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...

What I Learned Writing The Brave New Text?

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The Brave New Text, my book of essays about the metamorphoses writing and textuality undergo on the Web, is out in the world. It is now an artefact, a corpus of texts looking to find its own way into the giant intertextual fabrics of  the Web. Now that I finished the boom, I have anotherContinue Weaving

The Intertextual Animal [Book Excerpt]

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Consider this. I am the sum of my readings, my immediate surroundings and my experiences. I am also what I write and read on the Web. I constantly transverse analog and digital realms, textual and non-textual fabrics. Such dynamics helps me enrich my life and the Web with an expanded field of relationships where newlyContinue Weaving

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