KMi Seminars
Me and my data
This event took place on Friday 06 November 2009 at 12:00

 
Steinn Sigurdarson Open Universiteit Nederland

Alternative ways to look at interoperability and feed infrastructures, and how we can automatically detect different types of data, even without adding more metadata to existing feed standards... and how this can facilitate rather effortless aggregations and data-mashups. It is about how to solve 'the interoperability problem' from an individual's perspective, not the institutional.

 
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.