Linked Data Meetup London
Having just recovered from last week’s London Linked data meet up. I thought it was time to collect together the talks and commentary from the day.
Georgi and I are particularly grateful to everyone for coming, in particular those that spoke. A special thank you also to Talis for picking up the bar tab.
I think Zach [...]
Media meets the Semantic Web
Georgi and I presented a jointly written (BBC, DBpedia and Rattle) paper at the European Semantic Web Conference a couple of weeks ago. My half of the presentation is avalible on slideshare.
Media meets the Semantic Web – ESWC2009 -Part 1
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One point that I thought was particularly interesting was the potential role [...]
Web-scalable narratives
As we build larger and larger websites it becomes increasingly difficult to scale meaningful user journeys. Success is dependent on indentifying your key user journeys (narrative structures) and ensuring these can be dynamically populated as the site grows.
Some of the largest and most successful websites have taken simple narrative structures and made them scale [...]
Who killed the networked fridge?
One of most memorable parts of the Euro IA conference was Adam Greenfield’s comment during his keynote regarding the networked fridge.
“Unless anyone here works for Philips, I’m fairly certain that nobody in this room wants or will ever buy a networked fridge.”
http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2008/09/euroia2008_part1.php
Fair point but I wanted to revisit the concept with regard to the big [...]
Wikipedia as controlled vocabulary
Chris Sizemore and I gave this presentation a while back at the Essentials of Metadata and Taxonomy event. The presentation looked at the use of Wikipedia as a source of controlled vocabulary.
Wikipedia as controlled vocabulary
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Chris covers most of the issues we discussed in his post. But one thing [...]
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