Thomas Roth-Berghofer

Hunch – Hilfe in allen Lebenslagen? – heute.de Nachrichten

In Deutsch, Miscellaneous on June 22, 2009 at 9:34 am

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Letzten Freitag erhielt ich einen Anruf von Georg H. Przikling, Online-Redakteur der Sparte Computer der heute.de-Nachrichten. Im Telefonat durfte ich zum brandneuen Portal hunch.com Stellung nehmen. Hier das Ergebnis: Hunch – Hilfe in allen Lebenslagen? – heute.de Nachrichten.

The nature of the Semantic Web

In English, Semantic Web on June 19, 2009 at 9:39 am

Just a pointer to an interesting summary by one of the pioneers of the Semantic Web, Jim Hendler:

The Semantic Web is based on the relatively straightforward idea that to be able to integrate (link) data on the Web we must have some mechanism for knowing what relationships hold among the data, and how that relates to some “real world” context. Read on here

[From What is the Semantic Web really all about? - Web Science - the World of the World Wide Web - James Hendler's blog on Nature Network]

Indeed, why dots?

In Design, English on May 11, 2009 at 12:22 pm

A while ago I blogged about Scott McCloud’s book “Understanding comics – The invisible art” (see understanding ontologies). I just came across a presentation (via Garr Reynolds’ Presentation Zen) that shows the use of abstraction in a very nice way.