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back
type: Note
content: I am back online, but I don't really want to be.
published: 2017-05-14T13:01:00+08:00
tag: life

dder-edsc
type: Note
content: "...if our scholarly infrastructure is no longer fit for purpose, can we use it to change itself?" Dave de Roure asks the hard questions, talking about Scholarly Social Machines at EDSC2017.
published: 2017-05-29T09:30:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: social+machines
tag: linkedresearch.org

discovering-trieste
type: Article
content: I spent the first few days wandering around the center of Trieste, and easily stumbled upon all of the Piazzi (I'm going to assume this is the plural of Piazza without looking it up), piers, statues and Roman ruins that todo-in-trieste guides tell you to see. The core of Trieste is small and compact, as well as alive and beautiful, day and night. The town is set into the base - and creeping up the side - of hills which turn to mountains. From any perspective the backdrop is stunning. Green mountains dotted with orange rooftops in one direction, and the bright blue Adriatic Sea in the other. More photos from wanderings here and here. You probably know you can't confine me to a new town's core for very long though. Yesterday we took the 42 bus to Grotto Gigante, a giant cave about a 30 minute ride up and over some hills out of Trieste. Well worth the 9 EUR entrance fee (for student; 12 for 'adult'), this enormous chasm is one of the largest publicly accessible caves in Europe. Guided tours are hourly, and we learnt about the history of the cave's discovery and usage, the growth of the stalagmites and stalagtites, and the scientific research that goes on down there. Our tourgroup was occupied by an enormous pack of schoolkids, but the guide did a great job at distracting them so we (the handful of non-Italian speakers) could take undisturbed photos, and keeping them quiet whilst she recapped the information in English. The cave really is enormous, and the rock formations are really cool. It took about an hour to tour through it. The temperature inside is a cool 11 degrees C, and damp. The tickets included a 10% discount at the nearest restaurant, but the staff there were surly and none of the food looked good. There was nowhere to buy a bus ticket around the Grotto Gigante, so I figured we could walk along the bus route a bit and somewhere would surely pop up in one of the villages. Bus tickets here are bought before boarding, from corner shops or (less available) tick…
name: Discovering Trieste
published: 2017-05-24T18:00:00+02:00
tag: castle
tag: cave
tag: italy
tag: travel
tag: trieste
tag: walking

discussion-edsc
type: Note
content: Great discussion at Enabling Decentralised Scholarly Communication on the topic "what did third-party publishers ever do for us?" Notes so far on etherpad.
published: 2017-05-29T10:44:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: linkedresearch.org

edsc
type: Note
content: Starting in ten minutes - Enabling Decentralised Scholarly Communication. Live notes on etherpad. (Room Aurora I)
published: 2017-05-29T08:49:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: linkedresearch.org

elsevier-ghost
type: Note
content: Elsevier keeps 'ghost profiles' for people who don't have Mendeley accounts. You can "claim" your ghost, and it's "yours".. but uh.. not really because it's centralised. And this is presented like a nice fun helpful thing. Ghost profiles is some facebook-level creepy surveillence profiling shit. Makes me sad :( But not surprised.
published: 2017-05-28T15:00:00+02:00
tag: academic+publishing
tag: eswc2017
tag: social+web
tag: surveillence

eswc-fun
type: Note
content: ESWC is fun and all but when is it time to go in the sea?
published: 2017-05-28T16:50:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017

eswc-ldn
type: Note
content: At 12, csarven will present Linked Data Notifications.. Come to the talk for an overview, then if you want to integrate a part of the protocol into your existing applications, or build a receiver from scratch, we're both here all week and ready to help!
published: 2017-05-31T10:52:00+02:00
tag: csarven
tag: eswc2017
tag: hacking
tag: ldn
tag: linked+data+notifications
tag: w3c

eswc-ldn-2
type: Note
content: csarven presents Linked Data Notifications at ESWC2017... Starting with some motivational use cases in the social web space to which this W3C Recommendation has been applied so far.
published: 2017-05-31T12:04:00+02:00
tag: csarven
tag: eswc2017
tag: ldn
tag: linked+data+notifications

guess-who
type: Note
content: It was only a matter of time. Lightning talk by csarven about Linked Data Notifications.
published: 2017-05-28T15:18:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: ldn
tag: linked+research

ldn-enables
type: Note
content: LDN is based on Linked Data principles, enables decentralisation, and persistence of data.
published: 2017-05-31T12:09:00+02:00
tag: csarven
tag: eswc2017
tag: ldn
tag: linked+data+notifications

