Bretherton, David, Smith, Daniel Alexander, Schraefel (PI), Mc, Polfreman, Richard, Everist, Mark, Brooks, Jeanice, ...
The dispersal of musicology’s diverse array of primary and secondary sources across countless libraries and archives was once an enormous obstacle to conducting research, but this has largely been...
Integrating musicology's heterogeneous data sources for better exploration (2009)
Bretherton, David, Smith, D. A., Schraefel, Mc, Polfreman, Richard, Everist, Mark, Brooks, L. Jeanice, ...
Musicologists have to consult an extraordinarily heterogeneous body of primary and secondary sources during all stages of their research. Many of these sources are now available online, but the...
Semantically Exposing Existing Knowledge Repositories: ACase Study in Cultural Heritage (2009)
Denis Pitzalis, Patrick Sinclair, Christian Lahanier, Matthew Addis, Richard Lowe, Shahbaz Hafeez, ...
Abstract — In this paper we describe the practical implications of semantically exposing a cultural heritage multimedia collection system (EROS) through a Search and Retrieve Web Service (SRW)....
The Importance of Conveying Inter-Facet Relationships for Making Sense of Unfamiliar Domains (2009)
The design of online retail environments has improved significantly by including features such as faceted navigation, which provide meta-data to users as a means to apply constraints over the...
Note to Self: Examining Personal Information Keeping in a Lightweight Note-Taking Tool (2009)
Van Kleek, Max, Bernstein, Michael, Panovich, Katrina, Vargas, Greg, Karger, David, Schraefel, Mc
This paper describes a longitudinal field experiment in personal note-taking that examines how people capture and use information in short textual notes. Study participants used our tool, a simple...
Integrating musicology's heterogeneous data sources for better exploration (2009)
Bretherton, David, Smith, Daniel, Schraefel, Mc, Polfreman, Richard, Everist, Mark, Brooks, Jeanice, ...
Musicologists have to consult an extraordinarily heterogeneous body of primary and secondary sources during all stages of their research. Many of these sources are now available online, but the...
Discovery and exploration using musicSpace (2009)
Bretherton, David, Smith, Daniel Alexander, Schraefel, Mc, Everist, Mark, Brooks, Jeanice, Polfreman, Richard, ...
Musicologists have to rely upon an extraordinarily heterogeneous body of primary and secondary research sources, even when conducting the most basic exploratory research. Although increasingly...
musicSpace: Integrating Musicology's Heterogeneous Data Sources (2009)
Bretherton, David, Smith, Daniel Alexander, Schraefel, Mc, Everist, Mark, Brooks, Jeanice, Polfreman, Richard, ...
A significant barrier to the research endeavours of musicologists (and humanities scholars more generally) is the sheer amount of potentially relevant information that has accumulated over centuries....
Using Pivots To Explore Heterogeneous Collections: A Case Study in Musicology (2009)
Smith, Daniel Alexander, Bretherton, David, Schraefel, Mc, Polfreman, Richard, Everist, Mark, Brooks, Jeanice, ...
In order to provide a better e-research environment for musicologists, the musicSpace project has partnered with musicology’s leading data publishers, aggregated and enriched their data, and...
Challenges in Supporting Faceted Semantic Browsing of Multimedia Collections (2008)
Daniel Alex, Er Smith, Alisdair Owens, Mc Schraefel, Patrick Sinclair, Max L. Wilson, ...
Abstract. We discuss three approaches, 3store, D2R and MySQL, we have explored to support efficient querying of multimedia data sources via mSpace, a rich UI. Our results underline key research...
Clustered TDB: A Clustered Triple Store for Jena (2008)
Owens, Alisdair, Seaborne, Andy, Gibbins, Nick, Schraefel, Mc
This paper describes the design of Clustered TDB, a clustered triple store designed to store and query very large quantities of Resource Description Framework (RDF) data. It presents an evaluation of...
AtomsMasher: Personal Reactive Automation for the Web (2008)
Van Kleek, Max, André, Paul, Perttunen, Mikko, Bernstein, Michael, Karger, David, Miller, Rob, ...
The rise of "Web 2.0" has seen an explosion of web sites for the social sharing of personal information. To enable users to make valuable use of the rich yet fragmented sea of public, social, and...
Tabulator Redux: Browsing and Writing Linked Data (2008)
T Berners-lee, J. Hollenbach, Kanghao Lu, J. Presbrey, Mc Schraefel
second frame shows information within that source expanded, the third frame shows another source within that source expanded, and finally, the last frame shows that the label of that source has been...
1 Centre de Recherche et Restauration des Musèes de France, (2008)
Denis Pitzalis, Patrick Sinclair, Christian Lahanier, Matthew Addis, Richard Lowe, Shahbaz Hafeez, ...
