Course agenda – Glasgow June 23rd

Agenda for Advanced Internet Research course for the NUJ on June 23rd.

Semantic search – an Interview with Brooke Aker

If you are not yet convinced that the semantic web will transform your job as journalist or researcher, then Expert System USA CEO Brooke Aker may change your mind. Before taking up his post at Expert System he formed both Acuity Software and Cipher Systems. He has worked with 130 of the Global 2000 in the formation and operation of successful intelligence and is a key commentator on the semantic web.

Nepomuk – the social semantic desktop

Nepomuk – the social semantic desktop. This EU-funded project aims to apply the kind of semantic solutions being deployed on the web to your desktop allowing your desktop to more easily process the information it has across different platforms, media types and applications.

Juice – the intelligent Firefox plugin

Another recent semantic launch demonstrates the power of intelligent search tools that let you access linked content without you having to navigate away from the pages you are viewing.

The Semantic Web today – An Interview with John Breslin

Everyone assumes that the ’semantic web’ will mean we’ll have better search engines. In fact, Web 3.0 will do a lot more, and journalists and researchers should be ahead of the curve.
Not many people are as close to the heart of the Semantic Web as John Breslin. John is the founder of the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) project, a member of the W3C Advisory Committee, lecturer at the National University of Ireland and an associate researcher on the semantic web at the Digital Research Institute in Galway.

I caught up with John recently for this analysis of the semantic web and journalism published by journalism.co.uk. John’s points were so interesting that Insite has brought you the full interview.