The project to produce a 'directory' (whatever that means when working with these kinds of sources) of UMWBlogs took an interesting turn a few weeks ago when I thought that getting at the connections between posts might be a more interesting starting point, and that the most natural way to expose those would be through a sidebar.

Many thanks to Fred Giasson, Niklas Lindström, and others for their kind advice in developing the university ontology.

I'd been mulling over what to write in response to the talk Eric Miller gave to a small crowd here at UMW -- it was quite a treat. Fortunately, Gardner beat me to the punch with this post in response, so I'll go with responding to Gardner.

Alexandre Passant continues to do wonderful things, this time with the MOAT (Meaning Of A Tag) project. He's extended Richard Newman's excellent Tagging ontology so that it expresses (possible) meanings of tags in a semantic web-friendly way (i.e., using a URI).

For a variety of small to medium-sized projects (at least as things are measured here), I've needed to model bits of pieces of the elements of my university, University of Mary Washington.

The "3 Tags Rule" in my previous post was mostly inspired by some things Jim Hendler's Reinventing Academic Publishing – Part III and in an article he co-wrote with Jennifer Golbeck, -->

SPARQL me this:


PREFIX dbpedia2: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
SELECT ?drink
WHERE { ?drink dbpedia2:bourbon "yes"@en}


(For the non-semantic webby, this is a basic semweb query for asking DBpedia for info in wikipedia about drinks with bourbon)

Paul Miller at Nodalities posted this responding to thinking going on in the UK at the JISC CETIS 2007 Conference in a session called Semantic Structures for Teac

Frédérick Giasson revealed a pre-release of the zitgist semantic web browser. It's a great leap forward in making RDF data readable and browsable to people who would be perfectly happy in their lives never needing to see the acronym RDF.

A small group of the faculty and instructional technology staff have been thinking hard about how to reinvent -- or at least re-present -- the intellectual life of students and faculty on campus. Martha Burtis has started the discussion here.