We, Linked Data
We, Linked Data are the ordinary records you might think of when imagining ways to keep, transfer and share information, knowledge or experience. Containing information is both our vocation and our avocation: that’s all we do. And to that, there’s something else, a little more wondrous than the things other data do. We, Linked Data, can, or
Semantic Web Sideways with Andrea Volpini of WordLift
Last year, around March, I set off on a journey to explore the world of Andrea Volpini. I wanted to know more about the Man who makes web content talk - as Scott Abbel dubbed him recently in an interview for Intercom. A year and a Jason Link (Andrea's personal assistant whom you can ask questions about things: https://goo.gl/suLhCD
If Web Writing Had a Muse …
Does writing in cyberspace have a muse, and if yes, what does it look like? What is it that inspires web writing and how is a web text different from other forms of creative expression? And what if there was a bridge connecting the understanding of the Web as a giant repository of our collective memory, to
The Semantic Networks We Write By
To Gideon Rosenblatt and David Amerland The metamorphoses of the written word and the media they exist and evolve within are ubiquitous and require us to rethink the way we conceive and craft content. If we want to use text to its fullest potential and not "drive a Boeing 747 on a highway" or "use the computer as a
The Semantic Web Through the Eyes of a Content Writer
What is your why for publishing on the Web? Is it traffic, engagement, visibility? Mine is data interoperability. I want to publish texts the data behind can be seamlessly combined with other data and “speaks” to computer programs in a way they can understand. To cut the geeky talk, my why for publishing on the Web has to
Weaving Linked Data into Texts with WordLift
Innovations do happen at the intersections. One such innovation happened at the intersection between SEO, Content writing and the Semantic Web. It is called WordLift. Below are my notes and thoughts about the experience I had with WordLift, going down the rabbit hole of linking, linking and
Be Concerned with Doing Good Work
I know many writers (my younger self included) out there who struggle with creating web content the way they think it should be and not the way they feel and know in their heart it is to be. This shouldn't be the case. The Web is abounding with examples of integrity (Cluetrain Manifesto) and care (Time Well Spent) and
A Dialogue with Dr. Amit Sheth
Amit Sheth, LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar at Wright State University and executive director of Kno.e.sis, has been walking the semantic web technologies talk for more than a decade. On his exciting and challenging journey toward more meaning in the man-machine collaboration (symbiosis as you will often read him calling it), Dr. Sheth wears several hats at a
A sample lesson from the course Content Writing in the Semantic Web
This is a sample lesson from my course Content Writing in the Semantic Web. Good content is created when people are becoming parts of the structures you’ve built to serve them and to invite them to interact with you. Think of content writing as the best way to future-proof your digital strategy and use it to
Semantic Web, Relationships and a Piece of Conceptual art
In our hypermodern times it looks like that the answer to what something is lies a click or a thought away, somewhere between “Ask Google” and “I don’t need Google, my wife knows everything.” But, really, what defines a thing, a person or a place? Is it its definition alone, or is it the words used to signify it? Could