Today KMi’s Simon Buckingham Shum ran the international "MMAD" workshop: Modelling Meetings, Argumentation & Discourse, in conjunction with COMMA, the 1st Int. Conf. on Computational Models of Argument, Univ. Liverpool. MMAD brought together leading researchers working on the next generation of meeting capture and replay tools, with specific interest in approaches that model the structure…
Yesterday saw the conclusion to DIP, the 3-year 16M Euro Integrated Project on Semantic Web Services with the final review. According to the project funders, the EU commission, the endeavour has been an outstanding success. Concluding the final review the EU Project Officer Kai Tullius stated: “DIP is a flagship project which will serve as…
Today sees the official launch of the Open University’s ambitious OpenLearn, and KMi will be there in force at the kick-off to showcase the experimental LabSpace featuring core KMi technologies. OpenLearn was formally announced this week, and sees the Open University take centre stage as one of the world’s biggest players in Open Educational Resources…
As a spinoff from the CNM project 'Making The News' ROSTRA now has the ability to swap the order of attached media and documents. And now you can also edit the text or URL or related links. Related Links: KMi Planet News The ROSTRA Project
Today sees the publication of a new KMi book "Enabling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modelling Ontology". The Web Service Modelling Ontology (WSMO) is the leading European semantic characterisation of Web Services with substantial impact. In particular, WSMO provides the conceptual foundation for a dozen European projects with a combined budget of over £50…
Senior Administrator Peter Sharpe, who has been on KMi's management board for six years, retired today in a ceremony at the Podium. He said "Now I can return to the proper occupation for a person – growing things, looking, listening, reading and, occasionally, thinking. I will miss some great colleagues and meeting the interesting visitors…
I have made a change to the way publication and expiry dates can be applied to stories in ROSTRA. Instead of having to separately enter the day, month, year and time, both fields now have a popup calendar. I have made use of a popular free JavaScript utility called Tigra Calendar. Related Links: Tigra Calendar…
KMi's experimental minimalist messenger, MSG, is ready for its first deployment at the forthcoming European Semantic Web Conference. Although the conference itself is a bigger story in its own right, MSG represents a new path for KMi presence and social software research. In addition to being the first external deployment of our new AJAX Jabber…
Internetzionale, the 6-a-side team a number of KMi members have been playing for in this year's tournament, were knocked out in the semi finals. After play was delayed due to a collision between John and a Headers & Footers player, and no substitute was available, Headers continued with a man down and eventually won the…
Adventurer and long-time friend of KMi Lorezno Gariano this week set off on his second attempt to summit Everest and at the same time has flown into new unrest into Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. A seven-party alliance of Maoist rebels has called for a four-day nation-wide shutdown beginning this Thursday and a rally in…
