Reading and catching up
published: 2013-03-03T20:58:00.001Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: notes
tag: ontologies
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
tag: social+machine
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-04-01T00:04:25.753Z

week-review-recovering
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6028435782169285190
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 25th - 31st March A busy, non-PhD-related activities filled week. Social computing seminar on Friday.
name: Week in review: recovering?
published: 2013-03-31T20:33:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: phd
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-04-14T20:36:13.542Z

week-review-social
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8782926183634866478
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 4th - 10th March I played with the Tell Me Scotland SPARQL endpoint to put Scottish public notices on an OpenStreetMap: https://rhiaro.co.uk/publicnotices/map.php. It works intermittently, as the TMS endpoint is a 'proof of concept'. Okay, that's not PhD related, but it's still interesting. I went to the 5th OKFN Edinburgh meetup at Napier. Look, evidence, I'm in the picture! Dave Robertson asked me hard questions about how I'll turn my vague research interests and intentions to make something useful into a PhD with genuine contributions to knowledge and I floundered a bit, but he agreed to be my second supervisor nonetheless. I hadn't properly thought about it in those terms, and I'm still figuring it out with like, words. (As opposed to a gut feeling). I'd always planned to plough ahead enthusiastically and hope for the best. That's how I approach everything, actually. I started reading Community-Based Annotation for the Semantic Web by Matthew Rowe (2007); I think it was a first-year PhD review, and I was primarily reference-harvesting. More on that next week. I attended a Social Informatics Cluster meeting, and heard about the Smart Society project; very much in its figuring out stages, but worth following as it appears to have many diverse goals, and various crowd-computation related outcomes might be relevant to what I'm doing. I went to an ESALA lunchtime talk entitled 'Data Objects', by Ian Gwilt of Sheffield Hallam. I have to admit, I was expecting something more technical and internet-of-things-y. Actually data objects are primarily tangible visualisaitons; 3D printed, carved out of wood or sculpted from bronze. The research was about how people reacted to and understood data differently when it was presented in different forms. Interesting, and they got some very pretty artefacts out of it, but not directly relevant so I don't have room in my head to store it unfortunately. I attended the new Social Computing interest group kick-off meeting, coordinated b…
name: Week in review: mostly social computing
published: 2013-03-15T21:41:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: annotation
tag: online+communities
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
tag: social+computation
tag: social+computing
tag: social+informatics
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-04-01T00:06:12.090Z

2nd-uk-ontology
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-7147479585295099140
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: The UK Ontology Networks Workshop took place over one day in the Informatics Forum. There was a mix of people there; some talks were way over my head and very technical, and some talks were by people who confessed they had had to look up "ontology" that morning. And things in between. Lazy writeup, but following are notes as I scribbled them: John Callahan US navy research. Focused information integration. Human intervention to keep predictive part on track. Tweaking. Alan Bundy Interaction of representation and reasoning. Changing world so agents must evolve. How to automate? What would trigger a need for change: Inconsistency Incompleteness Inefficiency how to diagnose which? Interested in language and perception change. Unsorted first order logic algorithm called Reformation. Based on standard unification algorithm. Allows blocking and unblocking unification. Phil Barker Schema.org Cetis (JISC funded) learning resource metadata initiative. Big names behind schema.org. = ontology + syntax Big and growing ontology. Dumbed down for people. LRMI adds to it. W3C go through it. It's creeping, how much do the big names actually care about stuff that's added? don't know how Google uses it. People should consider using it for more sophisticated search and disambiguation. Gill Hamilton Doing more with library metadata. Learnt from OKFN. Had to convince people in charge. Dublin core, didn't like; not specific enough. Instead RDF > OWL. "We know best how to structure our data" Hardest was convincing marketing people that there was no commercial value. Metadata is advert to actual resource. Enrico Motta Traditionally top down approach. So now so many people interacting with semantic structures, so should involve users. Recognise there isn't a unique or best way of doing things. Initial study included modeling task with binary relations. Patterns that are more or less intuitive. 4D least, 3D+1 most. N-ary most widely used by experts. Relationship between reasoning power and in…
name: 2nd UK Ontology Networks Workshop
published: 2013-04-11T15:38:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: attendee
tag: conference
tag: events
tag: networking
tag: ontologies
tag: phd
tag: workshop
updated: 2013-05-18T16:47:03.111Z

amy-wonderful-blog
type: Comment
type: Note
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-4219486181377401636
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/15257735143228455982
content: Amy, wonderful blog! I was just discussing how well you've done with Duncan Rowland whom I bumped into last week in Lincoln.
published: 2013-04-11T19:51:11.958Z
summary: Amy wrote about something
updated: 2013-04-11T19:51:11.958Z

first-bread
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-7888699099214661676
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Could have been better. I based it on this bread recipe, but amended according to my mother's advice. Thus, I made a batter with 1/3 of the flour (strong white bread flour; 6oz), all of the yeast (one 7g packet) and all of the water (415ml) and the oil (30ml), and left that covered in the airing cupboard for an hour where it bubbled away merrily. Next I mixed in the rest of the flour (12oz) and some salt and a handful of sunflour seeds, poppyseeds and pumpkin seeds. Contrary to what my mother promised, it was very sticky. I stirred vigorously and kept adding flour until I could cope with it, and kneading began. I kneaded for fifteen minutes, having discovered that sometimes punching instead of regular kneading is much more enjoyable. I turned it into six balls and one long bit, and arranged them on a tray and in an ad-hoc loaf tin, and they went back in the airing cupboard for about two and a half hours (I went out). I covered them, as instructed, and that was where things started to go wrong.. The bits that didn't get stuck to the tinfoil rose great. But the bits that stuck pretty much didn't get to rise. They rose outwards loads, but upwards was constrained. Rubbish. I baked them anyway (30 minutes, 220 degress celcius). Tastes great, textures is okay, appearance is disappointing. Next time I won't cover them quite so securely while they're rising. Far more holey than I was anticipating too; I'm not sure if under- or over-kneading causes this.
name: My First Bread
published: 2013-04-13T18:47:00.001Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: bread
tag: food+diary
tag: food+for+jenny
tag: food
tag: jenny
tag: mbaking
tag: mum
tag: procrastabaking
tag: recipe
updated: 2013-04-13T18:47:12.596Z

food-jenny-whole
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-822181187325891779
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: For breakfast I had Tesco's own brand bran flakes, with soya milk. HAHA that's a lie. I had a cupcake. Orange sponge with a square of dark chocolate in the middle. Homemade, so it doesn't count. Lunch was Linda McCartney sausages in my Mum's 'miracle bread' rolls that I brought back from home a couple of days ago. They have soya flour, and linseeds, and all sorts of stuff. Also in there was 'fresh' (actually week- old) spinach, ketchup, tabasco sauce, hummus and a pinch of magic BBQ spice mix. And bancha hojicha (a Japanese green tea). Then I made my own bread. It wasn't altogether successful. Over the course of the afternoon I drank a cold bottled concoction calling itself jasmine tea from the Chinese supermarket (because whenever I go into a Chinese supermarket I have to try a new weird drink). Dinner, then, was a sort of chilli bean stew, because I thought that would go well with the weird bread... [Soak and boil dried kidney beans; skip this part for canned ones, and chuck them in whenever]. Boileth a quarter of a swede and large chunks of new potatoes with the kidney beans, until everything is soft. Meanwhile: Half an onion, two cloves of garlic, a courgette, a red pepper, broad beans (frozen), a handful of tomatos and a handful of mushrooms into the wok to fry until they looked mostly cooked. Plus pinches of: Vegeta (which is a particularly good vegetable stock you'll find in an Eastern European supermarket); cajun spice mix; chilli powder; piri piri spice mix; garam masala and mixed herbs, and let sizzle for a while longer. Then Quorn mince and a tin of chopped tomatoes, a good mix, and simmer for an indeterminate amount of time (or until the other pan of boiling things is done). Combine two pans of boiling/simmering things (ideally into largest pan). Eat with bread and/or rice and/or a spoon. Follow with more cupcakes and tea.
name: Food For Jenny: A whole Saturday
published: 2013-04-13T20:51:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: food+diary
tag: food+for+jenny
tag: jenny
tag: vegetarian
updated: 2013-04-13T20:51:15.938Z

gemucon-making
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-3067828619841552713
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: GemuCon, a first-time gaming convention, wasn't normally the sort of event I'd go to. Especially not with the £35 ticket price tag. But it was being organised by one of my friends from my undergraduate, so I agreed to do the website (violating my no-more-freelance-work policy), and having botched together a custom registration system (scope creep) I was drafted in as 'Registrations Officer' on the committee, too. Since I was in Nottingham on the 4th for the Lovelace Colloquium anyway, I had no excuse not to go. It was a good job I did, as the checking-people-off-who-arrive system was web based, and the hotel wifi was not playing ball from the outset. We'd thought of that of course, and brought backup wifi dongles. Neither of which could get signal. So half an hour before registration opened I was writing a script to export the database into a nicely formatted spreadsheet (sounds simple; wasn't; ask if you're curious) so that we had more than one machine (I had the database locally on my laptop) we could register over 700 people with. Then it was literally non-stop. The other reason I was there was to morally support my good friend TomSka, who was attending as a guest because he is Internet Famous. So my time was split between hanging out in the Operations Room (mostly) to help confused con-goers with things like registration, lost property, picking up merchandise, finding the stairs, getting free cupcakes; making myself useful by running up and down ten flights of stairs on errands (until I discovered the service elevator; two 6-man lifts between 800 people hadn't been so accessible); and hanging out with Tom and Matt. On Saturday I helped him on his merch stall (we sold everything but all of the wristbands and all of the keyrings and earrings). During the quiet times when there were other big events on, and thus no customers, I had to make my own fun. On Sunday I live-tweeted Tom and Matt's panel "How to YouTube". [View the story "TomSka's YouTube panel at GemuCon"…
name: GemuCon (and making a living from YouTube)
published: 2013-04-08T20:43:00.000Z
tag: thats+so+gemu+baby
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: ad+revenue
tag: amateur+creative+digital+content
tag: convention
tag: cupcakes
tag: digital+creatives
tag: games+convention
tag: gaming
tag: gemu
tag: gemucon
tag: nottingham
tag: that's+so+gemu+baby
tag: tomska
tag: video+games
tag: youtube
updated: 2013-04-14T23:26:55.613Z

i-think-over-rising
type: Comment
type: Note
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-7004549869575938435
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/04960655292677856287
content: I think over rising on your second rise was to blame - 2 and half hours is a bit much! I find it best to cover loosely with oiled cling film, but some people just use a damp tea towel.
published: 2013-04-14T10:03:36.454Z
summary: Amy wrote about something
updated: 2013-04-14T10:03:36.454Z

lovelace
type: Article
type: Event
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-2893499687242069870
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: In 2008 I was in my first year of university, and the second ever Lovelace Colloquium was held in Leeds. I was encouraged to attend by Professor Cornelia Boldyreff and then-PhD student, now-Dr, Beth Massey. Doing so may have changed my life. At my first Lovelace, I was introduced to the very concepts of conferences, mentors and (importantly) networking. The event was, and has been ever since, a forum for thought-provoking technical talks, inspiring motivational speeches and stimulating discussions about technology-related disciplines, careers, and womens' role within this world. To attend Lovelace is to be surrounded by extraordinary and excited minds; undergraduates at the top of their game, and successful academics and industry professionals to advise and mentor. Having now been along as an attendee, a poster competition entrant and for the past two years as a judge, the conference has provided perfect annual milestones to mark my own academic progression and personal development. I have met so many wonderful people and made so many important connections thanks to this event that I genuinely think I would be in a different place today, perhaps as a different person, had I never been. I can trace back directly or indirectly to one or other Lovelace Colloquium many of the opportunities I have had to develop academically (poster presenting, inspiring conversations), professionally (networked my way to a Google internship) and personally (overcoming low self-confidence, understanding imposter syndrome and conquering public speaking). This year's, hosted by the School of Computer Science at Nottingham University, has been no different. For the first time ever I arrived with time to spare before registration, and got to know some of the other helpers and attendees. I was put in charge of organising posters, directed towards a room containing lots of large fuzzy blue boards, divided up the space based on the number expected in each category (First Year, Second Year, Fina…
end time: 2013-04-04T18:00:00+00:00
in reply to: colloquium2013
name: Inspiring and empowering: The Lovelace Colloquium, Nottingham 2013
published: 2013-04-04T18:00:00.000Z
start time: 2013-04-04T09:00:00+00:00
tag: done
tag: http://vocab.amy.so/Done
tag: Done
tag: attendee
tag: conference
tag: events
tag: lovelace+2013
tag: lovelace+colloquium
tag: lovelace
tag: rsvp
updated: 2013-05-18T16:46:52.588Z

moderating-freegle
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6474955000839878568
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: I'm now officially a volunteer moderator for the Edinburgh Freegle group. I love Freegle (/Freecycle) and have used it for years. I've got rid of stuff I didn't need and given a loving home to many unwanted things. Things I love about Freegle are: Saving items from landfill. The environment says thanks! Getting stuff for free. My bank balance says thanks! Giving stuff away. Other peoples' bank balances say thanks! Knowing there's a network of like-minded, environmentally conscious people out there, and every now and again getting to briefly meet them. Seeing more of the city! Unless it's outrageously far or outrageously raining, I always walk to pick something up. I've seen a dozen parts of Edinburgh I would never have explored otherwise, and discovered a multitude of cute little independent shops that I would have remained disappointingly ignorant of. Possessions I have gained thanks to Freelge include: An under counter freezer. A futon mattress. Clothes. An electric citrus juicer. Ten empty tins for transporting cakes and stuff. A yoga mat. Duvet covers and throws. A kneeling chair. When I met the other moderators a couple of weeks ago to become officially trained in the process, I had no idea how much goes on behind the scenes. Well, I had some idea, but actually there's loads more. Edward Hibbert is behind it all. At it's core, Freegle still runs on Yahoo Groups. This means it's possible to interact with it through email alone. Thus, moderation takes place through the Yahoo Groups interface, but hugely enhanced thanks to Edward's moderator Firefox plugin. (It means I have to moderate using Firefox or suffer the consequences, but it's not so bad. One day maybe we/I'll port it to a Chrome extension). However, there's also a super high tech front-end at Freegle.in/Edinburgh. Check it out. The web interface helps people get their subject lines correct and keeps track of various user stats. It detects where people are posting from from the subject line and plots it o…
name: Moderating Edinburgh Freegle
published: 2013-04-13T21:21:00.003Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: environment
tag: freegle
tag: volunteering
updated: 2013-04-13T21:30:22.358Z

