2nd-uk-ontology
type: Article
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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
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tag: conference
tag: events
tag: networking
tag: ontologies
tag: phd
tag: workshop
updated: 2013-05-18T16:47:03.111Z

lovelace
type: Article
type: Event
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-2893499687242069870
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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
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tag: http://vocab.amy.so/Done
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tag: attendee
tag: conference
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tag: lovelace
tag: rsvp
updated: 2013-05-18T16:46:52.588Z

notes-lit-review
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6939420428262832066
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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
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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
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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
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tag: Doing
tag: attendee
tag: events
tag: notes
tag: phd
tag: thesis
tag: workshop
updated: 2013-05-18T16:47:12.930Z

starting-up-panel
type: Article
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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

okfn-meetup-6
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6647438240339707494
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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
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tag: Done
tag: attendee
tag: events
tag: okfn
tag: open+data
tag: open+knowledge+foundation
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updated: 2013-05-18T16:47:42.303Z

week-review-vidfest
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6612882439652945717
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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

govhack-days-four
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-2864798959158895916
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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

notes-sssw13-1
type: Article
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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
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updated: 2013-07-17T13:50:38.464Z

notes-sssw13-2
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-3215366757403317415
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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
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tag: Done
tag: events
tag: linked+data
tag: mathieu+d'aquin
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tag: semantic+web
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
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updated: 2013-07-17T13:59:11.745Z

notes-sssw13-3
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-6724934902398748996
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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
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tag: Done
tag: events
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tag: manfred+hauswirth
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tag: semantic+web
tag: sensors
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
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updated: 2013-07-17T14:25:01.453Z

notes-sssw13-5
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-7560158229952344339
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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-poster
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5248111370792171177
actor: http://www.blogger.com/profile/12227954801080178130
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
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tag: Done
tag: events
tag: notes
tag: phd
tag: poster
tag: semantic+web
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
updated: 2013-07-17T14:39:34.170Z

sssw2013-research
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-5969396273262467883
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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
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tag: Done
tag: cercedilla
tag: events
tag: hacking
tag: knowledge+engineering
tag: learning
tag: linked+data
tag: madrid
tag: ontologies
tag: phd
tag: poster
tag: presenting
tag: semantic+web+summer+school
tag: spain
tag: sssw13
tag: sssw2013
tag: summer+school
tag: travel
updated: 2013-07-17T14:52:15.424Z

sssw2013-team
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-2094529228400394655
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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

young-rewired
type: Article
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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
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updated: 2013-09-03T14:23:59.579Z

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