Thyago Duque

I am on the wave.

I did not start waving about anything useful yet and therefore, google wave still just an useless toy for me, but I can see that it has potential to be useful and chaotic. A lot more potential to be chaotic than useful, but it is still evolving.

I will come back and post my impressions once I use it for something useful, but for now, all I can say is that I feel that superiority feeling that people that are member of an exclusive group feel, even if there is absolutely nothing special about this group.

BTW: Do people use waving for that? Well, I am guessing they will, so I am trying to be one of the early adopters =D

In the past weeks, we talked about the question of Why Semantics (here) and how to build scientific ontologies (here). Now it is time to start building our own ontologies using Protégé.

Protégé is an open source tool to build OWL ontologies and it can be found here, under downloads (here) . The version 3.4 is the last stable version, and it recomended by several specialists. Version 4.0 is a release candidate and is quite stable.

Finally,  a tutorial that teaches how to use Protégé and introduces some concepts of OWL can be found here.

Zotero (here) is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself. This video (here) shows some of the features. It seems very promising.

Zots (here) is another Firefox add-on that allows you to publish your citations from Zotero in one step using the Exhibit Widget.
The Exhibit (here) is javascript library that provides faceted browsing without the needing to use server-side programming like PHP.

Exhibit and Zots are part of the Simile project: Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments (here).