not-taming-blogger
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1900084843425069832
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Change of plan. Trying to run the whole thing with Blogger templates did not result in a happy time. So the main site pulls and manipulates the Blogger RSS feed, with Simple Pie making that easy. I then simplified the actual Blogger template and made it match and stuff. The general intention now is that individual posts and comments will be viewed, if necessary, via Blogger, in a kind of archive-y way, but the content organised as I see fit exists on the main site as the primary port of call. But my goodness does Blogger automatically add some crap into its templates. I delete stuff and it comes right back. Pointless classes, and divs, and general unnecessary bulky markup. I give up with trying to strip all that out. By the way, the source code for the site is here. Share and share alike, yada.
name: Not taming Blogger after all
published: 2013-04-02T20:46:00.001Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: hacking
tag: learning
tag: web+development
updated: 2013-04-02T23:30:33.625Z

notes-lit-review
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6939420428262832066
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Just notes! Workshop by Dr Mimo Caenepeel on Monday 22nd April. 'Critical' does not mean you have to pass judgement, or say why it's good or bad. Not taking things at face value. Started with freewriting about what has particularly influenced / inspired our own research. Five minutes, not allowed to stop or edit, don't worry about quality of writing, not for anyone else to read. A good way to get ideas out of your head and start to organise your thoughts without censoring or constraining yourself. How many pages will a review usually take up in a thesis? My policy is to write what needs to be written and stop when you're done. But apparently 20 to 30, sometimes more, is normal in sciences. There's no consistent / right answer to 'how many publications to review'. For some people it's in the tens, for some the hundreds. Think about how to integrate literature review into the thesis. You're unlikely to have a chapter that is just 'literature review' and no mention of the background reading elsewhere. Good qualities for a lit review? \\\\- Coherence (avoid fragmentation) \\\\- Structure, clarity. \\\\- Proof of novelty - purposeful. A review can often be considered as an indicator of the quality of the rest of the research - demonstrating scholarship. A good place to start: 1\\\\. Write your research question, formulated as a question. 2\\\\. Write up to five research areas that are relevant to your research question. 3\\\\. Note some related issues/areas that will not be considered in your review. Think about balance of content. 1\\\\. Three studies influential in your field (I couldn't answer this, I clearly need to read more). 2\\\\. Two significan older contributions. 3\\\\. Five recent sources. 4\\\\. Two sources that have strongly influenced your thinking. You don't need to consider all papers in the same level of detail. Decide which papers are more important / useful than others. For some papers (important ones) you should work through these questions in the sa…
name: [Notes] How to write a literature review workshop
published: 2013-04-22T15:41:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: attendee
tag: events
tag: literature+review
tag: phd
tag: thesis
tag: workshop
updated: 2013-05-18T16:47:20.823Z

notes-write-thesis
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-43945293442150924
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Just notes from a three-hour workshop about how to write an Informatics thesis, on the 16th of April. State contributions (to knowledge) explicitly. Intro, conclusions; each chapter should have some (probably not all) contributions discussed. Be obvious; use headings. Knowledge - background: justify choices explain methods acknowledge alternatives evaluate Evidence, well-reasoned arguments, acknowledge limitations. Clear openings for future work. Be clear where they are. Make it reproduceable. Short / concise. Examiners like short theses. Introduce what's interesting and important. When outline thesis, look at structure of main argument, not of document. Background material must have point. Only include as much detail as you need to make point. Points, eg: Explain method you use. Novelty of your approach. Similarities with existing work. Justify choices (evaluate other work). Don't tear down others' work. 'Build on'. Cite examiners, they've probably published something relevant.. (but not for the sake of it). Then we had five minutes to write down what our PhDs are about and what we have already found out. I wrote: How do the futures of the Semantic Web and amateur digital content creation fit together? Can Semantic Web tools and technologies be used to enhance collaborative creative partnerships and encourage fruitful outputs? _ There are knowledge sharing systems and collaborative tools for scientific fields and in education, but nothing for creative artsy things. Attitudes towards data sharing and privacy amongst content creators are in flux. There are lots of projects and energy around open data and decentralised social networks that allow data to become portable and not tied to one platform. One of TBL's visions for the Semantic Web is the dissolution of data silos and 'walled' applications that disadvantage the user, and as such the promotion of the 'ownership' of a user's data by the user themselves, rather than the software or organisation that uses the data…
name: [Notes] 'How to write a thesis' workshop
published: 2013-04-18T20:30:00.003Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: attendee
tag: events
tag: notes
tag: phd
tag: thesis
tag: workshop
updated: 2013-05-18T16:47:12.930Z

resonate-new
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8954918904391415358
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Resonate, held between the 21st and 23rd of March in Belgrade, Serbia, is "...a platform for networking, information, knowledge sharing and education. It brings together distinguished, world class artists with an opportunity of participating in a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture." (from the website). Before I left, I suggested I might return with the following: Information about creative processes for digital artworks. Anything to do with open data or decentralized social networking movements. Potential case studies or people to work with. I largely failed on all three counts. I was thrown from the outset by the apparent poor organisation of the event. Not to mention a complete lack of free food. But the main problem was that well over one thousand people had tickets, but on the first day the main lecture room could hold a few hundred at best. Seating consisted of a handful of sofas and armchairs and valuable floor space was occupied by altogether too many stylish coffee tables. For everyone not lucky enough to be among the first ten in the room it was aching backs and/or pins and needles all round. This situation improved slightly after the first day, when two more tracks opened in slightly bigger rooms, but there was still nowhere near enough space. People were bursting out all doors, so switching tracks ever wasn't an option. There were also several long delays or postponements. A few were weather related, but too many (ie more than none) were organisational; lack of projector in main room, etc. That aside, I was aware that an event labelled 'festival' wasn't going to be right at the conference end of the party<->conference scale, but I was surprised at just how much party it was. A party with thousands of people, where everybody knew someone else but me. This made it particularly difficult to interact. You might expect the opposite. Indeed, I suspect that for most people this was the perfect environment to make new friends,…
name: Resonate new media festival
published: 2013-04-02T14:18:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: artists
tag: attendee
tag: belgrade
tag: conference
tag: events
tag: interactive+art
tag: new+media+festival
tag: new+media
tag: phd
tag: resonate
updated: 2013-05-18T16:46:41.806Z

starting-up-panel
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1684762793314360321
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: I had an amazing evening at the Starting up in IT panel discussion, followed by Innis & Gunn beer tasting on Thursday evening. It was held in the shiny MMS Quartermile One offices. (When I'm rich, I want a flat on Quartermile. A turret-y one, not a glass one. Or maybe both). I felt chronically under-dressed when I arrived - a majority were suited - but everyone was really friendly and forthcoming with advice. Anyway, speaking of being rich. There were lots of interesting business-wise people to talk to at this event, including CEO of Skyscanner Gareth Williams, and Craig Anderson of Pentech Ventures. Plus lawyers specialising in things like IP, employment, company formation, from MMS. The panel discussion was enlightening; I'll go through some highlights raw notes... Funding Skyscanner - 2 mil from Scottish Equity Partners 2007. Getting funding isn't a goal or validation. Best way to get funding is not to need it. Scottish Enterprise: match funding. Give as much as you get. Confide in investor. Getting wise Don't pitch too early. Build traction first. Prove potential marketshare one way or another. Preparing business plan is productive. Converting to a vision to a plan when you get funding. Subscribe to investment bloggers. Networkiiiing. Find someone to champion you to an investor. Gareth: As many people are delusional as have a key insight. How to know which you are yourself? Employees Do you need employees or contractors? Casual employees in between. Consultant / contractors own IP for work they do. Unless contract says otherwise. Employees don't, employer owns it. I heard about some really interesting ventures, too, like Identity Artworks which looks like they're making a _huge _difference to young people, and have really inspiring stories to tell. Plus ShareIn, soon launching an equity crowdfunding platform. Veeerrry interesting... The panel was followed by beer tasting hosted by Innis & Gunn. I don't drink, but I would have sipped along to be sociable. However…
name: Starting up in IT panel discussion
published: 2013-04-25T22:30:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: attendee
tag: business
tag: events
tag: geolit
tag: information
tag: ip
tag: law
tag: panel
tag: startup
updated: 2013-05-18T16:47:31.951Z

week-review-behind
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-323778533467032231
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 22nd - 28th April How to write a literature review workshop on Monday. Got hold of Amateur Media book (2012) in the NLS, and started reading it. Got in trouble for having a pen instead of a pencil to take notes. Oops. N00b mistake. Did more GeoLit related stuff than PhD stuff. Must try harder. (Got a funding application in and went to a tech start-up panel / networking event that was great). Fiddled with my lit review outline a bit, but didn't really accomplish much. Officially behind schedule for finishing by the end of the month (was I ever on schedule?). MUST TRY HARDER.
name: Week in review: behind
published: 2013-04-28T15:34:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: behind
tag: literature+review
tag: phd
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-05-06T20:23:27.206Z

week-review-conferencevention
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-354351799922981035
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 1st - 7th April On Monday and Tuesday I'd blocked out 'PhD' time on my calendar, but what was I doing? I do make a point of updating my calendar with hindsight so it doesn't contain lies. I must have done something. On Wednesday I jetted off to exciting Newark, then on Thursday I was in Nottingham for the Lovelace Colloquium (and had a fabulous time). Friday to Sunday saw me running around in circles for GemuCon.
name: Week in review: con{ference|vention}
published: 2013-04-07T20:36:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: phd
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-04-14T20:40:47.861Z

week-review-small
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1900714949174151469
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 15th - 21st April Tuesday: meeting with Ewan, thesis workshop. Friday: Social Informatics Cluster (non-adoption of technology solutions in healthcare); Ontologies with a View (nothing of import discussed, delicious soup in bread bowls from Union of Genius soup cafe).
name: Week in review: small events
published: 2013-04-21T20:33:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: phd
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-04-26T15:31:53.135Z

week-review-upcatching
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-771743287431866030
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 8th - 14th April Wednesday: returned from brief sojourn at my mum's; TechMeetup. Thursday: 2nd UK Ontology Networks Workshop (link to notes to follow). Friday: missed Social Computing seminar as (I found out later) they changed rooms after I got there (8 minutes late, still not the latest). The rest: rewrote my literature review outline (still not happy, but need to stop agonising over it as it still doesn't contain anything substantial). Read a largely irrelevant paper about cultural computing (notes may or may not follow). Discovered a book I want and have asked the University Library to get. Only the first page of the chapter I want is available to preview (I've made enquiries to the author of the chapter, too). Started reading Socially Mediated Publicness: An Introduction by danah boyd; notes will follow.
name: Week in review: upcatching
published: 2013-04-14T20:31:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: phd
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-04-14T20:32:53.306Z

days-one-three-melbourne
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-969605551637309160
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Arrive, breakfast, sleep. Gallery, trams, garden (rain!) Cinema, hack start
name: Days one to three: Settling in (Melbourne)
published: 2013-05-31T18:38:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: australia
tag: melbourne
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-04T18:42:01.359Z

for-correct-use
type: Comment
type: Note
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6756263566451120294
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/14496078324895787574
content: +1 for correct use of 'meese'
published: 2013-05-14T20:32:17.214Z
summary: Amy wrote about something
updated: 2013-05-14T20:32:17.214Z

notes-watson
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-380506238797626757
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
name: [Notes] Watson, Semantic Web search engine, in 2007 and 2011
published: 2013-05-03T10:55:00.002Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: notes
tag: phd
updated: 2013-05-03T10:55:51.869Z

okfn-meetup-6
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6647438240339707494
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Thursday 16th of May was the 6th Open Knowledge Foundation meetup in Edinburgh. We had a great room in Techcube, more speakers than usual and loads of attendees. Here's an account. Bill Roberts Bill, founder of Swirrl ("the linked data company") talked about tools and user interfaces they are developing to make handling data easier for communities; particularly for the less technical. They've encountered a spectrum of users with different levels of technical abilities and needs, so they have to account for this in the tools they build. Technical complexity for accessing data ranges from SPARQL endpoints, JSON APIs, downloadable spreadsheets to visualisations, maps and charts. They're focussing on providing the data in accessible ways rather than building visualisations though. They'd struggle to meet or even understand everyone's needs; instead, it's important to concentrate in empowering the communities to use the data themselves. Kim Taylor An undergraduate Informatics student and participant of the Smart Data Hack, Kim showed us placED, the project her team had worked on, and are continuing to develop. This is a place finder for people who are looking to maintain or improve their personal wellbeing. They used datasets from the City of Edinburgh Council (and presumably ALISS?) to create an Android app. They stored their data in a Google AppEngine datastore, but I'm not sure if it has a web frontend as well. Some of the problems they encountered include copyright issues with ordnance survey place data, and royal mail postcode data, which made up part of the Council's data but wasn't available for anyone to use due to licensing restrictions. They worked around this by recomputing location data from the parts of addresses the did have access to with Google's geocoding API. When they open their database up for user input, which they inevitably will if they want their app to stay current and useful, they'll have to think about how to maintain the content. Gavin Crosby …
name: OKFN Meetup #6
published: 2013-05-18T16:09:00.002Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: attendee
tag: events
tag: okfn
tag: open+data
tag: open+knowledge+foundation
tag: techcube
updated: 2013-05-18T16:47:42.303Z

