notes-semantic-communities
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content: K. Faith Lawrence & Dr. Monica Schrafel (2007) Amateur Fiction Online - The Web of Community Trust: **A Case Study in Community Focused Design for the Semantic Web. Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, **University of Southampton. NB. Need to read her full thesis, of the same name. Will probably clear up some of the questions I scribbled whilst reading the paper. Finding out if Semantic Web tools can be brought to hobbyist groups on the Web. Uses the online fiction community; suggests they could benefit from: improved searching improved meta data automatic recommendations trust webs personalisation. A HCI project, so usability tests and comparisons with current systems are key. Related work Community centered design to determine user needs - through continual interactions and user studies. to consider how reader-facing apps present themselves and particular community responsibility of being a portal - need clear affordences and points of failure. Trust and Semantic Communities The semantic web “provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries.⁂ - Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila. The semantic web. Scienti﭂c American, May 2001. Do we trust: metadata data mechanism by which data is returned person requesting data? Many definitions of trust. Jennifer Golbeck's trust onotology to go with FOAF (Jennifer Golbeck, Bijan Parsia, and James Hendler. Trust networks on the semantic web. In Proceedings of Cooperative Intelligent Agents 2003, 2003.): ratings of 1 - 9 for trust of associates. Extended for FicNet (this paper) Here, trust: "the expectations that arise that an individual will not act in a way that is detrimental to another individual or community." I might need to expand that for my stuff... maybe... maybe this will do. Case study Community predates the Internet. (duh) Necessary to get opinions from people outside of the ama…
name: Notes about Semantic Web tools for online communities
published: 2012-11-26T21:59:00.000Z
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: ficnet
tag: foaf
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tag: ontomedia
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tag: phd
tag: provenance
tag: semantic+web
tag: trust
updated: 2013-04-01T00:10:03.477Z

week-review-brainstorm
type: Article
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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

computer-mediated
type: Article
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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
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tag: brainstorming
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tag: ontologies
tag: phd
tag: social+computation
tag: social+computing
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updated: 2013-05-18T16:45:29.863Z

week-review-brainstorming-2
type: Article
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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
tag: ontomedia
updated: 2013-04-01T00:07:50.092Z

notes-meervisage
type: Article
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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
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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
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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-sw-communities
type: Article
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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

week-review-reading
type: Article
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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

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
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

week-review-annotating
type: Article
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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

notes-sssw13-4
type: Article
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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

sssw2013-index
type: Article
bloggerid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18505529.post-1381975491541579689
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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
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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
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
tag: done
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
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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

microformats2-rdf
type: Article
tmpcontent: # Microformats2 RDF Ontology I'm serializing the [microformats2](http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2) vocabulary into RDF; [repo on github](https://github.com/rhiaro/mf2rdf). **Disclaimer:** This post is (not necessarily coherant) notes as I go along. Useful notes by [Tom Morris](https://tommorris.org/) about [mf2 to RDF mapping on the microformats wiki](http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2-parsing-rdf). I updated the namespace to use the one suggested there (`http://microformats.org/profile/`). Everything starting with `h-` looks like it's a class. Typically RDF classes are capitalised so this makes me cringe, but I'll cope. Woah, there are a lot of properties. Seventy unique properties. I didn't realise. On the wiki most don't have a description, many are duplicated in the list, and none of them seem to have their own description page (and thus no URIs to refer to them with). Pasting them into a spreadsheet was the quickest way to de-dup and alphabetise them. Now I'm working through one at a time, adding descriptions and mapping them to existing properties in [FOAF](http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/) (because many are obvious), [VCard](http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#) (because many (all?) are derived from this), [ActivityStreams 2.0](http://rawgit.com/jasnell/w3c-socialwg-activitystreams/extended-vocabulary/activitystreams2-vocabulary.html) (because SocialWebWG) and hesitantly [Dublin Core](http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/) and [SIOC](http://rdfs.org/sioc/types#). Where they map to something well-described in RDF, I don't bother with `rdfs:comment` and `domain` and `range` of their own, but I'll add for those with no good `sameAs` mappings. * Is `dt-reviewed` same as `dt-published`? If not, why do reviews get special treatment with regards to differentiation between when they're written and published, and nothing else does? * Is there an official definition of `e-content`? Couldn't find one on the wiki, so made one up that is compatible with AS2.0 content, …
content: I'm serializing the microformats2 vocabulary into RDF; repo on github. Disclaimer: This post is (not necessarily coherant) notes as I go along. Useful notes by Tom Morris about mf2 to RDF mapping on the microformats wiki. I updated the namespace to use the one suggested there (http://microformats.org/profile/). Everything starting with h- looks like it's a class. Typically RDF classes are capitalised so this makes me cringe, but I'll cope. Woah, there are a lot of properties. Seventy unique properties. I didn't realise. On the wiki most don't have a description, many are duplicated in the list, and none of them seem to have their own description page (and thus no URIs to refer to them with). Pasting them into a spreadsheet was the quickest way to de-dup and alphabetise them. Now I'm working through one at a time, adding descriptions and mapping them to existing properties in FOAF (because many are obvious), VCard (because many (all?) are derived from this), ActivityStreams 2.0 (because SocialWebWG) and hesitantly Dublin Core and SIOC. Where they map to something well-described in RDF, I don't bother with rdfs:comment and domain and range of their own, but I'll add for those with no good sameAs mappings. Is dt-reviewed same as dt-published? If not, why do reviews get special treatment with regards to differentiation between when they're written and published, and nothing else does? Is there an official definition of e-content? Couldn't find one on the wiki, so made one up that is compatible with AS2.0 content, with additional caveat about including markup, which is explicit on the mf2 wiki: "The contents of something like a post, including markup and embedded elements." Are e-description and e-instructions sub-properties of e-content? I keep getting caught out by AS2.0 terms that are in the JSON-LD document but are actually deprecated (the JSON-LD contains no information other than property and class names and sometimes types; I have to remember to check the written …
name: Microformats2 RDF Ontology
published: 2015-03-22T15:00:00+0000
tag: doing
tag: Doing
tag: activitystreams
tag: as2
tag: foaf
tag: hacking
tag: indieweb
tag: json-ld
tag: linked+data
tag: mf2
tag: microformats2
tag: ontologies
tag: ontology
tag: owl
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/rdf
tag: socialwg
tag: vcard
tag: w3c
updated: 2015-04-28T17:49:00+0100

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