Archive for the 'CMC2006' Category

Wikis vs. Blogs

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

Judging from CMC2004, few people in our community back in 2004 knew about blogs, let alone wikis. After CMC2006 I think the situation has got better but there is still considerable confusion.
The article, Stewart Mader: Wiki vs. Blog, has a couple of illustrations.
I’ll continue to look for some more good reference materials for our community.

Profile photos from the conference

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Like CMC2004 I willbe posting the profile pictures I took of the attendees.
Once the CMC distributes the attendee list (and I get some time) I will update the wiki with the updated profiles, so you can put names to faces and locations.

Reasons to blog

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

What a great conference!
Anyone who missed the announcements: might be interested to know that the community now has a collaborative blogging site dedicated to conceptmapping, at http://blogs.conceptmapping.org
Here you can:

Blog your paper or poster, and start an online conversation with those who attended or missed you at the conference. You could, for example, create a posting […]

Robert Hoffman’s Paper-Procurement talk

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Greg’s talks on the new architecture of CmapTools, and its extendability through webservices

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Greg just gave a humorous talk this afternoon how CmapTools had been opened up. Before the latest version you’d have to build the code as a module in the server or into the client, learning how to using the IHMC architecture and event module.

This put a heavy burden on the programmer, and on the IHMC, […]

Magpie - semantic web toolbar

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Pat Hayes is talking about using Magpie, a semantic web integrator/filter, to pull together content http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/magpie/main.html#download
- as an enabling technology. I’ll play with it and let you know.
Swoogle - http://swoogle.umbc.edu - a semantic web search engine.