pre-oz-quests
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-2095361789202762795
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: I'm lucky enough to have some quests to complete, or achievements to unlock, during my month in Australia. 1\\\\. Find the resting place of my Uncle David. My Mum and her family moved to Australia for a few years when she was nine. They moved around a lot, and eventually came back to the UK. Her older brother returned to Melbourne when he was 17, and died there (very suddenly I think) at the age of 28, of a brain tumour. He only visited the UK once while he lived in Oz, and though he stayed in touch with his family, information about his life is sketchy. Until recently I thought I was going to have to trawl through various records to find out where he might be buried, and I'm not even sure what year he died in, let alone where he lived. I talked to my Grandma the other day though, and she knew more than we thought - that he was cremated, and scattered in the "Herb Garden, South Yarra" and that he has a headstone there. I'm not sure how accurate this is; the Web isn't being very forthcoming with useful information right now, but it's more to go on than I had before. 2\\\\. Forge ties between Edinburgh and Melbourne Open Knowledge Foundations. Since there's an OKFN Hack days after I arrive in Melbourne, and not even far from where I'm staying, I've registered to take part. Should be fun. And some less questy, more general things... Check out some of the places my Mum and her family lived. I have a pretty long list of addresses across Victoria and South Australia, to see which still exist and what they're like. Maybe attempt to bump into relatives or family friends. This will be tricky though, as my UK family don't seem to know where anyone on the upside down side of the world is any more, how to contact them, or whether they'd be interested in meeting. The ones we do know are in Perth, which I'm not going to be able to get to. There are quite a lot of them around in Australia and New Zealand though, so hopefully more data will emerge. See Ayres Rock. Duh. See the main…
name: Pre-Oz: Quests
published: 2013-05-27T12:00:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: australia
tag: melbourne
tag: projects
tag: quest
tag: travel
updated: 2013-05-29T02:12:47.984Z

week-review-annotating
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8314997278330328670
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 6th - 12th May Discovering lots of things to write about semantically annotating multimedia content. I decided there are three main ways to do this: Technical / objective / statistical data: eg. media type; shutterspeed; framerate; duration; resolution; date created; number of times viewed at a particular source; number of time shared ... Bibliographic: creators and contributors and their roles; methods/location of publication; methods/locations of creation ... Content*: fictional characters; locations; camera movements; scene transitions; colours ... These categories overlap somewhat really, and when I get round to it I'll type my Venn diagram up. Technical is easy, and a lot of that is automatically captured by hardware or software used to produce and edit works. It's also relatively easy to extract automatically. Standards like MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 take care of formalising it, and Jane Hunter turned these standards into semantic ontologies in 2002. Bibliographic can largely - but not entirely - be covered by vocabularies that have been around forever like Dublin Core, FOAF and various library- originated things. Things that might be missing (or I just haven't found them yet) are associating roles with tasks involved in digital media production, since pieces are often a collaborative effort. has some idea of participants and roles, but the purpose of is digital rights management stuff, so it's more concerned with the distribution change, I think, than granular production of content. I haven't read much about it yet. Content is more interesting, and potentially more useful for ordinary human beings. Imagine querying IMDB for "that film where John Goodman arrests an animated talking moose on a US highway" instead of scouring John Goodman's filmography or googling for pictures of animated meese until you see the right one. Annotating characters, objects and events, and stringing them onto a timeline is possible with OntoMedia. It's very focussed around narratives, whic…
name: Week in review: annotating multimedia content
published: 2013-05-13T17:11:00.001Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: amateur+creative+digital+content
tag: annotation
tag: ontologies
tag: phd
tag: semantics
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-05-13T17:16:29.282Z

week-review-literature
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5057107454255521137
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 29th April - 5th May Read several papers and an entire book. Notes to follow. Literature review inching along. Got accepted for the Semantic Web Summer School. Talked about the SW search engine Watson project during Ontologies with a View. This is different from IBM's Jeopardy playing Watson. Had to write off the bank holiday weekend because a friend visited. Walked a lot.
name: Week in review: literature reviewin'
published: 2013-05-06T20:18:00.001Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: literature+review
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-05-06T20:18:13.114Z

week-review-vidfest
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6612882439652945717
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 20th - 26th May Continued to work on literature review. Nothing much to report. Went to MCM Expo in London and managed to find time (around non-stop merch selling for TomSka and Eddsworld) to ask between 30 and 40 content creators - a wide variety of ages, experience, types of content - about their process and collaborative practices. The thing they all had in common (I randomly picked people as they were waiting in the two hour long queue to get autographs from Tom) was that they all do what they do because the love it, want to entertain people, and if the could earn a living from it too that would be amazing; but that's not why they do it. For many it's the dream, but not one they expect realistically to achieve. That is why this is important to me. Because everybody should be able to make a living from doing what they love*, and the technology exists to allow it. How exciting. Unless they're really bad at it. There's only so much technology can do. But they should definitely have the chance to get good before caving in to a ninetofive that they're not totally passionate about.
name: Week in review: VidFest
published: 2013-05-26T23:13:00.003Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: amateur+creative+digital+content
tag: content+creators
tag: convention
tag: events
tag: film+and+comic+con
tag: london+expo
tag: mcm
tag: phd
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-05-26T23:13:57.522Z

day-eighteen-brisbane
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-2359343489060204801
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Wander, Alibi, Mt Coot-tha.
name: Day eighteen: Brisbane
published: 2013-06-15T20:09:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: australia
tag: brisbane
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-04T20:11:35.878Z

day-eleven-sydney
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-450548700671913703
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Rosh etc, monorail, light show, Chinese.
name: Day eleven: Sydney adventures
published: 2013-06-08T23:30:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: australia
tag: food
tag: friends
tag: light+show
tag: monorail
tag: sydney
tag: travel
tag: vivid
updated: 2013-07-04T18:48:24.367Z

day-nineteen-zoo
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8793172031539029815
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
name: Day nineteen: Operation Stevie Lesson (Australia Zoo, Sunshine Coast)
published: 2013-06-16T20:10:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: animals
tag: australia+zoo
tag: australia
tag: crocodiles
tag: kangeroo
tag: koala
tag: steve+irwin
tag: sunshine+coast
tag: tasmanian+devil
tag: travel
tag: wifi
tag: wombat
tag: zoo
updated: 2013-07-04T20:11:18.906Z

day-six-sydney
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-3491566427076444984
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Sydney 1 Opera house, ferries.
name: Day six: Speed tourism begins (Sydney)
published: 2013-06-03T23:30:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: australia
tag: speed-tourism
tag: sydney
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-04T18:43:48.670Z

day-thirteen-rainforest
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-2945253603495427181
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
name: Day thirteen: Rainforest
published: 2013-06-10T23:30:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: australia
tag: boat
tag: cairns
tag: crocodiles
tag: daintree
tag: rainforest
tag: river
tag: tea
tag: tour
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-04T18:50:23.731Z

day-twelve-cairns
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-3825621549452531614
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Wander, pool. Amazingly crappy hostel. Woolshed.
name: Day twelve: Chilling (Cairns)
published: 2013-06-09T23:30:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: australia
tag: beach
tag: cairns
tag: pool
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-04T18:49:39.356Z

day-twenty-four-melbourne
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8619980812376691566
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Friday: Arrived. Slept. Saturday: Shoe shopping. Got distracted by something. Posh meal and casino. Sunday: Botanic gardens, but nothing open. After Earth. Fort. Wrath of Khan. Monday: Sleeping in Fort. Gardens, souvenirs. The Purge. Took fort down.
name: Day twenty four to twenty seven: Quests and silliness (Melbourne)
published: 2013-06-24T21:34:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: after+earth
tag: australia
tag: blanket+fort
tag: botanic+gardens
tag: cupcakes
tag: fort
tag: irn+bru+cupcakes
tag: mbaking
tag: quest
tag: sleep
tag: thornley+family
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-04T21:34:35.232Z

day-twenty-three-canberra
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6143165258474410673
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Canberra. Return of Jamie. World War Z.
name: Day twenty three: Day trippin' (Canberra and Sydney)
published: 2013-06-20T20:53:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: australia
tag: canberra
tag: imax
tag: museums
tag: sydney
tag: travel
tag: world+war+z
updated: 2013-07-04T21:16:28.233Z

day-twenty-two-sydney
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8756464199868704073
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Slept chez Rosh. To Stephen's. Food (breakfast). Slept. Wandered. Veggie restaurant.
name: Day twenty two: Recovering (Sydney)
published: 2013-06-19T20:52:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: australia
tag: food
tag: friends
tag: parrot
tag: sydney
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-04T20:52:34.332Z

days-seven-ten-roadtrip
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-92299008787436754
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Car, wandered, pool, noodles. Uluru. Uluru & King's Canyon. King's Canyon, Alice Springs, desert park.
name: Days seven to ten: Road-trippin' (Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, King's Canyon)
published: 2013-06-07T23:30:00.000Z
tag: kings+canyon
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: aboriginals
tag: alice+springs
tag: australia
tag: ayers+rock
tag: desert
tag: drive
tag: kangeroo
tag: king's+canyon
tag: outback
tag: roadtrip
tag: rocks
tag: travel
tag: uluru
tag: walk
tag: wildlife
updated: 2013-07-04T18:46:58.862Z

days-twenty-eight-oops
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5208690166474012000
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
name: Days twenty eight and twenty nine: Oops. (Melbourne, Perth, Singapore)
published: 2013-06-27T21:37:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: australia
tag: cousin
tag: expensive+mistake
tag: family
tag: flights
tag: hot
tag: howdidweeven
tag: melbourne
tag: perth
tag: singapore
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-04T21:38:41.191Z

days-twenty-gold
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-4146338852665774756
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Hanging out. Dropped my things. Sydney in the evening.
name: Days twenty and twenty one: More beach (Gold Coast)
published: 2013-06-18T20:13:00.000Z
tag: surfers+paradise
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: australia
tag: beach
tag: dominoes
tag: gold+coast
tag: sea
tag: sun
tag: surfer's+paradise
tag: travel
tag: under+construction
updated: 2013-07-04T21:16:43.018Z

govhack-days-four
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-2864798959158895916
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Hack, hack.
name: #GovHack (Days four and five, Melbourne)
published: 2013-06-02T23:30:00.000Z
tag: rebornmonkey
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: australia
tag: dev8d
tag: events
tag: flanders
tag: govhack
tag: hack
tag: melbourne
tag: okfn
tag: open+data
tag: rebornMonkey
tag: travel
tag: visualisation+on+location
updated: 2013-07-04T18:41:33.318Z

attendee-summer
type: Article
tmpcontent: # Attendee, Summer School for Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web Presented poster "Active Digital Content Creators and the Semantic Web". Learnt lots, slept little. Worked on a mini group project about measuring serendipity. Won the best video prize, with "[Summer School for Semantic Wizards](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BISwM1POYvk)", featuring a wizard who turns water into wine using SPARQL.
actor: me
content: Presented poster "Active Digital Content Creators and the Semantic Web". Learnt lots, slept little. Worked on a mini group project about measuring serendipity. Won the best video prize, with "Summer School for Semantic Wizards", featuring a wizard who turns water into wine using SPARQL.
end time: 2013-07-14T19:00:00+0100
name: Attendee, Summer School for Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web
published: 2013-07-08T09:00:00+0100
start time: 2013-07-08T09:00:00+0100
tag: cv
tag: madrid
tag: phd
tag: poster
tag: resume
tag: semantic+web
tag: sssw2013
tag: summer+school+for+ontology+engineering+and+the+semantic+web
tag: summer+school
tag: university+of+edinburgh

experimenting
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1859481095861514403
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: I have been on no fewer than thirteen planes in the last four weeks or so. I've already made my apologies to the environment. If it's any consolation, it makes my ears really hurt every time. It's only four days, after that, until I get on a flight from Edinburgh to Madrid. It's becoming as normal as going for a walk. (A walk with earache and slight deafness). Presumably, if using electronic equipment during takeoff and landing, and mobile phones at any time, was actually dangerous there would be some sort of machine to detect if any passengers did have things turned on, and electric shock them (or something). And there would be a degree of consistency in how these things were handled between airports. In quite a few airports in Australia, we were asked to turn our phones off altogether before stepping onto the tarmac to approach the plane. I saw a couple of people who were walking and tapping their screens get pulled aside and refused boarding until their devices were safely off and pocketed. No planes were crashing in the background. And nobody checked that out-of-sight gadgets were switched off. So you only pose a risk if you get caught? And in Zurich, the crew were happy with people making phonecalls right up until the plane started trundling. Security is inconsistent too. And a massive hassle, so in an endeavour to minimise unpacking and re-packing time at the gates, I gradually reduced the number of electronics and liquids I removed from my hand luggage. A timid and inexperienced flyer before this year, I used to think it was standard procedure to remove everything with a glimmer of metal or a drop of liquid for an x-ray in its own separate tray. So out came the chargers, headphones, coins, cards and soaps, along with tablets, e-readers, laptop, phone and clear bags of 100ml containers of liquids. Before the start of this trip I'd figured out that was excessive, and silently pitied those who unloaded all of these things still. Time to see what else the securit…
name: Experimenting with airport security
published: 2013-07-01T21:53:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: airport+security
tag: airports
tag: australia
tag: experiment
tag: flights
tag: security
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-04T21:59:13.168Z

