semantic library - planning the training

In the model of Five Weeks to a Social Library, I see in my FriendFeed today a posting from Fiona Bradley about putting together a Semantic Library training program online.  It's still in the initial planning stages, you can have a look at the program outline at

http://semanticlibrary.pbwiki.com/Learning-Program

The wiki is open for people to sign up, you just need to enter the password you'll see at the bottom of the login screen.

For those of us who deal more with academic content, I think semantic concepts and Semantic Web services may become even more important than social networking is right now.

(Whew, I got through all of that without saying "from Library 2.0 to Library 3.0".)

Describing the Semantic Web can be a bit complicated, I think of it as enriching our current text content on the web so that machines are able to do more processing for us - enabling us to build much more powerful scientific search and reasoning systems.

As I said in my presentation Building SkyNet for Science, invoking (and extending) Ranganathan and Noruzi: "every web resource its machine reader" (slide 13).

Previously:
September 08, 2008  semantic search thoughts