Don’t Make Me Metadata. All I Want Is Text.
Thinking about the future of text, I often think about communication on the Web. And about the metacommunication that happens in-between its lines of human and machine-readable code. And about the delayed action which any written medium, the Web’s hypertext even more so, breeds. And while thinking about text on the Web I always end up switching
A sandal, a semiotic trail and the Semantic Web
Meaning is not given by a pre-encoding that strictly associates a signifier with a signified or with a class of signifieds. It was produced along routes that separate and connect the signified to each other, passing by the signifiers. The sign is only a stop along the interpretive route. Paraphrasing by memory several insights from Rastier,
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