Introducing UMBEL Version 1.00 - semanticweb.com
After four years of tinkering, Structured Dynamics and Ontotext are ready to announce the release of UMBEL version 1.00, the first production-grade release of the system. According to the article, UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) “is primarily a reference ontology, which contains 28,000 concepts (classes and relationships) derived from the Cyc knowledge base. The reference concepts of UMBEL are mapped to Wikipedia, DBpedia ontology classes, GeoNames and PROTON.”
20 February 2011
2010 Visualization Challenge
2010 Visualization Challenge
An “ocean” composed of a single layer of molecules; an intricate depiction of an HIV particle as a study in orange and gray; a phantasmagoria of fungi; a video tracing the long-distance travels of items dumped in the trash in Seattle: The four first-place winners in this year's International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge grab your attention and draw you into unseen worlds in very different ways.
An “ocean” composed of a single layer of molecules; an intricate depiction of an HIV particle as a study in orange and gray; a phantasmagoria of fungi; a video tracing the long-distance travels of items dumped in the trash in Seattle: The four first-place winners in this year's International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge grab your attention and draw you into unseen worlds in very different ways.
CILIP | Cataloguing and Indexing Tools and resources - cataloguing, indexing and classification
CILIP | Cataloguing and Indexing Tools and resources - cataloguing, indexing and classification
Professional tools and resources
A taxonomy of professional tools, resources and publications supporting traditional cataloguing, metadata manipulation, classification and indexing. All links point to professional articles, tools and resources that are either open access or licensed for free use by cataloguers.
This section is maintained by David Bennett.
Please contact David at david.bennett@port.ac.uk if you have any comments or suggestions.19 February 2011
TILE | Text-Image Linking Environment
TILE | Text-Image Linking Environment
The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities texts.
This initial release of TILE features tools for importing and exporting transcript lines and images of text, an image markup tool, a semi-automated line recognizer that tags regions of text within an image, and plugin architecture to extend the functionality of the software.
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Library of Congress Funds Omeka + Neatline Project
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Library of Congress Funds Omeka + Neatline Project
Library of Congress Funds Omeka + Neatline Project
The Library of Congress has awarded $665,248 in funding to the Omeka + Neatline project.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library and the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University are pleased to announce a collaborative "Omeka + Neatline" initiative, supported by $665,248 in funding from the Library of Congress.
The Omeka + Neatline project's goal is to enable scholars, students, and library and museum professionals to create geospatial and temporal visualizations of archival collections using a Neatline toolset within CHNM's popular, open source Omeka exhibition platform. Neatline, a "contribution to interpretive humanities scholarship in the visual vernacular," is a project of the UVa Library Scholars' Lab, originally bolstered by a Start-Up Grant from the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Omeka is an award-winning web-publishing platform for the display of cultural heritage and scholarly collections and exhibits, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
17 February 2011
TRLN Digitization Strategy Announcement [OCLC]
TRLN Digitization Strategy Announcement [OCLC]: "DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 15 February 2011—This is the first formally published strategy for providing access to unpublished materials online based on an approach created by OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership.
This approach is described in a document titled, 'Well‐intentioned practice for putting digitized collections of unpublished materials online' and is the output of an 'Undue Diligence' invitational seminar held in the spring of 2010. During this event, OCLC Research convened a group of RLG Partner experts from archives, special collections and the law to develop and define streamlined, community-accepted procedures for managing copyright in the digital age that would cut costs and boost confidence in libraries' and archives' ability to increase visibility of and access to unpublished materials online. The group acknowledged that, although there is risk in digitizing materials that may be in copyright, this risk should be balanced with the harm to scholarship and society inherent in not making collections fully accessible. Based on this premise, they identified a practical approach to selecting collections, making decisions, seeking permissions, recording outcomes, establishing policy and working with future donors, which O"
This approach is described in a document titled, 'Well‐intentioned practice for putting digitized collections of unpublished materials online' and is the output of an 'Undue Diligence' invitational seminar held in the spring of 2010. During this event, OCLC Research convened a group of RLG Partner experts from archives, special collections and the law to develop and define streamlined, community-accepted procedures for managing copyright in the digital age that would cut costs and boost confidence in libraries' and archives' ability to increase visibility of and access to unpublished materials online. The group acknowledged that, although there is risk in digitizing materials that may be in copyright, this risk should be balanced with the harm to scholarship and society inherent in not making collections fully accessible. Based on this premise, they identified a practical approach to selecting collections, making decisions, seeking permissions, recording outcomes, establishing policy and working with future donors, which O"
14 February 2011
13 February 2011
Web 3.0 Could Lead to E-Government That Anticipates Citizens’ Needs
Web 3.0 Could Lead to E-Government That Anticipates Citizens’ Needs: "“Web 3.0” is an IT buzzword that’s appearing with greater frequency among the state and local government IT community. Explanations differ as to what it means in terms of implementation, but the overarching concept is “machine-to-machine” communication on the Internet."
