In July 2012 we taught a course for the German National Summer School for high school students. The course consisted of 50 hours over 14 days. Due to some specific settings of the Summer School we had to make a few adjustments to the format of our curriculum and lectures. Still we gathered some good …
Category: Webscience
The Web is the largest human information construct in history. The Web is transforming society. In order to understand what the Web is, engineer its future and ensure its social benefit we need a new interdisciplinary field that we call Web Science.
Organization of the Open Access event 2013 in Oxford.
During the past two months I invested quite some of my spare free time to contribute to the organization of the open access event Rigor and Openness in 21st century science which will take place in the University of Oxford on April 11th and 12th. The Idea of the conference came up during Heinrich’s time …
Open access and data from my research. Old resources for various topics finally online.
Being strong pro on the topic of open access I always try to publish all my work on my blog but sometimes I am busy or I forget to update so today I took the time to look at all my old drafts and the stuff that hasn’t been published yet. So here is a …
Big step towards open access by Great Britain and a comment from Neelie Kroes
During my vaccation a lot of stuff has been happened and it was just for today that I came along the following article and discussion: http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report/. Yes you read correctly the royal society wants to create open access to all publications financed by the British government. What a big step! Congratulation to all British people …
Typology Oberseminar talk and Speed up of retrieval by a factor of 1000
Almost 2 months ago I talked in our oberseminar about Typology. Update: Download slides Most readers of my blog will already know the project which was initially implemented by my students Till and Paul. I am just about to share some slides with you. They explain on one hand how the systems works and on …
Submission history of my first academic research paper (graphity at socialcom 2012)
My graph index graphity was – as mentioned in another blogpost – accepted at socialcom 2012. After I explained how it works and sharted the source code I now want to share some information about the history of submissions, reviews, quality of reviews, taken actions and so on. So if you are a coder, hacker, …
Swiftkey XKCD comic: Sorry this has not happened before…
Current readers of my blog know about typology. The project which makes predictions of what you will type in next on your smartphone. This is of course pretty similar to Swiftkey. Amazing to see how xkcd took swiftkey as a topic for the current comic. More amazing is that 3 people (not in the development …
How Tim Berners Lee told me in front of thousand people: “Go geek and do it”
I am at www2012 conference and after the keynote by Neelie Kroes there was a panel discussion with her, Tim Berners Lee and Gille Babinet. The discussion was about the question “Weather access to an open internet should be a human right?” Clearly knowing where I am standing on this issue (yes it should be!) …
Keynote on www2012 by Sir Tim Berners Lee
disclaimer: this is a very sloppy summary of the keynote speech of Sir Tim Berners Lee. It is neither spellchecked it was taking as notes while sitting inside. I hope I find the time after www2012 to go over it and improve it. take aways Decentralized design that is very important. and if you talk …
Reading Club on distributed graph db returns with a new Format on April 4th 2012
The reading club was quite inactive due to traveling and also a not optimal process for the choice of literature. That is why a new format for the reading club has been discussed and agreed upon. The new Format means that we have 4 new rules we will only discuss up to 3 papers in …