ldn-questions
type: Note
content: LDN questions from the audience... About reference implementations... The test suite automatically checks compliance, and most implementations are open source. From people who are already considering to include LDN in their projects, asking for technical tips. Authentication/login part... this isn't part of the protocol, orthogonal. About LDP and Web of Things... can devices send notifications? What if applications can't use JSON-LD? Well, that's part of the Rec that applications must be able to at least do JSON-LD, but to cooperating applications can use content negotiation to agree on a more lightweight RDF format if they want. It's important for interoperability to be able to send JSON-LD in case a receiver can't understand any other RDF syntaxes; but if your sender and receiver both agree on another format (via the Accept-Post header) they can use that. Do additions to the simple protocol make it complicated? What about spam? LDN recommends application-specific constraints to deal with issues like this. We don't have a blanket suggestion for how to deal with these kinds of problems in every domain though, we leave it to more focused experts.
published: 2017-05-31T12:34:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: ldn
tag: linked+data+notifications

meditate
type: Note
content: Now I am literally going to meditate on a hill in Malaysia for ten days. Ciao.
published: 2017-05-03T01:38:00+08:00
tag: life

penang-photos
type: Add
content: A few days in Penang. One night in a capsule hotel (covered by the hostel that double-booked me) and then a few days being fed and looked after by Tammy and Jon of Wholey Wonder whilst I desperately finished my thesis. A trip to Chew Jetty and the underwhelming Crystal Museum. Breakfast with Malaysian Mum at Purple Stone in Air Itam before heading up the hill to meditate.
published: 2017-05-03T12:06:25+08:00
summary: Amy added 31 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo/
target: 2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo

penang-photos-2
type: Add
content: Some photos from the Vipassana meditation center on Penang Hill East, with a view over Air Itam and Kek Lok Si temple. I took them on the last day, when I got my phone back. Then I hauled a number of co-meditators to Wholey Wonder and chilled out there for the rest of the day. Many people had spent the last ten days silently contemplating my dreads (particularly the people who sat behind me in the meditation hall and dining hall), and a few concluded they wanted some of their own.
published: 2017-05-14T16:20:19+08:00
summary: Amy added 22 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo/
target: 2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo

photos-kl
type: Add
content: One night and a morning in KL. Three hours in a bed-bugged bunk in an otherwise nice hostel. I meditated on the rooftop, and met a cool Syrian guy who advised me where to get breakfast.
published: 2017-05-15T07:13:21+08:00
summary: Amy added 6 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo/
target: 2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo

photos-tokyo
type: Add
content: One day in Tokyo with Dave and J, who looked after me in shifts as they were never both free at the same time. I did Dave's laundry and made him eat vegetables for lunch. J made me a super romantic dinner, with candles and light jazz. She homemade vegan spaghetti bolognese, chocolate cake, and coconut ice cream! It was incredible. I gave her a dress I picked up in Egypt a few years ago and haven't been wearing much. Then I flew to Moscow.
published: 2017-05-18T13:30:18+08:00
summary: Amy added 14 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo/
target: 2017-05-penang-kl-tokyo

photos-trieste
type: Add
content: Eating and wandering around Trieste.
published: 2017-05-21T11:27:03+02:00
summary: Amy added 71 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-trieste-2
type: Add
content: More food, more wandering, Trieste.
published: 2017-05-22T22:10:43+02:00
summary: Amy added 38 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-trieste-4
type: Add
content: An hour walk to get vegan pizza at Le Agavi
published: 2017-05-23T21:32:20+03:00
summary: Amy added 22 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-trieste-5
type: Add
content: Castello San Guisto in the center of Trieste, featuring gelato from Gelato Marco and lunch at Zoe Market.
published: 2017-05-24T20:45:04+02:00
summary: Amy added 42 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-trieste-6
type: Add
content: The port, Pedocin, pizza
published: 2017-05-26T16:52:44+02:00
summary: Amy added 25 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-trieste-7
type: Add
content: Molo Audace and views from Ostello Tergesto
published: 2017-05-26T16:56:22+02:00
summary: Amy added 37 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-trieste-8
type: Add
content: Final evening in Trieste
content: Wandering around Miramare
published: 2017-05-27T17:25:46+02:00
published: 2017-05-27T23:03:11+02:00
summary: Amy added 25 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
summary: Amy added 6 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

