Visiting Fellowship at Curtin University
I have been awarded a Visiting Fellowship to Curtin University in Perth, Australia this fall at the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts. I will be working with Erik Campion on hyper-realistic simulations of the the Great War using immersive visualizations and gaming engine being fed simulation data from the linked open data collection of the Muninn Project.
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Attending the Bridging Communities of Practice: Emerging Technologies for Content-Centered Linking Workshop
Attending the Bridging Communities of Practice: Emerging Technologies for Content-Centered Linking Workshop
College of Information Studies University of Maryland, College Park
Hornbake Library, South Wing, Room 2119
September 27-28, 2013
September 27-28, 2013
Over the course of two workshops, we seek to bring together humanities scholars, information professionals and computer scientists to enhance the transformational potential of linked open data in libraries, archives, museums and other settings by leveraging a broad range of emerging content representation and linking technologies. We believe that accelerating the process of bringing these computational innovations across the "gulf of execution" from laboratory to practice can create important new opportunities for humanities scholarship
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Now at Dalhousie University
I have taken up a position as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Big Data Institute at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada starting this fall.
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Presentation at SOTM 2013: Open Historical Map -- Re-using outdated information
Open Historical Map : Re-using outdated information
SOTM 2013
Track 1, Friday September 6th 2013, 14:20
Track 1, Friday September 6th 2013, 14:20
Common work with Jeff Meyer, David Evans, Susanna Ånäs, myself and many others.
Presented by David Evans.
Abstract:
The Open Historical Map is billed as "The world's most out of date map". It is a complimentary approach using the Open Street Map tools that focuses on features that have since disappeared, changed shape or purpose. Because of scale and relevancy issues the Open Historical Map uses its own database instance that imports some of the features of Open Street Map. Editing of the map by users is encouraged, though most of the data comes from automated imports from other historical projects that contribute their mapping information. This presentation will review how the Street and Historical maps can be used together and the approaches used to handle problems of time and accuracy in the historical map.
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Attending Linked Open Data Library and Archives Summit 2013
I'll be attending the LODLAM summit this June 19th and 20th focusing on using linked open data for archives and museums. New this year is a series of Challenges between the different projects, Muninn won't have an entry since grant deadlines are in the way.
There will be an early meetup for talks on linking data between Great War Linked Open Data project on the evening of the 18th at the Kam Fung restaurant, more details here.
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Paper at SEXI2013: Sex, Privacy and Ontologies
Sex, Privacy and Ontologies
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 11am
Presented by Adriel Dean-Hall
Abstract:
Personal profiling has long had negative connotations because of its historical association with societal discrimination. Here we re-visit the topic with an ontology driven approach to personal profiling that explicitly describes preferences and appearances. We argue that explicit methods are superior to vendor-side inferences and suggest that privacy can be maintained by both exchanging preferences independently from identity and only sharing preferences relevant to the transaction. Futhermore this method is an oppourtunity for additional sales through the support of anonymous 'drive by' shopping that preserve privacy. We close by reviewing the computational advantages of accurate profiling and how the ontology can be applied to complex real world situations.
Paper is here.
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Creating specialized ontologies using Wikipedia: The Muninn Experience.
Creating specialized ontologies using Wikipedia: The Muninn Experience.
Paper Session III, Saturday June 30, 10:30-11:30
Abstract:
This paper reports on the experiences of the Muninn project in creating specialized ontologies for historical governmental and military organizations using the Wikipedia data set and its linked open data companion DBpedia. The motivation for the ontologies and the extraction methods used are explained and their performances reviewed. Overall Wikipedia is a very accurate knowledge base from which multilingual concepts can be extracted. The caveat is that while the information is almost always present, it is not always straightforward to retrieve because of missing structures or categorization information. Hence, an iterative methodology has been found to work best in extracting information from Wikipedia.
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A Social Networking Approach to the Legal Learning Track TREC 2011
A Social Networking Approach to the Legal Learning Track
TREC 2011, Legal Learning Track
TREC 2011, Legal Learning Track
Legal Track, Tuesday November 15, 15:45-16:00
Plenary, Thursday November 17, 10:00-10:30
Abstract:
This presentation reports on the University of Waterloo experience with the Legal Learning track where three different methods were used to approach the retrieval task. Two are based on previously used methods and the last is a novel method based on modifying the responsiveness probability using social network analysis.
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Attending Linked Open Data Library and Archives Meeting in San Francisco
I'll be attending the #LODLAM meeting in San Francisco this June 2nd and 3rd focusing on using linked open data for archives and museums. The topic is close to some of my own interests, including those of The Muninn Project which has fairly complex modelling requirements.
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Do a billion documents change the First World War?
Do a billion documents change the First World War?
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011, 19:00-21:00
Waterloo Stratford Campus Digital Media Series
Abstract:
Presented by Rob Warren and Shelley Hulan
Abstract:
The First World War has come alive for later generations via their close reading of individual works on the war. But this war was the first lengthy international conflict to keep records on hundreds of thousands of displaced people and military personnel as they moved all around the globe, and the documents generated by them provide a rich source of insight into the times, and in the wake of the large-scale digitization of paper-based data from pre-digital periods, First World War records have the potential to touch readers anew.
Where soldiers' journals and longer accounts bring the conflict to light in a very personal way, the digitization of millions of forms and official documents concerning the "war to end all wars" allows for the detection of global patterns of migration, communication, and disease previously impossible to find using manual research methods. Mining Great War data might be feared to rob the war of its power to illuminate the costs of modern conflict, a power that has historically lain in the personal tragedies and triumphs identified with it and the revelations they offer about human suffering and human potential, not the more anonymous and repetitive information on official forms. In a discussion of the patterns and trends detectable by analyzing millions of data mine-able Red Cross files, however, we will suggest that data mining both significantly alters our understanding of the war and yet continues to move us in surprising ways.
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