Aman’s Blog

StYLiD: Social Information Sharing with Free Creation of Structured Linked Data

I presented this paper about StYLiD in the Social Web and Knowledge Management Workshop (SWKM 2008), April 22nd, co-located at the 17th World Wide Web Conference WWW2008, Beijing, China. It was a half-day workshop with only 6 selected papers. The session was interesting and very relevant to my area of research.  This was my first time to attend the WWW conference. Quite an honor to be in such a great conference

Here is my paper and here are my slides.

I just came back from Seattle, USA after doing a poster presentation of StYLiD (Structure Your own Linked Data) in the second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008). Seattle is a great place to be

You may download the poster here. This is the poster paper. The system is online. You may register your account for free and start using it!

SocioBiblog: A Decentralized Platform for Sharing Bibliographic Information

I recently presented SocioBiblog in the Poster+Demo session in ISWC + ASWC 2007, Busan, Korea. You may download the poster paper here.

OntoBlog: Linking Ontology and Blogs

I presented this paper in the Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup Workshop (SAAKM 2007) co-located with the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap 2007), Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. It was an interesting workshop followed up by enthusiastic discussions.

Online proceedings is available here.  You can download my paper here and these are my slides.

SocioBiblog: A Decentralized Platform for Sharing Bibliographic Information

I recently presented this paper in the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2007, Vila Real, Portugal, 5-8 October 2007. The paper was awarded the Best Paper in the area of Web 2.0!

Here are the presentation slides and the paper.

SocioBiblog: Enabling Communication on Bibliography with Semantic Blogging

Sharing of information about publications is very important in a research community. The paper describes a system which demonstrates how semantic blogging can be used for the purpose. It incorporates SWRC ontology into blogging for entering metadata about publications; facilitates commenting on publications and provides a decentralized aggregation mechanism to aggregate publications in the community. RSS aggregation has been extended to handle metadata in BuRST feeds. The system uses FOAF links of authors and friends to explore the social network of the research community and gather RSS/BuRST feeds.

Nepal Development Forum 2004

The software for the news postings was developed my me.

Nepal Development Gateway Portal

I worked for developing this portal as a programmer in Yomari, Inc., Nepal. I mainly worked on the content management system and the yellow pages.

To make the poverty reduction strategy resource available online The Nepal Development Gateway (NDG) initiative has taken place. The goal of NDG is to have online resource related to Nepal’s development available in the web and help in improving public access to quality information.

Environment Knowledge Hub

I developed this website together with my friend Sangya Amatya when we were studying in the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.

The Environmental Knowledge Hub eKH aims to build a virtual storehouse of information about the environment in the Asia and Pacific region. This UNEP-led initiative will work with partner institutions, networks, communities and individuals to gather relevant knowledge and best practices in 5 main themes: Air, Energy, Land, Biodiversity, and Water. The eKH helps disseminate such knowledge in a timely and efficient manner to guide decision makers in areas of assessment, policy, planning, and implementation.

People visit the virtual world of the World Wide Web but do not see other visitors visiting the same web location. The proposed approach, also called collaborative web browsing, is an attempt to enhance the web browser to show web visitors. An experimental browser extension for the Microsoft Internet Explorer, called Co-Browse, has been developed for the purpose. This shows visitors on any page at any instant and allows communication with them. Normally, people sharing similar interests or having the same problem or quest visit the same locations. Communities would foster on the web facilitating better utilization, searching and sharing of information resources. This could be introduced as a global communication technology and an instant media. The work can also prove to be a powerful tool for analysis of visitors on any site. It would also be possible to search people around the vicinity of any web page. As we can see public conversation on sites, this may find application in market and customer trend analysis. The technology may also be used in practical applications like virtual shopping and remote learning. The system has client-server architecture and uses the Component Object Model (COM) technology.

A Novel Approach for the Utilization and Enhancement of ICT using the Web.

Presented on the 4th National Conference on Science and Technology organized by RONAST(Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology). Kathmandu, Nepal, March 23-26, 2004

Keywords: browser extension, Co-Browse, COM, collaborative browsing, visitor analysis

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Authors: Aman Shakya, Archana Shrestha, Arun Timalsina

Here is the full project report.