photos-venice
type: Add
content: A brief stop near Mestre in Venice, some vegan food in a bookstore cafe, then the train to Trieste.
published: 2017-05-18T14:24:15+02:00
summary: Amy added 5 photos to https://i.amy.gy/2017-eu/
target: 2017-eu

pizza-backlog
type: Note
content: I've been in Italy less than a week and I already have a pizza backlog.
published: 2017-05-24T20:39:00+02:00
tag: food
tag: italy
tag: pizza
tag: travel

plug-edsc
type: Note
content: Hate the state of academic publishing? Love it? Somewhere in between? Come to Enabling Decentralised Scholarly Communication workshop in room Aurora 1 at 9 tomorrow!
published: 2017-05-28T09:48:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: event
tag: linked+research
tag: linkedresearch.org

response-to-scholarly-social-machines
type: Article
content: This article looks at the scholarly communication ecosystem through the lens of social machines; something I have thought about a lot but only partially articulated through my contributions to Linked Research. In particular, the hypothesis that we are struggling to improve the state of scholarly communication despite advancements in technology because we are trapped in a machine we have ceased to see is interesting. I've had many conversations with people over the last couple of years who balk at any suggestion of a radical upheaval of scholarly communication, hiding behind notions of futility of incentivising researchers to do anything other than pubish or persih, the immovability of the for-profit publishing industry. They complain about the state of things, yet are transfixed by the status quo. I think that framing this problem as a 'trap' will perhaps nudge folks into looking for a way out, and social machines is a useful concept to work with, something very demonstrably real in other domains, and this might help with finding a perspective on scholarly communication. The article mentions the 'ecosystem' and lists some of the stages. I think it's worth noting that in Linked Research: An Approach for Scholarly Communication we characterised the different stages, roles and actors in scholarly communication in detail (there's even a diagram!). It's important because this is a hard problem, too big a space, to talk about all at once, and breaking it down into smaller chunks that nonetheless interlink (and the interlinking is critical) can help. Dave writes that we see the same articles about how to improve being published over and over again, and this is true. I assembled a collection of some of them here. People lament that it's too hard to change, and us Linked Research-y types release software and publish our work in a Webby decentralised way (just like Dave has done, for the version of his article that I'm reading) and shove it under peoples' noses and cry that h…
in reply to: scholarly-social-machines.html
name: A response to "Scholarly Social Machines"
published: 2017-05-27T15:47:00+02:00
tag: academic+publishing
tag: edsc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: reviews
tag: social+machines
tag: linkedresearch.org

review-of-creation-nas
type: Article
content: This article addresses quite a specific problem: collaborative document editing without third-party servers. The reasons for not wanting to rely on Web servers, even if they're under the control of the document author, is fairly well explained and motivated. Addressing authoring solutions to MS Word users is diving in the deep end, but a worthy goal as this reaches a lot of researchers. However, I question that the idea of installing software is too complicated for most people.. do you not think it's possible to get the installation process for FW to be as simple as for MSWord? I realise that this article is not about FidusWriter, but rather collaborative document editing via a NAS, but it would be helpful to explain more about what FidusWriter does and how it is normally run, ie. not on a NAS, and some comparison. The authors seem to feel strongly about data ownership, mentioning privacy potentially being violated by corporations and governments. It's not clear however that FidusWriter provides a publishing solution, only an authoring solution. That is, once an article is finished it seems that a PDF is exported and turned over to third parties anyway? Relatedly, I would love to know more about how the authors envision this fitting in with the rest of the scholarly communication process, as mentioned in the abstract, particularly peer-review. Could a similar setup be purposed to permit reviewers to control their review contents as well? I assume FidusWriter takes care of access control, citations, formulas and figures, though the article does not state that. The article mentions that there are other web services for academic authoring, but doesn't name any. I'd be interested to know which ones the authors analysed. Is it only the ones in the footnote? In which case only Authorea and Overleaf are problematic in the ways mentioned for running on third-party servers. I don't really see evidence that the authors have performed a comprehensive search for alternatives in…
in reply to: decentralized-creation-of-academic-documents-using-a-network-attached-storage-nas-server
name: Review of "Decentralized creation of academic documents using a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server"
published: 2017-05-27T17:05:00+02:00
tag: academic+publishing
tag: authoring
tag: decentralisation
tag: fidus+writer
tag: linked+research
tag: reviews
tag: linkedresearch.org

