The time has come to say goodbye to Ireland and move back to Poland. We have just packed our last 5 years into 40 boxes which will be shipped today.
see http://www.flickr.com/photos/skruk/3111459782/ for the second group of boxes ... :)
Monday, December 15, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Google Translator cannot translate ?
Last week I was attending a very interesting presentation on Google Translate.
As could expect - statistical approach to translations is not perfect.
But I did not dream that Google can translate:
(see for yourself - the Polish translation is “I cannot translate”)
As could expect - statistical approach to translations is not perfect.
But I did not dream that Google can translate:
- Mazury as Hawaii
- Gdańsk as Atlanta
- Wawelski Smok as George Washington
(see for yourself - the Polish translation is “I cannot translate”)
Friday, October 10, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Powerful again
A few weeks ago my MacBook Pro battery decided it is too old (1 year !) and needs to retire. After many unexpected drops for power from 40% to 0% in a second I decided it will not heal itself magically.
Colleague of mine suggested I should not buy an Apple replacement (which I should got for free btw. but I was one (1 !) day late in calling their helpline after Galway 3G store send me away) - and I was happy to exercise this idea. I simply love MacOSX - but certain ideas about the way Apple treats their customers is unbearable.
After some googling I’ve stumbled on http://fastmac.com/ and today the battery has arrived. Looks very much like my previous one - but I have already tested that it lasts much longer than the Apple original ever did. Well done guys. When I am fed up with my processor power - I will call ya again :)
Colleague of mine suggested I should not buy an Apple replacement (which I should got for free btw. but I was one (1 !) day late in calling their helpline after Galway 3G store send me away) - and I was happy to exercise this idea. I simply love MacOSX - but certain ideas about the way Apple treats their customers is unbearable.
After some googling I’ve stumbled on http://fastmac.com/ and today the battery has arrived. Looks very much like my previous one - but I have already tested that it lasts much longer than the Apple original ever did. Well done guys. When I am fed up with my processor power - I will call ya again :)
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Getting my teeth into HDR
HDR is a cool technique - even though some of the photos look artificial/artistic - usually it is worth trying.
You can view a slideshow with it here
Friday, August 15, 2008
Call me homophobic - but this is too much ...
Usually I do not care too much about politics, etc.
And in most cases I agree that people have their right to live their own way as long as they do not affect the way other people live.
Call me homophobic - but I cannot stand when I head more and more countries in Europe allow homo-couples to adopt children? This does affect other peoples’ lives, i.e., these poor children. It hurts. That is for sure.
I could probably write hundreds, if not thousands, of verses showing how irrational is this behavior of some governments, but today I simple wanted to write about two cases that really gave me a hearth attack:
1) Recently a catholic adoption agency in UK announced that they will have to consider adoptions by homo couples; otherwise the government might close them. It is surely against the teaching of the Church - but they can either accept that or close down and eventually, let down all those catholic (hetero) couples that would like to adopt children.
Many people say about dividing church from the government; but they usually mean that the church should not try to influence the government. First of all - church is the people - who elect and are elected to the government. How are you going to separate that? Second of all - isn’t that the governments are just trying to impose their rules over the moral rights preached by the church ?
2) UPDATE: Apparently the URL that was provided by one of the contributors is outdated (see comments); it only proves my case that some people are trying to sell a picture that is suppose to convince everyone that they are homophobic.
I am just putting together a web page promoting our book on semantic digital libraries. Part of the task is to prepare a list of all online references in the book. While processing them I have stumbled upon the digital library of The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). The first page greets you with only few links, almost like Google. But, among those - it is hard not to spot those marked below. I will simply leave this without a comment .....
And in most cases I agree that people have their right to live their own way as long as they do not affect the way other people live.
Call me homophobic - but I cannot stand when I head more and more countries in Europe allow homo-couples to adopt children? This does affect other peoples’ lives, i.e., these poor children. It hurts. That is for sure.
I could probably write hundreds, if not thousands, of verses showing how irrational is this behavior of some governments, but today I simple wanted to write about two cases that really gave me a hearth attack:
1) Recently a catholic adoption agency in UK announced that they will have to consider adoptions by homo couples; otherwise the government might close them. It is surely against the teaching of the Church - but they can either accept that or close down and eventually, let down all those catholic (hetero) couples that would like to adopt children.
