Homepage of Sebastian Schaffert
Jan 30 2010
Social Media are one of the revolutionary trends of our time. Up till now, they have been largely driven by practitioners. Research on the field has been either computer science or social sciences and is mainly observing the trend without taking really part. One could argue that this is a good thing, but as a researcher [...]
Dez 23 2009
Development activity in the last months has been so active that we didn’t manage to issue a KiWi release of acceptable stability. Now we are very proud to announce the availability of the next prototype prerelease! The changes and new features are too abundant to name them all (you can get a list of fixed [...]
Jul 15 2009
As you may know, my research area is “Semantic Social Software”, trying to combine social software ideas with Semantic Web technologies – for me a very promising approach that could bring the Semantic Web into practical applications and help to improve social software at the same time (see also my publications, e.g. ). During the [...]
Jul 08 2009
Last week we had for the second time our KiWi meeting in Prague at the Sun Microsystems offices – almost a tradition by now.:-) The main goals of the meeting were to kick off the implementation of the enabling technologies and the integration and implementation in the use cases. Also, for the first time, we [...]
Mai 28 2009
Just in time for ESWC09, we are proud to be able to release the 4th KiWi prerelease (0.4)! Again, this is the most stable KiWi version ever and contains many bug fixes and performance improvements. While the focus has been on stability and usability, the following new features have been added to KiWi: KiWi now [...]
