Sunday, February 28, 2010

W3C XML Security Working Group Invites Public Review of New Working Drafts

The W3C XML Security Working Group has published eight (First Public) Working Drafts for review, including "XML Signature 1.1" and "XML Encryption 1.1". Members of the WG would appreciate feedback on these documents, with special attention to the algorithms and other proposed changes. In parallel with this v1.1 technical work, the XML Security Working Group is developing requirements and designs for a more radically different version 2 of XML Signature.(Click Here to Know More)

Saturday, February 27, 2010

XProc and SMIL: Orchestrating Pipelines

Although the W3C's XML Pipeline Language (XProc) hasn't even left the stable yet, people are already looking beyond its original purpose. XProc was designed to solve the problem of how to describe the joining together of multiple XML processing steps. So, the question is, how do you extend XProc to handle new features like explicit concurrency... (Click Here to Know More)

Friday, February 26, 2010

water is life. Cameroon June 2009.

The Cameroon team is leaving tomorrow to work on expanding the solar water pumping system in Bakang. Check back periodically and leave a comment/post! water is life.

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Report to bioscience funder recommends action on niche areas of expertise

An independent panel has today (15 October) made a series of recommendations to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) on concerns over potential shortages in strategically important and vulnerable niche areas of research expertise. The report, from the BBSRC Skills and Careers Strategy Panel, has identified potential risks in niche skills within the broad areas of Whole Animal Physiology; Industrial Biotechnologies; Plant and Agricultural sciences; and Systematics and Taxonomy. The panel recommends action in these areas by BBSRC.(Click Here to Know More)

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Web Developer /SEO

Position: Web Developer /SEO Location: West Sussex Salary: Negotiable Ref: 1837-378 Our client is an agency based in Chichester, full service with print, graphic design, web design and development, Search Marketing and more disciplines. The often have amount of work that they only need cover for at that time on a freelance or contact basis for web development. All the usual skills PHP HTML CSS SQL You will have been a web developer agency side before, set up for freelance. As Well(Click Here to Know More)

Web Developer /SEO

Position: Web Developer /SEO Location: West Sussex Salary: Negotiable Ref: 1837-378 Our client is an agency based in Chichester, full service with print, graphic design, web design and development, Search Marketing and more disciplines. The often have amount of work that they only need cover for at that time on a freelance or contact basis for web development. All the usual skills PHP HTML CSS SQL You will have been a web developer agency side before, set up for freelance. As Well(Click Here to Know More)

Monday, February 15, 2010

Visualizing Irish Banter

HPL-2009-83 Visualizing Irish Banter - Webb, Tristan; Dickinson, Ian
Keyword(s): visualization, semantic web, RDF, self organizing map
Abstract: Discussion forums could benefit from an exploratory search capability. The large quantity of information on discussion forums can present an opportunity for helping a user through visualization. Self organizing maps have been successfully used as a basis for visualizing high-dimensional data. Our Fo ...
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Saturday, February 13, 2010

In favour of (more) intelligence in the semantic UI

HPL-2009-342 In favour of (more) intelligence in the semantic UI - Dickinson, Ian
Keyword(s): semantic-web, user interface, position paper
Abstract: In this position statement I advocate for a particular approach in creating interfaces for semantic web user interfaces: designing and building intelligent user interfaces with increased automation of user tasks. My suggestion is that this goal is facilitated by the characteristics of the underlying ...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

A Heterogeneous Naive-Bayesian Classifier for Relational Databases

HPL-2009-225 A Heterogeneous Naive-Bayesian Classifier for Relational Databases - Manjunath, Geetha; Murty, M Narasimha; Sitaram, Dinkar
Keyword(s): Relational databases, Classification, Data Mining, RDF
Abstract: Most enterprise data is distributed in multiple relational databases with expert-designed schema. Application of single-table data mining techniques to distributed relational data not only incurs a computational penalty for converting to a "at" form (mega-join), even the human-specified semantic inf ...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Travel Team made it to Bamendjou

Sarah called and let me know that the travel team has safely made the long car ride to the village. She mentioned something about a little car trouble (i.e. the car not turning on) that caused a bit of a delay, but they persevered and made it. They are off to find some dinner and get ready for the work ahead. Keep checking back for their posts!

