A recent article in the National Geographic Traveler discussed the utility of a “third language” when traveling to a foreign country. For example, an English speaker traveling to southeast Asia might converse with the natives in French. The author puts it this way: “The not-native-to-either-party language is like a neutral territory, a halfway point where … Continue reading
Lately I’ve been working intensively on a semantic web project. As a result, I find myself moving away from the traditional research process that is rooted in the index-card method we were taught in school. My evolving new model is more web-like and has a greater emphasis on people. Maybe I’m part of a trend. … Continue reading
For years I’ve been publishing the Knowledge Base Editor’s Digest, a monthly annotated listing of articles I’ve read and liked. The production process involves: bookmarking articles as I find them; selecting the ones I like for the current month’s issue; creating a record for each article in our knowledge base; exporting article metadata as RSS … Continue reading
Originally published June 2009 Until recently, information about the Semantic Web has been either visionary and theoretical or highly technical. Now, with the appearance of applications such as Google’s “rich snippets,” Yahoo’s SearchMonkey, and Reuters OpenCalais, the future is tantalizingly close (see De facto standards for semantic search?). It’s time to face two issues that … Continue reading
