Blogs

Blogs and Wikis of the KWARC group

• The “KWARC was!” blog
• Octav Druta's Wyzbook blog
• The MathWeb wiki

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KWARC was!

• [+] Scientific writing with Emacs: style-check and writegood-mode (Christoph in “KWARC was!”, 25 Feb)
  
  Today I discovered a nice tool for improving your scientific writing: Neil Spring’s style-check.rb. In a primitive but effective way (and aware of LaTeX markup!), it checks your document for the occurrence of typical style or syntax errors. These are implemented as a configurable list of regular expressions. style-check.rb reports any encountered errors like a [...]
• [+] AI Mashup Challenge 2012 (Christoph in “KWARC was!”, 19 Feb)
  
  If you are developing mashups – lightweight web applications that offer new functionality by combining, aggregating and transforming web resources and services – this a great opportunity to win a prize. Call for Papers AI Mashup Challenge 2012 at the 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) Hersonissos, Crete, Greece; May 27–31, 2012 Submission deadline: March [...]
• [+] I-Semantics Conference and Linked Data Cup (Christoph in “KWARC was!”, 30 Jan)
  
  I-Semantics is a very nice conference on applied semantic web research, excellent for networking with the European research community and industry. Call for Papers I-SEMANTICS 2012 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems Graz, Austria, 5 – 7 September 2012 including Call for Submissions 5th Linked Data Cup Latest News: Wolters Kluwer Germany main sponsor of [...]
• [+] SePublica@ESWC Workshop (May 27 or 28, Crete) (Christoph in “KWARC was!”, 30 Jan)
  
  an ESWC 2012 Workshop. May 27 or 28, Hersonissos, Greece. http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/ At SePublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transition between print media and Web media, SePublica aims to provide researchers with a venue in which this future can be shaped. Important Dates [...]
• [+] Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces (SWCS) Workshop at WWW 2012 (Christoph in “KWARC was!”, 30 Jan)
  
  In conjunction with World Wide Web Conference 2012 (WWW 2012) Lyon, France, 17 April 2012 http://www.swcs2012.org Important dates Paper Submission: 6th February 2012 Author Notification: 8th March 2012 Camera ready: 29th March 2012 Workshop: 17th April 2012 Goal and Motivations Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces such as semantic wikis, semantic social networks, semantic forums, etc. are [...]
• [+] KISSWIN congress: support for early career researchers (Christoph in “KWARC was!”, 20 Jan)
  
  On 2012-01-18 Wed I attended the KISSWIN congress, an information event about support for early career researchers: career paths funding possibilities networking possibilities Their homepage contains a lot of helpful information, which I can highly recommend – at least for getting started with things. The information applies to anyone interested in a scientific career in [...]
• [+] An old Subversion annoyance finally explained (Christoph in “KWARC was!”, 7 Jul)
  
  I finally found the explanation for a Subversion misbehavior that has been annoying me for a long time. Many repositories of KWARC projects have a world-readable root, whereas access to certain subdirectories is restricted. Now, when checking out such repositories, I never got those subdirectories. So I always ended up doing another checkout for them, [...]
• [+] SePublica@ESWC Workshop on Semantic Publication (May 30, Crete), LNCS Post-proceedings, Best Paper Award by Elsevier (Christoph in “KWARC was!”, 16 Jan)
  
  I am a chair of the following workshop (and Michael is on the PC), which is closely related to KWARC’s research interests (specifically KWARC-relevant topics highlighted below): 1st International Workshop on Semantic Publication (SePublica 2011) at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011) May 30th, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece Keynote by Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, [...]
• [+] TEI Guidelines mention MathML, OpenMath, and OMDoc (Christoph in “KWARC was!”, 31 Jul)
  
  Someone in the humanities must be interested in OMDoc. I was really surprised to find a reference to OMDoc in the section “Formulæ and Mathematical Expressions” guidelines (a.k.a. specification) for TEI. TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) is the standard semantic markup language for humanities, social sciences and linguistics, much like DocBook for technical manuals. All that [...]
• [+] OpenMath CDs as Linked Data (Christoph in “KWARC was!”, 30 Jun)
  
  I am currently pursuing the integration of OpenMath Content Dictionaries (CDs) into the Web of Data. (Here is the agenda, which I will present and discuss at the upcoming OpenMath workshop.) The motivation is that mathematical knowledge is currently underrepresented on the Web of Data, but that it is needed for certain use cases, such [...]

Wyzbook

• [+] Thesaurus, a way of doing smart searches and getting meaningful results (octav in Wyzbook, 3 Aug)
  
  Wyzbook flash interface has a feature called “Smart Search”. Without going to deep into technical details let me show you an example so that you can see what is this feature useful for. Go to the search box and type systematic as in the screenshot below. Hit enter and observe how many results you’ve got. Now, [...]
• [+] Research papers (octav in Wyzbook, 31 Jul)
  
  Here you can find some research papers that are related to wyzbook Wyzbook guided research report This research paper is the result of a five month research investigation. Practically, it is a document that evolved along with the code necessary for making wyzbook possible. Download link Tags: guided, research, academics, paper, jacobs, university, investigation
• [+] What is Wyzbook all about? (octav in Wyzbook, 31 Jul)
  
  In the last couple of decades the Internet has evolved from a military project into the main informational tool of virtually anyone that owns a computer. Its average users are now much different than its initial users: the programmers that were familiar with complex models and primitive visual interfaces. People from all around the world are [...]

MathWeb

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