Abstract. In this paper we describe the practical implications of semantically exposing a collection management system (EROS [1][2][3][4]) for large cultural heritage multimedia repositories. This is...
Effective Benchmarking for RDF Stores Using Synthetic Data (2008)
Owens, Alisdair, Gibbins, Nick, Schraefel, Mc
RDF stores are showing consistent performance improvements, with benchmarks showing that several are capable of effectively storing and querying over 10^9 triples. However, detailed information...
The metadata is the message (2008)
André, Paul, Schraefel, Mc, Wilson, Max, Smith, Daniel
The question "What is Web Science" is still frequently asked - even by authors of papers about Web Science. In this position paper we consider what part of the Web Science cycle makes this cycle...
Semantic Web meets Web 2.0 (and vice versa): The Value of the Mundane for the Semantic Web (2008)
Mc Schraefel, Daniel Alex, Er Smith, Alistair Russell, Max Wilson
Abstract. Web 2.0, not the Semantic Web, has become the face of “the next generation Web ” among the tech-literate set, and even among many in the various research communities involved in the...
Abstract. Making Tea is a design elitation method developed specifically to deal with situations in which (1) the designers do not share domain or artefact knowledge with design-domain experts, (2)...
Bringing the Semantic Web home: a research agenda for local, personalized SWUI (2008)
André, Paul, Schraefel, Mc, Van Kleek, Max, Karger, David
We suggest that by taking the Semantic Web local and personal, and deploying it as a shared "data sea" for all applications to trawl, new types of interaction are possible (even necessitated) with...
Simplifying knowledge creation and access for end-users on the SW (2008)
Van Kleek, Max, Bernstein, Michael, André, Paul, Perttunen, Mikko, Karger, David, Schraefel, Mc
In this position paper, we argue that improved mechanisms for knowledge acquisition and access on the semantic web (SW) will be necessary before it will be adopted widely by end-users. In particular,...
Bringing the Semantic Web home: a research agenda for local, personalized SWUI (2008)
André, Paul, Schraefel, Mc, Van Kleek, Max, Karger, David
We suggest that by taking the Semantic Web local and personal, and deploying it as a shared "data sea" for all applications to trawl, new types of interaction are possible (even necessitated) with...
Simplifying knowledge creation and access for end-users on the SW (2008)
Van Kleek, Max, Bernstein, Michael, André, Paul, Perttunen, Mikko, Karger, David, Schraefel, Mc
In this position paper, we argue that improved mechanisms for knowledge acquisition and access on the semantic web (SW) will be necessary before it will be adopted widely by end-users. In particular,...
AtomsMasher: Personalised Context-Sensitive Automation for the Web (2008)
Van Kleek, Max, Andre, Paul, Perttunen, Mikko, Bernstein, Michael, Karger, David, Miller, Rob, ...
This paper introduces AtomsMasher, an environment for creating reactive scripts that can draw upon widely heterogeneous information to automate common information-intensive tasks. AtomsMasher is...
AtomsMasher: Personalised Context-Sensitive Automation for the Web (2008)
Van Kleek, Max, Andre, Paul, Perttunen, Mikko, Bernstein, Michael, Karger, David, Miller, Rob, ...
This paper introduces AtomsMasher, an environment for creating reactive scripts that can draw upon widely heterogeneous information to automate common information-intensive tasks. AtomsMasher is...
Bernstein, Michael, Van Kleek, Max, Khushraj, Deepali, Nayak, Rajeev, Liu, Curtis, Schraefel, Mc, ...
This paper is a case study of an artifact design and evaluation process; it is a reflection on how right thinking about design methods may at times result in sub-optimal results. Our goal has been to...
Bernstein, Michael, Van Kleek, Max, Khushraj, Deepali, Nayak, Rajeev, Liu, Curtis, Schraefel, Mc, ...
This paper is a case study of an artifact design and evaluation process; it is a reflection on how right thinking about design methods may at times result in sub-optimal results. Our goal has been to...
The Metadata is the Message (2008)
André, Paul, Schraefel, Mc, Wilson, Max L., Smith, Daniel A.
The question "What is Web Science" is still frequently asked - even by authors of papers about Web Science. In this position paper we consider what part of the Web Science cycle makes this cycle...
The Metadata is the Message (2008)
André, Paul, Schraefel, Mc, Wilson, Max L., Smith, Daniel A.
The question "What is Web Science" is still frequently asked - even by authors of papers about Web Science. In this position paper we consider what part of the Web Science cycle makes this cycle...
Interactively using Semantic Web knowledge: Creating scalable abstractions with FacetOntology (2008)
The amount of knowledge accessible on the Semantic Web is growing, and there is a need for a scalable solution to facili- tate exploring that data. Currently approaches to exploring Semantic Web data...
Challenges in Supporting Faceted Semantic Browsing of Multimedia Collections (2007)
Smith, Daniel Alexander, Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, Mc, Sinclair, Patrick, André, Paul, Wilson, Max, ...
