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Recently, on 28.7.2008, the Semantic Web company published an interview with Corinna Barth about gender studies and the Semantic Web. I blogged about that.

Stefano Bertolo pointed out in a comment that CYC allows Microtheories and that this allows alternating views.

I asked Corinna about that and she helped me a lot by passing on a few pointers from her vast literature collection about CYC and gender studies, indicating that this fact is known and that she referenced a study by Alison Adam (1995, 1998). I will share the references with you, if you google for gender studies and Semantic Web, it may help you:

Catherine Sherron (2000): Constructing Common Sense. In: Ellen Balka/ Richard Smith: Women, Work and Computerization. Kluwer, 111-118).
Geoffrey Bowker/ Susan Leigh Star (2000): Sorting Things Out. Classification and its Consequences. MIT Press)
Alison Adam (1998): Artificial Knowing. Gender and the Thinking Machine. London and New York: Routledge.
Adam, Alison (1995): Embodying Knowledge. A Feminist Critique of Artificial Intelligence. In: The European Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol.2, 355-377

(updated on 10.9. based on more information)

leobard - 9. Sep, 10:32

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Sunday, 7. September 2008

Arrived at NEPOMUK Summer School

as blogged in May, we organize a Summer School on the Semantic Desktop and the NEPOMUK project.

I arrived today in Malta, at 8 in the evening and sitting now together with the other organizers doing last-minute preparation tasks. The others were working all day already.

It is going to be a good week for us, a good moment in the project (NEPOMUK ends in December) and we can pass on a lot of information we learned to other PhD students to keep the ball rolling.

At the airport I met Bernhard Schandl from Vienna, who is part of the Web of data hands-on organization team (btw, sign up there! if the web-form is not online yet, send them a mail). We met before and had a nice chat, good start into the week.

leobard - 7. Sep, 23:18

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Thursday, 28. August 2008

perfect exception

Its the perfect exception:

* Its stacked, many things happened at once
* I saw it only once and clicking OK solved it
* It includes a ASCII to UTF-8 encoding problem which usually means that you will rot in debugging for a long time
* It is related to the internet
* It mixes multiple languages: Deutsch und English
* You have no clue what it means
* It is truncated and it seems some important part is missing

leobard - 28. Aug, 15:17

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Ben Tremblay (guest) - 9. Sep, 05:25

What's opposite of "pelucid"?

That's gloriously perverse. It must be paradigmatic ... simply must be. But ... of what?

Oh, I know: it's hermetic!

Hi there - I just came by while watching a documentary on some of the hardware built for BurningMan08. Leo, do you know someone who's into music in a big way? I mean a big incendiary sorta way? You see one of the things I played with back in the hippie era was flame speakers. Yes, speakers that used flame as their uhhhhhh transducer. Quite a trick! The beauty of it is, the bigger the flame huh huh huh the better the bass. And, needless to say, the sound is crystalline clear.

If you know of such a person, do me a kindness and hook me up? It takes mere moments to transmit the knowledge.

cheers
ben

p.s. the URL I pasted is of my brand.spanking.new domain ... my synthesis of Jurgen Habermas and Taillard de Chardin.
;-P

Oooh ... no email field? no subscription for replies? *gick!*
ab006ATchebucto.ns.ca

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Wednesday, 27. August 2008

Semantic Desktop Article on Linux.com

Horray: Nepomuk and KDE to introduce the semantic desktop, an Article by Bruce Byfield on August 26, 2008 on Linux.com.

Read the article:
https://www.linux.com/feature/144853

Here is the beginning lines:

If you follow technology trends, you have probably heard of the semantic desktop -- a data layer for annotating and sharing the information in your computer. But what you may not be aware of is that the semantic desktop is not a distant goal, but scheduled to arrive at the end of 2008. And, when it does, the idea will probably be implemented through the work done by the Nepomuk project, and, most likely, by KDE first.

Ansgar Bernardi, deputy head of the Knowledge Management Department at Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI, or the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) and Nepomuk's coordinator, explains, "The basic problem that we all face nowadays is how to handle vast amounts of information at a sensible rate." According to Bernardi, Nepomuk takes a traditional approach by creating a meta-data layer with well-defined elements that services can be built upon to create and manipulate the information.

"The first idea of building the semantic desktop arose from the fact that one of our colleagues could not remember the girlfriends of his friends," Bernard says, more than half-seriously. "Because they kept changing -- you know how it is. The point is, you have a vast amount of information on your desktop, hidden in files, hidden in emails, hidden in the names and structures of your folders. Nepomuk gives a standard way to handle such information."

I like the part about the forgetting colleague ;-)
Well, now I at least remember the name of my wife....
Its good to be able to tell a story that connects to daily life problems, a seldom moment where a Semantic Web app solves a common problem ;-)

leobard - 27. Aug, 15:55

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Tuesday, 26. August 2008

5.10.08 Digitalcouch läd ein zum The Great Escape ins Cafe23

Unser persönlicher The Great Escape von hier liegt für uns noch in der Zukunft. Bis dahin sind wir WahlLauterer und verbringen unsere Zeit in dieser Metropole der Pfalz. Wir warten nicht ab, das jemand uns Zeitvertreib organisiert, sondern organisieren selber und schauen dabei gern mit Laptop und Beamer über den Tellerrand von Kaiserslauern hinaus.

Offenes Treffen / Eintritt frei.

15.10.08
19:00 - 22:00
The Great Escape ins
Cafe23
Pirmasenser Str. 5 / Eingang Glockenstrasse
https://www.cafe23.de/

Nehmt USB-sticks, videos und shit aus dem Netz mit!

vorige great escapes:

für die couch,
Jens Rinne und Leo Sauermann

leobard - 26. Aug, 12:01

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miketyson986 - 12. Dec, 12:13

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