Every tech community has a website that aggregates news about a particular topic. These are called <X>Planet where <X> is the name of the tech topic. For example, there is a PythonPlanet, PlanetRDF etc. For example, here are a few …
Every tech community has a website that aggregates news about a particular topic. These are called <X>Planet where <X> is the name of the tech topic. For example, there is a PythonPlanet, PlanetRDF etc. For example, here are a few …
This article Let’s breathe interactive life into the common textbook triggered a whole set of thoughts on creating learning objects. But first, some context. by and large, students aren’t provided with the tools to customize their learning to their needs:…
It is surprising how much of my personal (and professional) knowledge is just a list of links with some context. Some times the context is just tags and sometimes it is notes and meta information and even a few reflections.…
Here is a great story on how Shell plans to save 100s millions of dollars using Semantic Search. They estimate the savings to come from cutting the time of training their employees by providing right information based on the employee’s…
One of the ideas we are discussing in a small group at KCG is to build a minimal prototype of a Science Teacher robot. Here are some thoughts about the first iteration of the prototype: We will restrict the domain…
A bit poetic, perhaps. But I love this first para in what is termed as “Epic Mission Statement” of Knowledge Mosaic. Knowledge bends light and splits atoms. Knowledge plumbs darkness and scales heavens. Knowledge witnesses the birth of everything from…
Ten HTML5 Drafts Updated 29 March 2012 The HTML Working Group has published ten updated working drafts. Two documents that hold special interest in the light of WikiData project are HTML+RDFa 1.1 and HTML Microdata. Both are ways of marking up HTML so…
At iMorph, we build tools to discover, gather and explore information. Here is one prototype we are playing with. It takes three publications and analyzes the top terms (we chose bigrams – pairs of words). Each tag cloud is build…
I sat there mesmerized. Here is a man, Mr T.P. Srinivasan, who breathes UN in every breath. I think every little memory, every little incident has been permanently etched in this amazing mind. He has the capability to look at…
Every viable organizational unit requires basic knowledge processes. Each organizational unit is continuously analyzing, digesting, integrating, collaborating, developing, applying, and re-using its knowledge, much of which is ingested from its external environment (which could be outside of, or within, the…
