I've been working both on the competency questions for the ontology I'm working on, and the ways to integrate it better into the Academic Institution Internal Structure Ontology (AIISO).

I hope this says it all. It says a lot to me.

Then again, it really means why I love the people I've come into contact with. Thanks all!

Tom Heath at Talis has written up a delightfully mind-blowing and forwarding thinking vision of a much-needed step in Semantic Web evolution, how to browse and navigate it, in How Will We Interact with

I've put up two new ways to get at the UMW online community data, a "Starts With" and a "Contains" search. (See also here).

I'm often curious about these things, and equally skeptical. Like any horoscope, I can easily see "That's right on!" and "That's total crap!". But here's what came out of this one: My Enneagram type.

So I've been on lot's of first dates in my life. Nearly, but not quite as many, second dates. Far fewer third dates.

Lots of first dates start with being smitten, enamoured, and very excited about the second date.

So I've spent the last several weeks doing, in essence, a complete rewrite of the scripts that scrape in data from UMWBlogs. It's all now much more modular, which I hope will make it much more nimble to expand out into new data sets. The first priority will be grabbing feeds from a wider variety of sources. Then, it'll be into tapping into linked open data sources.

Twirony

(noun) The joy of finally having internet service at home again after a week and wanting to express your joy on Twitter, but encountering

I've been following MarsPhoenix on Twitter for a while, and was delighted to see a really neat use of Twitter -- people tweeting questions to the probe, anthropomorphized.