Archive for Information sharing
October 15, 2008 at 5:05 am · Filed under Information sharing, Semantic web, social software, social web, Web 2.0 ·Tagged applications, business, Structured data, StYLiD
I got an opportunity to present my paper titled “StYLiD: Structured Information Sharing with User-defined Concepts” in the annual conference of Japanese Business Model Society (Biz-model 2008) held at the university of Tokyo, October 11, 2008. Thanks to assoc. prof. Yutaka Matsuo for organizing the session on “Web technology and business models”. My presentation was special because it was the only presentation in English in the conference :-P. However, the audience seemed to be quite interested and I received some important questions, including some in Japanese that were translated to me in English 🙂
It would be interesting to explore business models or practical applications for StYLiD and receive suggestions from the business community in the future as well. It would be better to serve applications to targeted groups who are really in need rather than trying hard to motivate general people to contribute.
Here are my paper and presentation slides.
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October 13, 2008 at 4:33 am · Filed under Information sharing, Semantic web, social semantic web, social web, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 ·Tagged Semantic web, social web, Web 2.0
Yesterday I presented my paper titled “Information Sharing on the Social Semantic Web” in the Second NEA-JC Workshop on Current and Future Technologies. NEA-JC stands for Nepal Engineers’ Association – Japan Chapter. I made a general introduction to the social web and the Semantic Web, with the general audience from all backgrounds in mind. The paper has been written for non-technical audience. I am glad to see the interest shown by all in this area.
In general people understand what is the social web as there are many example sites many of them are actually using today. However, people find it hard to imagine what the Semantic Web is really like. There are rarely any sites that ordinary people are really using that could be used to cite examples of Semantic Web technologies. People are not satisfied by just understanding the vision and principles of the Semantic Web. People want to see the Semantic Web but its still hard to show to non-technical people.
I hope in the near future we will also have enough Semantic Web sites, just like the social or Web 2.0 sites today, so that people really see, understand and benefit from the Semantic Web. I feel that day will come soon with the social Semantic web, rather than pure Semantic Web technologies only. The social Semantic Web can be as common as the social web today if the social web community and the Semantic Web community work in cooperation.
Below are the links for the PDF and presentation slides.
paper
slides
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June 3, 2008 at 2:46 pm · Filed under freebase, Information sharing, Semantic web, social semantic web, social software, structured web, web 3.0, wikipedia ·Tagged freebase, StYLiD
Freebase: Dispelling The Skepticism – ReadWriteWeb
Freebase is definitely a nice and powerful application. It is different from Wikipedia though it is based on wikis because it maintains structured data. However, the Freebase interface seems to be quite overwhelming for the casual users. Wikipedia looks rather simple and easy to use. StYLiD is also based on similar idea as Freebase – enabling the users to create structured data. However, StYLiD is a lightweight application towards structured information sharing and not at all intended to be another world’s database (surely I cannot handle that). StYLiD is more like a blog for dynamic information sharing rather than a wiki. Moreover, StYLiD tries to consolidate multiple definitions by different users for the same type and produce richer and evolving conceptualizations. Freebase is cool and it will be interesting to see how people structure information. I am also trying to analyze user-defined types in Freebase and how they can be combined. Thanks to the Freebase API 😉
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May 4, 2008 at 12:53 pm · Filed under Collaboration, Information sharing, linked data, My Projects, ontology evolution, RDFa, Semantic web, social semantic web, social software, social web, structured web, Web 2.0 ·Tagged Collaboration, concept consolidation, Information sharing, linked data, RDFa, social semantic web, Structured data
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.
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April 6, 2008 at 2:36 am · Filed under Information sharing, linked data, My Projects, RDFa, Semantic web, social semantic web, social software, social web, structured web, Web 2.0, web 3.0 ·Tagged Collaboration, concept consolidation, Information sharing, linked data, RDFa, social semantic web, Structured data
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!
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November 18, 2007 at 9:19 am · Filed under bibliography management, Information sharing, Metadata creation, My Projects, personal information management, Semantic Blogging, Semantic web, Web 2.0
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.
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October 22, 2007 at 7:29 am · Filed under Collaboration, Information sharing, metadata, Projects, Semantic web, structured web, Web 2.0
The New Era of Semantic Apps
3 great semantic applications were presented at the recently held Web 2.0 summit, Semantic Edge session – Freebase, Powerset and Twine. I have been recently working on ideas similar to Freebase, sharing structured information based on collaboratively shared concepts and schema.
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October 14, 2007 at 6:43 am · Filed under bibliography management, Information sharing, My Projects, Semantic Blogging, Semantic web, social semantic web, Web 2.0
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.
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