CV data as Linked Data?
Digital space is actual space, the space in which we live. A space is a set of relationships between objects; in our contemporary society, space is a hybridization of connected and non-connected objects that are structured by writing. Marcello Vitali-Rosati, On Editorialization: Structuring Space and Authority in the Digital Age Just yesterday I finished my application for a
A Call to Intergalactic Adventure (Newsletter, April 2019)
We are powerful storytelling engines and our imagination and the number of semantic networks we can create is endless. And so are the opportunities to connect on the Web. Through writing. That was the main thread running through the activities of a seminar I organized this March in Bulgaria. It was called Web Scriptorium and my
For the Love of the Web
In 1991, the year when U2 (my favourite band) released the album Achtung Baby, the World Wide Web went live! It was on 6 August 1991and there was no fanfare in the global press and in fact, most people around the world didn't even know what the Internet was, as the people from The Next Web wrote. 30
Per aspera ad astra (Newsletter, March 2019)
This last month I found myself busy chasing "all things digital", and having forgotten that not all things are meant to be digital. Cyberspaces, as beautiful as their potential is, are only but a layer in a larger tapestry. A layer - rich, intriguing and increasingly machine-readable, a fragment (and a fractal) of our live's patchwork, yet not meant
Surfing the Web Layer of Things, Technology and Thoughts: A Dialogue with Ruben Verborgh
Ruben Verborgh is one of those amazing people I have crossed paths with on my Semantic Web journey. A professor of Semantic Technology, Ruben is a hard-working man (and a rising TEDx star) on a quest to decentralising the Web. I met Ruben through the Solid project on my own way to finding the means to best support
An Ecology of Digital Being of Sorts
It’s been 30 years since the World Wide Web transformed our lives and allowed us to connect, communicate and create on an unprecedented level, reminds us a report by the Web Foundation called The Case for the Web. Among the many interesting things the report contains, the part about blogging, content and ultimately the unrealized potential of
From Envisioning Art to Embedding It with Metadata: A Dialogue with Margaret Warren
Margaret does something that is of uber importance for all of us: she builds and thinks through the technology of describing, storing and retrieving images. Her tool ImageSnippets™, created for anyone who archives, curates or shares images on the Web (who doesn't these days) was born out of her passion and scientific problem: the semantic annotation
The Project Solid as a Road Assembling Itself on the Go
The Linked Data social ecosystem Solid is a work in progress. So are its UX and UI. Roads assembling themselves on the go. But let's face it, isn't our own understanding of how we use, curate and give our data on the Web one that is still shaping and evolving? One that needs reassessing and reframing? We have
A Brand, a Hero and a Delight Well-Designed: A Dialogue with Vinish Garg
Close your eyes and imagine you work as a story designer for brands and start-ups. A dream job, isn't it? And a hard one. As a recent McKinsey report has it, design is more than a feeling, more than a department, more than a phase, more than a product. Now open your eyes and meet Vinish Garg who
What I Learned Writing The Brave New Text?
The Brave New Text, my book of essays about the metamorphoses writing and textuality undergo on the Web, is out in the world. It is now an artefact, a corpus of texts looking to find its own way into the giant intertextual fabrics of the Web. Now that I finished the boom, I have another "writing" journey