Cross-posted from http://nicolaosborne.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2016/01/19/open-knowledge-edinburgh-meet-up-19/ This evening I’m at Open Knowledge Edinburgh Meet Up 19, at the National Library of Scotland on George IVth Bridge, organised by OK Scotland. I’ll be liveblogging so, as usual, any corrections, tweaks, comments etc. are very much welcome. Tonight’s event has seven lightning talks: Gill Hamilton (NLS): Welcome Pippa Gardner (Urban Tide): Scottish Government more »
Semantic Web views from EKAW 2014
Last week (24th to 28th of November 2014) I attended the the 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2014). Set in Linköping, a charming (and chilly) city in Sweden, the conference had a strong focus on Semantic Web related areas, such as Description Logics, OWL and Linked Data. For tweets about the more »
Scottish Linked Data Interest Group workshop
The School of Informatics hosted the 3rd Scottish Linked Data Interest Group Workshop on the 10th September 2014, following on from two successful workshops earlier in the year organised by Jeff Pan in the University of Aberdeen. The event brought together a diverse set of about 30 people with different interests and perspectives on Linked more »
Coders of the future, and Open Data
Way back in August, cities all over the UK played host to Young Rewired State Festival of Code, the national hackathon for under 19s. Edinburgh was no exception, and every day for a week around 16 young people — mostly regulars from the Prewired coding club took up residence in the University of Edinburgh’s Appleton more »
Our Open Data Meetup at the Scottish Parliament
We were honoured and excited to have been hosted by the Scottish Parliament, who took the opportunity to announce their new open data page at http://scottish.parliament.uk/opendata. The page is just a starting point and Parliament is looking for suggestions and feedback on how information is presented and what type of data should be included over more »