www.reference.dmoz2007.org

Project to develop interoperability between RDF based calendar descriptions and Personal Information Manager Systems such as Microsoft's Outlook.

European project on developing Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies.
Interface of Text2Onto - a framework for incremental ontology learning and data-driven ontology evolution. First, the user sets up an ontology learning workflow by selecting appropriate algorithms for each ontology learning task. When multiple algorithms are applied for the same task, so-called combiners can be chosen to merge the individual results. After having specified the ontology learning workflow, the user creates a corpus by adding a small number of text or HTML files. The documents

Explores Universal Semantic Code to help create applications for Semantic WEB.

A Bristol University project to create a globally-linked database to aid searching. Includes development, research, staff and publications.
To the rear of the buildings. There is a call system to gain entrance to the building by the back door..The most convenient station is Bristol Temple Meads (NOT Bristol Parkway). To walk to ILRT from Bristol Temple Meads, exit the station to your right down the approach road. Cross at the lights and follow the road along Redcliffe Way passing St Mary Redcliffe Church. Continue forward onto the pedestrian area between two public houses,.and enter Queen Square. Cross diagonally and continue down

An XML hacker discusses XML, RDF and the Semantic Web. Features links to other resources.
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Provides a survey of companies, technologies and products likely to support Semantic Web projects.

Experiment in applying and assembling existing Semantic Web technologies in one day.

People from the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab working on the Semantic Web.
Developing external funding (DARPA FastC2AP, DARPA Jaguar, US Army Research Laboratories Horizontal Fusion Program) and on the exploration of agent technologies and Semantic Web Service Composition..Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratory Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories is a Mind Lab partner. We have worked together both in developing external funding (DARPA FastC2AP, DARPA Jaguar, US Army Research Laboratories Horizontal Fusion Program) and on the exploration of agent

A weblog about PhD research on Semantic Web services and multiagent systems.

Portal of the Semantic Web Community. Projects, tools and ongoing events.
Semanticweb. Make sure that your favourite semantic tool, event, or ontology is here!.Apr 1 2010. The AIFB releases 14 billion triples to the Linked Open Data cloud by publishing the prime resource on non-lexical data, Linked Open Numbers..Oct 27 2009. OWL 2, the new version of the Web Ontology Language, becomes a W3C Recommendation. The OWL 2 Overview and OWL 2 Primer provide an overview and introduction to the 13 individual documents of the new standard..Apr 21 2009. The W3C OWL Working Group

Consulting company aimed towards bringing Semantic Web technology from academia to business.

A research project focused on design, prototyping and evaluation of a system that supports indexing and querying complex semantic relationships from the Web.

SEWASIE is a collaboration of a number of research groups aiming to design and implement an advanced search engine accessing heterogeneous data sources on the web, using semantic enrichment to provide

Open source systems and guidelines for using thesauri in a semantic web environment.
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Paper exploring the development of a distributed open opinion architecture.
Having identified central themes concerning identity and sociality in this online setting, explores possible reasons why anonymity is so important to the player community..Uses and gratifications of social games Blending social networking and game playThis study applied a uses and gratifications approach to investigate social games the game applications integrated in social networking platforms. The investigation focused on three dimensions of game play frequency, duration, and engagement of

Company that providing consulting and tools for architectural design and implementation of Semantic Technology Solutions with an emphasis on Ontology Engineering.

URIQA proposes an extension to web architecture used to indicate to a web server that it should resolve the specified URI in terms of knowledge about the resource denoted by that URI rather than in te
Managing magnitudes of descriptions where the source graph reflects a substantial use of blank nodes and inverse functional properties, one may employ a special form of description (along with a sufficiently capable query interface) to terminate at, and exclude particular statements about, blank nodes occuring as the subject of one or more statements which are are expressed using an inverse functional property. Specifically, given a particular node (the starting node) in a particular RDF graph

The W3C Semantic Web Activity has been established to serve a leadership role, in both the design of specifications and the open, collaborative development of technology for the Semantic Web.
Relates to real world objects. That allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing..You may want to look at the collection of SW Case Studies and Use Cases to see how organizations are using these technologies today. For links to various technologies, references to tools and specifications, please refer to the Semantic Web Standards Wiki..The Semantic Web in Action,

