After recovery from chairing ISWC 2009, I had always intended to blog about some of the changes my co-chair Avi Bernstien and I tried for the conference. I was prompted to do it today by a very interesting post by James Landay—it describes problems with the current CHI/UIST reviewing process, and led to some fascinating [...]
Having gotten ISWC’s Ontology Panel off my chest, I want to take the time to discuss the Best Paper Awards we gave at the conference. The papers that got these awards received uniformly high ratings from their reviewers, were recommended for awards by the program committee, impressed the program chairs, and had good presentations at [...]
Ever since returning from the 2009 International Semantic Web Conference last week I’ve been bursting to discuss a panel that took place there on the topic “Does the Semantic Web need Ontologies?”. But the WWW2010 deadline was today and we had 3 papers to write. With that deadline now 10 minutes past, I can [...]
This post about ISWC got lost in the drafts pile, so I’m publishing it a bit late.
The folks from Tagora spoke about the relationships between different tags that get applied to the same document, and the tags that different people apply to the same documents. The looked at the ternary relation (user, resource, tag) and [...]