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Presented poster "Active Digital Content Creators and the Semantic Web". Learnt lots, slept little. Worked on a mini group project about measuring serendipity. Won the best video prize, with "Summer School for Semantic Wizards", featuring a wizard who turns water into wine using SPARQL.
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\r\n[First impressions of Madrid (6th and 7th,
\r\nMon 8th: Research in theory and practice, and where on earth am\r\nI?
\r\nTue 9th: Collaborative ontology engineering and team\r\nformation
\r\nWed 10th: Practical semantics, and human\r\nnature.
\r\nThu 11th: Social semantics and\r\nserendipity
\r\n\r\nEverything from Friday 12th July
\r\nFinal impressions of Madrid (14th, #travel)
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\r\n_Sunday
Arriving by train into Cercedilla, north of Madrid, we immediately encountered\r\nother confused looking folk with poster tubes. So we shared taxis (EUR 10)\r\nfrom Cercedilla station to the summer school residence further north, in the\r\nforest.
\r\nAfter getting keys for our pleasant, single, en-suite rooms, arrivals\r\ncongregated in the shade by the building to introduce ourselves.. Again, and\r\nagain, and again, as new people continuously arrived over the space of a few\r\nhours.
\r\nA really broad mix of people are here in terms of nationalities and places\r\nand levels of study, but I still haven't quite got used to the fact that\r\nanswering 'Semantic Web stuff' is not specific enough in this crowd, when\r\nsomeone asks you what your research is about. Nobody needs convincing that\r\nthese technologies are useful!
\r\nLater we received schedules, maps, ill-fitting t-shirts* and very helpful name\r\nbadges, and headed for dinner at the bar down the road.
\r\nAs is traditional when I write about my experiences in new places, I will\r\ndescribe the food every day. It has become apparent, at this residence at\r\nleast, that variety of ingredients is not ordinary, so in this respect meals\r\nare simple. Dinner that first night started with a salad (lettuce, olives,\r\ntomato, onion, shredded beetroot and a single slice of hard boiled egg; no\r\ndressing), followed by - for the majority - slices of meat (beef? Pork? I\r\ndunno..) and fries. Mine was a plate of mushy green vegetables with a little\r\nseasoning, that was pretty tasty. Dessert was a single pear, delivered with\r\nceremony, but otherwise unadorned. Healthy, at least.
\r\nYet we were all (those I sat with at least) were left feeling a little\r\nunsatisfied.
\r\nI shared a table with a French, Spanish, Italian and Irish guy. Conforming\r\nappropriately to stereotypes, and setting up reputations for the rest of the\r\nweek, the French and the Italian shared the bottle of wine on the table; the\r\nrest of us went without.
\r\nI returned to bed after a couple of hours of socialising and enjoying the cool\r\nair in and around the bar.
\r\nMonday
\r\nThe day started early, and with no hot water or wifi for anyone. Breakfast\r\nwas combinations of sweet pastries, coffee, tea, juice and bread.
\r\nPunctuated variously by coffee breaks, the learning began in earnest.
\r\nDuring the introduction by Mathieu D'Aquin, I found out that I am one of 53\r\nstudents selected out of 96 applicants to attend this year's Summer School of\r\nthe Semantic Web! I had no idea it was that selective, or that there had been\r\nthat much competition.
\r\nThe first keynote was by Frank van Harmelen, about all the Semantic Web\r\nquestions we couldn't ask ten years ago.
\r\nSlides:
\r\nSemantic Web questions we couldn't ask 10 years ago from Frank Van Harmelen
\r\nFrank started by saying that the early Semantic Web vision has morphed into\r\nthe more manageable vision of a Web of Data, or a Giant Global Graph, and\r\noutlined the principles of the Semantic Web as they appear to stand at\r\npresent:
\r\n1\\\\\\\\. Give everything a name (entities).
\r\n2\\\\\\\\. Relations form graph between things.
\r\n3\\\\\\\\. Names are addresses on the Web (so we inherit properties of Web like AAA).
\r\n4\\\\\\\\. Add semantics.
Frank pointed out the advantages of the fact the Linked Data crowd, grown\r\nnaturally and not designed, is now so big we don't know how many triples it\r\ncontains, nor how fast it is growing. Companies and organisations (like\r\nGoogle, NXP, BBC, DataGov) are using Semantic Web technologies to achieve\r\ntheir own ends, for a variety of different use cases, without caring much\r\nabout the Semantic Web, and this is contributing to the growth.
\r\nThis growth has given rise to a number of research areas that were impossible\r\nto realisitically ask questions about ten years ago, including self-\r\norganisation, distribution of data, provenance, dynamics and change, errors\r\nand noise (how to deal with disagreements).