What SKOS-XL adds to SKOS - bobdc.blog
What SKOS-XL adds to SKOS - bobdc.blog: "Extra flexibility for label metadata.
In my first few glances at SKOS eXtension for Labels, I didn't quite get it. Recently, though, while looking at a client's requirements document at TopQuadrant, when I saw that they wanted to attach metadata to individual terms, I started modeling this in my head and then I realized I didn't need to: SKOS-XL already had."
In my first few glances at SKOS eXtension for Labels, I didn't quite get it. Recently, though, while looking at a client's requirements document at TopQuadrant, when I saw that they wanted to attach metadata to individual terms, I started modeling this in my head and then I realized I didn't need to: SKOS-XL already had."
Special Online Collection: Dealing with Data
Special Online Collection: Dealing with Data: "In the 11 February 2011 issue, Science joins with colleagues from Science Signaling, Science Translational Medicine, and Science Careers to provide a broad look at the issues surrounding the increasingly huge influx of research data. This collection of articles highlights both the challenges posed by the data deluge and the opportunities that can be realized if we can better organize and access the data.
The Science cover (left) features a word cloud generated from all of the content from the magazine's special section.
Science is making access to this entire collection FREE (simple registration is required for non-subscribers)."
The Science cover (left) features a word cloud generated from all of the content from the magazine's special section.
Science is making access to this entire collection FREE (simple registration is required for non-subscribers)."
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Playing around with Open Linked Data: data.totl.net
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Playing around with Open Linked Data: data.totl.net: "The following guest post is by Christopher Gutteridge, a Web & Systems Programmer and Open Data Architect at the University of Southampton. When he was young he wrote the “coffee stain” filter for GIMP, and is the developer of Graphite RDF PHP library & tools. He is a member of the OKF Working Group on Open Bibliographic Information.
I know that it’s best to practice a new technique before employing it on anything major. I also like over-engineering for its own sake. (Beware the Modeller!) That’s how I ended up building data.totl.net."
I know that it’s best to practice a new technique before employing it on anything major. I also like over-engineering for its own sake. (Beware the Modeller!) That’s how I ended up building data.totl.net."
Home - ePSIplus - Public Sector Information
Home - ePSIplus - Public Sector Information: "Europe's One-Stop Shop on Public Sector Information (PSI) Re-use
Working to Stimulate PSI Re-use
The aim of the ePSIplatform is to stimulate action, report developments and monitor progress towards a stronger and more transparent environment for the growth of national and European PSI re-use markets."
Working to Stimulate PSI Re-use
The aim of the ePSIplatform is to stimulate action, report developments and monitor progress towards a stronger and more transparent environment for the growth of national and European PSI re-use markets."
Official Google Blog: Register for Google I/O 2011
Official Google Blog: Register for Google I/O 2011: "The focus of I/O 2011 will be all about the cloud, and feature the latest Google products and technologies including Android, Google Chrome, App Engine, Google Web Toolkit and Google APIs. There will be many opportunities to meet members of Google’s engineering teams and take deep dives into the technologies with more than 100 technical sessions, roundtables and more. The Developer Sandbox, which we introduced at I/O 2009, will be back, featuring developers from more than 100 companies to demo their apps, share their experiences and exchange ideas."
HEFCE Review of JISC
1. This report sets out the findings and recommendations of the Review Group
chaired by Professor Sir Alan Wilson into the strategy, activities and effectiveness of the
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The review’s terms of reference are at
Annex A and the Review Group membership is listed at Annex B.
"Copy, paste, map" - O'Reilly Radar
"Copy, paste, map" - O'Reilly Radar: "Data, data everywhere, and all too many spreadsheets to think.
Citizens have a new tool to visualize data and map it onto their own communities. Geospatial startup FortiusOne and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have teamed up to launch IssueMap.org. IssueMap is squarely aimed at addressing one of the biggest challenges that government agencies, municipalities and other public entities have in 2011: converting open data into information that people can distill into knowledge and insight.
