I gave three talks this week - the first during our DERI Research Day on “Information Centric Access: The Case of SIOC” (lots of attendees from academia, industry and state organisations), the second during our eNeighbourhoods event on “Wiki Ireland” (attended by local government and community members), and the third was last night at a TTI / ITAG event entitled “Semantic Web 2.0: Creating Social Semantic Information Spaces” (basically a condensed version of our WWW2006 tutorial for local IT professionals). I was fairly happy with the first two, slightly less so with the third - it was hard compressing so much into a 45-minute talk (both for me and the audience), but hopefully they got something of interest out of the various topics I ran through…

- John Breslin (nickname Cloud or Cloudie) is...
- Currently a researcher and adjunct lecturer at DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland in the areas of the Semantic Web and social software.
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Hi John,
I was at the ITAG event last night and I thought it was well worthwhile. I’m familiar with blogs, wikis, OSN’s, microformats etc, but I was unaware of all the work being done on the semantic work.
Regards
Grant
Thanks Grant - very glad to hear it…