KMi Seminars
KMi invites external speakers to present their work to the lab. We also welcome approaches from researchers who are interested to present their work. Please contact either the KMi staff member who is working in your field, or the seminars coordinator, Anna De Liddo.

Events take place at the KMi Podium (Berrill Building, 4th Floor North) unless otherwise stated.

To add/remove yourself from KMi Seminar announcements, enter your email address and select kmi-seminar-list from the list on this page. Below are past and forthcoming speakers.

Forthcoming Events
Interpreting Linked Data as ontologies: doctrines and creeping issues
Wednesday 15 May 2013
Interpreting Linked Data as ontologies: doctrines and creeping issues
Dr. Alessandro Adamou The Open University

Recent Events

Ephorus: The stony road of innovation
Thursday 25 April 2013
Ephorus: The stony road of innovation
Joep Chappin Ephorus
EUCLID Module 3: The Production of Linked Data
Monday 22 April 2013
EUCLID Module 3: The Production of Linked Data
Dr Barry Norton Solutions Architect, Ontotext
Harnessing Linked Knowledge Sources for Topic Classification in Social Media
Wednesday 03 April 2013
Harnessing Linked Knowledge Sources for Topic Classification in Social Media
Dr Elizabeth Cano Basave
Some challenges for large-scale data management
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Some challenges for large-scale data management
Dr. Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO)
 
KMi Seminars Event | SSSW 2013, The 10th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web Journal | 25 years of knowledge acquisition
 

Social Software is...


Social Software
Social Software can be thought of as "software which extends, or derives added value from, human social behaviour - message boards, musical taste-sharing, photo-sharing, instant messaging, mailing lists, social networking."

Interacting with other people not only forms the core of human social and psychological experience, but also lies at the centre of what makes the internet such a rich, powerful and exciting collection of knowledge media. We are especially interested in what happens when such interactions take place on a very large scale -- not only because we work regularly with tens of thousands of distance learners at the Open University, but also because it is evident that being part of a crowd in real life possesses a certain 'buzz' of its own, and poses a natural challenge. Different nuances emerge in different user contexts, so we choose to investigate the contexts of work, learning and play to better understand the trade-offs involved in designing effective large-scale social software for multiple purposes.