We discuss three approaches, 3store, D2R and MySQL, we have explored to support efficient querying of multimedia data sources via mSpace, a rich UI. Our results underline key research challenges...
Challenges in Supporting Faceted Semantic Browsing of Multimedia Collections (2007)
Smith, Daniel Alexander, Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, Mc, Sinclair, Patrick, André, Paul, Wilson, Max, ...
We discuss three approaches, 3store, D2R and MySQL, we have explored to support efficient querying of multimedia data sources via mSpace, a rich UI. Our results underline key research challenges...
Challenges in Supporting Faceted Semantic Browsing of Multimedia Collections (2007)
Smith, Daniel A., Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, Mc, Sinclair, Patrick, André, Paul, Wilson, Max, ...
This is the poster for the paper: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14507/
Richtags: Cross Repository Browsing (2007)
Smith, Daniel A., Lambert, Joe, Schraefel, Mc
richtags allows you to search across multiple repositories from numerous institutions covering hundreds of disciplines for research that is of interest to you!
Challenges in Supporting Faceted Semantic Browsing of Multimedia Collections (2007)
Smith, Daniel Alexander, Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, Mc, Sinclair, Patrick, André, Paul, Wilson, Max, ...
This paper describes our experience developing a semantically-rich exploratory interface that integrates a suite of Newsfilm media sources and associated information. Indeed, the affordances for real...
Bernstein, Michael, Van Kleek, Max, Karger, David, Schraefel, Mc
In this paper we describe information scraps -- a class of personal information whose content is scribbled on Post-it notes, scrawled on corners of random sheets of paper, buried inside the bodies of...
Reflections on Challenges in Supporting Faceted Semantic Browsing of Multimedia Collections (2007)
Smith, Daniel Alexander, Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, Mc, Sinclair, Patrick, André, Paul, Wilson, Max, ...
This paper describes our experience developing a semantically-rich exploratory interface that integrates a suite of Newsfilm media sources and associated information. Indeed, the affordances for real...
Bernstein, Michael, Van Kleek, Max, Karger, David, Schraefel, Mc
In this paper we describe information scraps -- a class of personal information whose content is scribbled on Post-it notes, scrawled on corners of random sheets of paper, buried inside the bodies of...
Reflections on Challenges in Supporting Faceted Semantic Browsing of Multimedia Collections (2007)
Smith, Daniel Alexander, Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, Mc, Sinclair, Patrick, André, Paul, Wilson, Max, ...
This paper describes our experience developing a semantically-rich exploratory interface that integrates a suite of Newsfilm media sources and associated information. Indeed, the affordances for real...
Bernstein, Michael, Van Kleek, Max, Karger, David, Schraefel, Mc
In this paper we describe information scraps -- a class of personal information whose content is scribbled on Post-it notes, scrawled on corners of random sheets of paper, buried inside the bodies of...
Information Scraps: How and Why Information Eludes our Personal Information Management Tools (2007)
Bernstein, Michael, Van Kleek, Max, Karger, David, Schraefel, Mc
In this paper we describe information scraps -- a class of personal information whose content is scribbled on Post-it notes, scrawled on corners of random sheets of paper, buried inside the bodies of...
The mSpace Classical Music Explorer: Improving Access to Classical Music for Real People (2005)
Mc Schraefel, Daniel Alex, Er Smith, Alistair Russel, Alistair Owens, Craig Harris, ...
http://demo.mspace.fm, is a Web-based explorer designed to improve access to the classical music domain, especially for those who do not have domain knowledge. We could characterize the approach as...
The evolving mSpace platform: leveraging the Semantic Web on the Trail of the Memex (2005)
Mc Schraefel, Daniel A. Smith, Alisdair Owens, Alistair Russell, Craig Harris, Max Wilson
“Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them ” – V. Bush
Applying mSpace interfaces to the Semantic Web - working paper (2004)
Gibbins, Nicholas, Harris, Stephen, Dix, Alan, Schraefel, Mc
Ontologies can represent large, multidimensional spaces: classical music, research in computer science in the UK, health care for breast cancer are examples of rich domains. There have been no easy...
Applying mSpace interfaces to the Semantic Web - working paper (2004)
Gibbins, Nicholas, Harris, Stephen, Dix, Alan, Schraefel, Mc
Ontologies can represent large, multidimensional spaces: classical music, research in computer science in the UK, health care for breast cancer are examples of rich domains. There have been no easy...
Applying mSpace interfaces to the Semantic Web - working paper (2004)
Gibbins, Nicholas, Harris, Stephen, Dix, Alan, Schraefel, Mc
Ontologies can represent large, multidimensional spaces: classical music, research in computer science in the UK, health care for breast cancer are examples of rich domains. There have been no easy...