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
4 Web Writing Mistakes To Avoid (and How I Didn’t)
Clarity in any environment takes energy, devotion and focus. On the Web, in a cyberspace with many intertwingled signals competing for our attention even more so. As David Amerland once shared: In a digital environment we are constantly switching between codes and, cultures, compensating the lack context or simply looking to decipher unknown threads of narrative and
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
Towards a Semantic Web Ethos [Book Excerpt]
Beneath every website, application, email, even under the tiniest tweet flow tons of data. Once linked, not unlike the documents we connect through hyperlinks, these data can create a whole new layer, woven in the Web’s fabrics. This layer is called the Semantic Web. Many paths enter the understanding of the Semantic Web concept. Most of them
The Web of Data Is Far From Done: The Project Solid
The Web of Data is all grassroots and we, its people, are to weave it. It is up to us to take action and avoid the fragmentation of the Web. It is up to us to understand the value and the importance of the data we are so easily giving away to silo platforms. Now, we can act
Write, Mark-up and Stay Interconnected
I have just added a whole new part to my course Content Writing in the Semantic Web where I talk about the importance and, as a Semantic Web lover, the beauty, of Linked Data and its relation to web writing and content creation and ideation. From my perspective, as a text weaver on the Web, Linked Data