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Every ISWS student is asked to provide a poster illustrating her/his research. We are organising poster sessions on two days so that students can get valuable feedback (a) from all tutors as well as (b) from their peers. Tutors will discuss all posters and select candidates for "Best Poster" awards ;-)

Today the kickoff meeting of our project course "Telling Data Stories with Semantic Technologies and Generative AI" in collaboration with Academy of Sciences & Literature, Mainz, took place, introducing the general topic and our dedicated course software & research data infrastructure. Stay tuned for news & updates ;-)

@lysander07 @tabea @MahsaVafaie @epoz @fiz_karlsruhe @KIT_Karlsruhe @nfdi4culture #NFDIrocks #researchdata #semweb #semanticweb #knowledgegraphs #AI #generativeAI #llms #SPARQL

Yesterday evening, Rudi Studer sent out an email with the sad news that Dieter Fensel has passed away after a long struggle with cancer on December 29.

Others will find words to look back at his life and his work, I hope. I understand that many had a lot of complicated feelings and memories regarding Dieter.

May he Rest in Peace.

A few weeks ago @dsalo and I sat down with #LibraryPunk to answer Sadie's question "what is linked data?" and had a nice chat about the history of linked data and the semantic web, problems, ethics, and hopes for the future. I had been wanting to hear Dorothea's perspective for awhile about the status of LD in libraries, especially what went wrong and how it collides with existing practices and the copyright cartels that control a lot of bibliometric metadata, and I learned a lot :). I won't be listening to it because hearing myself talk about anything makes me cringe too hard to exist, so feel free to roast me on anything i said.

Lovely people, potentially interesting to some of y'all on here: librarypunk.gay/e/135-the-once

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" For example, the difficulties of the Forty-Seventh Proposition of Euclid are mere child's play compared with the mental torture endured in the effort to think out the essential nature of a straight Line. And, in the present work, the difficulties of the " 5 Liars" Problem, at p. 188, are " trifles, light as air," compared with the bewildering question '' What is a Thing ""

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" I have adopted a new 'normal form,' in which the Class, whose existence is affirmed or denied, is regarded as the Predicate, instead of the Subject, of the Proposition, thus evading a very subtle difficulty which besets the other form. These subtle difficulties seem to lie at the root of every Tree of Knowledge, and they are far more hopeless to grapple with than any that occur in its higher branches...."

Should Lewis Caroll be entered into the firmament of SemWeb?
From the Introduction to Symbolic Logic.

"In Book I, Chapter II, I have adopted a new definition of ‘Classification’, which enables me to regard the whole Universe as a ‘Class,’ and thus to dispense with the very awkward phrase ‘a Set of Things.’"