The semantic web and Europe
I stumbled upon a short video on the BBC of Tim Berners-Lee trying to explain the importance of the data web, aka semantic web, again. He himself says that he can’t say where it will lead us, as it is...
View ArticleTim Berners-Lee advising UK Government
The inventor of the Web is now advising the UK government on public information delivery. Interestingly, this was positioned within “a statement on constitutional reform” – an apt indication of the...
View ArticleIntro video: EU’s Future Internet projects
I’ve posted before on the importance of the semantic web to EU policies and programmes. Here’s a quite well-executed video about the EU’s cluster of projects in the area of Future Internet, which...
View ArticleFinally, a comprehensible video intro to the semantic web
Suddenly everyone’s twittering about the semantic web. The announcement of UK30m to fund the Institute of Web Science, led by Professors Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Nigel Shadbolt, probably has something...
View ArticleOf technocrats, journalistic balance and telling EU stories
A recent edition of The Infinite Monkey Cage, BBC Radio4′s brilliant chat show combining science and comedy, got me thinking again about the parallels between science communications and EU...
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