IssueMap must, like the data it visualizes, be put in context. The world is experiencing an unprecedented data deluge, a reality that my colleague Edd Dumbill described as another 'industrial revolution' at last week's Strata Conference. The release of more data under the Open Government Directive issued by the Obama Administration has resulted in even more data becoming available. The challenge is that for most citizens, the hundreds of thousands of data sets available at Data.gov, or at state or city data catalogs, don't lead to added insight or utility in their every day lives. This partnership between FortiusOne and the FCC is an attempt to give citizens a mapping tool to make FCC data meaningful."
Citizens have a new tool to visualize data and map it onto their own communities. Geospatial startup FortiusOne and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have teamed up to launch IssueMap.org. IssueMap is squarely aimed at addressing one of the biggest challenges that government agencies, municipalities and other public entities have in 2011: converting open data into information that people can distill into knowledge and insight.
IssueMap must, like the data it visualizes, be put in context. The world is experiencing an unprecedented data deluge, a reality that my colleague Edd Dumbill described as another 'industrial revolution' at last week's Strata Conference. The release of more data under the Open Government Directive issued by the Obama Administration has resulted in even more data becoming available. The challenge is that for most citizens, the hundreds of thousands of data sets available at Data.gov, or at state or city data catalogs, don't lead to added insight or utility in their every day lives. This partnership between FortiusOne and the FCC is an attempt to give citizens a mapping tool to make FCC data meaningful."
T H E H O R I Z O N R E P O R T 2 0 1 1 E D I T I O N
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf
The internationally recognized series of Horizon
Reports is part of the New Media Consortium’s
Horizon Project, a comprehensive research venture
established in 2002 that identifies and describes
emerging technologies likely to have a large impact
over the coming five years on a variety of sectors
around the globe. This volume, the 2011 Horizon
Report, examines emerging technologies for their
potential impact on and use in teaching, learning,
and creative inquiry. It is the eighth in the annual
series of reports focused on emerging technology in
the higher education environment.
Shared Services in Cloud Computing | Digital Curation Centre
Shared Services in Cloud Computing | Digital Curation Centre: "Today's announcement by HEFCE of funding for the development of cloud services in UK Higher Education will allow the DCC to develop some significant new services in the coming year. As well as deploying our own tools in the cloud infrastructure, we'll be developing advice and support for institutions considering use of the cloud for any and all aspects of research data management.This funding will also allow us to take forward many of the salient recommendations from the UK Research Data Service (UKRDS) project and intensify a number of our existing activities, such as the DCC roadshows. We'll be developing detailed plans in the next few weeks and expect to make a number of further announcements during and after that time.The DCC will be working closely with JISC, JANET, Eduserv and others to realise the benefits of this exciting but challenging programme.The full text of the announcement from HEFCE, containing details of all aspects of the programme, is here."
Tasty, New Sweet Tools Release » AI3:::Adaptive Information
Tasty, New Sweet Tools Release » AI3:::Adaptive Information: "Sweet Tools, AI3‘s listing of semantic Web and -related tools, has just been released with its 17th update. The listing now contains more than 900 tools, nearly a 10% increase over the last version. Significantly the listing is also now presented via its own semantic tool, the structSearch sComponent, which is one of the growing parts to Structured Dynamics‘ open semantic framework (OSF).
So, we invite you to go ahead and try out this new Flex/Flash version with its improved"
So, we invite you to go ahead and try out this new Flex/Flash version with its improved"
SKOS Now Interoperates with OWL 2 » AI3:::Adaptive Information
SKOS Now Interoperates with OWL 2 » AI3:::Adaptive Information: "n the semantic Web, arguably SKOS is the right vocabulary for representing simple knowledge structures [1] and OWL 2 is the right language for asserting axioms and ontological relationships. In the early days we chose a reliance on SKOS for the UMBEL reference concept ontology, because of UMBEL’s natural role as a knowledge structure. Most recently we also migrated UMBEL to OWL 2 to gain (among other reasons) the metamodeling advantages of “punning”, which allows us to treat things as either classes or instances depending on modeling needs, context and viewpoint [2].
But — until today — we could not get SKOS and OWL 2 to play together nicely. This meant we could not take full advantage of each language’s respective strengths.
