Strategic Content Work, Domain Models and a bit of RDF: A Dialogue With Larry Swanson
Working with content to connect people, and ideas is hard, takes time, resources, perseverance and above all devotion to staying focused on the very essence of connection: authentic experiences. This is what Larry Swanson is after: authentic human-generated content and experiences. Working as a content architect, a content modeler, a UX architect, or an information architect, in
Embodying and Enacting Meaning and Content on the Web: A Dialogue with Heinz Wittenbrink
There are conversations that happen outside what Greeks would call Chronos - the chronological or sequential time, and into what is known as Kairos - the quality, right time, a deep time. My Dialogue with Heinz Wittenbrick happened in Kairos. Heinz Wittenbrick is a blogger, keeping a blog at Lost and Found, a gallery owner (off_gallery graz)
Into the Mind Of a Schema Ninja: A Dialogue with Jarno van Driel About Semantic Search, Content and Triples
The year is 2009. Some folks from Drupal have just published a paper about RDF and web pages, titled Produce and Consume Linked Data with Drupal! Around that same time, even a year earlier, Jarno van Driel has already been producing Linked Data, working as a webmaster for several magazine websites and following his penchant for
From Speaking Into The Air To Making Products First Class Citizens With GS1 Digital Link: A Dialogue with Phil Archer
“Briefly, technologies such as the telegraph and radio refitted the old term “communication”, once used for any kind of physical transfer or transmission, into a new kind of quasi-physical connection across the obstacles of time and space. Thanks to electricity, communication could now take place regardless of impediments such as distance or embodiment.” p. 5. In: Speaking
Ontology Engineering and the Love for Modeling and Analysis: A Dialogue with Maria Keet
Maria Keet, author of the first of its kind texbok in the field, titled "An Introduction to Ontology Engineering" talk about her interest in data modeling and knowledge engineering with ontologies.
Semantic Interoperability and the Trees of Knowledge We All Take Care Of: A Dialogue With Pierre Lévy
Cyberia, as conceptualized by Escobar and lived by all of us is a magical place. It is the place I met Pierre Lévy anew (sic!) three times. "Hello Teodora, we follow each other on Twitter, I am happy to see you there!" was the first time I met Pierre in the KGC community (thanks Ellie and team
Linking up information to make the world a better knowledge space: A Dialogue with Ian Piper
Text and the Semantic Web have been part of enquiry for understanding human communication for quite a long time now. Questions about content, graphs, organisational change and the Yay! :) of the URI are always at the back of my mind when I explore how content on the Web is ideated, created and managed. And all
The Data-Centric Future Is Here, It Is Just Not Evenly Distributed: A Dialogue with Alan Morrison
What is that thing that bridges together content, data and knowledge? Could it be that taking a data-centric approach towards managing company’s data has little to do with tools and technologies and a lot more to do with mindset? What stops enterprises from walking the Semantic Web talk? And last but not least, isn’t machine language
At the interstice of code, culture, and change: A dialogue with Anni Rowland-Campbell
It’s 11.01. I am half-way home, just finishing my morning walk. And I am one minute late for an online event called Brave Conversations. It feels awkward to be late for an event hosted by brilliant people like Intersticia and, nota bene, with the participation of Dame Wendy Hall. Yet, the pull is so strong that I decide to
Music, Taxonomies and What Defines a Sandwich: A Dialogue With Bob Kasenchak
Think cheeseburger. Now think rhythm. Now listen: “Cheeseburger, hot-dog, Cheeseburger, hot-dog”, this is how I once heard prof. Milcho Leviev explaining how he introduces people to the asymmetrical rhythms of Bulgarian folk music. [Check Maestro Leviev's Bulgarian Boogie] Fast forward to these when reading and thinking about knowledge, meaning and life brings me as much pleasure as