Showing posts with label Open data. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Open data. Show all posts
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
LOD - Programmer
I've been searching for a LOD programmer to both advise and probably do some of the programming for the next stage of LP. Kat from the OKF has been helpful but as yet nothing has materialized. As a result I am going to present the work at LDN 3, the monthly meet up of the OKF, hopefully from that something will occur.....
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Semantic, RDF and Linked data.
Just writing a description of the final phase of the Landscape-Portrait Bournemouth project. In reading about the history of RDF as a subset of XML it seems to me, materially and maybe structurally, that there is a connection between the schema of RDF and the materiality of video.
For example the portrait videos in Landscape-Portrait do not work in a statistical fashion, rather each video text is a temporal descriptor, rather than an abstract fixed piece of data. In order to access it a coherent taxonomy, such as that outlined by RDF needs to be employed.
In essence the video functions as a container, much in the same way as XML/RDF is a language for describing content in a uniform manner, video is used as a temporal container of descriptive information, which might be accessed by RDF protocols and made sense of at a machinic level by using a semantic approach.
That said the video is also a signifier of a great deal of other information not quantifiable using a descriptive language such as RDF such as might be understood by Jameson's description of video as ‘a total flow’ of imagery, words, context. Overiding the hegemony of the linguistic medium' and perhaps this quote form Jameson points towards this machinic understanding:
'“Yet the involvement of the machine in all this allows us now perhaps to escape phenomenology and the rhetoric of consciousness and experience, and to confront the seemingly subjective temporality in a new and materialist way, a way which constitutes a new kind of materialism as well, one not of matter but of machinery.' (Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism, 1991).
For example the portrait videos in Landscape-Portrait do not work in a statistical fashion, rather each video text is a temporal descriptor, rather than an abstract fixed piece of data. In order to access it a coherent taxonomy, such as that outlined by RDF needs to be employed.
In essence the video functions as a container, much in the same way as XML/RDF is a language for describing content in a uniform manner, video is used as a temporal container of descriptive information, which might be accessed by RDF protocols and made sense of at a machinic level by using a semantic approach.
That said the video is also a signifier of a great deal of other information not quantifiable using a descriptive language such as RDF such as might be understood by Jameson's description of video as ‘a total flow’ of imagery, words, context. Overiding the hegemony of the linguistic medium' and perhaps this quote form Jameson points towards this machinic understanding:
'“Yet the involvement of the machine in all this allows us now perhaps to escape phenomenology and the rhetoric of consciousness and experience, and to confront the seemingly subjective temporality in a new and materialist way, a way which constitutes a new kind of materialism as well, one not of matter but of machinery.' (Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism, 1991).
Monday, 31 October 2011
Open Data
Just spent the whole day creating and submitting an entry for Wikipedia for Landscape-Portrait. For the lay user there is a fairly steep learning curve, I had all my images rejected because I attached the wrong licence to them ! - however I did find a open source
OGG video convertor which is good. We wait and see if it is accepted. My plan is to release soem of the video content in the public realm via Wikipedia Commons, which is then accessed by DBpedia and made availible.
OGG video convertor which is good. We wait and see if it is accepted. My plan is to release soem of the video content in the public realm via Wikipedia Commons, which is then accessed by DBpedia and made availible.
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