Happily, that gap has now been closed. By action of a relatively minor change and the addition of a simple statement, SKOS more fully interoperates with OWL 2."
But — until today — we could not get SKOS and OWL 2 to play together nicely. This meant we could not take full advantage of each language’s respective strengths.
Happily, that gap has now been closed. By action of a relatively minor change and the addition of a simple statement, SKOS more fully interoperates with OWL 2."
Library Management Services in the Cloud [OCLC]
Library Management Services in the Cloud [OCLC]: "Presented at ALA Midwinter 2011, January 9, 2011
Listen as early members of the user community explain why they chose OCLC Web-scale Management Services and share their progress to-date.
Introduction [28 minutes]
Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO, and Andrew K. Pace Executive Director of Networked Services
Jason Griffey [9 minutes]
Head of Library Information Technology, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Jackie Beach [13 minutes]
Director, CPC Regional Libraries (North Carolina)
Michael Dula [12 minutes]
Director for Digital Initiatives and Technology Strategy, Pepperdine University Libraries
Discussion [17 minutes]"
Listen as early members of the user community explain why they chose OCLC Web-scale Management Services and share their progress to-date.
Introduction [28 minutes]
Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO, and Andrew K. Pace Executive Director of Networked Services
Jason Griffey [9 minutes]
Head of Library Information Technology, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Jackie Beach [13 minutes]
Director, CPC Regional Libraries (North Carolina)
Michael Dula [12 minutes]
Director for Digital Initiatives and Technology Strategy, Pepperdine University Libraries
Discussion [17 minutes]"
06 February 2011
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Public Data: Then What? – Part 2
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Public Data: Then What? – Part 2: "One may believe that one of the three scenarios for the future of Open Public Data that I discussed in my previous post is more likely than the other. The problem is, why? What actions, decisions, or conditions, are more likely to get us going along one road rather than the other? Can we go wrong on one count, and right on another? I believe we have hardly begun to figure that out."
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Public Data: Then What? – Part 1
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Public Data: Then What? – Part 1: "We tend to assume that the opening up of public data will only produce positive outcomes for individuals, for society and the economy. But the opposite may be true. We should start thinking further ahead on the possible consequences of releasing public data, and how we can make sure they are mostly positive."
wg/humanities - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki
wg/humanities - Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki: "Working Group on Open Resources in the Humanities
Purpose
Act as a central point of reference and support for people interested in open resources in humanities research and teaching.
Possible Projects
A list of free/open source software tools for facilitating research and teaching in the humanities (including and linking to existing directories).
Maintaining a registry of collections of public domain and open access humanities resources on CKAN.
Guide to using structured text formats when publishing or making available textual databases or other resources.
Guide on best practices for using licenses and other legal tools.
Created: 2008-06-30"
Purpose
Act as a central point of reference and support for people interested in open resources in humanities research and teaching.
Possible Projects
A list of free/open source software tools for facilitating research and teaching in the humanities (including and linking to existing directories).
Maintaining a registry of collections of public domain and open access humanities resources on CKAN.
Guide to using structured text formats when publishing or making available textual databases or other resources.
Guide on best practices for using licenses and other legal tools.
Created: 2008-06-30"
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Europe’s Energy: a new mini-app to put the European energy targets into context
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Europe’s Energy: a new mini-app to put the European energy targets into context: "The application aims to help to put European energy policy (including the 2020 energy targets) into context, building on the work we did at the Eurostat Hackday in London just before Christmas."
Nodalities » Blog Archive » Linked Spending Data – How and Why Bother Pt2
Nodalities » Blog Archive » Linked Spending Data – How and Why Bother Pt2: "To help with this I am going to use, some of the excellent work that Stuart Harrison at Lichfield District Council has done in this area, as examples. Take a look at the spending data part of their site: spending.lichfielddc.gov.uk/. On the surface navigating your way around the site looking at council spend by type, subject, month, and supplier is the kind of experience a user would expect. Great for a website displaying information about a single council. "
Resource Discovery Taskforce
Resource Discovery Taskforce: "We realise that the scale and complexity of the RDTF Vision work requires a robust management framework. Over the next eight months we’ll be working closely with Mimas to design and implement that framework. In this post Joy Palmer from Mimas shares the approach and ethos in carrying forward this work with us, and she also provides an overview of the management framework activities which will be taking place between now and July 2011. – Andy McGregor."
eFoundations: Metadata guidelines for the UK RDTF - please comment
eFoundations: Metadata guidelines for the UK RDTF - please comment: "As promised last week, our draft metadata guidelines for the UK Resource Discovery Taskforce are now available for comment in JISCPress. The guidelines are intended to apply to UK libraries, museums and archives in the context of the JISC and RLUK Resource Discovery Taskforce activity.