madrid-first
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-4679201487544513759
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: I've never been to Spain, and for some reason the Spanish language baffles me. It's the least guessable European language, in my humble opinion, and I can't get my head (/tongue) around the pronunciation. I've never studied Spanish, but I can get by just fine with French and German, and when I've been in Switzerland, Holland and even Italy I could make a go of communicating to a reasonable degree, so I thought I'd pick it things up. But apparently my brain is resistant to Spanish. That aside, locals are very friendly and even when they don't speak English they don't seem to give you disparaging looks. We arrived on Saturday evening (having successfully got our poster tube past various levels of EasyJet staff who would have been within their rights, if unreasonable, to tell us it was too big for hand luggage). We were met at the airport by new friends, who we later accompanied into the centre of the city to watch the Gay Pride Parade. The streets were packed, the heat was stifling, and the costumes varied and outrageous. The party atmosphere filled the air with a tangible excitement. The parade itself was slow to start, but eventually lasted for several hours. We explored a little, taking in this version of the city as the empty streets of the Sunday morning to follow would have a very different feel. But mostly we sat on the grass, chilling with our hosts and their friends, who were mixing cheap wine and lemonade and bobbing to the waves of techno, trance or cheesy pop that came by with every float. The night was hot, but not unbearable; about 37 degrees, yet there was a slight breeze and no humidity which made all the difference. On Sunday we braved the sun to do the tourist circuit recommended to us to take in as much of the city as possible in the time we had. We deviated somewhat to explore various gardens (beautiful, although I was too distracted by the heat to really appreciate them) and pop into some impressive looking cathedrals (a nice break from the heat, …
name: Madrid: First impressions
published: 2013-07-07T23:30:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: festival
tag: gay+pride
tag: madrid
tag: party
tag: spain
tag: summer
tag: too+sodding+hot
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-17T13:50:54.075Z

notes-sssw13-1
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-3095559950473712969
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Semantic Web questions we couldn't ask 10 years ago from Frank Van Harmelen Semantic Web & Web of data = a more manageable mission. Metaweb movie - got bought by Google and incorporated into Knowledge Graph. SW Principles: 1\\\\. Give everything a name (entities). 2\\\\. Relations form graph between things. 3\\\\. Names are addresses on the Web (so we inherit properties of Web like AAA). This becomes Giant Global Graph. (Maybe SW should be called Giant Global Graph?) 4\\\\. Add semantics. Types of things, relationships. Hierarchy, constraints: Inferences. Bounding shared beliefs by sharing ontological information. Space for confusion gets smaller and we begin to agree on interpretation of information. Semantics = predictable inference. Google: from just links to results, to information boxes (last May). Can't directly address Google Knowledge Graph. NXP (microprocessors): 26,000 products. Integrated all databases into triplestore. Exposing subset of triplestore to customers. BBC: 125 million triples. Many data sources. APIs to website. Own ontologies. All have the same triple-layer architecture: Raw data SW layer Output / API / UI etc DataGov: eg. air quality in cities, campaign money, if policies work. Companies don't care about SW, but are using these technologies for their own IRL purposes. These are all different types of use cases of SW technologies: search; data integration; content re-use; SEO; data publishing. It's important that the SW graph is so big. More questions to ask. Good that we no longer know how big, or how fast it is growing... Tens of billions of facts. How many are really permanent? Some are stable, some will disappear - just like the 'regular' Web. "...it being a mess is the only reason why it scales." We need to get used to the idea of SW being a mess - aka "a system so large you can no longer enforce central control" (complex system). The LD cloud is still poorly interconnected, but good graph properties. SameAs.org Heterogeneity is unavoid…
name: [Notes] Frank van Harmelen at #SSSW2013
published: 2013-07-08T13:46:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: events
tag: frank+van+harmelen
tag: notes
tag: phd
tag: raw+notes
tag: semantic+web
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
updated: 2013-07-17T13:50:38.464Z

notes-sssw13-2
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-3215366757403317415
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: (by Mathieu D'Aquin). Introduction to Linked Data from Mathieu d'Aquin Linked Data = universal connections, like Lego. Universal is why it's important. Workshop instructions. The only problem we had during the workshop was disagreement about how to read the 'broader' and 'narrower' relations between courses. It instinctively ready contrary to what (my) common sense suggested (eg. that 'arts and humanities' is broader than 'history', which some people disagreed with). A quick reference to the ontology documentation resolved that.
name: [Notes] Introduction to Linked Data at #SSSW2013
published: 2013-07-08T13:56:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: events
tag: linked+data
tag: mathieu+d'aquin
tag: notes
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
tag: mathieu+daquin
updated: 2013-07-17T13:59:11.745Z

notes-sssw13-3
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6724934902398748996
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: It's a dynamic world! Ubiquitous streams and the Linked Data Web from Manfred Hauswirth (pooh42) Streams: Any time dependant data / changes over time. Has done a paper about P2P stuff. Data silo - "natural enemy of SW scientists" Massive exponential growth of global data. Still have to integrate dynamic data with static data. Multiway joins are domintion operator. Need to be efficient. Everything/body is a sensor. Various research challenges: Query framework. Efficient evaluation algorithm. Optimise queries. Organisation of data. CoAP ~= http for sensors. Stuff about sensor networks and context - useful for Michael. Common abstraction levels for understanding. SSN-XG ontology Application: SPITFIRE You can buy a sensor off the shelf that runs a binary RDF store and can be queried. So possible to use SW tech with resource constrained devices. RESTful sensor interfaces stuff being standardised - CoRE, CoAP. Linked Stream Model CQELS-QL (extension to SPARQL 1.1; already legacy) Rewrite query to spit out static and dynamic - lots of overhead. But need to optimise between these. Neither existing stream processing systems nor existing databases could be efficient enough. So the built own LD stream processing system. (Optimised and adopted existing database stuff). HyperWave - didn't succeed. Didn't listen to customers and wasn't open source (license fees). But better than hypertext was back in the day. Performance important for success/uptake. Just putting it on cloud infrastructure doesn't mean it scales. Need to parallelize algorithm. Took it to a point where adding more hardware did help. Problems! Inconsistent results, engines don't support all query patterns.. very early, don't fully understand yet. Long way to go. How to prove what is a correct result? Needs to be easy to use - dumb it down. Linked Stream Middleware (available): Flights, live trains - SPARQL endpoint!, traffic cams. SuperStreamCollider.org Current Tomcat problem with twitter streams. To do? Scaleabil…
name: [Notes] Manfred Hauswirth at #SSSW2013
published: 2013-07-08T14:23:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: events
tag: linked+data+stream
tag: manfred+hauswirth
tag: notes
tag: phd
tag: raw+notes
tag: semantic+web
tag: sensors
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
tag: stream
updated: 2013-07-17T14:25:01.453Z

notes-sssw13-4
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8036580643884823518
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: RELEVANT. Users (consumers?): Finding content Media types * mostly text at the moment, little integration of different types Specific tasks - not much connection of results with user tasks. More data than just what you seen in the media (cue my Venn diagram). Plus, eg. paintings - lots of 'cultural baggage'. Care more about the story than the media. Interpretation by end users. Hopefully message that the author intended. Meaning of combination of assets. eg. Exhibition of artists work. Interacting further with the media. Search - serendipitous or focussed around a theme (or both). Different search goals. Sharing, passing it on. (SW and multimedia community need to work together). -> Raphael Troncy on Friday - attaching semantics to multimedia on the Web. Need mechanisms: to identify (parts of) media assets. associate metadata with a fragment. agree on meaning of metadata. enable meaningful structures to be composed, identified and annotated. Workflow for multimedia applications Canonical processes of media production Reduced to the simplest form possible without loss of generality. Heard of MPEG-7? Don't bother.. very much from a media algorithms perspective. Applications: Feature extraction. News production. New media art. An interactive exhibit that responded to audience present. Hyper-video. Linked video. Photo book production (CeWe). (Using this example for explaining processes). Ambient multimedia systems with complex sensory networks. Canonical processes overview... There's a paper. CeWe photobook - automatic selection, sorting and ordering of photos. Context (timestamp, tags) analysis and content (colours, edges) analysis. Things from these you want to represent your digital system (ie with LOD): Premediate, eg. remember to take your camera on holiday. write scripts, plan shots. place a security camera in the right location. Construct Message (not really in the chain, appears all over the place); what to conveny with media? Intention? eg. show people a great …
name: [Notes] Lynda Hardman at #SSSW2013
published: 2013-07-09T12:30:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: annotation
tag: content+creators
tag: digital+media
tag: media
tag: notes
tag: ontologies
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
updated: 2013-07-17T19:48:39.861Z

notes-sssw13-5
type: Article
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content: Collaborative ontology development from Natasha Noy (sssw2012) Stanford, Protégé. In past 10-15 years, through collaboration with scientists (particularly biomed), ontologies have become essential. Don't need to sell ontologies to scientists, they believe in it. Focus on science because that's where she has experience etc. We're not so bad at versioning ontologies, more versioning data is the problem. Experts add stuff, curator checks quality, and publishes upcoming tasks. Similar to open source developments, but no research to compare the two. \\\\- Different because biomed people are paid (well). ICD - International Classification of Diseases. Started 17th century. Causes of death, medical bills, policy making. Revised in 80s over 8 annual conferences. 17-58 countries, 1-5 person delegations, mainly health statisticians. Manual, on paper. Whoever shouted loudest.. Paper copies, only English, pdf. ICD-11 - OWL ontology! Open, Protégé (a customised, Web version), links to others. Conflict resolution: People naturally don't step on each others' toes. Users expect stuff like Web 2.0 interactions, Web interface. Web Protégé: No consistency checking - coming but currently must go offline. Ontologies are solution to everything - versioning, roles, social interactions. Also plugins are the solutions to everything - visualisations.
name: [Notes] Natasha Noy at #SSSW2013
published: 2013-07-09T16:25:00.000Z
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tag: Done
tag: collaborative+ontology+development
tag: events
tag: notes
tag: ontology
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
updated: 2013-07-17T16:26:11.585Z

notes-sssw13-6
type: Article
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content: Social Media Analytics with a Pinch of Semantics Using semantics to solve problems (not solving problems of semantics). SM for businesses: Analytics. How to measure success? SM silos impeding progress. In-house social platforms increasing, so even more so. SIOC to integrate online community information. SIOC + FOAF + SKOS. FB Graph. People are likeaholics. Their 'likes' become meaningless, so you need to take this into account when making recommendations. Browse your data and understand user actions. Behaviour analysis. Bottom-up analysis. Can handle unexpected or emerging behaviours. Community members classified into roles. Identify unknown roles. Cope with role changes over time. Clustering to identify emerging roles. eg. focussed novice; mixed novice; distributed expert; ... Spectrum across users you can or can't do without. Extending an ontology built on SIOC. Encoding rules in ontologies with SPIN. Three categories of features: Social features (people you follow, people follow you, ...) Content features (what you're posting, keywords, ...) Topical/semantic features Which behaviour categories you need to cater for more than others? How roles impact activity in online community. Consistently see that you need some sort of stable mixture of behaviours for activities in forums to increase. ==> Don't know what's causing which. What is a healthy community? Use behaviour analysis to guess what's going to happen to community. Eg. Churn rate. User count. Seeds/non-seeds prop (how many / if people reply to you). Clustering. Unexpected: the fewer focused experts in the community, the more posts received a reply. (But quality of answers?) Community types (Little work in this space) Muller, M. (CHI 2012) community types in IBM Connections: Communities of Practice Teams Technical support .. .. (see slides..) Need an ontology and inference engine of community types. Wants an automated process to tell you what type of community it is - it might be something it wasn't set up fo…
name: [Notes] Harith Alani at #SSSW2013
published: 2013-07-10T20:30:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: behaviour+analysis
tag: harith+alani
tag: online+communities
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web+summer+school
tag: semantic+web
tag: social+media
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
updated: 2013-07-30T15:36:36.995Z

notes-sssw13-7
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-554189058804958709
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Tools and Techniques Recommender systems Input: Set of users + set of items + rating matrix. Problem - given user, predict rating for an item. In real world, recommendation matrix data is sparse. Can use hybrid approaches. Collaborative RS: Like Amazon. Based on other users with similar profiles. Experimentally better than content-based, but you don't always have many users. Knowledge-based RS: No/little user history. Based on domain knowledge. User-based collaborative recommendation: Pearson's correlation coefficient - baseline. Imagine millions of users - computing similarities takes a lot of time. So .. Item-based collaborative recommendation: Focus on items not users. Compute similarity between each pair of items. Don't have to compute similarity between items that don't have overlapping ratings. Cosine similarity / adjusted cosine similarity (taking into account average rating related to a user to eliminate some bias). Content-based RS: Based on description of item and profile of user interests. Items are described in terms of attributes/features. Finite set of values associated with features. Item representation is a vector. Don't necessarily have complete descriptions of items - just have a 0 in your vector. Similarity between items: Jaccard similarity. Cosine similarity and TF-IDF (term frequency - inverse document frequency). Batch compute similarities offline, then use similarities to compute ratings on the fly based on user profile. Predict rate only for N nearest neighbours of items in user profile, that are not in the user profile. An item is worth rating if more than x of N number of neighbours are within user profile. Using LOD To mitigate lack of information/descriptions about concepts/entities. Recommender systems are usually vertical, but LD lets you easily build a multi-domain recommender system. To avoid noisy data, you have to filter it before feeding your RS. Freebase. Tiapolo Automating typing of DBPedia entities. Vector space model for LOD MA…
name: [Notes] Tommaso Di Noia at #SSSW2013
published: 2013-07-10T21:30:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: linked+data
tag: notes
tag: phd
tag: recommendations
tag: recommender+systems
tag: semantic+web+summer+school
tag: semantic+web+tools
tag: semantic+web
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
tag: tommaso+di+noia
updated: 2013-07-30T16:11:22.128Z

