Archive for October, 2009

The Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW) 2009 was held in in conjuntion with the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2009 in Sanibel Island (Florida, USA) on February 2009.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields, such as Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Semantic Web, and Personal Information Management, to discuss latest research results and challenges in designing, implementing, and evaluating intelligent interfaces supporting access, navigation and publishing of different types of contents on the Social and Semantic Web. In addition, the workshop also serves as an opportunity for researchers to gain feedback on their work as well as to identify potential collaborations with their peers.

The papers presented at this workshop are accessible at http://www.smart-ui.org/events/vissw2009/index.html

Enjoy!

You can get it at: http://altaplana.com/TA2009

Yesterday, a new way of interacting with the Federal Register of the U.S.A. was released at FedThread.org.

The Federal Register is “[t]he official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.” It’s published by the U.S. government, five days a week. The Federal Register tells citizens what their government is doing, in a lot more detail than the news media do.

FedThread makes the Federal Register more open and accessible. FedThread gives users:

• Collaborative annotation: users can attach a note to any paragraph of the Federal Register; a conversation thread hangs off of every paragraph.
• Advanced search: users can search the Federal Register (going back to 2000) on full text, by date, agency, and other fields.
• Customized feeds: any search can be turned into an RSS feed. The resulting feed will include any new items that match the search query. Feeds can be delivered by email as well.

Via: PrivacyDigest.com

The INSEMTIVES consortium is happy to welcome Pascal Chevrel of Mozilla Foundation Europe to speak at the next project meeting in October 2009 in Madrid.