The comment period will last two weeks from tomorrow and we have seeded JISCPress with a small number of questions (see below) about issues that we think are particularly worth addressing. Of course, we welcome comments on all aspects of the guidelines, not just where we have raised issues. (Note that you don't have to leave public comments in JISCPress if you don't want to - an email to me or Pete will suffice. Or you can leave a comment here.)
The guidelines recommend three approaches to exposing metadata (to be used individually or in combination), referred to as:
the community formats approach;
the RDF data approach;
the Linked Data approach."
The comment period will last two weeks from tomorrow and we have seeded JISCPress with a small number of questions (see below) about issues that we think are particularly worth addressing. Of course, we welcome comments on all aspects of the guidelines, not just where we have raised issues. (Note that you don't have to leave public comments in JISCPress if you don't want to - an email to me or Pete will suffice. Or you can leave a comment here.)
The guidelines recommend three approaches to exposing metadata (to be used individually or in combination), referred to as:
the community formats approach;
the RDF data approach;
the Linked Data approach."
Cloud and industry, Part 1: PaaS best practices and patterns
Cloud and industry, Part 1: PaaS best practices and patterns: "Summary: This article is the first part of a series on enabling cloud computing in industry solutions. This introduction covers basic cloud computing philosophy and industry solution knowledge. You will learn about the requirements and functions of three models to deliver industry solutions, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), and how you can use best practices and patterns with the PaaS framework in particular to deploy and manage cloud computing solutions. The next articles in the series will discuss how cloud computing capabilities can be applied specifically to the chemical and petroleum and telecommunications domains."
Catalogablog: MapFAST
Catalogablog: MapFAST: "MapFAST is a mashup prototype that uses a Google Maps interface to present FAST Geographic authority records. The prototype presents a different way to look at subject access to bibliographic records. It also demonstrates a strength of the subject faceting approach of FAST over coordinated subject headings."
Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content
Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content: "Many digital libraries have not made the transition to semantic digital libraries, and often with good reason. Librarians and information technologists may not yet grasp the value of semantic mappings of bibliographic metadata, they may not have the resources to make the transition and, even if they do, semantic web tools and standards have varied in terms of maturity and performance. Selecting appropriate or reasonable classes and properties from ontologies, linking and augmenting bibliographic metadata as it is mapped to triples, data fusion and re-use, and considerations about what it means to represent this data as a graph, are all challenges librarians and information technologists face as they transition their various collections to the semantic web. This paper presents some lessons we have learned building small, focused semantic digital library collections that combine bibliographic and non-bibliographic data, based on specific topics. The tools map and augment the metadata to produce a collection of triples. We have also developed some prototype tools atop these collections which allow users to explore the content in ways that were either not possible or not easy to do with other library systems."
Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content
Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content: "Many digital libraries have not made the transition to semantic digital libraries, and often with good reason. Librarians and information technologists may not yet grasp the value of semantic mappings of bibliographic metadata, they may not have the resources to make the transition and, even if they do, semantic web tools and standards have varied in terms of maturity and performance. Selecting appropriate or reasonable classes and properties from ontologies, linking and augmenting bibliographic metadata as it is mapped to triples, data fusion and re-use, and considerations about what it means to represent this data as a graph, are all challenges librarians and information technologists face as they transition their various collections to the semantic web. This paper presents some lessons we have learned building small, focused semantic digital library collections that combine bibliographic and non-bibliographic data, based on specific topics. The tools map and augment the metadata to produce a collection of triples. We have also developed some prototype tools atop these collections which allow users to explore the content in ways that were either not possible or not easy to do with other library systems."
Making Connections Real » AI3:::Adaptive Information
Making Connections Real » AI3:::Adaptive Information: "We are only days away from releasing the first commercial version 1.00 of UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) [1]. To recap, UMBEL has two purposes, both aimed to promote the interoperability of Web-accessible content. First, it provides a general vocabulary of classes and predicates for describing domain ontologies and external datasets. Second, UMBEL is a coherent framework of 28,000 broad subjects and topics (the “reference concepts”), which can act as binding nodes for mapping relevant content."
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