... an MIT graduate student has developed a tool called Piggybank, " + "software that plugs in to the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox Web browser. " + "Piggybank lets people surf the Web, tag visited sites with keywords and " + "build a local, annotated collection that can then be published to a site " + "called the bank. Therefore, it turns into a \"Semantic Web browser\" so " + "users can expand the scope of understanding around existing information " + "on the Web.
" + "\"A generalized data archive lets you make data work together in ways " + "you couldn't before,\" said MacKenzie Smith, associate director for " + "technology in the MIT libraries.
" }, { label: 'Simile: Real World Challenges Drive Research Forward', type: 'Media Item', 'pub-type': 'News Article', year: '2007-04', venue: 'CSAIL Spotlight', author: [ 'TIG Staff' ], url: 'http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/news/2007/simile.html', project: 'Exhibit', excerpt: "... In the same way HTML limits the ways information can be presented " + "the Libraries have also been limited to cataloging their information " + "according to specific predefined criteria such as author, title, year of " + "publication, and name of the journal.
" + "The Exhibit tool, currently in production and available for use as " + "Open Source software, is one way SIMILE is breaking down some of these " + "constraints. It allows a user to gather information about any topic and " + "arrange it according to their personal preferences.
" }, { label: 'SIMILE: Rich Internet Collections', type: 'Media Item', 'pub-type': 'News Article', year: '2007-07', venue: "Dr. Dobb's", author: 'Deirdre Blake', url: 'http://www.ddj.com/web-development/201201780', project: 'Exhibit', excerpt: "... One of the tools we're currently working on is called \"Exhibit.\" " + "This is a tool that lets anyone take a collection of anything they care " + "about and put it on the web as a rich, interactive, web-2.0 style site " + "without doing any programming...
" }, { label: 'SIMILE: Semantic web mashups for the rest of us', type: 'Media Item', 'pub-type': 'Blog Post', year: '2007-12-06', venue: "Jon Udell's Blog", author: 'Jon Udell', url: 'http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/12/06/simile-semantic-web-mashups-for-the-rest-of-us/', project: [ 'Exhibit', 'Babel', 'Potluck' ], excerpt: "... I don't think that any semantic web skeptic, and I have been one, " + "has ever disputed the value that can emerge when you traverse RDF-style " + "data sets. The question has always been: How will we get people to create " + "those data sets, in ways and for purposes meaningful to them? The Simile " + "team are laser-focused on solving that problem, and from what I can see " + "they're biting off huge chunks of it with these tools and methods.
" + "I'm not suggesting that ontologies will play no role, but I've long " + "believed that we need to evolve toward them from real data that people " + "can create, use interactively, and begin to cross-combine. That's exactly " + "the approach that Simile is taking. Seeing it in action, and then easily " + "reproducing it myself, totally made my day.
" }, { label: 'Hacking the Noosphere', type: 'Media Item', 'pub-type': 'Talk', year: '2008', venue: "CUSEC", author: 'Jon Udell', url: 'http://jonudell.net/talks/cusec/cusec.html', project: [ 'Exhibit', 'Potluck' ], excerpt: "... Going a step further, the amazing David Huynh -- who is responsible " + "for many of Project SIMILE's innovative web applications -- has created a tool " + "[Potluck] that almost anybody could use to make those equivalences.
" + "... what I'm really trying to draw attention to, in the examples of Freebase " + "and SIMILE, is a design pattern, for information and communication systems, " + "that puts people first, recognizes human desires and talents, and optimizes " + "for collaboration.
" }, { label: 'Jon Udell\'s Interviews with Innovators - Stefano Mazzocchi', type: 'Media Item', 'pub-type': 'Podcast', year: '2008-01-16', venue: "IT Conversations", author: [ 'Jon Udell', 'Stefano Mazzocchi' ], url: 'http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3513.html', project: [ 'Piggy Bank', 'Exhibit', 'Potluck' ], excerpt: "{Stefano @ 35:00} ... my colleague and friend David Huynh is on the forefront of " + "that--he's the author and creator of most of our tools on the UI side--Timeline, " + "Exhibit, Potluck. He really captures and understands the need for unlocking this " + "chicken and egg problem...
" + "{Stefano @ 36:35} ... and I have to say David has incredible vision on that side. " + "He really puts himself in the shoes of a user that really doesn't care nor want " + "RDF to succeed...
" }, { label: 'A slicker course picker', type: 'Media Item', 'pub-type': 'News Article', year: '2008-01-28', venue: "MIT Spotlight", author: [ 'Robyn Fizz' ], url: 'http://web.mit.edu/spotlight/course-picker/', project: [ 'Course Picker', 'Exhibit', 'Solvent', 'Crowbar', 'Babel', 'Timeline', 'Juggler', 'Timegrid' ], excerpt: "... Course Picker is compelling because it offers several features not " + "available through the online subject listings and schedule. The latter, " + "designed in the early 1990s, does not offer the flexible searching made " + "popular by Web 2.0 sites.
" }, { label: 'With Exhibit, You Too Can Publish Interactive Web Pages', type: 'Media Item', 'pub-type': 'News Article', year: '2008-02-21', venue: "IS&T News", author: [ 'Robyn Fizz' ], url: 'http://web.mit.edu/ist/isnews/v23/n03/230301.html', project: [ 'Exhibit' ], excerpt: "... What if publishing interactive, data-rich pages were made simple, " + "so that all you needed was HTML savvy, a few tutorials, and sample pages " + "from which you could copy and paste – just like in the pioneer days of web " + "publishing? Even better, what if you could mash data from other pages with " + "your own or make your data available for others to reuse?
" } ] }