Many people say about dividing church from the government; but they usually mean that the church should not try to influence the government. First of all - church is the people - who elect and are elected to the government. How are you going to separate that? Second of all - isn’t that the governments are just trying to impose their rules over the moral rights preached by the church ?
2) UPDATE: Apparently the URL that was provided by one of the contributors is outdated (see comments); it only proves my case that some people are trying to sell a picture that is suppose to convince everyone that they are homophobic.
I am just putting together a web page promoting our book on semantic digital libraries. Part of the task is to prepare a list of all online references in the book. While processing them I have stumbled upon the digital library of The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). The first page greets you with only few links, almost like Google. But, among those - it is hard not to spot those marked below. I will simply leave this without a comment .....
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
On SVN, sf.net and MacOSX
Just a short note to everybody who is struggling with either (or both) problems:
* since only recenly was unable to use your sourceforge.net hosted subversion account with strange response 403
* was trying to use SCPlugin for MacOSX with https:// repositories without success
The solution to the first problem is pretty simple - you are probably using http://...sf.net/... address for your repositories - this is no longer supported.
To solve your problems - do
svn switch --relocate http://...... https://.......
The second problem might (as in my case) arise from the SSL certificate problems with the subversion server. If you enter your repository URL to the web browser and it asks you to confirm the certificate than this is exactly the problem I was facing, and ... good news - here is the solution for you. Apparently SCPlugin still cannot ask you to confirm the certificate through GUI, so you have to do it yourself manually.
The easiest way is to call
svn ls https://.....
and answer (p)ermanently to the given question.
However, since neither MacOSX (Leopard 10.5.4) nor Fink provides subversion in the new (backward incompatible!), endorsed by sf.net version 1.5 you might consider using the one (1.5.1) provided by SCPlugin at the following location:
/Library/Contextual\ Menu\ Items/SCFinderPlugin.plugin/Contents/Resources/SCPluginUIDaemon.app/Contents/bin/svn
The new SmartSVN 4 is also compatible with SVN 1.5 so your command line SVN might soon be incompatible with your repositories (if you use SmartSVN 4 at least once with this repository!)
* since only recenly was unable to use your sourceforge.net hosted subversion account with strange response 403
* was trying to use SCPlugin for MacOSX with https:// repositories without success
The solution to the first problem is pretty simple - you are probably using http://...sf.net/... address for your repositories - this is no longer supported.
To solve your problems - do
svn switch --relocate http://...... https://.......
The second problem might (as in my case) arise from the SSL certificate problems with the subversion server. If you enter your repository URL to the web browser and it asks you to confirm the certificate than this is exactly the problem I was facing, and ... good news - here is the solution for you. Apparently SCPlugin still cannot ask you to confirm the certificate through GUI, so you have to do it yourself manually.
The easiest way is to call
svn ls https://.....
and answer (p)ermanently to the given question.
However, since neither MacOSX (Leopard 10.5.4) nor Fink provides subversion in the new (backward incompatible!), endorsed by sf.net version 1.5 you might consider using the one (1.5.1) provided by SCPlugin at the following location:
/Library/Contextual\ Menu\ Items/SCFinderPlugin.plugin/Contents/Resources/SCPluginUIDaemon.app/Contents/bin/svn
The new SmartSVN 4 is also compatible with SVN 1.5 so your command line SVN might soon be incompatible with your repositories (if you use SmartSVN 4 at least once with this repository!)
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Drag and Drop in MacOS X
One think I simply love about Mac is the consistency of UI interaction design.
For example, you can drag and drop files - right simple. But you can also use the same paradigm to copy color code from one editor to another. It is much easier than retyping it, or twisting arm to get it to the text editor.
Here is a short example:
For example, you can drag and drop files - right simple. But you can also use the same paradigm to copy color code from one editor to another. It is much easier than retyping it, or twisting arm to get it to the text editor.
Here is a short example:
Running fresh Leopard **might** solve your AirPort problems
I could not stand it any longer - certain issues which worked on Ewelina’s Mac somehow did not work on mine, e.g., no auto-connect to known WiFi networks.
