some fun – graduation day in haiku
Apologies to those expecting Web Science, but I figured the “rules” of blogging allow an occasional “fun” one to be deployed among the serious — so having spent yesterday at my daughter’s college...
View ArticleWhat is the Semantic Web really all about?
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...
View ArticleBlogging by Senior Professors – the difficulty imay not be what you might think
I know the issue of blogging by folks of more “mature” years has come up at Nature and elsewhere many times. Usually this is attributed to generation gap, lack of technology awareness, and...
View ArticleProfessorial Perqs – the rare times the travel is worth it…
I’m lucky enough to be at a point in my career where I get asked to give keynote talks at a number of conferences. While I have always liked travel, I must admit that most of the time these trips leave...
View ArticleWhy NSF cannot fund high-risk, high reward research.
I just got turned down for a grant. That’s nothing new, you win some and you lose some, and every senior professor has gotten used to that over time. This time, however, I cannot find it in myself to...
View ArticleThe Semantic Web – my personal (unofficial) FAQ
I spend a lot of my time fielding questions from various people on what the Semantic Web is (and isn’t) and about its status – below are some of the questions I get asked the most, and my answers. This...
View ArticleLinked Open Government Data and the Semantic Web
subtitle: How I became the US Government’s “Internet Web Expert” without really tryingAlmost a year ago, I posted a blog entry about why it was so hard for senior professors and scientists to find time...
View ArticleThe Web is a critical infrastructure – we must understand it.
I recently was asked to attend a meeting of the US President’s Innovative Technology Advisory Committee, a subcommittee of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The topic was...
View ArticleSemantic Web New Year’s Resolutions
I am using the New Year as an excuse to explore my Semantic Web research agenda. This past year was a great year for the Semantic in industrial uptake, in seeing respect grow in the government open...
View ArticleSemantic Web resolutions update: A Research Agenda for Open Government Data
Back in January I posted my Semantic Web New Year’s Resolutions to this blog. This entry is my 3 month status report (a bit late)1 – I resolved to work on scaling linked data. That work continues – one...
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