notes-sssw13-8
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6703915713273014969
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content: Make a model of what is happening. WeSenseIt \\\\- citizen water observations. River belongs to citizens, not authorities. Physical sensors (hard layer) are expensive and brittle. So use people instead (soft layer, social). Give people small sensors. Phones. Then you just need software for information management. capture. integrate and correlate data. share. Can't rely on phones. Old people in Doncaster. Give them easy sensors instead. camera humidity position GPS water depth, velocity rainfall via accelerometer could coverage via luminocity Costs about EUR 80. Open Source & hackable. Not expected to substitute professional sensors, but a way to crowdsource information you would never get. In Delft Give people flood preparation advice and record who ticks things off, to build a picture of who/how/when preparations take place. The Floow Ltd "Commercialises data solution for telematic insurance." World divided 10x10m squares, sense things everywhere. Traffic risks. Sensors tell you people are going somewhere, not why. That's what social media can tell you. Monitoring development of a house fire via Twitter. Seeing events through the eyes of the community. Social streams: High volume Duplicated, incomplete, imprecise, incorrect Time sensitive / short term Informal Only 140 characters Spam Large music festival. Monitor geolocated messages, trends, topics and relations. Most 'critical' events were management issues. Developing system to warn you automatically about things to pay attention to. Look/listen for event within 72 hours. 10 minutes to find out what it was. \\\\- Simulation of station bombing. Minute by minute description of event. 1.5 billion messages. Linguistic issues Alternative language Negatives Conditional statements Hope/prayer statements Irony/sarcasm Ambiguity Unreliable capitalisation Data sparsity Four things when monitoring: What Identify, classify, cluster Events and sub-events Involved entities Who Human or not? Bots can be beneign, but many are a…
name: [Notes] Fabio Ciravenga at #SSSW2013
published: 2013-07-11T21:00:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: fabio+ciravenga
tag: notes
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
tag: semantics
tag: sensor+networks
tag: sensors
tag: social+machine
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
updated: 2013-07-30T17:29:21.713Z

notes-sssw13-poster
type: Article
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content: Things to investigate further! LibRDF - linkeddata-perl for Debian by Kjetil Kjernsmo. Rakebul Hasan, Fabien Geandon (? not sure about names, can't read my handwriting..) - Trustworthiness of inferences. Taldea - fostering spontaneous communities. Ghada Ben Nejma. NERD ontology for spotting entities. nerd.eurecom.fr See photo:
name: [Notes] Poster session at #SSSW2013
published: 2013-07-08T14:39:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: events
tag: notes
tag: phd
tag: poster
tag: semantic+web
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
updated: 2013-07-17T14:39:34.170Z

post-oz
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1620265304664866442
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: So I got behind with the blogging. As in, I didn't do any. I will rectify that over upcoming days! But for now, I will reflect on my Pre-Oz quests. 1\\\\. Find the resting place of my Uncle David. Achieved, debatabley. I found the Herb Garden, South Yarra, which was part of Melbourne's amazing Botanic Gardens (and conveniently pretty much across the road from where Jamie lived). However, it has never been legal to scatter ashes there, and there definitely aren't any headstones. It doesn't mean he wasn't scattered there though. So I took lots of pictures. That's the best I could do. It is beautiful. 2\\\\. Forge ties between Edinburgh and Melbourne Open Knowledge Foundations. Well, I went to #govHack and had an amazing time. Pete and I discovered we'd already been to one of Flanders' hacks in the UK, and another hack that had derived from it (Dev8D and DevXS). So we were well received. Also because we'd travelled 11,000 miles to be there. And I got to know some things about Australian data. Stay posted for the official blog. Check out some of the places my Mum and her family lived. I found a caravan park in Palm Cove where she lived 38 years ago, and the creek where she learned to swim! The change in the town from how she described it was immense, but walking the same beach she walked as a child was a really surreal experience. I also dangled my feet in Mossman Gorge in the Daintree rainforest before I even knew that she used to swim there. I saw a sign to Toowoomba near Brisbane, where she lived too. Maybe attempt to bump into relatives or family friends. Wasn't expecting to achieve this. But I saw my cousin in Perth! That was awesome. And it was very good of him to pick us up from the airport, give us a super fast tour of Perth at night and let us sleep on his floor for a few hours, before returning us to the airport for 5am. Thanks Luke! It almost made up for the ..ahem.. additional expenses incurred. See Ayres Rock. Check! It wasn't all that. But the road trippin…
name: Post-Oz: Some conclusions
published: 2013-07-04T22:11:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: australia
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-04T22:11:02.988Z

sssw2013-index
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1381975491541579689
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: For easy navigation of my gibbering. [First impressions of Madrid (6th and 7th, travel)](https://rhiaro.co.uk/llog/2013/07/madrid-first-impressions.html) Mon 8th: Research in theory and practice, and where on earth am I? Notes for keynote by Frank van Harmelen (questions we couldn't have asked 10 years ago) Notes for Introduction to Linked Data by Mathieu D'Aquin Notes from invited talk by Manfred Hauswirth (linked data streams) Notes from poster session Tue 9th: Collaborative ontology engineering and team formation Notes from Lynda Hardman (telling stories with media) Notes from Natasha Noy (ontologies and Protégé) Wed 10th: Practical semantics, and human nature. Notes from Harith Alani (Social Media Analytics with a pinch of semantics) Notes from Tommaso Di Noia (recommender systems; tools and techniques) Thu 11th: Social semantics and serendipity Notes from Fabio Ciravegna (situation awareness via social and physical sensing) Everything from Friday 12th July Notes from Peter Mika (Yahoo!; semantic search) Notes from Raphael Troncy (semantics at the multimedia fragment level) Notes about our mini-project (Evaluating Serendipity) Summer School for Semantic Wizards (video) A cruel joke, a great party and a late night. Final impressions of Madrid (14th, #travel)
name: #SSSW2013 Index
published: 2013-07-17T15:12:00.001Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: cercedilla
tag: index
tag: learning
tag: madrid
tag: notes
tag: ontologies
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
tag: spain
tag: summer+school
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-30T18:23:06.390Z

sssw2013-practical
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5661119888817867566
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content: Harith Alani talked about using semantics to solve problems around evaluating the success of social media use in business. The SIOC ontology is widely used to describe online community information. It's not as simple as measuring someone's engagement with a brand's online presence - people are 'likeaholics' on Facebook, so you have to look at someone's whole behaviour profile to judge whether their like means anything or not. It's no good just aggregating your data and spewing out numbers - you have to browse the data and try to understand where it came from. He mentioned how little work has been done in classifying community types. Most of the work that has been done seems to be with social networks internal to an organisation. A bottom-up approach to community analysis can handle emergent behaviours and cope with role changes over time. Looking at behaviour categories and roles can help an organisation to decide who to concentrate on supporting and how in order to sustain the community. The results they have seen so far suggest that a stable mix of the different types of behaviours are needed to increase activities in forums - but they don't know what causes what. They're reaching a point where they can use their behaviour analysis to guess what's going to happen to a community: how long it will last, how fast it will grow, how many replies a certain type of post is likely to get, etc. Next they want to be able to classify community types, and be able to look at activities within a community over a period of time and automatically discover what kind of community it is; it might be something different than what it was set up for. They created an alternative Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to correspond with activities seen on forums, and found that most people are happy to stay at the lower levels of the hierarchy. For example, join a community, lurk for a bit, ask one question and leave. Not everyone wants or needs to be a power user. Papers are being written that fin…
name: #SSSW2013: Practical semantics and human nature
published: 2013-07-10T23:00:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: dbpedia
tag: fred
tag: harith+alani
tag: ontologies
tag: phd
tag: recommender+systems
tag: segovia
tag: semantic+web+summer+school
tag: semantic+web
tag: semantics
tag: social+media
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
tag: tipalo
tag: tommaso+di+noia
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-30T17:34:20.984Z

sssw2013-research
type: Article
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content: The 10th Summer School for Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web _ _Sunday Arriving by train into Cercedilla, north of Madrid, we immediately encountered other confused looking folk with poster tubes. So we shared taxis (EUR 10) from Cercedilla station to the summer school residence further north, in the forest. After getting keys for our pleasant, single, en-suite rooms, arrivals congregated in the shade by the building to introduce ourselves.. Again, and again, and again, as new people continuously arrived over the space of a few hours. A really broad mix of people are here in terms of nationalities and places and levels of study, but I still haven't quite got used to the fact that answering 'Semantic Web stuff' is not specific enough in this crowd, when someone asks you what your research is about. Nobody needs convincing that these technologies are useful! Later we received schedules, maps, ill-fitting t-shirts* and very helpful name badges, and headed for dinner at the bar down the road. As is traditional when I write about my experiences in new places, I will describe the food every day. It has become apparent, at this residence at least, that variety of ingredients is not ordinary, so in this respect meals are simple. Dinner that first night started with a salad (lettuce, olives, tomato, onion, shredded beetroot and a single slice of hard boiled egg; no dressing), followed by - for the majority - slices of meat (beef? Pork? I dunno..) and fries. Mine was a plate of mushy green vegetables with a little seasoning, that was pretty tasty. Dessert was a single pear, delivered with ceremony, but otherwise unadorned. Healthy, at least. Yet we were all (those I sat with at least) were left feeling a little unsatisfied. I shared a table with a French, Spanish, Italian and Irish guy. Conforming appropriately to stereotypes, and setting up reputations for the rest of the week, the French and the Italian shared the bottle of wine on the table; the rest of us went wit…
name: #SSSW2013: Research in theory and practice, and where on earth am I?
published: 2013-07-08T23:30:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: cercedilla
tag: events
tag: hacking
tag: knowledge+engineering
tag: learning
tag: linked+data
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tag: ontologies
tag: phd
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tag: semantic+web+summer+school
tag: spain
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
tag: summer+school
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-17T14:52:15.424Z

sssw2013-social
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-4981764477729666207
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content: We started work on the serendipity project before breakfast today, although I didn't make it down as early as some of my teammates. To start the day, Fabio Ciravenga talked about some really exciting practical applications of monitoring and analysing social media streams. It's particularly interesting during emergencies, or large events where problems might occur. The people on the ground make the perfect sensors if you can work out the differences between people who are saying something useful and who aren't; people who are really there, and people who are speculating or asking about the situation. A main problem has been that people tweet crap. They were trying to monitor a house fire, but so many people were tweeting lyrics from Adele's various singles at the time, which all apparently contain references to fire, it was almost impossible. They also put (or tapped into existing) sensors in peoples' cars to monitor driving patterns with the aim of more fairly charging for car insurance. I told my Mum about this the other day, and she was pretty alarmed by the idea. Which made me wonder how they'll get mass adoption, if it's going to go anywhere. Fabio did have some interesting things to say about using all this data ethically though, and never working for someone who is going to take that away from you. But in case the 'bad guys' do find out about all this data you have about people, keep a magnet handy. My notes are here. This was followed by a hands-on session where we got to mess with a mini version of the twitter topic monitoring system that Fabio's team use at large events, to try to answer questions about the Tour de France only by manipulating the incoming social media streams and following only links which came through that. Spanish omelette sandwiches were an amazing outdoor leisurely lunch. We headed to the pool down the road and chilled out there for a couple of hours. Us tough British folk found the water pleasantly tepid, whilst all those wimpy Europea…
name: #SSSW2013: Social semantics and serendipity
published: 2013-07-11T21:30:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: fabio+ciravenga
tag: phd
tag: pool
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tag: social+media
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
updated: 2013-07-30T18:22:38.186Z

sssw2013-team
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-2094529228400394655
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: We were introduced to the various mini-projects on Tuesday morning, and encouraged to form teams with people who weren't from the same university. I quickly shortlisted the five that sounded most interesting to me, but was disappointed that there weren't any about multimedia. Because how to evaluate a very subjective system is a potential problem for me, the project proposed by Valentina Presutti was my first choice: "Serendipity can be defined as the combination of relevance and unexpectedness: an information is considered serendipitous if it is at the same time very relevant and unexpected for a given user and in the context of a given task. In other words, a user would learn new relevant knowledge. To evaluate the performance of a tool (e.g., an exploratory search tool, a recommending system) in terms of its ability to provide users with serendipitous knowledge is a hard task because both relevance and unexpectedness are highly subjective. This miniproject focuses on two main research questions: what is the correct way of designing a user-study for evaluating an exploratory search tool performance in terms of serendipity? Is it possible to build a reusable set of resources (a benchmark) for evaluating ability to produce serendipity, allowing easier evaluation experiments and comparison among different tools?" Nobody else seemed to be interested though, so I resigned myself to not being able to do it... until I explained the project and why it was interesting, to the best of my ability, to Andy, Oscar and Josef, and they were sold enough to mark it as our first choice. Thus Team Anaconda Disappointed (a name of significant and mysterious origins) was born, and Project Cusack (because of the movie Serendipity, which nobody got) was underway. Our first lecture today was from Lynda Hardman, about telling stories with multimedia objects. It was super relevant to what I'm doing, to the point where I'm surprised I hadn't come across her work already. My notes are here. …
name: #SSSW2013: Collaborative ontology engineering and team formation
published: 2013-07-09T19:58:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: events
tag: lynda+hardman
tag: ontologies
tag: ontology+engineering
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
tag: serendipity
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
tag: valentina+presutti
updated: 2013-07-30T14:47:29.341Z

week-review-catching
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-7090165647671052514
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Returned to Edinburgh on Wednesday. Suffering from post-travel depression. That's a thing, I looked it up. It's a thing nobody has any sympathy for. Life is hard. Started and finished my poster for the Semantic Web Summer School. Went to Spain for aforementioned summer school. Spain is hot. Let this mental week of learning begin!
name: Week in review: Catching up, poster
published: 2013-07-07T17:00:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: phd
tag: post-travel+depression
tag: poster
tag: semantic+web
tag: sssw13
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-07-07T17:00:03.565Z