The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web, by its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee. Features a linked glossary, a time line, errata and an excerpt from Chapter 1.
8. See also CSS, ACSS.Scalable Vector Graphics. A language for describing drawings in terms of the shapes which compose them, so that these can be rendered as well as possible.Transmission Control Protocol. A computer protocol which allows one computer to send the other a continous stream of information, by breaking it into packets and reassembling it at the other end, re-sending any packets which seem to get lost in the Internet. TCP uses IP to send the packets and the two together are refered

The first Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives in collaboration with the W3C Italian Office. (December 10, 2004)

Article discusses the changes expected in the Web's next evolution. Written by David M. Ewalt; published in "Information Week." (October 14, 2002)

Article on W3C's Semantic Web activity. (October 1, 2002)

Article by Uche Ogbuji discusses the limits of today's Web and the challenge of how agents can infer relationships and act on them. Published in "New Architect" e-zine. (June 1, 2002)

Article by Bijan Parsia, published in Monkeyfist.com. (April 26, 2002)

Discusses the problems with current notions, popularity ranking and collaborative filtering and suggests next steps. By Andy Oram, published in O'Reilly Network. (April 19, 2002)
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Even though the Semantic Web may yet seem a remote dream, there are already tools one can use to make a tiny step forward by building "semantic web sites," which can be much easier to navigate than or

Lengthy descriptive Scientific American article by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila. (May, 2001)

Offers an introduction and discusses technologies and developments. By Edd Dumbill, published in O'Reilly XML.com. (November 1, 2000)
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An attempt to give a high-level plan of the architecture by Tim Berners-Lee. (September 14, 1998)
Required as a common format in response to the large number of suggestions for an object oriented drawing XML language..The value of a common document language has been so enormous that HTML has gained a dominance on the Web, but it does not play a fundamental key role. Web applications are required to be able to process HTML, as it is the connective tissue of the Web, but it has no special place architecturally. HTML has benefitted and suffered from the ignore what you don& ,t understand rule

Published online by the University of Delaware's Center for Teaching Effectiveness, focussing on information about learning, college teaching, and professional development to faculty and TAs.
Berkeley. Please go to the K. Patricia Cross page of AACU& ,s Web site for complete information. Contact Information Please contact Suzanne Hyers at hyers@aacu or 202.387.3760 with any questions. Past UD Winners Cara Robinson, School of Public Policy Administration(link to UDaily article) Amy Cass, Sociology Criminal Justice(link to UDaily article).Ph.D. graduates from the University of Delaware, who are transitioning into their first year as faculty, reflect on their development of an academic

Independent and not for profit, peer refereed journal, welcomes research, commentary, and other manuscripts that contribute to the effective instruction and learning regardless of level or subject.

Weekly news and job-information source for college and university faculty members, administrators, and students

Electronic journal, articles available in HTML and PDF.

Journal devoted to presenting descriptions and evaluations of innovations and provocative new ideas in higher education, and their effect on teaching and students (online abstracts).
A doctoral degree in any field of graduate study offered by the University of Georgia. Building on this initiative, the Governor Teaching Fellows program invites faculty from public or private postsecondary institutions in Georgia to the Institute for seminars and or a one-year residency to pursue innovative teaching methods using emerging instructional technologies. Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows are recent doctoral graduates from multiple disciplines at leading universities across the nation

Dedicated to the conscientious investigation of the status and prospects for African Americans in higher education.
Tech. 2007 The board of visitors of the University of Virginia issued a formal apology for the universitys use of slave labor in the period from 1819 to 1865. 2007 Walter Kimbrough, president of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas, calls for all black colleges and universities to withhold ranking information from.. Kimbrough stated that the rankings are inherently unfair to black colleges and universities. 2007 For the first time in the schools 238-year history, Dartmouth College

Periodical devoted to discussion of teaching and learning in higher education.
Graphics and photographs, Adobe& ,s PDF format is increasingly recognized as the best format for publishing documents with a recognizable corporate identity. The PDF files require an Acrobat file viewer such as Acrobat Reader, which is available at no charge from Adobe Systems, Incorporated..Published by James Rhem Associates, LLC. (ISSN 1057-2880) All rights reserved worldwide..

Corpus of challenging problems for the representation of commonsense knowledge.

An article published in AI Magazine in 1991, describing ontology-driven knowledge base architectures.

