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Emerging Science of the Internet: Some New Opportunities (Ron Brachman, Yahoo)

by Ismail Fahmi | June 5, 2007 | 2 Comments

This article is a free writing from the last keynote speaker at the ESWC 2007, Ron Brachman, from Yahoo. I write any ideas during the presentation, which reader might find not complete or structured. Anyway.. enjoy this note.

Knowledge Representation (KR) is a very important ingredient for the semantic web movement. And in the Semweb, KR meets the Web. Semweb can be said as “addding logic to the Web.”
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SWHi Demo and Poster at the ESWC 2007

by Ismail Fahmi | June 5, 2007 | 93 Comments

In the ESWC 2007, I presented a poster and a demo about my work at the Library, in collaboration with Junte Zhang (previous master student) and two supervisors, Gosse Bouma and Henk Ellermann. Lately I was helped by Peter Scholing and Rene v.d. Ark to improve the program.

The paper was published in the LNCS on “The Semantic Web: Research and Application” and can be downloaded here: http://www.eswc2007.org/pdf/eswc07-fahmi.pdf . The poster it self can be downloaded here: …odur..(UPLOAD)

From 7 to 9.30 p.m. there are around 10 system descriptions (poster + demo), 17 demos, and 37 posters presented on the Kristal Foyer floor of the Innsbruck Congress. My paper is entitled “SWHi: A Case Study in Information Retrieval,k Inference, and Visualization in the Semantic Web.:

I got more than 15 visitors in this session which some of them are interested in the implementation of semantic web for culture and history domain, want to know how the ontology populated, how I use GATE to get name entities and relations (which I haven’t really integrate with this system), and give comments and suggestions for the improvement of the system. Read more

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Good bye Old Digital Library: Community-based Collaboration is a MUST (From the ESWC 2007)

by Ismail Fahmi | June 5, 2007 | 5 Comments

Hi all. I’m now in Innsbruck attending the ESWC 2007 conference. The first day, I attend a tutorial about the Semantic Digital Library. This is a short note from this tutorial.

There are three systems presented and demonstrated in a full day tutorial about the Semantic Digital Library (DL), on Sunday, 3rd of June 2007. The three systems are JeromeDL (DERI Galway), Fedora (Cornell University), and BRICK (Univ of Vienna). I followed this tutorial because I want to know the current development and the future vision of the digital library, w.r.t to the semantic web.

The explosion of the involvement of communities into the Internet, for example indicated by the huge number of blogs and blogospheres, have shifted the old paradigm of the digital library. The old digital library are not enough any more, because it is a one way communication, from librarian to users. Library and librarian have information, and users just use them. The future of digital library should allow community of users to give contribution to the system.

There is a new coined term, at least new for me, named ’social semantic digital library’. In this model, a user can give comments to any resources presented in the system, create bookmarks and shared their contributions with other users. Moreover, a semantic digital library tool like Fedore allow user to create a blog on top of a digital library application.

We are not really ’say good bye’ to the old digital library. We have to use their power such as providing search, browse, harvesting, etc. But, we also have to provide community-based services in order to they can join the ‘new generation of the web’. This generation based on providing answer to user needs, profiding findings, not search results. More about this can be read here (from the presentation of Ron on the new science of the internet).

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ISWC 2007 - The 6th International Semantic Web Conference, 11-15 November 2007, Busan, Korea

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