KMi-ers were very much in evidence at the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), which took place in Bonn, Germany on 23-27 October 2011. ISWC is the major international forum for research on the Semantic Web and the strong presence from KMi (13 members of the lab attended the conference) confirmed the lab’s reputation…
Harith Alani from KMi co-organised a workshop at the 3rd IEEE Conference on Social Computing which took place at MIT, Boston 9-11 October. The SocialObjects workshop focused on the new R&D challenges associated with management and analysis of multi-dimensional social networks. The nuclei of most of today’s social networks are “Social Objects”; which are the…
KMi professor Stefan Rueger gave the closing keynote of this year’s i-KNOW conference at Graz’s congress hall. i-KNOW is the premier conference on knowledge management and knowledge technologies in Europe and has a tradition of bringing together more than 500 leading researchers and practitioners involved in knowledge management. Rueger’s talk “Knowledge discovery in the web:…
KMi’s Simon Buckingham Shum is Program Co-Chair for the 2nd International Conf. on Learning Analytics and Knowledge. There’s now 3 weeks to go to submit papers to the premier research forum for this fast moving field at the intersection of big data, learning sciences and analytics. Join us in Vancouver! (April 29-May 2, 2012) We…
Fridolin Wild of KMi gave an invited talk in the special track on ‘Science 2.0’ at this years I-KNOW’11, in which he reflects on the change taking place in research practice, participation, and supporting technology. Fridolin observes, that the cottage industry model of research is outdated (= one location, one institution), but that at the…
KMi professor Stefan Rueger taught international students last week at the summer school “Web of Data” held in St Petersburg, Russia. The summer school aimed to bring cutting-edge topics, problems and methods in Information Retrieval and Database Technology to graduate and PhD students as well as experienced academic and industrial researchers. The main sponsors of…
KMi’s Simon Buckingham Shum and Anna De Liddo spent an intensive 4 days in Germany last week working with leading figures to envisage the future of research communication. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics is a premier venue for hosting invitational informatics workshops. “FORC: The Future of Research Communication” was a Perspectives Workshop, bringing…
The 8th European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2011) took place from 10 to 16 July in Cercedilla (Spain), confirming the SSSW series as the premiere educational event in the area of semantic technologies. Indeed, despite the plethora of educational events which have sprung up in the past few years…
Linked Data, the sharing of data on the Web at large scale through the use of URIs, the HTTP protocol and RDF is gaining uptake at an ever increasing rate. As, commonly known, this technology is now supported by a number of large players including the UK Government, the BBC, Google, Yahoo and to some…
Teresa Connolly, KMi, & Jo Parker, Head of Information Literacy, OU Library attended the JISC/HEA OMAC & CILIP joint meeting at Senate House, London 26th July. It was a DELILA disemination event for developers of information & digital literacy teaching & learning materials organised by the London School of Economics (LSE), Birmingham University & the…
