For the ISWS summer school I prepared an interactive poster. Read in his post what it is about and see how it was made. My summer this year will start with the attendance of the International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS) in Bertinoro, Italy. For that we were invited to bring a poster, describing our PhD research. My current research tasks involve so called shapes, describing data within a graph of information.

Did you ever use a language learning app and were annoyed that the exercises are either too easy or too hard? That are actually reasons people give up. Well, probably you would profit from adaptive learning systems, which adapt the difficulty of the exercises to your abilities!

At the end of May I had the chance to attend the WebScience conference. A venue where computer scientists and social scientists meet! ACM Turing Lecture by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, adaptive learning analytics, roots of radicalisation on Twitter, internet regulation in Russia. These are only some of the very interesting topics. Continue reading for the full travel report.

The cabinet of Germany has the plan to publish the drafts of laws and associated position papers of the lobbies. This should be done for more than 600 laws of the past 4 years. This transparency can reveal a lot. For instance, which Lobby influenced which law actively. Nearly 17,000 documents are planned to be published. But how can one handle this huge amount?

You are traveling abroad to a conference and you think you are prepared? Think again! There is always something you probably will forget about and if some unfavorable circumstances following each other you may find yourself in real trouble. Check out my list, learn from my mistakes and extend it, in case I missed something!

Having Provenance or not having it, that could be worth than several hundred million dollar. Where does something come from, how was it changed since it exists, that is provenance. These informations help human beings to asses things.