INSEMTIVES - Incentives
for Semantics
Community Equity started in August 2008. It is a framework to build a social value system for social networks and communities.
The INSEMTIVES consortium is happy to welcome two other exciting invited speakers: Peter Reiser from Sun Microsystems and Sebastian Schaffert from
Salzburg Research (KIWI project) will be visiting us on Friday, 30th of October, 2009, for an INSEMTIVES-KIWI collaboration meeting in Innsbruck.
Biography
Peter Mika is a researcher and data architect at Yahoo! Research in
Barcelona. He received his BS in computer science from Eotvos Lorand
University and his MSc and PhD in computer science (cum laude) from
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His interdisciplinary work in social
networks and the Semantic Web earned him a Best Paper Award at the 2005
International Semantic Web Conference and a First Prize at the 2004
Semantic Web Challenge. He has been co-chair of the Semantic Web
Challenge since 2007. Mika is the youngest member elected to the
editorial board of the Journal of Web Semantics. He is the author of the
book ‘Social Networks and the Semantic Web’ (Springer, 2007). In 2008
he has been selected as one of “AI’s Ten to Watch” by the editorial
board of the IEEE Intelligent Systems journal.
Abstract
“Year of the Monkey: Lessons learned from the first year of SearchMonkey”
In this presentation we reflect on the experiences we have gained since
the launch of SearchMonkey, Yahoo’s groundbreaking Semantic Web
application platform in May, 2008. For most publishers, SearchMonkey
provided the first occasion to learn about semantic technologies and
reflect on the costs and benefits of providing data in semantic formats
such as RDFa. For developers inside and outside Yahoo, it often meant
having to learn the somewhat peculiar knowledge representation paradigms
of the Semantic Web. As a summary of these experiences, this
presentation provides key insights to those interested in what the
Semantic Web looks like in action and at a large scale, viewed from the
perspective of a search engine provider. It also highlights critical
bottlenecks in the adoption of semantic technologies on the Web and
therefore should be also of interest for Semantic Web researchers and
developers.
“Google’s Social Search feature goes live today. It is designed to help users to find social web content that is relevant to them.”
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/10/27/238305/video-google-social-search-goes-live.htm
I have just found a very interesting paper titled “A user-centred evaluation framework for the Sealife semantic Web browsers”.
Abstract: Semantically-enriched browsing has enhanced the browsing experience by providing contextualised dynamically generated Web content, and quicker access to searched for information. However, adoption of Semantic Web technologies is limited and user perception from the non-IT domain sceptical. Furthermore, little attention has been given to evaluating semantic browsers with real users to demonstrate the enhancements and obtain valuable feedback. The Sealife project investigates semantic browsing and its application to the life science domain. Sealife’s main objective is to develop the notion of context-based information integration by extending three existing Semantic Web browsers (SWBs) to link the existing Web to the eScience infrastructure.
Definitely, Life Sciences is a domain where semantic annotation can be very valuable.
You can get the whole paper at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2755822/pdf/1471-2105-10-S10-S14.pdf
In case you do not have time to read the paper, I recommend you to have at least a look at http://www.gopubmed.org/web/gopubmed/
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