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== User Info ==
 
== User Info ==
  
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Jeff Hammerbacher currently works as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_analyst quant] in Manhattan.  He's very interested in assisting the CC Developer community.
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Jeff Hammerbacher used to work as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_analyst quant] in Manhattan.  He now works as a Research Scientist at [http://facebook.com Facebook] in Palo Alto.  He's very interested in assisting the CC Developer community.  You can reach him at jeff dot hammerbacher at gmail dot com.
  
 
== To Do ==
 
== To Do ==
  
 
* Educate myself about technology used for CC licensing.
 
* Educate myself about technology used for CC licensing.
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** Read the following books and collect relevant links from them:
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** [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3540205942/qid=1139088544/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9051813-5395830?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Information Sharing on the Semantic Web], by Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Frank van Harmelen.
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*** [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3540205942/qid=1139088544/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9051813-5395830?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Information Sharing on the Semantic Web], by Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Frank van Harmelen.
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** [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471402591/qid=1139088692/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-9051813-5395830?s=books&v=glance&n=283155  Creating the Semantic Web with RDF: Professional Developer's Guide] by Johan Hjelm.
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*** [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1852335513/ref=pd_sim_b_3/103-9051813-5395830?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance Ontological Engineering] by Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Oscar Corcho, and Mariano Fernandez-Lopez.
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** [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1852335769/qid=1139253271/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-4674761-4478539?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Visualizing the Semantic Web], edited by Vladimir Geroimenko and Chaomei Chen.
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*** [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471402591/qid=1139088692/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-9051813-5395830?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Creating the Semantic Web with RDF: Professional Developer's Guide] by Johan Hjelm.
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** [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1852335513/ref=pd_sim_b_3/103-9051813-5395830?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance Ontological Engineering], by Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Oscar Corcho, and Mariano Fernandez-Lopez.
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*** Visualizing the Semantic Web
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* Understand [[ccPublisher]] codebase, related technologies
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* Make stuff.
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** [http://yergler.net/talks/p82_architecture/ Nathan's talk]
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* Choose a project based upon interests/skills and familiarize myself with codebase.
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** [http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/developer/doc/p6/current/ P6 documentation] ([http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/ Epydoc] page)
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** [http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/FrontPage Zope3]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxPython wxPython]
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** [http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm elementtree]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlios Berlios]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion_%28software%29 Subversion]
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* Via Nathan: get a first extension written that would do something like post to a user-specifed blog whenever you upload something (ala' "ping" ing)
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** Get ccPublisher2 running from source
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** Check the [[Extending ccPublisher 2]] documentation
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** Detailed understanding of ccPublisher2 API
  
 
=== Progress ===
 
=== Progress ===
  
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Read the first two books, both were atrocious.  W3C and Wikipedia content much more informative.  We'll see how the last two books turn out.
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Read the Information Sharing and RDF books, both were atrocious.  W3C and Wikipedia content much more informative.  Halfway through "Visualizing the Semantic Web", and obtained second edition.  Began posting notes and links below from the Information Sharing book.
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Polished my Python and identified first project to understand: [[ccPublisher]].  Read through wiki page and [http://yergler.net/talks/p82_architecture/ Nathan's talk].
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=== Notes and Links ===
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==== Information Sharing on the Semantic Web ====
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This book's one good idea is that ontologies should be modular and have a separate layer to allow for easy integration with other ontologies.  Also has interesting section on the ontology of statistics.  The rest of the book lays out platitudes and mainly references other German researchers.  The beginning of my notes (to be continued):
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* Preface
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** The main thesis of this book is that the problem of information sharing (finding and integration) is only solvable by giving the computer better access to the ''semantics'' of the information.
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* Part 1: Information Sharing and Ontologies
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** Chapter 1: Semantic Integration
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*** Explicit representations of information semantics are needed in a weakly structured environment.
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*** Focus on semantic integration and content-based filtering.
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*** Heterogeneity studied by intelligent information integration and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_database distributed database] communities.
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*** Heterogeneity problems can be divided into three categories: syntax, structure, and semantics.
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*** Syntax problems solved by standards: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODBC ODBC], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML HTML], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML SGML]->[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML XML] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Schema XML Schema], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Type_Definition DTD]), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework RDF] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Schema RDF Schema]), etc.
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*** XML provides the framework but not the semantics.
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*** XML Schema constrains the ''structure'' of XML documents while RDF Schema defines the ''vocabulary'' used in RDF data models.
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*** '''Further Reading''':
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****[http://www-db.stanford.edu/%7Estefan/paper/2000/xmlrdf.pdf The Semantic Web - On the respective Roles of XML and RDF]
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****[http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/gio/1996/I3book.html Intelligent Integration of Information]
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****[http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~rbaeza/iradsbook/irbook.html Information Retrieval: Data Structures & Algorithms]
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****[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3540416021/102-4674761-4478539?v=glance&n=283155 Ontologies: Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce]
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****[http://www.cs.umbc.edu/771/papers/karp-freview.pdf The Design Space of Frame Knowledge Representation Systems]
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****[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521781760/sr=1-1/qid=1139344547/ref=sr_1_1/102-4674761-4478539?%5Fencoding=UTF8 The Description Logic Handbook]

Latest revision as of 00:47, 8 May 2006

User Info

Jeff Hammerbacher used to work as a quant in Manhattan. He now works as a Research Scientist at Facebook in Palo Alto. He's very interested in assisting the CC Developer community. You can reach him at jeff dot hammerbacher at gmail dot com.

To Do

Progress

Read the Information Sharing and RDF books, both were atrocious. W3C and Wikipedia content much more informative. Halfway through "Visualizing the Semantic Web", and obtained second edition. Began posting notes and links below from the Information Sharing book.

Polished my Python and identified first project to understand: ccPublisher. Read through wiki page and Nathan's talk.

Notes and Links

Information Sharing on the Semantic Web

This book's one good idea is that ontologies should be modular and have a separate layer to allow for easy integration with other ontologies. Also has interesting section on the ontology of statistics. The rest of the book lays out platitudes and mainly references other German researchers. The beginning of my notes (to be continued):

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