Lecture notes on knowledge representation, featuring philosophical and psychological basis, conceptual graphs, reasoning and computation. Dickson Lukose, The University of New England, July 1996.

Proposes the use of the Unified Modeling Language for modelling ontologies for Web resources and the knowledge contained within them. [S.Cranefield, 2001, Journal of Digital information]

Presents criteria for defining sequences, hierarchies, and networks (SHN) for organizing thoughts. [A.Kulikauskas and S.Maskeliunas, 1999]

An introductory critical paper by R. Davis, H. Shrobe, and P. Szolovits in AI Magazine - 1993

An internationally accredited Montessori training center for the training of Montessori teachers. Full time, part-time, distance and online studies available to students around the world.

Practical information for parents and teachers, with links to Montessori school lists, lectures, conferences, workshops, teacher training courses, educational materials, and a home schooling guide.

Specific elements on which the method is based, such as multi-aged grouping, periods of development, the prepared environment, lessons, and schedules.
Michael Olaf does not fill your mailbox unnecessarily. All of their quarterly newsletters, on such subjects as math, culture, art, the home environment, parenting, teaching, and education in general can be found here Newsletters.Montessori 2013 The 27th International Montessori Congress will be held in Portland, Oregon in 2013, the first time in 40 years that it will be held in the USA. Digital Age An Article from Australia.Montessori Homeschooled Brown U. student, musician, attorney Pictures

Smithsonian Magazine article Maria Montessori. Includes history and observations from current educators.

Offers developmentally appropriate Montessori books, toys, games, and tools for ages birth to 12 years. Features general Montessori information, articles by developmental age, and the history of the T

Chat about these topics.

Guide to finding Montessori home schooling links on the internet.
Needless to say, I love Montessori. The internet is full of quality Montessori sites. Yet, it can be frustrating for parents new to Montessori and home schooling to know which sites contain the information that fits their needs. I created this site for the parent contemplating Montessori home schooling. The following sites, IMHO, contain the best sources for home schooling information. I would appreciate your comments, so please sign my guest book before you leave..

Information center for Montessori administrators, teachers, parents and students. Links to schools, teacher training centers, publications, organizations, conferences, educational products and service
Children to learn at their own pace. This site was sponsored by the Children& ,s House Montessori Preschool Society which officially came into being on Febraury 23, 1976..In England, the St. Nicholas Montessori College emerged from teacher education efforts in that country since before 1952. Founded by Margaret Humphries and Phoebe Child, this organization has offered - and continues to offer - correspondence courses, materials, and workshops in many diverse locations throughout the world..About

General outline of the Montessori curriculum areas for children 2-6.

A forum about Montessori homeschooling, and links to other sites of value to homeschooling families.
Are given to aid parents in looking for a school that follows Dr. Montessori& ,s teachings, and all Montessori training centers and organizations who are official members of The International Montessori Index share their specifics details for comparison with others. Those listed on this site have welcomed the opportunity to make themselves available in this way. Of course there are many schools and teacher training centers not listed who may be very good. Our purpose in the pages of this site is

The full text with illustrations from: The Montessori Method (1912) by Maria Montessori, translated by Anne Everett George. Hosted by UPenn digital library.

Collection of resources and games to assist Montessori educators.

Colorado private school following the Sudbury model of education.
The time to work on them. Without Alpine Valley School, I would not have graduated from high school. I am now working with children with autism as my chosen career. AVS philosophy allows me to be successful today. AVS helped me realize how I learn. You can figure that out first and then get things done. You learn something and then later you learn something else that relates. You don t learn it all in one day but over time, and it all fits together. If you have a particular personal goal, you

Located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A non-profit, independent school modeled after the Sudbury Valley School.

Terra Linda, Marin County, California. An environment of freedom and trust for students aged 5-19 to pursue their interests and passions.

Information about philosophy, FAQ and contacts.
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Booroobin, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. An independent, democratic school for students 4 to 19 years of age. Contains articles, and in-depth information on the school.

An independent, democratic free school based on the Summerhill, Sudbury philosophies of self-directed learning and democratic process providing equal power to students and staff in making all the deci

Santa Clara, California. Cedarwood Sudbury School is based on the well-established fact that you do not have to force people to learn. "Human beings are naturally curious," Aristotle pointed out. Yet

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Central Pennsylvania's first democratic school run by the kids. Includes tuition and admission requirements, resources, and contact information.

