Planet Kiwi

March is time for KiWi annual meetings. This year’s meeting took place from 10th-12th March in Mattsee close to Salzburg, again at a very nice location. The Annual Meeting was focussing primarily on the use cases (which are supposed to start with evaluation now) and the dissemination and exploitation activities (which now go into the [...]

Social Media are one of the revolutionary trends of our time. Up till now, they have been largely driven by practitioners. Research on the field has been either computer science or social sciences and is mainly observing the trend without taking really part. One could argue that this is a good thing, but as a researcher [...]

Development activity in the last months has been so active that we didn’t manage to issue a KiWi release of acceptable stability. Now we are very proud to announce the availability of the next prototype prerelease! The changes and new features are too abundant to name them all (you can get a list of fixed [...]

After the KiWi Meeting, Georg and I participated for the first time at the Future Internet Assembly, as representatives of the KiWi project and of our company. The conference took place in Kista Science City at the premises of Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), which are very nice buildings indeed. The first day started with introductions [...]

Roughly every 4 months, we organise a full project meeting where members of all KiWi institutions participate to discuss the current state and next steps. The November 2009 KiWi meeting took place, a bit unusually since there is no partner there, in Stockholm. The reasons for this choice of location were that Stockholm is a [...]

Yesterday night from 16:41 to 24:00 we had the big event we prepared for in the last weeks and even months: the “Lange Nacht der Forschung” (“Researchers Night Austria”), an Austria-wide event where research institutions try to bring science and research closer to the public. Of course, KiWi was present at this event, as foundation [...]

On 30th November, we had the follow-up event of the first KiWi/INSEMTIVES collaboration meeting we had in July. This time, KiWi was represented by Peter Reiser from Sun and myself, and INSEMTIVES was represented by Katharina from Innsbruck and Roberta from Trento. The goal of the meeting was to discuss the Community Equity system we [...]

As you might have heard, the KiWi group in Salzburg is participating in a programme called “Generation Innovation” where we take students from technical schools over their summer vacation as interns so that they get to know what research is and what we do. For KiWi, we had 3 interns, and I would say it [...]

Yesterday and today I had the pleasure to follow Katharina‘s and Elena‘s follow-up invitation to the KiWi meeting in Prague, and was participating as a guest at the INSEMTIVES project meeting in Innsbruck to present the KiWi project and discuss possible opportunities for collaboration. Besides the usual KiWi presentation and demonstration, I also presented Peter‘s [...]

As you may know, my research area is “Semantic Social Software”, trying to combine social software ideas with Semantic Web technologies – for me a very promising approach that could bring the Semantic Web into practical applications and help to improve social software at the same time (see also my publications, e.g. ). During the [...]