-Sam
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Semantic Middleware for E-Discovery

HPL-2009-127 Semantic Middleware for E-Discovery - Butler, Mark; Reynolds, Dave; Dickinson, Ian; Grosvenor, Dave; McBride, Brian; Seaborne, Andy
Keyword(s): Semantic Web, E-Discovery, Data Integration, Ontology
Abstract: E-Discovery is the process of collecting, preparing, reviewing and producing electronically stored information in the context of the legal process. In this paper we describe practical experiences developing semantic middleware to support E-Discovery from a variety of enterprise data sources includin ...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Position paper: Uncertainty reasoning for linked data

HPL-2009-198 Position paper: Uncertainty reasoning for linked data - Reynolds, Dave
Keyword(s): Uncertainty reasoning; linked open data; semantic web
Abstract: Linked open data offers a set of design patterns and conventions for how to share data across the semantic web. In this position paper we enumerate the uncertainty representation and reasoning issues which apply to linked data and approaches to tackling them. We suggest the need for vocabularies to ...
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Monday, February 8, 2010

Killer Fabrics for Scalable Datacenters

HPL-2009-26 Killer Fabrics for Scalable Datacenters - Schlansker, Michael; Tourrilhes, Jean; Santos, Jose Renato; Turner, Yoshio
Keyword(s): Networks, Ethernet, datacenter, routing, multipath, fat tree, bandwidth, hash, TCA
Abstract: Large-scale datacenters are rapidly increasing in number and size to satisfy computing and storage needs for globally connected businesses and the World Wide Web. 10Gb/s Ethernet is now being adopted to meet increasing bandwidth needs for in-datacenter communications. However, most datacenter networ ...
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

A query refinement model for exploratory semantic search

HPL-2009-167 A query refinement model for exploratory semantic search - Reynolds, Dave; Dickinson, Ian; Grosvenor, Dave
Keyword(s): semantic search; RDF; SPARQL; query refinement
Abstract: We describe a novel approach to exploratory semantic search applied to the problem domain of e-discovery. In this domain, as in many others, we need to support non-expert users in composing queries over a complex and heterogeneous knowledge base. We achieve this by enabling users to initiate a query ...
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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Building Time Aware Applications in RDF

HPL-2009-6 Building Time Aware Applications in RDF - McBride, Brian
Keyword(s): semantic web, temporal RDF, temporal query, temporal modeling, temporal application.
Abstract: Several techniques for using RDF to model change over time in a domain are reviewed and a new approach with a lower triple count than previous approaches is described. It is argued that the application programmer requires tool support so that she does not have to deal with the details of the modelin ...
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Half Price Stuff at Sainsburys... here's some of the offers:

Save 50% was £9.99 now £4.99
Sainsbury's Mild Smoked Salmon 360g
Save 50% was £1.26 now 63p
Robinson's Orange Fruit & Barley Drink, No Added Sugar 1L
Save 50% was £1.94 now 97p
Lotus Thirst Pockets Limited Edition x2 Rolls
Save 50% was £2.98 now £1.49
Sainsbury's Raspberries 170g
Save 50% was £1.99 now 99p
Sainsbury's Cooked Chicken 200g
Save 50% was £1.58 now 79p
Patak's Curry Cooking Sauces, Rogan Josh 540g
Save 50% was £2.49 now £1.24
Sainsbury's Satsumas x8
Save 50% was £1.99 now 99p
Sainsbury's Butchers Choice Large Pork Sausages x 8 454g

alternatively MySuperMarket.co.uk will compare prices of all supermarkets and let you switch to the cheapest one.(Click Here to Know More)

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Web Developer HTML CSS Perm Somerset To 35k

html, css, php, junior, senior, Web Developer HTML CSS Perm Somerset To 35k Abrecco are recruiting, on behalf of our Somerset based client, a number of Web Developers with varying degrees of experience to join their expanding team. Skills required should include but not be limited to. Essential Extensive Proven Web Development experience Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS and ideally PHP MySQL or SQL Server database development exposure Desirable .NET web development exposure E commerce background Degree Educated Full Valid UK driving License The successful candidate will have experience developing websites and web applications of varying size and complexity. Ideally you will also be educated to degree level. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well established and expanding company who in return will offer an excellent salary of up to 163 35k dependant on experience. Please forward your most recent CV for immediate consideration.(Click Here to Know More)