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 Fridolin observes, that the cottage industry model of research is outdated (= one location, one institution), but that at the…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…
Alexandra Okada and Alexander Mikroyannidis from KMi organised an international workshop at the ED-MEDIA conference on June 29th in Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop was entitled “Social networking for collaborative authoring, adapting and sharing of Open Educational Resources” and was related to the work currently being undertaken within the OpenScout project. The workshop organisers introduced participants…
The second Web Science Summer School took place 6-13 July in Galway, Ireland. The school was organised by the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUI Galway, and was attended by over fifty international researchers. Harith Alani from KMi, who is a fellow of the Web Science Trust, was one of the invited speakers at the school…
Every two years the STI international holds a Semantic Summit aiming to discuss and address a number of open scientific and domain or industry challenges of strategic importance to STI and to the Semantic Technology Community. The third semantic summit was held last week in Riga and KMi representatives (John Domingue, Carlos Pedrinaci and Maria…
