From Cynthia Hodgson, ISQ Managing Editor: The Summer 2011 issue of NISO’s Information Standards Quarterly magazine is now available in open access in PDF from the NISO website. Guest Content Editor, Helen Henderson, Managing Director at Information Power Ltd. has … Continue reading
The UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has commissioned a questionnaire looking at the way other countries are building name identifier systems relating to researchers in higher education. The VIVO response to the questionnaire has been posted on the VIVO … Continue reading
W3C has launched the Ontology-Lexica Community Group Community Group. (Our apologies for not announcing this group on the date of its creation.) The mission of the Ontology-Lexicon community group is to: (1) Develop models for the representation of lexica (and … Continue reading
The Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID) Initiative represents a community effort to establish an open, independent registry addressing persistent problems in scholarly research, name ambiguity and attribution. ORCID Outreach Meetings take place about twice a year and provide a … Continue reading
The Semantic Web Programming Languages Community Group has been proposed: A community focused on the adoption of Semantic Web concepts within contemporary and new programming languages. These will incorporate W3C Semantic Web standards for Ontology, Linked data and representations as … Continue reading
This is Channy Yun, an invited expert of W3C HTML W/G and a community leader of Mozilla in Korea. I have been interested in cryptography and certificate services in browsers because Korean law has restricted online financial transactions by national … Continue reading
OpenLink Data Spaces (ODS) [1] is another item for the list of open source platforms aimed at unhosted (de-centralized) “points of web presence”, also known as data spaces. Note, WebDAV is integral to ODS, which is basically a platform developed … Continue reading
A workshop held this week in Helsinki, Finland brings together representatives from communities of identity experts, users, funders and other stakeholders to address two main interrelated themes: identifying & attributing authors/creators of scholarly works, with a focus on ORCID, the … Continue reading
VIVO is many things — above all a community working to support the creation and exchange of information about researchers and their research through linked open data (http://linkeddata.org). VIVO is also an ontology — http://vivoweb.org/ontology/core — serving as a common … Continue reading
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.” -Albert Camus Or rephrased according to the group remit, should semantic news exist? You’re a member of this group so I assume you would say yes. But, there … Continue reading
