Monthly Archives: April 2009

The difference between syntax & semantics

By Stijn Christiaens | April 27, 2009

I recently came across a great cartoon that can best be described by seeing it. It is about formatting standards, evolution and the difference between syntax and semantics. I am happy to have received confirmation from the author to reproduce the work here. Please visit Maurice Lawles’ site for more of these.
The cartoon depicts the [...]

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International Workshop on Community-Based Evolution of Knowledge-Intensive Systems

By Pieter De Leenheer | April 27, 2009

The second International Workshop on Community-Based Evolution of Knowledge-Intensive Systems (COMBEK) is held in Vilamoura, Portugal: November 1-6, 2009.
COMBEK is chaired by Pieter De Leenheer, Martin Hepp, and Amit Sheth and co-located with OnTheMove conferences  2009, co-sponsored by Collibra. Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag.
COMBEK seeks to address the need for research that explores [...]

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Easy intro to the Semantic Web

By Stijn Christiaens | April 19, 2009

I just stumbled upon an easy to understand introduction to the idea of the Semantic Web. In about 6 minutes, Manu Sporny explains the viewer about the difference between syntax and semantics, how this works on computers and the web, how the current web works at the level of syntax, and how the semantic web [...]

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Usability: Card Sorting Experiment

By Clovis Six | April 17, 2009

Last week, we conducted our very first usability experiment for the beta release of the Collibra Studio Workbench. The goal of this experiment was four folded:
First, we wanted to check the optimal structure for both, the perspective surrounding, and the icon order in the NormTree Editor.  A perspective is a certain arrangement of different coherent [...]

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