AkaSigI found a working path to transform an OWL ontology into a working Plone content-type. Here is my recipe :
Choose any existing OWL ontology
With Protege equipped with its OWL plugin, create a new project from your OWL file.
Still within Protege, with the help of its UML plugin, convert your OWL-Protege project into a UML classes […]
(Via Designing for Civil Society). iSociety was exploring the idea of using social software in local contexts, specifically in a local residential area (a set of skyscrapers). They see the potential of social software in its ability to
facilitate better face-to-face [communication] : create introductions between people who recognise their shared interests and want to meet
circumvent […]
States have been precursors in building registers of persons. Here are some national practices and projects in civil registration systems, vital statistics and other administrative identity systems :
Internationally : UN’s state of the art about population registers, UN’s Handbook of Vital Statistics Systems and Methods, the production of legal identities proper to states, The ICCS […]
I wanted to give Alban and others pointers to my resources on the topic of transliteration. But I can’t find my transliteration documents any more ! Anyway, my experience is that transliteration is a tough problem and after having thought a little bit on this topic, we decided not to automate the transliteration of individual […]
Yet another idea of innovation that has been floating around, in the blogosphere and in my wish list : inventing/deploying systems that connect people one with another in local contexts.
The main idea of such systems is that they are
useful locally : they stimulate the development of connexions between persons on a given place or neighborhood […]
La philosophie des carnets web, c’est d’écrire “avec sa vraie voix“. Gilles (celui qui est en vrac), fait encore mieux : il parle sur son carnet, avec sa vraie voix. Voici donc le premier carnettier francophone (que je connaisse) qui se met au screencasting, grâce au logiciel Camtasia. Du côté anglo-saxon, c’est Jon Udell qui […]