Tom Heath's profile document
Description for Tom Heath
Tom Heath
Tom Heath
Tom
Heath
Research Student
My PhD research focused on using the semantic web to support recommendation-seeking in social networks. Specifically it aimed to: understand how people use word of mouth within their social networks to locate information or explore particular topics; model these processes so they can be replicated in an online environment; build semantic web-based systems that support people in these locating and exploring tasks by making use of their social context.
The Open University account for Tom Heath
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Tom Heath's membership at KMi
Tom Heath's participation in AKT
AKT
AKT
2000-10-01
2006-09-30
Advanced Knowledge Technologies
The AKT project aims to develop the next generation of knowledge technologies to support organizational knowledge management. AKT will look at all aspects of knowledge management from acquiring and maintaining knowledge to publishing and sharing it. We intend to address all these closely related issues in an integrated approach, making use of recent developments in artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, multimedia and Internet technology. The AKT consortium comprises five UK universities and is funded by a 7M GBP, 6-year EPSRC grant in the context of the Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations programme.
Tom Heath's participation in The Bookshelf Project
The Bookshelf Project
The Bookshelf Project
Find out who has which books using ISBN and web service lookup
Lending and borrowing books is common amongst groups of people who share similar interests. In such a community there is a fairly high chance that if you need to borrow a particular book, then another member will have a copy. The difficulty is finding out which member of the community has it, without having to bother all of them with the question. The Bookshelf Project was originally conceived to solve this problem for staff working at the Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University in the UK.
Tom Heath's participation in Open Guide to Milton Keynes
Open Guide to Milton Keynes
Open Guide to Milton Keynes
2006-04-01
Community guide to Milton Keynes that anyone can edit
The Open Guide to Milton Keynes is part of the OpenGuides network of free, community-maintained wiki guidebooks to places around the world. Anyone is free to contribute, whether it's by writing new articles or editing existing articles. The OpenGuides are developed with the Semantic Web in mind; metadata is organised to allow easy machine-readable output, in order to enable re-usage by other web services.
The guide has been set up to investigate the application of semantic web technologies in a locality based resource, to provide a service to the local Milton Keynes community, and to explore the possibilities of wiki based social software.
The Milton Keynes Open Guide is kindly hosted and provided with technical support by Chris Schmidt from the Open Guide to Boston.
Chris Shmidt homepage - http://crschmidt.net
Open Guide to Boston website - http://boston.openguides.org
Tom Heath's participation in Revyu
Revyu
Revyu
A Web site that exploits Semantic Web technology and allows you to review and rate anything you want
Revyu.com is a web site where you can review and rate things. Unlike many other reviewing sites on the web, Revyu.com lets you review and rate absolutely anything you can name. Revyu.com exploits Semantic Web technologies, both as the underlying representation mechanism and also to dynamically retrieve semantic information available on the web, which is relevant to a particular review. Because the content of all reviews is published on the site in RDF/XML as well as HTML, you can easily reuse the reviews you write in any other web site or application.
Tom Heath's participation in PowerMagpie
PowerMagpie
PowerMagpie
2006-10-01
A semantically-enhanced web browser
PowerMagpie is a new generation semantically-enhanced web browser, which is able to dynamically identify and bring into a web browsing session any available semantic markup, which can be found on the Semantic Web.
In contrast with previous systems, such as Magpie, which can only use information from a specific, pre-selected ontology, PowerMagpie accesses the whole of the Semantic Web through the Watson gateway and intelligently selects and presents to the user relevant information, drawn from millions of existing semantic web documents.
As a result, PowerMagpie avoids the brittleness of earlier semantic browsers and defines a novel, very powerful approach to web browsing in the age of the Semantic Web.