My master thesis is finished! I’ve made it available for download for everyone interested in hybrid folksonomy/ontology Web organization.
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Automated Ontology Structure in Folksonomy (.pdf, 3100 kb)
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to evaluate automated folksonomy refinement through algorithms, which constitutes a hybrid folksonomy/ontology Web organization. While in most contemporary literature folksonomy and…
Since I am a huge Beatles fan and I’m currently enrolled in the Information Visualization course I want to give this project some attention; Charting The Beatles, lead by graphic designer Michael Deal. This projects attempts visual analysis of various aspects of The Beatles’ extensive oeuvre, such as collaboration proportions in the group, references between songs, work schedules…
Natural disasters always have threatened man’s existence. However, as the report ‘New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts’ by the United Nations cites; “the number of humanitarian crises has been rising in recent years. Moreover, disasters strike more frequently, and with the most devastating impact, in the least developed countries.”[1] Of course, this claim seems somewhat subjective; it either proves…
“Dan was apparent fifty plus, a little paunchy and stubbled. He had raccoon-mask bags under his eyes and he slumped listlessly. As I approached, I pinged his Whuffie and was startled to see that it had dropped to nearly zero. “Jesus,” I said, as I sat down next to him. “You look like hell, Dan.” […] Lil was waiting on…
In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. [...] It consists of millions of embedded electronic measuring devices. [...] These will probe and monitor [...] our bodies, even our dreams.” [1]
A RFID chip consists of a small electric circuit and some digital storage space with an attached radio antenna. By means of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)…
Web 2.0 tagging systems like Flickr’s categorize the website’s content bottom-up.
The classification is powered by users applying their common sense and intuition; wisdom-of-the-crowd, resulting in a folk taxonomy of everything that is to be found in the Flickr database.
A folksonomy is contextual, ambigious, gradual, adaptive, easily accessible, open and flexible. A folksonomy connects with the reality of its…
It is often heard that new media is killing our (especially teenager’s) writing skills. Writing on the Internet take bold forms, which are often assumed to influence the general use of language. Examples are acronyms (used in chat, sms, forums, etc.) as CYAL8R (see you later), IMHO (in my humble opinion, ROFL (rolling on floor laughing) or even ROFLAPMP (rolling…
Generally Wikipedia is praised for it’s collective driven overload of information.
“Britannica’s biggest errors are of omission, not commission. It’s shallow in some categories and out of date in many others. And then there are the millions of entries that it simply doesn’t–and can’t, given its editorial process–have. But Wikipedia can scale to include those and many more. Today Wikipedia…
Lee Siegel was born in New York in 1957 and has Bachelor, Master and Master of Philosophy degrees from Columbia University.
While working as a staff writer at The New Republic, an American magazine on politics and the arts, he encountered anonymous comments on articles in the blog section: “Mr. Siegel came onto many peoples sanctuary, pissed in…
