Wednesday, July 22, 2009

semantic web librarian jobs

"Semantic web" is peeking its head out in library job descriptions now... @ York University:

A strong commitment to research in any relevant area of e-librarianship such as: e-learning, digital collections, collaborative web spaces, social software, interactive and integrative online services, semantic web or cyberinfrastructure is required. The Chair must have demonstrated success in directing and conducting research or a large project. As a member of the YUL complement, the successful candidate will contribute in an area of the libraries suited to the candidate’s area of expertise.


The three-point-oh thing is coming (though I think it won't have that name when it gets here good).

semantic web, 22 july

Notes from web trawling:

New World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Rule Interchange Format (W3C ...
TMCnet - USA
Due to the innovations made possible by the Internet, the World Wide Web, and, most recently, the Semantic Web, there is now even greater opportunity for ...
Startup Watch: Five you should follow
Mass High Tech - Boston,MA,USA
Socialtality: Founded in 2007, Socialtality is a semantic web application that reviews the user's presence and performance in the social web (blogs, forums, ...
Senior House Democrat says lawmakers could miss deadline to pass ...
Gaea Times - Kolkata,West Bengal,India
What's next Surgical facemasks igorgold Rather than controlling data through format compliance as exercised by a mysterious info power elite, Semantic web ...
New Rule Interchange Format (W3C RIF) Standard Published
Targetwire (press release) - Oakham,England,UK
The Corporate Semantic Web research group at the Freie Universitaet Berlin has been actively involved in this standardization effort. Prof. ...
Mark Watson's opinions on Java, Ruby, Lisp, AI, and the Semantic ...
By Mark Watson, author and consultant
Mark Watson's opinions on Java, Ruby, Lisp, AI, and the Semantic Web. I am a consultant living in the Mountains of Central Arizona. I am an author of 15 published books covering Artificial Intelligence (AI), Java, C++, Lisp, Linux, ...
Mark Watson's opinions on Java,... - http://markwatson.com/blog/
Semantic Discussion Heats Up; Critics Call Up Wittgenstein ...
By admin
There's been a great deal of discussion regarding the wide spread adoption of Semantic web standards now that Google, Yahoo and Bing have admitted their.
Oxford SEO Studies Blog - http://oxfordseo.com/blog/
No data here – just Linked Concepts « paul walk's weblog
By paul
The Semantic Web community has been notorious for its poor marketing over the past decade. Now just when it seems the community has found the right balance between technology and mass appeal it feels like people are trying to rip away ...
paul walk's weblog - http://blog.paulwalk.net/
YUL News » Blog Archive » Apply for the W.P. Scott Chair in e ...
By Christina Pringi
A strong commitment to research in any relevant area of e-librarianship such as: e-learning, digital collections, collaborative web spaces, social software, interactive and integrative online services, semantic web or ...
YUL News - http://www.yorku.ca/yul/news/
IT Strategy for Ireland | bluereek
By Barry O'Gorman
Delighted to see reference to semantic web – not really that surprising after €25m of government investment. I just picked out one small detail from the report (p45): The Government should appoint a high level CTO with the authority to ...
bluereek - http://www.bluereek.com/

wearable web 3 & 4

Following on from last post's comment on gendering of the Web... it occurs to me that the Web won't be or can't be successfully gendered by in the way I suggested. Just because feminine terms out-rank masculine terms, etc. Bibliometric brute force won't make the Web pink nor blue. Many reasons for this (maybe more on the subject later), but the main idea is that since we can't 'gender' the Web, it remains for the Web to increasingly disrupt basic identity categories of us... that is, the tabs that we use to build up identity (gender, race or ethnicity, languages, others) will be subverted and (forgive the term) fractalized by the Web's presence in/on our bodies. There's something important here about the body really becoming a proving ground now for Haraway's feminist cyborgs, but I haven't thought it through yet...

wearable web 2

Some not yet fully connected thoughts about this:




Localization of the Web in the body is... well, it mashes up 'global and local' (in the Zygmunt Bauman type sense, and in just the general 'common sense' sense). Localizes the whole. Gives the whole a seat at the head of the table in your own head.

The app / invention in this video flips the QR Code vector for virtual/physical book hybrids I promote in the book and more or less obviates any previous "flat" phone apps like Kaywa and Semacode... Or does it just increase the reach and use of QR Code? Not sure yet.

If the Web is becoming part of the body, might we have to begin asking things about it that help to code or identify it in terms of other body categories.... thinking of gender, health, ethnicity... Can we begin to talk of a "feminine" or "masculine" web if we look at the total of all the terms and descriptors for all "objects" online and say that on balance there is more of shift toward this or that gender? Can we talk about the web as medicine, if the info we access on/in/through the body gets us the info that helps to treat illness?

More laters.

Listening: DeVotchKa, "curse your little heart"
Weather: Hard and hot.

web 3.0, 21 july

Notes from web trawling:

Second Thoughts: Reply to Glyn Moody, Three Years Later
By Prokofy Neva
Web 3.0 and the remainders of Web 2.0, whether you like it or not, will be a story of a big fork away from opensource occurs, because it simply doesn't work *for enough people*, and over to proprietary coded platforms that secure IP in ...
Second Thoughts - http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/
10 Impressive New Implementations of Facebook Connect
By Josh Catone
And, how easy is it to create a fake female identity on FB? C'mon! Fail!! Web 3.0 is about trust. FB profiles are not trustworthy... Darin Gerhardson. Follow me on http://www.twitter.com/VegasClub. The best VIP services. Thanks. ...
Mashable! - http://mashable.com/
Deal Radar 2009: Confidela | Sramana Mitra on Strategy
By SramanaMitra
Shailendra on Forbes Column 2009: Open Source Means Business; Do you think is bing fulfills web 3.0criteria? Be… Shailendra on Web 3.0 & the Semantic Web; With Gujrat sharing its border both with Pakistan … ...
Sramana Mitra on Strategy - http://www.sramanamitra.com/
IJKEDM - Special Issue on: "Incentives for Semantic Content ...
By gtorodelvalle
Web 3.0 - Semantic Web / Items. IJKEDM - Special Issue on: "Incentives for Semantic Content Creation". Get Feed · IJKEDM - Special Issue on: "Incentives for Semantic Content Creation". Description: Soon a decade will have passed since ...
Twine | Web 3.0 - Semantic Web items - http://www.twine.com/twine/1w3b23v2-6j0/web-3-0-semantic-web/items
IDG.se: Så kodar du Web 3.0
IDG.se: Så kodar du Web 3.0. ... Så kodar du Web 3.0. Håller för närvarande på att undersöka hur webbutvecklingen kommer se ut framöver. Jag har länge pratat om hårdvaruaccelererad 3D i webbläsaren och nu är det verkligen på gång. ...
Open Force - http://blogg.idg.se/openforce

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

wearable web 1





re: this vid, C R-B has:

The brainchild of Pranav Mistry, a Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, the Sixth Sense is a wearable device that will enable us to gain seamless access to information…wherever we are! All I can say after watching the video is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant AND I want one! You’ve really got to see it to believe it, so rather than me attempting to communicate the brilliance of theSixth Sense, watch the video!

As a librarian and book lover I’m particularly excited about the impact the Sixth Sense will have on how we select, evaluate and tag books (5.53 mins into the film).



right on!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009