Semantic Web

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Dynamics, Bangalore

I participated from July 10-13 in International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information Dynamics, which was organized by DRTC-ISI (Documentation, Research and Training Center, Indian Institute of Technology).

Semantic Web and Ontologies in Agrifood

On June 14 and 14, during the international smartagrimatics conference a workshop on "semantic web and Ontologies in Agrifood was organized" (https://www.agrixchange.org/sam-workshop/semantic-web-and-ontologies-agri-

Our publications from 2007 are still cited!

Below I snapshot from the workshop Semantic Web and Ontologies in agri-food

ISTI workshop on Knowledge Organization and Knowledge Link 2010

ISTI workshop on Knowledge Organization and Knowledge Link 2010 -

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National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR)

Tuesday morning, October 20. I am guest of the Research Group of Speech and Language Technology At NLPR, CAS (Chinese Academy of Science). They are working on automatic translation, name-entity extractions, speech to speech translation. Prof. Chengqing Zong, one of the group leaders in the lab, gave us an introduction to the work of the and 2 demos of systems. NLPR by itself is amazing. More than 200 researchers in 5 research groups.

Harbin Institute of Technology

This morning I visited the Harbin Institute of Technology. It is a city of it's own within Harbin. HIT financed the express road to the airport, there are two 4 Star hotels on the University ground....

Ivan Herman on Semtech

SemTech2009 impressions « Ivan’s private site

But, as a last minute addition to the program, the organizers succeeded in getting Othar Hansson and Kavi Goel to talk about Google’s rich sniplets. I have already blogged on this a few weeks ago but this presentation made the goal of the project way more understandable. Essentially, by recognizing specific microformat or RDFa vocabularies,

Science Forum Wageningen

I am participant in the workshop “ICTs transforming agricultural science, research and technology generation”, which takes place during the Science Forum (https://www.scienceforum2009.nl/) June 16-17.
Attached is the thinkpiece, which I am delivering together with Valeria Pesce from the Global Forum for Agricultural Research.

New Article in Semantic Universe

Semantic Universe asked the FAO Country Profiles team to write an article about geopolitical ontology and FAO Country Profiles. Now, the article is published into their webiste. In addition, in 2009 Semantic Technology Conference , one of top conferences in the semantic technology, we will introduce our work about geopolitical ontology and FAO Country Profiles to the public.

Economic participation in the age of networking: Digital Ecosystems of Knowledge, Business and Services

I am participating at the moment in the conference titled above. The openig keynote from Bruce Perens was very interesting in discussing the economic importance of openSource software. He pointed out that no software development that is crucial for the business success of a company will be open, he called that differentiating technology, but that, in the moment a software goes on sale, is not differentiating any more. In these cases the openSource model shows to be more powerful.

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