A democratic school in Seattle, WA.
Support each student& ,s enthusiasm, curiosity and learning style. They take on many rolesteacher, mentor and friend. Rather than direct, staff members follow each students lead in order to assist them as they pursue their educational course. Staff members are elected annually by School Meeting..Stephanie Sarantos Stephanie Sarantos became interested in the Sudbury model by watching her oldest childthen three-years-oldplay imaginary games for hours, days and weeks on end. When she realized that

Concord, California. Student-directed learning. At DVS, each Student is responsible for making decisions about how to use their time. Ages 5-19.

Hallowell, Maine. Evergreen Sudbury School is a private school just outside of Augusta, Maine. At Evergreen, as at all the other schools around the world based on Sudbury Valley, kids of all ages deci

Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. A place where children are free to pursue their interests, dreams and passions. Includes information about philosophy, staff and admissions.

Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Modeled after the Sudbury Valley School. Providing a safe, stimulating environment where students ages 5 through high school can explore the world in all its complexity.
(Personal pursuits) gave him something missing from most classrooms todaya passion for pursuing challenges and inhaling the skills and information (to say nothing of the confidence) to master lifes complexities. Its every modern parents worst nightmarea school where kids can play all day. But no one takes the easy way out, and graduates seem to have a head start on the information age. Welcome to Sudbury Valley..Class Dismissed, Psychology Today, May June 2006, p. 95.Im sure my level of comfort

Hampton, Connecticut. At Greenwood Sudbury School, each student is empowered with a sense of self-determination, responsibility, and personal freedom. Young people, ages 5 through 19, and staff intera

Highland, West Virginia. The Highland School is dedicated to giving students the opportunity to learn and grow as equal members of a democratic community.

Woodstock, New York. Contains FAQ, upcoming events, image gallery, details about summer camp, and writings about Sudbury Education.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Self-initiated Learning in a Democratic Setting. Contains a wealth of information about the school and its philosophy.

New Britain, Connecticut. Offers students 5-19 the freedom to explore their own interests on their own schedule. No required classes or curricula. Low tuition. Contains information on the school's phi

Newark, Delaware. The educational program of each student is exactly what they make of it, neither more nor less. It is essential that students have the time and opportunity to discover their interes
Modified version of Roberts Rules of Order. Such rigor keeps discussions focused on the agenda, emphasizes the seriousness of the groups considerations, and insures that all are heard. School laws are adopted or repealed, corporations are formed, funding determined, judicial reports attended to and serious infractions investigated and addressed with due process. Elections are held for the various offices of the school. Yearly elections are held for the staff positions for the following year.

Bristol, Vermont. The Red Cedar School is an independent private school based in Vermont, and is founded on the Sudbury-Model philosophy. Ages 5-19.

Sacramento, California. SVS, a Sudbury school, practices age-mixing and student directed learning. There are no grades or mandatory classes. The school is governed by a democratic school meeting. Has

SERN's mission is to support Sudbury model schools and to expand understanding of this model of education. Contains a list of schools and start-up groups, information and links about the model, back

Framingham, Massachusetts. The original, founded in 1968. SVS has pioneered the "one person, one vote" model of democracy in education that promotes both freedom and responsibility. Has an overview of
Alpine Valley School 4501 Parfet Street Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033-2653 PH 303 271-0525. info@alpinevalleyschool AlpineValleySchool.Spring Valley School 2109 Nebraska Avenue Palm Harbor, Florida 34683 PH 727 781-1234 FAX 727 376-1764 info@springvalleyschool www.springvalleyschool Sunset Sudbury School (of Broward County) 4200 N.W. 66th Avenue Davie, FL 33024 PH 954 404-7785 info@sunsetsudbury www.sunsetsudbury.The Clearwater School 1510 196th St SE Bothell, Washington 98012-7107 PH 425 489-2050

Santa Fe, New Mexico. A school community (currently ages six to eighteen) that emphasizes freedom, responsibility, and equality among students and staff.

North Vancouver, British Colombia. Windsor believes in non-coercive education. Students independently choose how to spend their time without interference from staff and parents.
Windsor House is a publicly funded K-12 democratic, parent-participation school in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. NEWS UPDATE School Districts No. 64 (Gulf Islands) and No. 44 (North Vancouver) have issued a joint media release regarding Windsor House joining the Gulf Islands School District, beginning September 2011, as a satellite school on the Mainland. What Really Matters a short documentary about Windsor House by Sherry Sakamoto and Terry Martyniuk of Pacific Spirit Productions..