weeks-review-sssw2013
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1329700495515273792
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 8th - 14th July Semantic Web Summer School, much heat, much fun, much learning... Here's an index of my posts. 15th - 21st July Friends visited. Progress included writing notes to myself to figure out just what my PhD outcomes really are, and why. Came up with: 1\\\\. Recommending how to usefully describe diverse amateur creative digital content (ACDC) using an ontology. a) What are the parts of ACDC that need to be represented? Identify and categorise properties. How do these differentiate it from other similar content? b) What existing ontologies can be used to do this, and how do they need to be extended? 2\\\\. Building an initial set of linked data about ACDC, and providing means for its growth and use. a) Manual annotation of ACDC, and refinement (to test ontology). b) Tools for automatic annotation of the parts of ACDC that it is possible to automatically annotate. c) Tools for manual annotation by the community of content creators and consumers for the parts of ACDC that cannot be automatically annotated. d) Tools to expose the linked data for use by third-party applications. 3\\\\. Create and test an example service which uses the linked data to benefit content creators and/or consumers. eg. Unobtrusive recommendations for collaborative partners (most likely); content recommendation; content consumption analysis (like tracking viral content); community building / knowledge sharing in this domain; ... . 22nd - 28th July Brainstormed with Ewan about stage 3 (above), and came up with the idea of an interface that allows content creators to allocate varying degrees of credit for roles played by different people when collaborating on a project. This would serve to both gather collaborative bibliographic data, learn things about how different segments of the community allocate credit, and provide a potentially useful tool for content creators. With the future value that, if we can learn enough to estimate role inputs from different people, it could be used for th…
name: Week(s) in review: #SSSW2013, figuring stuff out and annotating YouTube
published: 2013-07-28T21:00:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: acdc
tag: amateur+creative+digital+content
tag: annotation
tag: content+creators
tag: google
tag: ontology
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web+summer+school
tag: semantic+web
tag: sssw2013
tag: week+in+review
tag: youtube
tag: youtubers
updated: 2013-07-30T14:58:49.975Z

co-organiser-mentor
type: Article
tmpcontent: # Co-organiser and mentor, Edinburgh Centre, Young Rewired State Helped to organise the local centre, recruited participants in the run up, and helped with mentoring during the week. Also helped to supervise a coachload of kids for the trip to the Festival of Code.
actor: me
content: Helped to organise the local centre, recruited participants in the run up, and helped with mentoring during the week. Also helped to supervise a coachload of kids for the trip to the Festival of Code.
end time: 2013-08-11T00:00:00+0100
name: Co-organiser and mentor, Edinburgh Centre, Young Rewired State
published: 2013-08-05T09:00:00+0100
start time: 2013-08-05T00:00:00+0100
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tag: hackathon
tag: mentor
tag: organiser
tag: resume
tag: teaching
tag: volunteer
tag: young+rewired+state
tag: yrs

rhia-ro
type: Article
actor: me
content: I sometimes get asked what rhiaro means. Rhia Ro was the name I chose (when I was around 9 or 10 years old I think) and I decided any budding author worth their salt needed a penname (I always wanted to be a writer of fiction; I still do). I scribbled Rhia Ro at the bottom of all my short stories for years, and when I started to converge on a consistent online identity, that's what I went with (before then, you might've known me as gerbilsbhs, theboynextdoor, TheRingleader, mysticalmoonflower or kirilya). Buying rhiaro.co.uk at the end of 2008 was a real formative moment for Rhia and myself. It often gets autocorrected to rhino. Most people instinctively pronounce it rih-haro ree-haro or ree-aro, and that's okay, but really it's reah-ro.
name: Rhia Ro
published: 2013-08-10T20:44:00+0100
tag: writing
tag: rhiaro
tag: rhia+ro
tag: pseudonym
tag: penname
tag: name

vague-thoughts
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5156546868984603963
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: I had two meetings with Dave Robertson, my second supervisor, about what on earth I'm doing, and here is a vague summary of my thoughts afterwards. I came to the realisation between meetings that I need to scrap the term Amateur Creative Digital Content, because amateur doesn't really apply by its true definition and creative is too subjective anyway. Focus on content creators, not content (so previous point doesn't matter so much anyway; maybe just need to look at existing ways people are describing types of users to make it clear who I'm concentrating on). In terms of emphasis of the thesis, I need to make a choice between taking a cognitive science/sociology perspective and a tecchie/engineering perspective (I choose tech because that's where I'm most comfortable, but the sociology side of things is still important). (Therefore) I need to think concretely now about technology architecture. Not to get too hung up on the Semantic Web; the technologies are a vehicle for testing theories, rather than an end in itself (though I still think facilitating a big linked data set of this sort of data is useful in the long run for research and practical applications, I didn't labour that point). Social machines, and how Dave's process modelling language fits in, which I think I get in theory but not practice (I'd probably have to look at a working application and code to understand really). Some of the principles may be useful further down the line, but probably not the language itself or anything. Technology-wise, I'm not thinking about anything novel or new, but more new ways for how various Web and SW technologies are combined and applied to this domain. (?) So maybe the novelty is in marking up various things about content creators and using this to infer information about the processes they're involved in (or want to be involved in) in order to then facilitate these processes, without (necessarily) ever explicitly representing these processes (because from the content c…
name: Vague thoughts about content creators and the Semantic Web
published: 2013-08-02T14:03:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: active+content+creators
tag: brainstorming
tag: content+creators
tag: notes
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
updated: 2013-09-03T14:07:29.917Z

weeks-review-thesis
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-7027603982367622066
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: 29th July - 4th August Discussed my ideas and work so far with Dave Robertson, my second supervisor, in two meetings this week. Here's a summary of some of my thoughts. 5th - 11th August I worked on my thesis proposal. But it was also Young Rewired State week! **12th - 18th August **Finally (belatedly) handed in my thesis proposal. (My review is scheduled for the 22nd August).
name: Weeks in Review: Thesis proposal
published: 2013-08-04T14:59:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: amateur+creative+digital+content
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
tag: thesis+proposal
tag: week+in+review
updated: 2013-09-19T10:13:44.138Z

young-rewired
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6355996439882260918
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Young Rewired State is a week-long hack event for under 19s. There are centres all over the UK, and the week finishes with a giant sleepover in the Custard Factory in Birmingham, presentations and prizes. I was helping out with running the Edinburgh centre this year, between the 5th and 11th of August. We had 15 young people taking part, and a few parents popping in and out as well. Not to mention several fantastic mentors. Every day we gathered in one of the University of Edinburgh Informatics computer labs. On the first day we did some brainstorming, introduced the young people to Open Data, and they sorted themselves into teams. We had a diverse range of projects by the end of the week. The Weatherproof app was written in Scala with a Web frontend, and as well as telling you the weather forecast, gives you practical advice on what to wear and what to take with you. _Stuff Index _was a Python Web app that lets people photograph and upload stuff they've left out on the street that they want to get rid of, so anyone browsing the site can opt to take it away if they fancy it. Helping to keep stuff out of landfill, and without the dreaded social interactions that come with Freegle. Tag is a game by a one-man team, with a Python game server and a JavaScript front end that lets you chase your friends around the real world, and automatically tags them when you're in range. _PokeGame _is a real-world Pokemon simulator that lets you roam IRL and capture virtual Pokemon. Great stuff! On Friday we crammed into a coach along with the participants from Aberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow, and set off on a seven hour road trip to Birmingham for the finale. The Edinburgh teams didn't win anything, but the presentations were fantastic and everyone had an amazing time. The young people made new friends, learnt tons of new stuff, and hopefully remain enthused about coding. Next year we're going to do more to walk through the creation process of some example apps to get them started off, a…
name: Young Rewired State in Edinburgh #yrs2013
published: 2013-08-11T22:30:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: #yrs2013
tag: birmingham
tag: edinburgh
tag: events
tag: open+data
tag: organiser
tag: prewired
tag: young+rewired+state
tag: yrs2013
tag: yrs
updated: 2013-09-03T14:23:59.579Z

a-good-resource
type: Comment
type: Note
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8694837472485224392
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/05401531492640667013
content: A good resource for those working on with their literature review. I once asked of why we need to write dissertation literature review that helps me to realize its importance.
published: 2013-09-05T12:33:32.041Z
summary: Amy wrote about something
updated: 2013-09-05T12:33:32.041Z

angel-death
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-4670569350091133264
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: I have a thing where I can't not finish reading something. There's a very short list of books I never finished, and they all date from when I was about 8 to 13, and are because I was to young to follow them or too young to bear them, and just haven't got around to picking them up again. They haunt my subconscious. These days I feel I have to get at least half way to have given it enough of a chance, and once I'm past half way I feel I might as well finish it. By the time I had wrenched my way through the first half of Angel of Death, I had started to come round to it. By the end I guess I'd enjoyed it in some ways. What I struggled with through the first half was the erratic jumping between persons and, worst of all, tenses. You experience one character's perspective in first person present tense (something I dislike anyway), plus second person directed at another character. And sometimes past tense. Other perspectives were usually third person past tense. I guess I got used to it, but if someone had told me before I started that it was written in this way, I probably wouldn't have picked it up. I'm starting to figure out that I prefer character-driven narratives. This is the pattern with things I've enjoyed lately, anyway. The premise of Angel of Death was kinda interesting. But the characters were utterly flat and often behaved unbelievably or in a very contrived manner, given how they'd been set up. It was all tell and no show. THIS IS A BAD EVENT IN HER TROUBLED PAST, OH BOY, NOW YOU KNOW HER MOTIVATIONS. Totally wasn't enough. The twists and turns throughout are, I suppose, well done. The reader is convinced of the state of the world and, just as you're absolutely certain that that's the way it is, you're being convinced of the opposite. This happens not quite enough to feel like an indecisive cop-out, but isn't far off. There's gory horror, but it feels appropriate and not over-done. Kudos. If there were deeper levels of meaning or metaphor intended, which I s…
name: Angel of Death (J. Robert King)
published: 2013-09-30T21:27:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: book+review
tag: misc
tag: reading
updated: 2013-09-30T21:27:52.120Z

co-founder
type: Article
tmpcontent: # Co-founder and organiser, Prewired ## Programming club for under 19s Now weekly. Sometimes more. See [prewired.org](http://www.prewired.org).
actor: me
content: Programming club for under 19s Now weekly. Sometimes more. See prewired.org.
name: Co-founder and organiser, Prewired
published: 2013-09-01T09:00:00+0100
start time: 2013-09-01T00:00:00+0100
tag: codeclub
tag: coder+dojo
tag: cv
tag: edinburgh
tag: prewired
tag: resume
tag: teaching
tag: volunteer

cujo
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8242511758378273459
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Blew. My. Mind.
name: Cujo
published: 2013-09-30T21:36:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: book+review
tag: misc
tag: reading
updated: 2013-09-30T21:36:36.309Z

scotgovcamp
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-8487172207379797242
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Writeup imminent...
name: ScotGovCamp #scotgc13
published: 2013-09-14T06:30:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: attendee
tag: events
tag: government
tag: open+data
tag: open+rights
updated: 2013-09-19T10:12:15.740Z

volunteer-moderator
type: Article
tmpcontent: # Volunteer Moderator ## Edinburgh Freegle [Freegle](http://ilovefreegle.org) is a national network for promoting reuse and reducing waste by enabling people to give away stuff they don't need anymore, and other people to pick second-hand things for free, in their local area. I'm a sub-par mailing list moderator, and I feel bad about being so inattentive.
content: Edinburgh Freegle Freegle is a national network for promoting reuse and reducing waste by enabling people to give away stuff they don't need anymore, and other people to pick second-hand things for free, in their local area. I'm a sub-par mailing list moderator, and I feel bad about being so inattentive.
end time: 2015-06-01T00:00:00+0100
name: Volunteer Moderator
published: 2013-09-01T00:00:00+0100
start time: 2013-09-01T00:00:00+0100
tag: community
tag: cv
tag: edinburgh
tag: free+stuff
tag: freecycle
tag: freegle
tag: moderator
tag: resume
tag: sharing+economy
tag: volunteer

autobiography
type: Article
actor: me
content: I magicked Autobiography to my Kindle, but I haven't started reading it yet because I'm worried I'll cry from beginning to end due to the sheer beauty of the prose. I'm looking forward to a spectacularly written yarn, designed explicitly to incite scandal and speculation. I'll read it as fiction and fantasy, inspired by, but not based upon, real events. I might relate too much, or regress back to my teenage years. I think I'd enjoy/despise it best shut away from the world until it's over; always the case with the first listening of a new album. I don't know when I'll have time or understanding of peers for that. I'll try to schedule a few days. Maybe I'll run away to Kerrara for a weekend on my own.
name: Autobiography
published: 2013-10-19T12:36:00+0000
tag: todo
tag: Todo
tag: book
tag: lame
tag: misc
tag: reading

blog-semantic-web
type: Article
actor: me
content: It's easy to see why not many people do. I say not many, because I'm sure there are people using the various RDF Drupal or Wordpress plugin. But I don't really know if they count, because that's really just people annotating their content for SEO purposes, and maybe a bit of interlinking with DBPedia to let visitors find out a bit more about topics of interest. But what I'm really talking about is the whole blog running from a triplestore, with a publicly accessible SPARQL endpoint. All the publicly accessible SPARQL endpoints I can find are big 'useful' datasets that people might want to mash up with other things. Archives of data. Not live or frequently updated stuff. Certainly not the contents and metadata of a personal blog. So what's the point? There's not a lot else 'on' the Semantic Web to tap into. There's no hidden Semantic Blogosphere that would yield great worth if I could only tap into it. There are no smart agents traversing the Semantic Web and aggregating interesting blog content for intelligent readers (are there?). And there never will be, if nobody publishes their content this way. So I suppose I'd better get on with it. My point is, it's easy to see why nobody does.
name: Putting a blog on the Semantic Web
published: 2013-10-13T18:28:00+0000
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: blog
tag: hacking
tag: learning
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/rdf
tag: semantic+web
tag: shared+hosting
tag: slogd
tag: sparql
tag: triplestores
updated: 2013-10-13T18:33:00+0000

