Planet Kiwi

KiWi has now joined the Future Internet Initiative, which is a European effort to investigate the various aspects of the Internet of tomorrow. KiWi’s contribution to it is both, as a Social Media project and as a Semantic Web project, so we expect that our part can be really valuable. And we will definately take [...]

From June 22 to June 26, 2009 I attended the User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) conference. In particular Peter Dolog and I had the paper entitle “A Personalized Tag-Based Recommendation in Social Web Systems” accepted at…

I was invited to give a keynote speach at IWWOST2009 workshop at ICWE 2009 conference. I’ve decided to talk about challenges of web engineering in building social web software. I will talk about service oriented architecture, I will discuss difficultie…

This week we had the first KiWi review at the EU premises in Luxembourg. KiWi was evaluated by two external reviewers as well as two representatives of the European Commission. Fortunately, all went well, the feedback was very positive and the criticism very constructive. The reviewers particularly highlighted the KiWi dissemination activities, the high motivation [...]

Forschungsprojekte, die von Dritten gefördert werden, werden regelmäßig begutachtet. Ich war gestern – an einem Feiertag in Deutschland – in Luxemburg für eine solche Begutachtung des Forschungsprojektes KiWi. Kiwi wird von der Europäischen Kommission über drei Jahre mit 2,69 Millionen € gefördert und hat ein Gesamtetat von 3,8 Millionen €. Die Begutachtung ist wie eine [...]

As you can see from the map here I have been cycling from Fontainebleau to Vienna (covering close to 1000km of road), and now around Cyprus in my spare time. On different occasions along my journey I had the occasion to present foaf+ssl and combine it…

As you can see from the map here I have been cycling from Fontainebleau to Vienna (covering close to 1000km of road), and now around Cyprus in my spare time. On different occasions along my journey I had the occasion to present foaf+ssl and combine it…

As you can see from the map here I have been cycling from Fontainebleau to Vienna (covering close to 1000km of road), and now around Cyprus in my spare time. On different occasions along my journey I had the occasion to present foaf+ssl and combine it…

The attendance to the European Semantic Web Conference 2009 was a great opportunity to see other applications in field of Semantic Web. At the demo sections, I could evidence that a lot of effort is being put on semantic web services, knowledge managem…

During the closing session of ESWC 2009 which was held in Crete, KiWi was awarded as Best Demo of the Year amongst 23 other participants. See the showcase here and let the KiWi consortium know what you think! If you … Continue reading →