Last week I co-chaired the 2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web. This is an exciting new community working at the intersection of social software, collaboration, discourse and the negotiation of meaning. There is as yet no single, agreed definition of "Pragmatic Web" – it is serving as a banner around which an eclectic network…
As part of KMi’s continuing commitment to Moodle development and support of the Open University’s VLE Ale Okada presented the KMi technologies of Compendium, MSG and FlashMeeting at the prestigious MoodleMoot Brazil 2007, using a live FlashMeeting. MoodleMoot Brazil is the largest gathering of Moodle developers in South America. Ale, sitting at her KMi desk…
A two day workshop on Annotating Image Archives To Support Literary Research was held on the 10th and 11th of October in Cardiff. It was organized by the School of Computer Science of Cardiff University. Its main goal was to bring together researches within literary studies (particularly those focusing on nineteenth-century literature and illustrations), and…
The Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning – “Creating new learning experiences on a global scale”, was held in Crete, Greece, 17-20 September 2007. The spectacular Kalimeri Kriti resort hosted the second in this new TEL conference series. With the advance of Web 2.0 approaches to rip, mix & burn learning, wikis, blogs, syndication,…
Last Friday, Enrico Motta and Mathieu d’Aquin were in Iasi, Romania, for a one-day tutorial at the EUROLAN summer school. The topic of this year’s edition of the summer school was “semantics, opinion and sentiments in text” and the school attracted more than 60 participants, working mainly in the fields of computational linguistics, natural language…
Microsoft recently hosted SemGrail an invitation only workshop focused on the Semantic Web near their headquarters in Seattle. As can be seen in the picture the workshop invitees were comprised of a small number of prominent figures in the Semantic Web arena including: Jim Hendler, Amit Sheth, Frank van Harmelen, Tim Finnin and Natasha Noy….
The Second Young Researchers’ Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing (YR-SOC) was held in Leicester last week and has already received critical praise in industry blogspace. There were 15 accepted papers, 8 posters, and invited speakers from JBoss, Pi4 Technologies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, ATX Software and Kings College London. KMi’s Barry Norton was co-founder of the workshop and…
The Prolearn General Assembly was held in the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University in the UK on Monday and Tuesday 14-15 May 2007. Prolearn partners and associates from all around Europe converged on Milton Keynes to discuss the final year of work of the Prolearn Network of Excellence and its sustainability beyond the…
The Hypermedia Discourse team has been busy for the last fortnight. Since the end of April, they have been presenting and participating in workshops at the ACM CHI conference (San Jose), Center for Science, Technology and Society (Santa Clara University), the Compendium Institute Annual Workshop (NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View), and SRI International (Menlo…
I recently attended the Fifth International Research in Music Education Conference at the School, of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of Exeter. Those of you who are familiar with my PhD studies will know that my research concerns encouraging creative learning in music composition, therefore, this conference was ideal. It also gave me…
