WAVE: Welcoming Argument Visualisation to Europe - The third project meeting will be held in Sophia Antipolis
WAVE aims to improve the inclusiveness and transparency of EU decision making at the national and European level by using highly integrated, state-of-the-art Argument Visualisation techniques. WAVE will deploy Debategraph, an innovative argument visualisation platform, in a multi-lingual, cross border context, to entice citizens, special interest groups and decision makers to engage collaboratively in the policy-making process. DERI’s role in this project is to develop an interactive, semantic Web platform that will facilitate debate and collaboration on the issue of climate change, impacting policy-makers and the resultant legislation in the three pilot sites: UK, France, Lithuania.
The third WAVE project meeting will be held in Sophia Antipolis 14th/15th October. In addition, on October 16th there will be a dissemination event, the Sophia Cafe, where we will launch the French WAVE site. We will present the platform along with a quick tutorial on how to use it. As the topic of debate for this project is climate change, four speakers from politics, science, and academia will speak on the subject of climate change. The aim of this event is to encourage the audience to participate in the closed user studies. More info on the Sophia Café here.
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The online version of the "Social Semantic Web" book is now available via SpringerLink
To know more about it, read this post.
Leveraging a Semantic Framework for Augmenting Social Tagging Practices in Heterogeneous Content Sharing Services
Two weeks ago, HakLae Kim passed with success his PhD viva. Below the abstract:
Sites that provide content creation and sharing features have become quite popular recently. These sites allow users to categorise and browse their content through “tags” or free-text keyword topics. While users carry out tagging activities on a variety of systems, these sites offer users ways for aggregating, manipulating, and integrating tagging activities. This provides an additional opportunity that leverages social connections between people. As social tagging implies the sharing and interaction between people using common tags, they can share their tagging practices and can extend their networks based on shared interests. However, we encounter a number of issues, such as a lack of semantics of tags and no interoperability in the process of data sharing across heterogeneous tagging platforms.
In Haklae's thesis, a common conceptual model was presented for representing folksonomies using Semantic Web technologies. Social Semantic Cloud of Tags (SCOT) offers a collection of basic terms to explicitly describe tagging entities and their relationships using RDF/OWL. Several applications have supported the use of this model for representing tagging data at a semantic level. To demonstrate this model in action, some use cases were taken from the TagCommons project, and a website called int.ere.st was implemented that enables decentralised tag sharing, interlinks between RDF vocabularies, and integrations between tag metadata. The case studies provide experimental results associated with social networks of tagging practices via conceptual analysis and social network analysis. The thesis ends with a summary and a discussion of the results including an outlook regarding potential future work.
Contact: haklaekim at gmail dot com
Online survey: How Semantic Web researchers use Web 2.0 to communicate about their work?
This survey is established as part of a research MSc. at DERI, NUI Galway. The aim is to study the habits and motivations of the Semantic Web researchers community to publish and share contents online using Web 2.0 services. If you like to take the survey, please follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/semweb-survey