review-of-instrumenting
type: Article
content: I like how this article seeks to accommodate a broad view of viable data sources for research, and particularly encourages data sharing and reuse between researchers. The authors provide three examples of existing tools which could do (or be adapted to do) parts of the suggested pipeline. I hope that publishing this encourages others who are developing tools along these lines to come forward and let the authors and others know so that the community can start a comprehensive directory, as I'm sure there are plenty more. It would be helpful to also have a characterisation of what is definitely missing as far as the authors know, and what the authors think are good directions to priortise for near term research and development. Obviously I agree with the authors' call to open source such tooling for community benefit. I'd be particularly interested to hear your thoughts on the "agreed-upon integration platform" and what you think the best forum for discussing such a platform would be. Hopefully we can come up with ideas for that during the EDSC workshop discussion sessions!
in reply to: instrumenting-continuous-knowledge-extraction-sharing-and-benchmarking
name: Review of Instrumenting Continuous Knowledge Extraction, Sharing, and Benchmarking
published: 2017-05-19T13:01+02:00
tag: academia
tag: academic+publishing
tag: edsc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: review
tag: semantic+web
tag: linkedresearch.org

review-of-utilising-semantic-workflows
type: Article
content: I can see how the ultimate goal described by the article - to publish semantic representations of experimental workflows - contributes towards the vision of decentralised scholarly communication. Unfortunately I'm missing how the work described in the article contributes towards this ultimate goal. The abstract says you want to see how semantic workflow creation can "be combined with traditional forms of documentation and publication" but I don't see a result pertaining to this. To begin with, the purpose of the tool is quite narrow. How do you know for sure that "advancing knowledge about the use of vocabularies in facilitating sharing and repeatability of experiments and replication of results" ultimately contributes towards reproducability of results, which is the high level goal of this work? How does knowledge of OPMW tie in with the authoring or experimentation process, for example? Are researchers expected to document their workflows as they go along, or retrospectively after the fact (I imagine this depends on the task at hand). For which stage is your tool intended? Or is it simply a teaching tool rather than designed for actually documenting workflows? This isn't clear. I thought I might understand better by running the tool, but it seems to be broken. I'm skeptical about the open world assumption and the "nature of Linked Data" being used as a reason to not provide any instruction for using the tool... I would have thought that whether instruction is needed is a UI concern. There is no results or analysis section, and the tense makes it sound like the described experiment hasn't actually been carried out. Are you asking for feedback about the design of the experiment? If so, you should state this clearly in the introduction and abstract. if not then I'd like to read this again when your findings are ready. The background work sections appear to be fairly comprehensive, but this is not my area of expertise, so if there is related work or other background i…
in reply to: eswc
name: Review of "Utilising Semantic Web Ontologies to publish Experimental Workflows"
published: 2017-05-27T18:35:00+02:00
tag: academic+publishing
tag: edsc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: reviews
tag: semantic+web

smalltalk
type: Note
content: Okay I'm burnt out on small talk after the first coffeebreak. If anyone wants to just stand together without conversing so as not to look lonely/lost I'm game.
published: 2017-05-28T11:10:00+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: life
tag: social

thesisnt
type: Note
content: This looks quite heavy. My thesis is, and always has been, online at dr.amy.gy. You can read it, and you can even annotate it with dokieli, or open github issues, so long as you acknowledge that I rushed a lot of parts (my own fault). I will continue to improve it over the coming months, and my defense/viva will be in September, after which I expect lots of corrections and to republish a better version. So don't feel bad if you want to wait until then to read it :)
published: 2017-05-03T01:18:00+08:00
tag: phd
tag: phdchat
tag: thesis