graphite
type: Article
actor: me
content: I think I'll use Chris Gutteridge's Graphite layer on top of ARC2. I've been putting off thinking about yet more libraries, but I think I'll end up implementing bits of Graphite in an effort to make ARC2 more friendly anyway, and I'm sure he's done a better job than I ever could.
name: Graphite
published: 2013-10-25T16:32:00+0000
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: arc2
tag: chrisgutteridge
tag: graphite
tag: hacking
tag: learning
tag: php
tag: semantic+web
tag: slogd
tag: triples

launch-prewired
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1504925507947577151
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Several weeks of debating and planning following Young Rewired State finally came to fruition on the 16th of October, with our first Prewired event. Thirty eight kids young people arrived between 9:30 and 10 on that Wednesday morning (it was half term week in Scotland, so we weren't pulling them out of school), grabbed some kindly donated Google swag, made name badges with stickers and felt-tipped pens, and sat down for two and a half hours of lightly guided learning. They were between the ages of three and eighteen, although the three to six year olds were more there to be tagging along with older siblings or University staff. It's obviously impossible to divide attendees up by age and decide what to work with them on, as older definitely does not mean more experienced. We had decided on no lower bound for the age limit, and no lower bound for experience either, figuring that the only real requirement is enthusiasm about programming. There was a huge mix of interests and abilities, and we let them decide for themselves which topics would be worth listening to. We also had about fifteen students, University staff or industry professionals along as mentors. After a few minutes of welcomes, where most of the room were willing to introduce themselves and tell us what they wanted to learn ("Python", "Scratch" and "more about programming in general" were popular ones) we kicked off with three five minute introductions: to HTML and CSS (beginner), to HTML5 Geolocation (intermediate) and to Python's Natural Language Toolkit (advanced). They then had the chance to spend 40 minutes in a hands-on session for whichever of these they chose. The groups were very evenly spread, and despite a few hiccups with Python installations on Windows and Chrome not playing nice with geolocation (worked through thanks largely to the mentors) most people got some code up and running and appropriately hacked about with by the end. We took a break for juice, crisps, chocolate and fruit, plus a …
name: The Launch of Prewired
published: 2013-10-18T14:16:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: code+club
tag: code
tag: coder+dojo
tag: events
tag: organiser
tag: programming+club
tag: programming
tag: talks
tag: teenagers
tag: tutoring
tag: young+people
tag: young+rewired+state
updated: 2013-10-18T15:40:21.736Z

metadata-parsing
type: Article
actor: me
content: Right-ho, it parses whatever arbitrary metadata I put in the comments of the markdown files providing they start with "label:" and end with a newline (" "). And lumps it into displayable html along with the post it belongs to, mostly for easier testing. The next step is to engage some ontologies and turn the metadata and posts into a graph. It's ARC2 time! Update: Actually the metadata it accepts is not all that arbitrary. Will remedy. Update 2: Fixed that.
name: Metadata parsing
published: 2013-10-13T21:20:00+0000
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: arc2
tag: blog
tag: hacking
tag: learning
tag: markdown
tag: metadata
tag: semantic+web
tag: slogd
updated: 2013-10-13T21:53:00+0000

nanowrimo-why-do
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5673246602677339428
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: T'was the night before Nano. A world swims in my head. I'm way scared of planning. I'm alone in my bed. Don't know if I'll sleep. Oh, what have I done? Maybe I'll dream all fifty thousand tonight. Don't panic; it'll be fun! I'm not aiming to 'win' though. Just aiming to write. Any words better than no words. I'm sure my PhD will be alright.
name: Nanowrimo: "Why do I do this to myself?"
published: 2013-10-31T23:30:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: doing
tag: nanowrimo
tag: poem
tag: writing+challenges
tag: writing
updated: 2013-11-03T00:23:50.849Z

owning-linked
type: Article
actor: me
content: Thinking about the options for hosting the Linked Data for Slog'd implementations, and also thinking about hosting personal and shared Linked Data in general, and Linked Data authored by an Agent who isn't the subject, because this is likely to be appropriate in a lot if cases. For Slog'd it's a bit easier, because people setting up a Slog'd implementation would have a bit of knowledge / interest in the Semantic Web and data ownership, in theory. Such people will probably have already a unique URI (like a WebID) or the ability to set one up. The data is also most likely to be authored by the subject. I'm thinking about it in broader terms because (PhD-related) I want content creators (who don't know or care about the Semantic Web) to publish Linked Data about their involvement in the creation of different digital media and online creative works. Where does this data live, to give them absolute and definitive control over it? If they can author data about anyone and anything (which of course, they can) how do we verify what they say when there are no conflicts, or deal with conflicts that arise? Is content attribution data stored in a giant graph that anyone can update? How do we handle IDs? Is there a central service for generating URIs for people who can't use their own domains (like the MyProfile demo)? How do we link - or not - multiple identities of the same person, according to what they want other people to know? Things found during this braindump: Socially Aware Cloud Storage by Tim Berners-Lee (2011) WebDAV WebID MyProfile: unified user profile service which you sign into with WebID and stores data about you with FOAF. There's a hosted demo, but it's intended for people to host their own instance I think. Code on Github RWW.IO: a personal Linked Data store; looks like RemoteStorage but for LD. Code on Github Read/Write Linked Data by Tim Berners-Lee (2013) Not particularly helpful list of things that support editing Linked Data on the Web Identity Interopera…
name: Owning your Linked Data
published: 2013-10-20T11:30:00+0000
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: hacking
tag: learning
tag: linked+data
tag: phd
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/rdf
tag: semantic+web
tag: slogd
tag: sparql
tag: unhosted
updated: 2013-10-20T13:44:00+0000

php-markdown
type: Article
actor: me
content: I'm using Michel Fortin's PHP Markdown to grab each md file in the posts directory and convert the contents to HTML. I'll add some custom stuff to parse labels and categories that I plan to use to organise my content. I also need to think about templating, and when the to-triples part is going to happen. Updates (16:48) PHP Markdown is already able to work with Smarty, but the Smarty docs are awful and the site hurts my brain. The site and docs for Twig seem much nicer, and it claims to be more modern and faster than Smarty, so that's leading the templating engine race at the moment. Do I need to use a templating engine at all? Isn't this kind of what I'm building..?
name: PHP Markdown by Michel Fortin
published: 2013-10-11T16:24:00+0000
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: blog
tag: hacking
tag: learning
tag: linked+data
tag: markdown
tag: semantic+web
updated: 2013-10-12T21:40:00+0000

remote-sparql
type: Article
actor: me
content: Didn't have much success talking to the Dydra SPARQL endpoint yesterday. I was briefly worried as there are no docs describing how to write back to the SPARQL endpoint, so I thought that was write-off at once, but then I found a blog post from 2011 about how that has been introduced. Just not documented yet apparently. But to start with, I imported some test triples using the Web interface, into dydra.com/rhiaro/about-me and tried to read them back. With ARC2, along the lines of: include_once("ARC2/ARC2.php"); $config = array( 'remote_store_endpoint' => 'http://dydra.com/rhiaro/about-me/sparql' ); $store = ARC2::getRemoteStore($config); $query = 'select * where {?s ?p ?o} limit 20'; $rows = $store->query($query, 'rows'); But all I got back was an empty array. I tried with with the DBPedia endpoint, which fell over a couple of times, but I got results... except... they were different from the results I got when I queried the endpoint directly through their interface. They seemed sort of metadata-y, rather than actual triples from the store. But it's hard to tell. So I had a go with Python's RDFLib to try to figure out who had the problem. import rdflib rdflib.plugin.register('sparql', rdflib.query.Processor, 'rdfextras.sparql.processor', 'Processor') rdflib.plugin.register('sparql', rdflib.query.Result, 'rdfextras.sparql.query', 'SPARQLQueryResult') g = rdflib.Graph() query = """ SELECT * FROM <http://dydra.com/rhiaro/about-me/sparql> WHERE { ?s ?p ?o . }Limit 10 """ for row in g.query(query): print row And with that I got some triples... but not from the triplestore. It parsed, I presume, whatever semantic markup it could find in the page itself, the page you see when you visit dydra.com/rhiaro/about-me/sparql. Eg. (rdflib.term.URIRef(u'https://s3.amazonaws.com/public.dydra.com/stylesheets/style.css?1337867890'), rdflib.term.URIRef(u'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab#stylesheet'), rdflib.term.URIRef(u'http://dydra.com/rhiaro/about-me/sparql')) Do I have to send an …
name: Remote SPARQL endpoints and RDF parsing
published: 2013-10-21T13:02:00+0000
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: dydra
tag: hacking
tag: learning
tag: librdf
tag: linked+data
tag: phd
tag: python
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/rdf
tag: rdflib
tag: redland
tag: semantic+web
tag: slogd
tag: sparql
updated: 2013-10-21T18:24:00+0000

slogd-semantic
type: Article
actor: me
content: Gotta start somewhere. So here's a first post. With Slog'd you will be able to: Write posts in markdown Add tags and categories Upload them to the server Then when someone loads your blog: Any new MD is parsed and turned into triples They can browse through your frontend, with posts sorted however you like, within the layout you created. I don't know how I'm going to do this yet, but I'll save my progress as I go...
name: Slog'd: *S*emantic B*log* from Mark*d*own
published: 2013-10-11T15:46:00+0000
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: blog
tag: hacking
tag: learning
tag: linked+data
tag: markdown
tag: semantic+web
updated: 2013-10-12T21:36:00+0000

swap-shop
type: Article
actor: me
content: SHRUB: Swap and Reuse Hub Edinburgh The SHRUB is an awesome cooperative dedicated to promoting reuse, recycling, repairing and upcycling. I helped with early sorting-out of the new shop premises, made some shelves.. spent a few hours per week working in the shop in exchange for swap tokens which which I have procured all manner of exciting things, and helped with the big university halls cleanup last year. I regret that I've only managed to make it in a couple of times in 2015.
end time: 2014-06-01T00:00:00+0100
name: Swap-shop volunteer
published: 2013-10-01T00:00:00+0100
start time: 2013-10-01T00:00:00+0100
tag: community
tag: cv
tag: edinburgh
tag: free+stuff
tag: resume
tag: sharing+economy
tag: shop
tag: shrub
tag: swap+shop
tag: volunteer
tag: work

touched-toes
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-7431902267622492434
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: I touched my toes in yoga today. It happened in the heat of power yoga, and I didn't think I'd be able to do it cold. But I can! That's my goal for the end of the year met then.. (This may sound trivial, but I have short hamstrings, and anything that involves bending in the middle and straightening my legs at the same time I find extremely difficult. This the main thing I'm aiming to overcome with yoga). Another first from today was binding without help in a spinal twist. I managed to do this again at home an hour later, too. And I've noticed that going into Chatarunga between sets of postures has become a reprieve, a chance to catch my breath and rest for a second. Chatarunga is essentially holding yourself in the middle of a pressup, and when I started this class that was not something I could do, or ever though it might be a good idea to do; with the fast pace of the class, it was easy to collapse down onto my chest and skip over it. But over the past few weeks as I've got used to how the class progresses I've slipped into doing the Chatarunga properly - or as properly as I can without having time to stop and think about it - and not having trouble at all. I just tested that theory at home, and held myself in it for a good ten seconds. I haven't seen such fast progress in any of the other yoga I've done. This class is exciting me, and filling me with hope. It's taking a toll on my wrists though. By the end of the semester, they'll be strong :)
name: I touched my toes!
published: 2013-10-14T16:20:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: exercise
tag: misc
tag: self-improvement
tag: yoga
updated: 2013-10-14T16:20:16.369Z

triplestores
type: Article
actor: me
content: What I want to create is a solution to allow the Every(wo)man to publish their blog (/whatever) 'on' the Semantic Web. The Every(wo)man uses a cheap, perhaps archaically run, shared hosting environment, and has little to no control over what is installed there. The most accessible server-side language is PHP. The most likely default databases are MySQL. Files are uploaded using FTP (typically through a client with a GUI) or a web interface like cPanel. Maybe they'd like to change to a new host who would allow them to, say, experiment with Python and CouchDB, but they just renewed their two-year contract, and besides the customer service with their current account is really good, and they have so much content knocking about on that server space now, and they definitely can't afford to be paying for duplicate at the moment. And they also can't be bothered with the faff of remembering how to work with Heroku or something everytime they sit down to tinker, not to mention the worry that their limited understanding of such a system will suddenly start incurring costs. Disclaimer: Previous paragraph may be based on actual events. The solution for running a triplestore from shared hosting is the PHP ARC2 library, which can, wonderfully, drag a MySQL database kicking and screaming into the SPARQL world. But I didn't really want to just use MySQL. It is a terribly practical, but inpure solution. I want a graph database, damnit, with a SPARQL endpoint, and I want somewhere for it to live that I don't have to pay extra for. So what else is there? I want to experiment with CouchDB anyway, so I checked that out. There are hosted instances - like Iris Couch that look pretty easy to deal with. Nobody seems to have optimised it as a triplestore though, so setting up a SPARQL endpoint and proper inferencing and stuff may be a bit beyond me right now. There are lots of hosted triplestores I guess, but they all seem to be about 'Big Data'. I came across Dydra ages ago and signed up for…
name: Triplestores and shared hosting
published: 2013-10-13T18:58:00+0000
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: hacking
tag: hosted+triplestores
tag: learning
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/rdf
tag: semantic+web
tag: shared+hosting
tag: slogd
tag: triplestores
updated: 2013-10-20T11:33:00+0000

