Author: julian

  • Algorithmic Criticism

    Today I want to present I paper which made me think about Digital Humanities. It is called “Algorithmic Criticism” by Stephen Ramsay. Unlike most of the other papers that only focus new algorithms and new data, this one also focuses on methods how the two parts of the digital humanities can be combined together. He…

  • How to be a modern scientist, Google Tensorflow

    This post I want to share a few things that just came to me the last couple of weeks and think there are worth sharing: There is a new episode on Open Science Radio. This is a German podcast about Open Science and other stuff that is related. They also have some episodes. One thing…

  • Semantic Web Technologies – OWL, Rules and Reasoning

    Summary of week four for the course Knowledge Engineering with Semantic Web Technologies 2015 by Harald Sack at OpenHPI. RDFS Semantics: we need this because there was no formal description of the semantics and then the same querys gave back different results. So you add semantics. Every triple encoded in RDF is a statement and…

  • Semantic Web Technologies – Ontology and logic

    Summary of week three for the course Knowledge Engineering with Semantic Web Technologies 2015 by Harald Sack at OpenHPI. This lecture deals with ontologies. If you want to speak a common language, you need: common symbols and concepts (Syntax) agreement about their meaning (Semantics) classification of concepts (Taxonomy) associations and relations of concepts (Thesauri) rules…

  • Semantic Web Technologies – RDFS and SPARQL

    Summary of week two for the course Knowledge Engineering with Semantic Web Technologies 2015 by Harald Sack at OpenHPI. Reification allows you to make reference statements. Therefore a statement also gets an URL. It also allows you to make statements about statements and assumptions about assumptions (e.g. Sherlock Holmes thinks that the gardener murdered the…