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Monthly Archives: September 2005
Office 12 screenshots — ewww!
Look at these Office 12 screenshots. Microsoft imitates the Brushed Metal look of Mac OS X, just as Apple seems to be moving away from this look. I just don’t understand why anybody would want their OS to look like … Continue reading
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[bxmlt2005] Erik Wilde
Erik Wilde, ETH Zürich: Towards Conceptual Modeling for XML (Slides) XML schemas don’t contain enough semantic information. Too much meaning is only present in the documentation. Erik wants a conceptual model for modeling with XML. Like the ER model in … Continue reading
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[bxmlt2005] Harald Schöning
Harald Schöning from Software AG, is chief architect of the Tamino XML database and talks about the history of this software product. (Slides, in German) They started development in 1997, before XML became a W3C recommendation. This was before XPath, … Continue reading
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Forget feature requests
The fine people at 37signals propose to just forget feature requests. Don’t bother to track them, just read them and throw them away. If something is really important, users will keep telling you over and over again, so you will … Continue reading
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[bxmlt2005] Chris Hübsch: XQuestXML
Chris Hübsch, TU Chemnitz: XQuestXML — an XML grammar for describing questionnaires Chris presents an XML based system for online questionnaires. This is not very exciting to be honest, but I like the talk anyway. Like Chris’ talk from last … Continue reading
[bxmlt2005] Cristian Pérez de Laborda: Querying Relational Databases with RDQL
Yay! This is very close to my D2RQ and sparql2sql work and one of the talks I’ve been looking forward to. Cristian is from the Heinreich Heine Universität Düsseldorf. He wants to make the data in relational databases available as … Continue reading
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[bxmlt2005] Impressions from Magnus
Here (in German) He sits next to me and it’s his fault if I run out of battery on my laptop.
[bxmlt2005] Stefan Audersch
Stefan Audersch: Semantic Web technologies for visual exploration and fusion of multivariate data [I missed the first few minutes] It’s about data integration in a network of small companies and research institutes. They want to share medical and biological data. … Continue reading
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[bxmlt2005] Elena Paslaru: Towards a Cost Estimation Model for Ontology Engineering
Elena Paslaru is from Freie Universität Berlin, that’s my university. (Slides, PDF) She asks the audience to see an ontology as the result of an engineering process, just like a piece of software. There are many decisions to be made … Continue reading
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[bxmlt2005] Nicola Henze: Personalization on the Semantic Web
This is today’s invited talk. Nicola Henze is a professor at Uni Hannover, which is Germany’s second-best Semantic Web research location, according to Robert Tolksdorf. She talks about the “people” in TBL’s famous definition of the Semantic Web: “… an … Continue reading
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