The UK satellite TV station Rapture is due to return today. Of interest to us anime fans is that they plan to show 2 and a half hours of anime each week (two series AFAIK).
More: Digital Spy Forums - Rapture TV begins testing ahead of its return.
Archive for November, 2005
Tomorrow I’ll be giving two tutorials on wikis, and specifically the Wiki Ireland site (DERI in association with the Galway County Heritage Forum). It’s on at 10 AM / 12:45 PM in the Galway Centre for Independent Living on the Tuam Road (beside Travelodge). Saw a nice quote about wikis today, describing them as “collaborative, self-correcting, living documents that evolve to hold the sum of all the knowledge of their users”.
In other news, we are having our annual boards.ie bash (Novembeers!) tomorrow night, and Cloud shall be in attendance (I hope he brings me along too…). This weekend also sees the first Irish anime convention, Eirtakon, which is being held in DCU from today until Sunday. See you there maybe!
ISWC 2005 ended yesterday; had a productive and enjoyable week at the conference here in Galway.
And yesterday, I won an iPod Nano in the ISWC 2005 Semantic Bank annotation competition! Thanks to all the Simile team, and I hope that we can produce and add lots of SIOC data to the bank shortly…
Speaking of which, CaptSolo, libby, danbri, aliman and myself met on Wednesday afternoon to try and align SIOC with FOAF and SKOS. I think it was a really useful discussion and once we have formalised the results of the discussion we can start publishing SIOC data “in anger” really soon.
Thanks to Eugene for this article:
Smart Mobs: Irish are taking their cell phones with them to the grave
According to the Belfast Telegraph, Ireland’s obsession with mobile phones has sunk to new depths, literally, as a growing number of people are taking their mobiles six feet under with them to the grave.
Facing the sweet hereafter with phone in hand is a new take on the ancient practice of burying a loved one with personal mementos.
… “With the recent explosion in popularity of mobile phones and other personal electronic gadgets, people now see them as extensions of themselves that will follow them to the grave.
Some people, especially young girls, live their lives by their mobiles and feel it’s part of them,” he said.
“Some other people may be terrified they’ll wake up in the coffin, so they take along a mobile to ring for help to get them out,” he said. However, certain rules would apply, including making sure the mobile is switched off or on silent before it accompanies the deceased.
For the 500 or so Semantic Web-heads arriving in the city, Emmet’s map of Galway’s free wifi areas may come in handy!
Events like ISWC 2005 inspire / remind you to go and do stuff, so I forgot to blog that I’ve installed Uldis‘ WordPress SIOC exporter on my blog. It’s pretty cool, one or two things to iron out but so far so good… You can get it at the SIOC WordPress page.
Was talking to danbri and Ina earlier and mentioned the neat AROUNDMe social networking software system by Barnraiser. Why do I think it’s neat? Well, as well as having lots of features, it is open source / free, and therefore I think we can easily plug some FOAF (and SIOC) generators into it once I figure out if it can be ‘opened up’ (i.e. turn off login requirements).
The tutorials and workshops for ISWC 2005 began today; of particular interest to our research cluster is the Semantic Desktop workshop, and I hope the associated social event works out okay tonight as I had to organise a venue (Krusoes Restaurant at the Harbour Hotel).
Anyway, here are some ISWC 2005 related links:
- Flickr photos tagged with “iswc2005″
- Blog posts tagged with “iswc2005″ and blog posts tagged with “iswc” from Technorati (here’s the related ISWC keyword blog search)
- The ISWC 2005 semantic web bank from Simile (I’m still figuring out how to do more than just tag something on the map!)
- Uldis’s RDF dump of the ISWC 2005 research papers
- Knud’s RDF version of the ISWC 2005 schedule
- My Things To Do in Galway (a little out of date but hopefully it will still be helpful if you’re looking for somewhere to eat)
The invite-only Information Juggernaut industry day is on tomorrow, with speakers including Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) and John Herlihy (Google). I’ll be at an internal DERI International meeting on Monday, but then the conference proper kicks off on Tuesday…
Watched Shaun of the Dead on Hallowe’en night. It was great fun 
TG4 showed their Irish language of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on Monday; I was going to tape it but my TV reception wasn’t great…
I was happily fiddling around connecting up some telephone wires in the hallway when I heard some music I recognised being played on TV in the living room. It was by one of my favourite musicians Isao Tomita and was his interpretation of Debussy’s Clair De Lune, from the album Snowflakes are Dancing.
I rushed in to see what it was and there was a weird promo of some kind on, which I initially thought must have been for RTÉ 2 or something. Turned out it was an ad for Playstation 2. Cool!
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