\r\nFrank asserted that rules and structures, algorithms and patterns in data,\r\nexist whether we are looking at them or not. He used the analogy that OWL is\r\nour microscope, and it may be the tool that distorts our vision of the\r\ninformation universe rather than properties of what we are looking at (for\r\nexample, structures in data presenting themselves well in some domains but not\r\nothers).
\r\nHe went on to promote the roll of the Informatician to be to test theories,\r\nhypothesis and falsify, as scientists rather than engineers. To discover,\r\nrather than build.
\r\nI struggle with this view of the world, and feel instinctively that theory and\r\npractice are intrinsically linked; one can't exist without the other, not just\r\nin the grand scheme of things, but in day to day work and research. This is\r\none of the main points of contention with my own PhD, and I've no doubt there\r\nwill be many more blog posts about this issue in the near future as I\r\nreconcile my need to create something immediately useful with the necessity of\r\nproducing a contribution to knowledge at large.
\r\nSee my raw notes here.
\r\nWe had an Introduction to Linked Data by Mathieu D'Aquin (raw notes\r\nhere), followed by a workshop. We wrote SPARQL queries to populate a pre-\r\nwritten web page with information about Open University courses, sub-courses\r\nand locations thereof.
\r\nLunch, similar to the previous night's dinner, was a starter salad, an entire\r\nhalf chicken (or something) plus fries for the carnivores and the most\r\nunappealing risotto of my life for (not that I'm ungrateful, but I have never\r\nbeen unable to finish a meal due to boredom before). I went for a walk with\r\nsome others to grab some fresh air before the afternoon's work, and missed out\r\non watermelon.
\r\nManfred Hauswirth presented some really exciting stuff about annotating and\r\nusing streams of data. Particularly challenging is how to integrate this\r\nwith static data and make inferences over the lot. Streams include sensor\r\ndata, as well as ever-flowing social media streams for example; anything that\r\nchanges over time.
\r\nThey've built some systems to process this kind of data, and one of them is\r\navailable as middleware.
\r\n\r\nIn the afternoon we had a poster session, where all participants pinned up\r\nposters about their work, and discussed at length with anyone who was\r\ninterested. Here's evidence that I participated.
\r\n\r\nAnd here's Paolo's:
\r\n\r\nI wrote a few notes about things from other peoples' posters that I need to look\r\nup.
\r\nThe main feedback I received was about making sure I focus, narrow down my\r\ntopic, and concentrate on some evaluatable deliverables that are PhD-worthy.
\r\nQuestions like (paraphrasing) "why should we care about digital creatives?"\r\nthrew me, because I thought the obvious answer - that they are people too,\r\nWeb users, technology users, contributors to culture and an ecosystem of\r\ndigital content and data - was apparently not enough from an academic\r\nstandpoint.
\r\nI was simultaneously told to focus more, and to explain why the problem I'm\r\ntrying to solve is applicable to all domains, not just digital creatives. But\r\nsome of the problems I'm looking at have been (or are being) solved in other\r\ndomains (like e-health, biological research, education) and the reason what\r\nI'm doing is interesting is because none of these solutions quite work for\r\ndigital creatives, and I want to find solutions that do, and try to figure out\r\nwhy.
\r\nI'm still stuck in some sort of struggle between theory and practice; thinking\r\nand doing. And the long-standing problem of how to decide which doing\r\nactually worked.
\r\nI've started scribbling notes about the narrowing down problem. I'll need to\r\nhave this figured out before my first year review in August anyway, so stay\r\ntuned for another post all about it.
\r\nThen I sneaked off for a nap.
\r\nDinner at the bar again; the usual salad, plus some eggy fish thing for most.\r\nI got a plate of artichoke. Artichoke is great, I love it, and I'm all for\r\nsimple meals. But I remain unconvinced that a plate of only artichoke\r\nconstitutes an acceptable level of effort on the part of caterers. And the\r\nsheer quantity made it start to taste a bit funny after a while. But not to\r\nworry; we rounded off with a solitary peach apiece.
\r\nFurther socialising, and appreciation of the night sky, before returning to\r\nbed write blog posts.
I'm super excited and inspired by the talks, work I've heard about so far, and\r\nthe atomsphere of the place. I'm excited to learn a helluva lot, and remind\r\nmyself that I'm not facing impossible problems, and am not facing many\r\nproblems alone. I remember that I am instinctively passionate about the Web\r\nand the possibilities it holds (and indeed has already realised) for the\r\nempowerment of individuals. I remember how lucky I am to be able to sustain\r\nmyself through studying something I love so much, and to have the potential to\r\nmake a change, and through my work maybe even facilitate others to be able to\r\nmake a living doing what they love, as well.
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Super impressed with over 50% female keynote speakers at IFIP2015 summer school on privacy and identity management :D
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