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FOAF.Vix – the way to visualise your FOAF file | Blinded by the lights

If you use Friend of a Friend (FOAF) files to describe your profile and want to provide it to the reader in a readable way FOAF.Vix is a perfect service. Let me cite the description created by its authors: FOAF.Vix is a visualizer and relation explorer for FOAF (Friend of a Friend) files. Although this…

5th Annual Conference on Teaching & Learning: Learning Technologies | Blinded by the lights

A month ago, together with Jacek Jankowski and Filip Czaja, we wrote an abstract for 5th Annual Conference on Teaching & Learning: Learning Technologies. Recently, we have been asked to present the abstract on the conference, in the beginning of June. Below, there is the abstract: Adapting informal sources of knowledge to e-Learning. The amount…

Submission for ISWC ’07 | Blinded by the lights

Today we submitted yet another article; this time for The 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC ’07) that will take place in Busan, Korea, from November 11 to 15 (Thursday), 2007. I was the main author of the paper; i wrote it together with Sebastian R. Kruk, Tadhg Nagle, Edward Curry, and Adam Gzella. Its…

Summary of our work in DERI | Blinded by the lights

In less than two weeks I’m living DERI. I’m going back home in Poland. The plan is to defend my Master’s Thesis. Before leaving, we (myself, Filip Czaja and Władysław Bultrowicz) are supposed to present the result of our work. We gave the presentation today. First, Filip introduced ourselves and showed the context of our…

Ireland again | Blinded by the lights

Greetings from Ireland! It’s the second time I went to Galway, Ireland. Again the Green Island welcommed us with rain… Again, I work as a researcher, Java programmer in Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland. The main topic of my research is how to adopt Social Semantic Information Sources (SSIS) to e-Learning. Actually, this…

IKHarvester | Blinded by the lights

Some time ago I wrote about Didaskon, a framework for composing curriculum for a specific user, basing on his profile and using formal and informal knowledge. I belong to team of the developers. At the moment, I am developing the one of its component – IKHarvester (Informal Knowledge Harvester). It aims at collecting (harvesting) data…

Didaskon | Blinded by the lights

Here is some information taken from my Master’s Thesis (still developed).. Didaskon is a project developed in Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland by a few students, including myself. It is a research project in the elearning field. Its main goal is to deliver a framework for assemblying an ondemand curriculum from existing Learning Objects…

IKHarvester_2 | Blinded by the lights

Remember my previous post about IKHarvester. There, I’ve briefly described how I collect metadata for blog posts which support SIOC. Then, I thought it’s a good idea to describe in one place what really IKHarvester is and how it works. IKHarvester (Informal Knowledge Harvester) is a web service that characterizes with two core features: harvesting…

Slides on eLearning and SSIS | Blinded by the lights

As you’ve probably noticed, quite a few posts on my blog are directly related to eLearning, the Semantic Web, and Web 2.0. Yet, “Social Semantic Information Sources for eLearning” is the topic of my Master’s Thesis. This is the main area for the research I do in the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI). I’ve already…

notitio.us project | Blinded by the lights

Recently, the SemInf group, which member I am, from DERI eLearning Cluster has set up new project: notitio.us. Notitio.us is service for collaborative knowledge aggregation and sharing. It employs IKHarvester for retrieving RDF information about Web resources bookmarked by the users. Therefore, it is capable of indexing rich metadata, coming from various types of resources….

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