Ruben Verborgh is one of those amazing people I have crossed paths with on my Semantic Web journey. A professor of Semantic Technology, Ruben is a hard-working man (and a rising TEDx star) on a quest to decentralising the Web. I met Ruben through the Solid project on my own way to finding the means toContinue Weaving
An Ecology of Digital Being of Sorts
It’s been 30 years since the World Wide Web transformed our lives and allowed us to connect, communicate and create on an unprecedented level, reminds us a report by the Web Foundation called The Case for the Web. Among the many interesting things the report contains, the part about blogging, content and ultimately the unrealizedContinue Weaving
From Envisioning Art to Embedding It with Metadata: A Dialogue with Margaret Warren
Margaret does something that is of uber importance for all of us: she builds and thinks through the technology of describing, storing and retrieving images. Her tool ImageSnippets™, created for anyone who archives, curates or shares images on the Web (who doesn’t these days) was born out of her passion and scientific problem: the semanticContinue Weaving
The Project Solid as a Road Assembling Itself on the Go
The Linked Data social ecosystem Solid is a work in progress. So are its UX and UI. Roads assembling themselves on the go. But let’s face it, isn’t our own understanding of how we use, curate and give our data on the Web one that is still shaping and evolving? One that needs reassessing andContinue Weaving