Tag Archives: semantic web

Who’s afraid of the Wolfram search?

I might be. The Wolfram|Alpha “computational knowledge engine” has been generating buzz for some time, especially since Stephen Wolfram, its eccentric progenitor, announced that it would be going live in mid-May. Expect the twittering to reach a crescendo. Since the Wolfram|Alpha (WA, let’s say) promises to answer questions typed into a simple text box, it’s …

May 5, 2009 – 11:11 am | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Library musings | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Xciting connections

In the perfect world we never seem to live in, migration of scholarship to the web would mean endlessly networked citations. It would mean new metrics for gauging the impact of any given publication, substantiating tenure/promotion and grant proposals with hard evidence. It would give us new tools to map the interplay of research in …

March 31, 2009 – 10:13 am | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Academia, Libraryworld, Metawriting, ^ | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Life in the taggregate

From its earliest days, the promise of the Semantic Web has been to bring networked computers closer to the forms and priorities of human inquiry. This promise depends on mark-up language that gives data some structure, and frameworks that bring such structure into recognizable relationships. As a May 2001 Scientific American piece by Tim Berners-Lee …

November 23, 2007 – 10:33 am | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Libraryworld, Tagging, ^ | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)