It overruns it time but finally: The Invitation to my final talk. Slides are german only, but with a second chance to listen to…
Ort: Germany, Berlin, Informatikgebäude Takustr. 9 Raum K137
Zeit: Mittwoch, 5. März 2008, 15.15 Uhr
Who cannot attend, can listen and see the results in Bonn on March 15, Informatiktage 2008. More Info about this is aviable in my blog.
The approach to use only tags for interest determination brings some new questions.
Not only that even tags that won’t get useable data from encyclopedias are maybe good to use in other context, e.g. all the geo-information provided via tag can be used to get data about users locations when providing data.
But what nature can tags be?
Is this all? Are there more then this? Does anyone bring it into order? Maybe Metatagging, will do but do you know?
After some hard weeks with only one hand on the keyboard but the whole mind full of ideas, now some new thinkings about Tags and its order.
Look at the following drawing. Some weeks ago i thought about how to connect the tags with some order. Slowly it gets clearer. One have to use existing classifiations. My first try will use wikipedia to do so. theoretically it is large enough to give satisfying results, let’s see what exercises will bring.
One additional question ist if it will be to much affected be the encyclopaedia.
What do you think about this try?
[Update] Some explanations to the image above. From left to right the bubbles stand for the following concepts. Services are all the origins of data (e.g. delicious, flickr, 43things, technorati, upcoming, lastfm) where the data comes from. Filter does what the word says it cleans the results if necessary. The tag-databases stores all tags found for a user. Thesaurus cleans up again. Encyclopdedia (e.g. Wikipedia, OpenCyc, Freebase) gives structure to the whole thing. With its categories various keywords get there order by request to it. At the end all is set into one profile of interests.
Further questions? Sure there are many things behind, but this glue can be discussed…
My beloved magazine Technology Review republishes a printed article about the mixup of second life and google earth. It makes me think about what will be in the future. Can we trust the identities in second life?
Tobi has not introduced himself seperatly yet, so I do it for me in some short phrases. My name is Sebastian, I am studying computer science at Freie Uni Berlin. In 2006 I write a thesis “Semantische Aggregation personenbezogener Daten“. It was published by XML Clearinghouse. It describes what data lies around on the internet and what is maybe possible with it in someones hands.
Coincidentally I met Tobi at reublica in Berlin. Shortyl we realized our final thesis topics are quite similar. So why not work and blog together? Some time later it all begins. Now the title of my thesis is “Interessenprofile in virtuellen Identitäten”. My supervisor is professor Robert Tolksdorf, head of group “Networked Information Systems (FU Berlin, Informatik)“.