Teodora Petkova

Weaving Texts into the Semantic Web

Weaving Texts Into the Semantic Web

A warm welcome to my website!

My name is Teodora and I believe, on the Web, we exist in the form of textual threads. Something more, on the Semantic Web we are intertextual beings, weaving narratives into an ever expanding fabric of relationships. This digital intertextuality combined with the power arising out of open narratives made of data and stories, is what intrigues me.

Here you will find stories woven out of three conceptual threads:

The Poiesis of Relationships
Wondering why and how the Semantic Web changes us and our texts
Dialogues
Meaning is always conversational, so I seek it, in a Dialogue.
Intertextuality
Web writing is living intertextuality, so is the web, so are we...

Towards a Semantic Web Ethos [Book Excerpt]

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Beneath every website, application, email, even under the tiniest tweet flow tons of data.  Once linked, not unlike the documents we connect through hyperlinks, these data can create a whole new layer, woven in the Web’s fabrics. This layer is called the Semantic Web. Many paths enter the understanding of the Semantic Web concept. MostContinue Weaving

From Odes to Nodes [Book Excerpt]

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“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans”, rhythmically went the first line of  the Iliad, imprinted in the minds and hearts of generations of rhapsodes. It was the dactylic hexameter (the rhythmic scheme) of the poem and the poetic workings (the rhetorical power )Continue Weaving

Linked Data and the Good Text [Book Excerpt]

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In his “Lecture on Ethics”, Wittgenstein writes that the good way can only be conceived within the context of its goal. The direction Wittgenstein gives is solid – good is what works, what serves a certain purpose. Leveraging this Wittgenstein’s proposition, I argue that the good text on the Web is the connected text. AndContinue Weaving