trieste-more
type: Article
content: After drafting my last post from Zoe Market cafe, I was struck with the urge to see what the Trieste coastline had to offer further south. I walked to the port area, and discovered it's not really a place for wandering.. big highways and industrial buildings. Nonetheless, even the warehouses and apartment blocks were fairly aesthetically pleasing, and at one point a long park runs parallel to the coast, almost like an apology. GPS trace of the walk here. I did make it to Pedocin beach eventually though. It took a while to find.. I walked around the pier, which felt quite dead, and found the lighthouse. But industrial buildings in every direction seemed to be preventing me from accessing the coast.. though as I walked past one large wall, I could hear children, so I persisted. Eventually I found the entrance, through an unassuming concrete cabin. I think the entry fee is 1 Euro, but there was no-one there to take it. The cabin has two exits, on the left for women and the right for men. A wall divides the beach in two. The beach is pebbles, with immediate access to the sea; small and peaceful, with one vendor selling drinks and snacks. I napped until I was woken by the tide lapping at my feet. Super pretty white and purple barrel jellyfish fill the bay around here, and Pedocin was no exception. It was only 20 minutes to follow the coast around back into town. More photos here. In the evening I ate cake from Giardina Tergesteo and pizza (oops) from DNapoli. I had to add the remaining half of a Marinara to the pizza I had already accumulated from Le Agavi the day before. The next day we picked up gelato and took that and the pizza backlog to Molo Audace, a long concrete pier off Piazza Unita, for a picnic. Later in the evening I walked by myself to ErbOsteria, a charming vegetarian restaurant which uses aromatic herbs for all dishes. I was the only one there for most of the evening, and was treated to a three-course vegan meal with homemade iced tea. It was a wonderful …
name: Treiste some more
published: 2017-05-26T17:28:00+02:00
tag: beach
tag: italy
tag: sea
tag: travel
tag: trieste
tag: vegan

trieste-photos
type: Add
content: Grotto Gigante, walk to Miramare, Castello di Miramare, and the seafront

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Returned to Penang. Finally 'finished' chapter 2 but I hate it. Wrote some JavaScript that automatically figures out numbers for referencing from the list at the end. HANDED MY PHD THESIS IN only a day and a half late really Went to meditate in total silence on the side of a hill in Malaysia for ten days. (no really)
name: Weeks in review: 1 - 14 May
published: 2017-05-14T23:59:59+08:00
tag: life
tag: phd
tag: thesis
tag: week-in-review

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Flew from Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo. Hung out with Dave and J, and Mike S and family in Tokyo. Flew to Venice (via Moscow). Train to Trieste. Ate all of Trieste. Reviewed an EDSC article. Woefully failed to attend any W3C meetings. Got Micropub and AS2 ready to be published as RECs.
name: Week in review: 15 - 21 May
published: 2017-05-21T21:05:00+02:00
tag: linked+research
tag: socialwg
tag: travel
tag: w3c
tag: week-in-review

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Explored Trieste. Watched all of the new WestWorld series. Tinkered a bit with sloph, but nothing to report right now. Reviewed or responded to the rest of the contributions for EDSC2017. Went to Portoroz for ESWC2017.
name: Week in review: 22 - 28 May
published: 2017-05-28T23:59:59+02:00
tag: eswc2017
tag: linked+research
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review

words-pages
type: Note
content: 216 pages. 79,165 words. 4 years and 7 months and 2 days 21 countries.
published: 2017-05-02T10:51:00+08:00
tag: phd
tag: thesis

vegan-trieste
type: Article
content: Trieste is small, so as you'd expect pure veg*n restaurants are limited. There was nonetheless more than enough to keep me occupied for a week though. Of course, every Italian restaurant offers the chance to take vegetarian pizza and pasta dishes without cheese, and most offer pizza marinara and spaghetti pomodoro anyway if you don't feel like making special requests. Giardinio Tergesteo: a vegetarian restaurant with a lot of vegan options that I returned to over and over. They have ample seating options outside, inside, and outside-inside in a kind of mall area. There's power and wifi, and it's the sort of place you could go for a formal dinner, or to spend an afternoon with your laptop. At lunchtimes on weekdays they have a changing pasta dish, and the rest of the time they have salads, sandwiches (various breads and fillings) and a variety of vegan cake. Erb Osteria: somewhat out of the way and in an odd part of town, this is a small vegetarian restaurant where all dishes are oriented around aromatic herbs. The menu changes daily, so it isn't written down. The decor was very cute, and it wasn't busy when I was there early evening. I asked the owner to furnish me with courses of vegan dishes, and was not disappointed. I was even more surprised by the price at the end, which was 13 EUR for a starter, main, dessert, iced tea, and another dessert to go. You would have to go out of your way to pass here I think, but worth a detour. Draw Food: Draw is raw, but not all vegan. The menu is mostly meat and fish options, but one section is veg*n and some dishes can be tweaked to remove non-vegan cheese. They have their own cashew-based ricotta which I couldn't get enough of. There's power and wifi, and the decor is great. I spent an afternoon here with my laptop, as well as returning for several other meals, lunchtime and evenings. I had the aubergine ricotta dish twice, and it was slightly different but deliciously creamy both times. I also tried courgette spaghetti with m…
name: Vegan in Trieste
published: 2017-05-27T08:00:00+02:00
tag: food
tag: travel
tag: trieste
tag: vegan