twitter-linked
type: Article
actor: me
content: Or perhaps more generically, Status to Linked Data. But Twitter is the only thing I update with statuses, so I'll start with that. I want to be able to: Parse the whole backlog of my tweets and turn them into Linked Data along the same schema as my blog posts will be. Tag all tweets with the same tagset that my blog posts use, automatically from hashtags or keywords, followed by a manual second pass. The mapping of hashtags and keywords to tags for the 'automatic' tagging will be done manually, I should think. This, then, needs a nice interface. Shove all that into the same triplestore my blog uses. Integrate status updates into my kanban-style website, alongside blogposts.
name: Twitter to Linked Data
published: 2013-10-13T20:41:00+0000
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tag: semantic+web
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yoga-progress
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content: I haven't blogged about yoga yet, but now seems like as good a time as any to start. I started yoga-ing towards the end of 2012, with on-and-off classes at the Commonwealth Pool, then joined two beginner classes (with very different teaching styles) in January that ran for a semester as part of Edinburgh Council's Adult Education Programme. I was hooked, and since the start of this semester I've been doing four classes a week: Monday is Vinyasa 'power' yoga, one of the classes held by the University's Yoga Society. It's fast, sweaty and intense, and I'd never have been able to handle it - or enjoy it - as a complete beginner. Tuesday is a really relaxed beginner class running this term through the University Chaplaincy, mainly for relaxation. Great for the final hour of the 24 hour recovery from Monday's class. Wednesday and Thursday are post-beginner Adult Education Programme classes, in Cameron House Centre and Nelson Hall respectively, with one of the teachers from my first semester of regular classes before the summer. But what I really wanted to say, is that today I got myself into a full backbend unassisted (the last two weeks I've had help) and got substantially closer to reaching my toes with a straight back than I ever have before. Go me. (I definitely have shorter hamstrings than is normal, and my main aim with yoga is improving on that).
name: Yoga progress
published: 2013-10-07T14:32:00.001Z
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tag: exercise
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tag: self-improvement
tag: yoga
updated: 2013-10-07T14:32:39.492Z

edinburghapps
type: Article
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content: The post I wrote about EdinburghApps, the City of Edinburgh Council's awesome hackathon, is on the OKFN Scotland blog!
name: EdinburghApps
published: 2013-11-14T15:56:00.000Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: attendee
tag: council
tag: edinburgh
tag: edinburghapps
tag: events
tag: hackathon
tag: okfn
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updated: 2013-11-14T15:56:20.229Z

nanowrimo-begins
type: Article
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actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: I've committed to Nanowrimo for the seventh year. I almost didn't. It's distressing and frustrating and sucks at my self-confidence like nothing else. It makes me feel like a failure in a way that nothing else can. But it makes me write. If I don't commit to it, I don't write a lot of fiction. Maybe a burst every six months. But every November for the last few years, I've written literally thousands of words. I've brought vague, lingering ideas to life; I've fleshed out characters; I've explored worlds. Every November for the last few years, I've bashed out incoherent paragraphs figuring I'll fit them in properly later. I've exhausted ideas that I now never want to hear of again. I've killed my love for characters, and tired of worlds. I've doubted my writing abilities, my imagination, my creativity, my storytelling. I've convinced myself that I'm incapable of finishing anything. The one year I hit 50,000 words? (50,299 to be precise). I was maybe a chapter away from finishing the actual story. The third quarter needed totally replacing and didn't really fit with the main story. Four or five years later, I still haven't written that final chapter, even though I know what the outcomes are to be. I haven't even typed it all up, let alone re- written part three. I didn't fall out of love with the characters or the world, and I think about it a lot, and it breaks my heart. Every November I've made a few new friends, and reconnected with old ones. Bonding with someone over Nanowrimo is an experience that stands alone. I've had one more conversation-starter than usual. I've discovered some new cafes and new writing software. My productivity has increased as a result of using The Work I'm Supposed To Be Doing as a distraction from writing. Every year I tell myself I'm doing it to make myself write. The 50,000 is irrelevant. I just need to write some words. More than none. Then I'm a winner. But not hitting 1,667 per day still feels like a gut-wrenching failure. Finding out…
name: Nanowrimo: It begins
published: 2013-11-03T00:31:00.003Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: doing
tag: nanowrimo
tag: writing+challenges
tag: writing
updated: 2013-11-03T00:31:53.773Z

network-creator
type: Article
actor: me
content: I'm trying to automatically find connections between accounts on different networks - social networks, content hosting sites, other? - that are held by the same person Agent. I'm starting with YouTube, because that's a good source of content creators. Who? I haven't figured out a way to reliable pick channels at random (and have since decided that wouldn't be a good way of doing it anyway due to the long tail of people who don't upload anything at all, let alone are 'active' content creators), so I'm starting with the 'standard feeds'. These used to, more sensibly, be called Charts. They're RSS (or Atom or JSON) feeds of statistics about content or channels. They no longer appear on the frontend of the site, but are available if you know where to look. They are mentioned in some of the API documentation, which is referred to in the YouTube Help about generating your own RSS feeds from YouTube content. The standard feeds are: Most recent videos Most viewed Top rated Most discussed Top favorites Most linked Recently featured Most responded Most of these are useful in finding popular videos, which means there's a good chance the uploader has a wide network of connections within YouTube (which I can follow to get more information). Many, though, will be one-hit wonders. I've picked Top favorites as a list that intuition says will be more likely populated by videos from channels to which viewers have some kind of loyalty. These days everything you do on YouTube shows up in your friends feeds, so people may favourite a video as part of building their own identity on the service, as well as to support the content creators they love. It demonstrates an active, positive, reaction to the video. It's the content creators who produce content that is received in this way that I'm ultimately aiming to support. Most viewed, discussed, linked and responded could simply be controversial. Recently featured is some YouTube-inner-circle conspiracy, no doubt. This is all my opinion; if …
name: Network of creator profiles
published: 2013-11-06T16:29:00+0000
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: api
tag: content+creators
tag: hacking
tag: learning
tag: musings
tag: network+analysis
tag: phd
tag: python
tag: semantic+web
tag: social+networks
tag: youtube
updated: 2013-11-08T15:26:00+0000

okfn-glasgow-2
type: Article
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content: I ventured to Glasgow for the second Open Knowledge Foundation meetup on Monday 18th. It was well attended, and there were six short talks: Lorna Campbell from Cetis talked about Open Scotland. I understood this to be a collaboration between Cetis, the SQA, JISC and the ALT Scotland, to do with the opening up of education, and influencing policy and practicein this area. Here's a blog. Grianne Hamilton from JISC talked about Mozilla's Open Badges. You can use them to reward learning, skills and achievements in all sorts of areas, and any organisaiton can create and issue badge packs to people who have earned them. Recievers can then show them off anywhere they can put HTML. Graeme Arnott talked about a collaboration between Glasgow Womens' Library and Wikimedia, which resulted in the Scottish Women on Wikipedia event. This was a group of Scottish women getting together to edit Wikipedia articles about Scottish Women, and there was very positive feedback. They have more events planned. Graeme also reminded us about Wikimania, which is taking place next August in London. Jennifer Jones told us about the Digital Common Wealth project. She pointed out that with media-saturated global events like the Olympics, the official story is already decided before the event even starts. An alternative to relying on what is broadcast by the mainstream media is to turn the camera on the crowd, and get the 'real' version of what is going on. The Digital Common Wealth project will encourage citizen journalists to work together to craft the story of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games from their perspective. Jennifer also raised the point that although free tools like YouTube, AudioBoo and Twitter are great for spreading stories, the data is still held by third parties - what happens if they disappear? How should initiatives like this safely archive their stories, and keep them in context? Pippa Gardner talked about Glasgow's Future Cities project, for which they have £24 million to develop…
name: OKFN Glasgow #2
published: 2013-11-20T15:16:00.002Z
tag: done
tag: Done
tag: events
tag: glasgow
tag: meetup
tag: okfn
tag: open+knowledge+foundation
updated: 2013-11-20T15:16:42.446Z

prewired-3
type: Article
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content: Our third Prewired event went smoothly, with 20 young people (about 4 new) and 7 or so parents attending, plus 8 mentors. So lower signups than usual (a few cancellations due to school commitments), but we decided not to do a big publicity push and see how it ran with a smaller group. I didn't notice much difference, since they organise themselves into smaller groups anyway to work on different things. I think next time we'll try to reach our capacity of 40. We had a big group working on a variety of Python projects (games, basics, algorithms, I'm not sure what else..), a small group doing front-end web, and quite a few doing amazing things with Scratch. Every week I discover new things these super-talented young people are doing with their time, and it won't be long before many of them are spending a lot of time mentoring their peers as well as working on their own projects. Nantas came by to talk about what he does with the University's Robotics lab, including the challenges of making humanoid robots play football, and the state of the art, two-million-pounds, full sized humanoid robot that is moving to Edinburgh in the near future. Definitely stuff to get young people excited about learning to code. We've been trying to encourage them to code between Prewired sessions, too, and about half of them said they had. I hope by the next time all of them have, and I'm really excited to see what they're capable of making in a few months time! But... Some of the young people attending are disadvantaged by not being able to bring their own laptop, or having only really old laptops which can't support modern browsers and therefore have trouble even executing the JavaScript their writing (true story). We'd love to be able to pay for a set of simple but up-to-date laptops that we could lend to the attendees who don't have their own during sessions. This at least will put them on a level playing field with the others during the sessions, and I suspect that many of them have ade…
name: Prewired 3
published: 2013-11-14T15:54:00.000Z
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tag: programming+club
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updated: 2013-11-14T16:08:52.567Z

sky-stole-50-pounds
type: Article
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actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Here is my tale of trying to get it back. £50 isn't a large amount of money to a massive organisation like Sky. But for me, it's two to three weeks food, or a train ticket to visit my mother, or about half of my Christmas shopping (yeah alright, I'm not very extravagant with that sort of thing). Following is an account of how a relatively small mistake on their part, which I thought was resolved well and quickly, then led to an agonising four month back-and-forth of: a) Lies b) Broken promises c) Incompetencies d) All of the above. May: Attempted cancellation I messaged through Help & Support to cancel my broadband and phone line, because I was going away a lot over the summer and it wasn't worth keeping it on. I was told it was sorted. I went to Australia for a month. June: Apparently failed cancellation I got back to Edinburgh and discovered I'd been billed. I turned on my router to see if I'd managed to mess up the cancellation myself, and saw no sign of broadband. So the services were cancelled, just not the billing. 18 July: Good customer service I finally got round to contacting Sky about my bill; by this point I'd been billed for July as well. I spoke to a couple of people on the phone who made me feel like it was my fault, then finally to the lovely Rachael who dug deeper, discovered a human error had occurred as a result of (we think) the two ways of writing the first line my address: 2F2 35 or 35/5. As a result, I had two account numbers... one had the services I guess, and one had the bills. It was very confusing, but once we found the two numbers Rachael properly cancelled my mysterious second account, and very kindly applied £50 credit to make up for the overbilling. I was told to contact again in a few weeks to initiate the refund process. 16-26 Sept: Being blown off I tried several times to contact customer services via help tickets to ask for the refund but got told (by a human, not an automated error message) there 'system error' with my bill, or so…
name: Sky stole £50 from me
published: 2013-11-01T15:26:00.000Z
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tag: customer+service
tag: life
tag: misc
tag: money
tag: rant
tag: sky
updated: 2013-11-07T14:58:49.331Z

uris-content
type: Article
actor: me
content: Generating unique IDs In a centralised system, I could generate my own unique IDs by whatever means, assign them, and be done with it. I thought briefly about trying to generate human-readable unique IDs, but this article made me decide that that will all end in tears. Maybe for now I assume that people won't need to remember their OnlinePersona URI... Dangerous? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe it's more likely that someone will be searched for by all the properties of their OnlinePersona, but the OnlinePersona itself doesn't matter directly. We shall see. So on that note, Python's UUID will do. They're long and horrible. But I'll get over it. Power to the people How do I persist creator and content URIs in a non-centralised, user-owned network? People would need the option to change their URI to whatever they felt represented themselves, like their personal 'about me' page. Trying to enforce content negotiation and a Document != Person mentality here might be difficult. Ultimately it doesn't really matter what their URI is as long as it resolves and persists, right? And if it doesn't resolve, or even disappears entirely, it's kind of rubbish, but not Web-breaking. Kind of the reason the Web still holds up, and the reason the Semantic Web is an extension of that. Assuming a distributed, Diaspora*-esque 'Pod' structure for this network, if a user moves to another Pod and as a result must change their URI, the protocols involved essentially need to require leaving a 'forwarding address' to their new URI. Maybe, in this scenario, URIs are handled differently altogether. Separately from the Pods. You can get a URI from the Pod you just joined, or you can use your own or generate one from a provider. How do you authenticate changing of a URI? Someone could essentially steal someone else's identity by switching out their URI... so... that can't happen. Maybe I'm thinking too much. I might need to talk to someone smarter about this.
name: URIs for content creators and content
published: 2013-11-08T16:16:00+0000
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tag: Doing
tag: content+creators
tag: content+network
tag: phd
tag: semantic+web
tag: social+network
tag: uri
tag: uris
updated: 2013-11-08T16:16:00+0000

weeks-review-hacking
type: Article
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content: A few useful links in this SlideShare from ESWC '11: http://www.slideshare.net/juansequeda/consuming-linked-data
name: Week(s) in review: Hacking, linked data
published: 2013-11-22T21:52:00.001Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
updated: 2013-11-22T21:52:15.499Z

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2013-03-23-current-status
type: Article
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actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
content: Travelling: YES I'm at the Resonate new media festival in Belgrade. Studying: YES I started a PhD in the Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications (CISA) in Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in October 2012. I'm looking at how Semantic Web tools might be able to augment digital media creation by providing collaborative opportunities for content creation and improving connectivity between creative projects. I'm interested in decentralized social networks, and retaining control of and making good use of personal data. Writing: Sometimes Gearing up for Camp Nanowrimo this April. Working: YES and no Tutoring and doing ongoing freelance work, but not taking on any new projects.
name: Current status
published: 2013-03-23T02:07:00.000Z
updated: 2013-03-23T02:07:06.214Z