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SSSW08: NeOn Methodology for Ontology Specification

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

You probably haven’t noticed (until perhaps now?), but it’s been quiet around here for a while. The blog has been at the bottom of my prioritized “tasks”. Nevertheless, I have been meaning to post about the NeOn methodology (and other stuff from SSSW’08 (coming)) for an even longer while.

In many ways, these are notes from my stay at the SSSW’08.
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Topic Maps at the Expert Center for Information Management

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

If you’re working with Information Management and/or in the Oil & Energy sector, you might want to show up at the ECIM’2008 User Meeting and Conference in Haugesund, Norway September 15 - 17.

Bouvet will host a workshop on Topic Maps September 16.

Summer School on the Semantic Web

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Last week, I attended the Sixth European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW’08). As the name implies (well, not only implies..), it’s a summer school on Semantic Web stuff.

The school promises a good combination of theoretical and practical exercises (ref. programme), lead by some of the top researchers of the field. (more…)

Topic Maps - What Is It Good For

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

My most recent attempt at Explaining Topic Maps.

Making Sense of the Semantic Web

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

The presentation Making Sense of the Semantic Web (by Nova Spivack) is a good introduction to the semantic web and includes some points that might be nice to have when explaining the semantic web and the importance of semantic technologies to newcomers.

It’s from The Next Web Conference (found via NRK Beta).

Topic Maps 2008 Day 1 & Day 2

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Better late than never…

Topic Maps 2008 - Day 1

Alex Wright of New York Times held the opening keynote of Topic Maps 2008. Wright talked about “Hierarchies, Networks, and the web that Wasn’t“.

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Topic Maps 2008: Tutorial Day

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

I am currently at the 2nd International Topic Maps Conference, held in Oslo, Norway; Topic Maps 2008. Today was tutorial day.

This is what I got some insight into today (they are all bits and pieces, but I include the notes here for sharing).

Open Source Topic Map Portals

Arnar Lundesgaard, the lead developer of Zope Topic Maps, held a 1/2 day presentation on ZTM3. For me, it was vital to attend this introduction to ZTM3, as I have high hopes for it … and we will def. be building sites on it in the not too distant future.

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