Welcome to Orcmid's Lair, the playground for family connections, pastimes, and scholarly vocation -- the collected professional and recreational work of Dennis E. Hamilton

 
Ralph D. Westfall.  This guy is having way too much fun.  Something for me to learn from.
posted by Dennis at 10/4/2003 08:43:50 AM

 
Information Systems Research Web Site - Ralph D. Westfall.  I use "Information Systems" as a catchall category for things that are done with computers that involve people and some sort of information-related activity.  When I blog an article about "Knowledge Management," I am likely as not to file it under Information Systems. I also find connection with collaborative work, information sharing, people wasting their youth on technical ontologies, etc.  The notion of IT fits here, sort of, for me, and of course good librarianship.  So now it would be valuable for me to divine what exactly the spin on Information Systems is here.
posted by Dennis at 10/4/2003 08:41:53 AM

 
SOME I S PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION.  I love this.  OK, more to look at later.
posted by Dennis at 10/4/2003 08:35:47 AM

 
gise.org The Teach IS website.  This is about Informing Science, and there seems to be an odd tension with Information Science and also with Education, Learning and Development. And Information Technology. Probably an useful conversation to struggle with, but I get that "I am lost here without a compass" feeling. I suppose because it is new language and I can't fit it nicely into a compartment that I already have. So, is it a new paradigm or just fuzzy thinking?  Or that it is early in the day and I can make but a superficial pass?  Who knows.  A bookmark for further examination.
posted by Dennis at 10/4/2003 08:32:36 AM

 
Informing Science.  Hmm, seems to be a problem with conceptualization and language here, to discriminate "informing science." There is an article link at the bottom of the page on "What is informing science?" I know less than when I started, so I guess that demonstrates that I am in the right place.
posted by Dennis at 10/4/2003 08:27:52 AM

 
GISE.ORG The Global IS Education Site : Teaching Resources.  This is interesting.  It is about teaching and resources for education, and the theme is "Informing Science."  That is enough for me to want to dig deeper.  Part of the material from Ralph Westfall.
posted by Dennis at 10/4/2003 08:22:13 AM

 
Wicked Problems.  Here is another goody from Ralph Westfall.  I figured this would be some mathematical esthetic condition, and it is far more challenging than that.  It is more about analysis and problem solving in the world.  I wonder if the Semantic Web constitutes a wicked problem.
posted by Dennis at 10/4/2003 08:19:37 AM

 
$200,001 - A Space Database Odyssey.  This is a case designed for educational discussion by Ralph Westfall. Ralph also includes an E-R diagram exercise that turns out to be quite difficult though not wicked.  I told Ralph I was preparing for a database course and he sent me this and some other links.  This is also interesting because i have been struggling with RDF and the W3C OWL Specification.  This marker is to encourage me to look deeper.
posted by Dennis at 10/4/2003 08:11:30 AM

 
Telematica Instituut: Computer Supported Collaborative Work.  Bill Anderson sends me a call for papers that has links to this site. There are interesting and perhaps exciting projects here on Knowledge Management (if I knew what that was), collaboration, and e-learning.&nbps; The site is nice too, showing nice use of Xerox DocuShare.  The topic I am nosing around in is Enterprise Architecture and the notion of supporting multiple views of it. I need to dig deeper and see how it fits with Situated Systems Architecture (SSA, thank you very much).
posted by Dennis at 10/2/2003 02:18:51 PM

 
W3C RDF Validation Service.  An on-line validator for RDF
posted by Dennis at 10/1/2003 10:42:47 PM

 
Primer - Getting into the semantic web and RDF using N3.  N3 is a notation for writing triples in the RDF model of the universe.  The current RDF specifications, and the RDF-Test specification, use a subset called NTriple (with file names usually ending in .nt instead of .n3). I like the simplicity of NTriple, except I don't think they have prefix to help with namespaces and I don't like that.  I need to double-check that.
posted by Dennis at 10/1/2003 06:13:05 PM

 
Semantic Web Application Platform.  This is a playpen on experimenting with Semantic Web elements.  There are a variety of open-source and toys. There are tools for N3 and CWM and links to other materials.  I used the vocabulary for stripping Microsoft Outlook Contacts into RDF as a source of classes for some school assignments. I will have to go look at the rest of it.  I am having thoughts about scraping Microsoft Outlook as a way to validate incoming mail as being from someone known to me or not, and other practices. There must be other tag sets that can be cribbed and RDF-ized from Outlook beyond name and address, e-mail, and telephone. [I have been playing with configuring filters and "training" Outlook 2000 to quarantine materials for me.  At some point there is a line that, once crossed, will quarantine everything.  I haven't hit it yet but some items from the WebDAV list, even from myself, end up quarantined while others don't and it is a mystery to me what the difference is! --dh:2003-10-17]
posted by Dennis at 10/1/2003 05:53:42 PM

 
OWL Web Ontology Language Reference.  Oh my, I keep finding these invalid XML documents and I think that somewhere in the W3C documents, the practice of violating the XML 1.0 requirement that having a DTD means the document is [DTD] valid is relaxed. I will have to put on my dunce cap and go ask at the W3C.
posted by Dennis at 10/1/2003 02:42:00 PM

 
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) - Patrick Hayes.  I wondered if the Patrick Hayes who is responsible for putting sanity and good mathematical logic into the W3C work on RDF and the Semantic Web was the Patrick Hayes whose name I heard in other settings as a prominent AI researcher.  Yes indeedy.
posted by Dennis at 10/1/2003 08:44:16 AM

 
LBase: Semantics for Languages of the Semantic Web.  This is the "logic" as it were that it is proposed might serve beneath all of the different ways of specifying semantics for the Semantic Web (e.g., via RDF with particular vocabularies, interpretation rules, and axioms over those vocabularies). This has Note status and is not even in the Working Document status that it has taken some time for most RDF materials to achieve.  And it is worth giving a serious look.
posted by Dennis at 10/1/2003 08:39:07 AM

 
Paul's Maintained Web Page.  After failing to get the link to Paul's Personal Page to work, I tried some other things and finally found my way here, after correcting the domain name a couple of experimental ways.  Gee, and I didn't even have VeriSign to help me.  I am experimenting with the examples in the RDF-Primer, and there are some ways to describe people for which there are already namespaces at W3C.
posted by Dennis at 9/30/2003 06:20:48 PM

 
Paul Darbyshire's Web Page.  Here is the URI for the creator of the M.Sc in IT Web Applications module.  We are carrying out an excersize in RDF where Paul is a persona.
posted by Dennis at 9/30/2003 05:57:08 PM

 
O'Reilly Network: The Semantic Web: It's Whom You Know [Apr. 19, 2002].  Here's a nifty column by Andy Oram.  Classmate Cathalina Fontenelle provided this to me in our discussion on the impact of the Semantic Web on searching.  And thereby makes Andy's point!
posted by Dennis at 9/30/2003 02:54:45 PM