Homepage of Sebastian Schaffert
Feb 27 2009
Congratulations! Tomorrow, the KiWi project is turning one year! Time to look back and see what we have achieved, and I dare say it is quite much, partly more than we expected: we have finalised the first Open Source (pre)release of the KiWi core system, we have learned a lot about the properties and challenges [...]
Feb 27 2009
Tomorrow is KiWi’s first birthday. And today is the day of KiWi’s first Open Source Release! The KiWi core system is a flexible platform for building different kinds of semantic social software applications on top (currently the Semantic Wiki and the TagIT application). It provides all the core services required in such applications, like editing [...]
Feb 12 2009
KiWi’s New Clothes. As you might be aware of, we had a KiWi user interface meeting two weeks ago where Josef Holy (Sun), Werner Moser (SRFG) and I were working together on redesigning the KiWi user interface and user interaction. The result has been a set of storyboard sketches that showed various screens of the [...]
Okt 10 2008
Being invited to speak at the IFRA conference on “The Future of News Publishing” on “Semantic Search in Online News”, I spent Thursday and Friday last week in Rome to present my ideas about how the Internet allows for new means of information organisation, how this applies to online news, and how we implemented “semantic [...]
Sep 27 2008
My tutorial lecture at this year’s European Semantic Web Conference has been recorded on video and is now available on the Internet (click image on the left). Well, I am not sure whether I am happy about it (because my presentation style obviously needs improvement for video lectures ), but it is a noteworthy event [...]
