Prof Michael Wesch lecture on how narcissim, voyerism and youtubeism is changing our world. Both funny and thought provoking, packed full of examples. This is a good background to the 'knowledge ecology'
Where can I find a list of airports with their locations? Where can I find historical weather data? How do I find the county from a postcode or a state from a zipcode? How do I find a book title from its ISBN? What's the best tool(s) for scraping data from websites? Is there a way to get RDF Linked Data in a format that you can use?
SMW+ is a semantic enterprise Wiki for teams that need a human-readable and agile knowledge base for collaborating on rich text and data in their daily work.
A key tool in the online delivery armoury of the Local Government Group (www.local.gov.uk), the Knowledge Hub is about sharing and working together, enabling the millions of people across the Public Sector to collaborate to provide better services and to engage with the recipients of those services
Today we're introducing Google Fusion Tables on Labs, an experimental system for data management in the cloud. It draws on the expertise of folks within Google Research who have been studying collaboration, data integration, and user requirements from a variety of domains. Fusion Tables is not a traditional database system focusing on complicated SQL queries and transaction processing. Instead, the focus is on fusing data management and collaboration: merging multiple data sources, discussion of the data, querying, visualization, and Web publishing. We plan to iteratively add new features to the systems as we get feedback from users.
Michael, It's interesting that I had already Diigo bookmarked Google Fusion Labs on 26th August. This illustrates something I was observing with Steve the other day; that social bookmarking seems to be 'one-way'. In other words we all stuff things into Diigo, but why? Other than transitory email alerts to new bookmarks, I have no feel for emerging themes, or common bookmarks via Diigo. This is something the Knowledge Hub will no doubt surface in activity streams and emerging themes (I hope!)
Our goal with Kasabi is to help make data as easy to use, and as easy to publish as possible. We also want to help people unlock the value inherent in data, whether that means making it freely available - in order to drive innovation - or to explore more commercial models. With this in mind, Kasabi provides more than just a directory of datasets: it provides a complete platform for the hosting and publishing of Linked Data.