I recently read an interesting paper that was presented at the INSEMTIVE workshop (incentives for the semantic web). Hans-Jörg Happel addresses the problem that a lot of metadata (tags, annotations, etc.) exist in private knowledge spaces but are not shared on the semantic web – maybe because of privacy concerns, maybe because nobody has ever asked for them, whatever. His new idea is to design a search engine that knows which private metadata could improve the result set – and then asks their authors to publish them: i.e. the opposite of the “publish first, retrieve then” process of traditional IR.
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Growing the Semantic Web with Inverse Semantic Search
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Versioning Ontology
Friday, October 24th, 2008Cory Casanave, a participant of today’s Ontolog conference call mentioned a versioning ontology, as versioning (of data and metadata!) was identified as an important feature of semantic wikis.
Here is their ontology for versioning and management of change; somewhat different from our group’s notion of management of change, though.
Blogging from the source of the semantic web
Thursday, April 24th, 2008I’ve never liked blogging, but as I’m now staying abroad for half a year (at DERI Galway), I found it a good way to keep in touch with my friends and fellow researchers. My private blog mainly contains experiences not related to research, but there is also a category “work”. Anything that is too general to be reported here can be found in that blog.