The term CoP is used to describe many groups. Here the CoP is discussed as a means of providing the missing social dimension to the virtual world.
Here but could have been renamed. As a first step you could try the following.Publications - a page that links to my publications (e.g. books chapters, journal papers, conference papers, etc)..

Lesser and Storck of the IBM Institute for Knowledge Management argue that the social capital in communities, which may be virtual or co-located, lead to changes that positively influence business per
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Group that discusses technology, theory and developmental practices. Features a glossary and links to related sites.

A weblog about communities of practice and online community. Members receive regular newsletters. Includes a large library, events listing, case studies, photo gallery, and directory of thought leader

Describes an anthology of essays about community building in the workplace, written by a virtual community of community-builders.

Resources and information for individuals and organizations who are developing expertise in the cultivation of communities of practice. Features educational resources, publications and contact details

Knowledge management consultants for building and supporting communities of practice, virtual teams and communities in the enterprise organisation.

Homepage of the Community of Practice researcher and consultant who coined the term along with Jean Lave. Features links to his widely-read publications on the field, including an exhaustive survey of
I am an independent thinker, researcher, consultant, author, and speaker. I am mostly known for my work on communities of practice, though I consider myself a social learning theorist more generally..Theoretically, my work focuses on social learning systems. I am trying to understand the connection between knowledge, community, learning, and identity. The basic idea is that human knowing is fundamentally a social act. This simple observation has profound implications for the way we think of and

Global Gateways is currently facilitating Communities of Practice (CoPs) for Chief Information Officers (CIOs). We are also forming Communities for other management groups.

Lecture notes from a course taught by Chris Kimble at York University. Provides links to sources of information on knowledge management and communities of practice.
Way to contact them, on their home page. http server ~username.User home directories are on the personal homepage servers, http www-users.cs.york.ac.uk (for staff) and http www-student.cs.york.ac.uk (for students). Their home directories are accessed using the standard notation of http server ~username That a ~ (tilde) not a hyphen, underscore or minus sign etc..If you are looking for a file in a person home directory, and you can t find it, then try e-mailing them and asking them about it. They

Overview of the lessons IBM Global Services have learned since 1995 implementing Communities of Practice. Focuses on people and organization behavior, supporting processes, and enabling technology fac
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Shadowy groups called communities of practice are where learning and growth happen.
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A website by Bellanet on leveraging Knowledge Management and Communities of Practice for the international development sector.

Chris Kimble's research in CSCW and Knowledge Management, in particular, the representation and dissemination of knowledge in virtual team and in virtual environments. He is interested in the problems
The first is based largely around the idea of technological determinism. Technology itself plays a key role, either leading directly to social change or acting indirectly to facilitate organizational change. The second starts from a different viewpoint arguing that people determine the effect of a technology not the other way round. These scenarios relate to two opposing approaches to technology and social change long identifiable in the literature. They are both causal or deterministic models

Introduction, historical view and chapter abstracts of book by Pete Bradshaw, Stephen Powell and Dr. Ian Terrell. Features annotated references.
Front of group members, not taking a position behind them. However, for large online Communities of Practice, leading from behind and trusting the group is an important strategy. This chapter focuses on how a leader develops the capacity to trust the group. Recognizing that groups of people are powerful and creative organisms that can be trusted is difficult for a leader. For Freud, who thought of groups as unthinking, primitive mobs and for modern managers, who are taught the value of using

Researchs and develops new architectures, ideas and internet software for collaborative knowledge development and learning. Features overviews, portals and contact information.

Communities of Practice researcher Richard McDermott's consulting firm.
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Helps groups and organizations build virtual teams and learning communities through organization development consulting, web-based conferencing, and facilitation services.

Paper argues that the transfer of a concept that is deeply rooted in the lived-in world to the virtual involves significant conceptual problems. By Christopher Lueg. [PDF]

Although communities of practice develop organically, a carefully crafted design can drive their evolution. By Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder; published in Harvard Business S

James B. Smethurst. For any member of a Community of Practice, there comes a time to interface with individuals and organizations which do not form part of the Community. The difficulty of this situat

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