I thought to myself - this have to be because I did Tiger-to-Leopard upgrade. Time to reinstall my precious Leo and see what will happen.
The whole procedure started on Friday night, and I got it operational few hours later with my stuff seamlessly migrated thanks to the wonders of TimeMachine/TimeCapsule (sweet - trust me).
I have saved a lot of space as a side effect - this time I knew what NOT to install ☺
And the Wifi apparently worked just fine.
At least until .... I came downstairs where a separate WiFi network is setup (our walls as so tick the signal can hardly go from one floor to other). To my surprise - autoconnect to the network downstairs did no work. I was trying everything - from changing network settings to fiddling with KeyChain access.
Nothing helped.
Than, following an old and very good advice of my old friend and Unix guru in one person, i.e., Dorota, I have checked LOGs using Mac’s Console.
And I have found this:
7/27/08 15:16:44 SystemUIServer[122] Error: _ACNetworkCopyKeychainItem() expected password for "WiSkrukDownstairs" not found: -25300 (The specified item could not be found in the keychain.)
After some googling I have came across a post suggesting that moving “System Preferences” from /Applications to /Applications/Utilities/ can be the cause.
Really ?! I mean - this application should be in utilities in the first place.
Well, anyway - I gave it a shout.
Result?
Now it works
I thought to myself - this have to be because I did Tiger-to-Leopard upgrade. Time to reinstall my precious Leo and see what will happen.
The whole procedure started on Friday night, and I got it operational few hours later with my stuff seamlessly migrated thanks to the wonders of TimeMachine/TimeCapsule (sweet - trust me).
I have saved a lot of space as a side effect - this time I knew what NOT to install ☺
And the Wifi apparently worked just fine.
At least until .... I came downstairs where a separate WiFi network is setup (our walls as so tick the signal can hardly go from one floor to other). To my surprise - autoconnect to the network downstairs did no work. I was trying everything - from changing network settings to fiddling with KeyChain access.
Nothing helped.
Than, following an old and very good advice of my old friend and Unix guru in one person, i.e., Dorota, I have checked LOGs using Mac’s Console.
And I have found this:
7/27/08 15:16:44 SystemUIServer[122] Error: _ACNetworkCopyKeychainItem() expected password for "WiSkrukDownstairs" not found: -25300 (The specified item could not be found in the keychain.)
After some googling I have came across a post suggesting that moving “System Preferences” from /Applications to /Applications/Utilities/ can be the cause.
Really ?! I mean - this application should be in utilities in the first place.
Well, anyway - I gave it a shout.
Result?
Now it works
Thursday, June 05, 2008
On AJAX problems with prototype.js v1.5+ (till 1.6.0.2 at least)
My (a little tiring now) work on JOnto 2.0 is getting closer to the finish line. I can almost see the crowd cheering.
Many changes, including WordNet in RDF/OWL and OpenThesaurus (non-English thesauri) support, full-text index, etc.
I decided to check the current version (let’s call it JOnto 2.0 PR 1) with the most recent prototype.js.
To my surprise it did not work. Hanged with no logs whatsoever (as usually with prototype.js).
The bug was not, however, in my code.
It took me a while to recall the details of this deja-vu feeling.
To make sure I will not forget it next time, and for other people to know what is going wrong, here a short description:
If you catch exception with onException(resp, ex) you will see that your script is trying to perform illegal operation.
Firebug reports “Component returned failure code: 0x80070057”
Safari is a little more precise - reports problems with an attempt to set illegal header in the HTTP request.
Where is the bug?
Apparently since prototype.js v1.5, i.e., the first time I have discovered it (since it worked in v1.4) the setRequestHeaders method uses following implementation:
for (var name in headers)
this.transport.setRequestHeader(name, headers[name]);
which does not catch any exceptions
My fix is the following, change this two lines to
var transport = this.transport;
$H(headers).each(function (header){
try{
transport.setRequestHeader(header.key, header.value);
}catch(ex){
// YAHOO.log(header.key, header.value, ex);
}
});
The question remains how is that possible that some invocations of Ajax.Request do and some don’t produce this problem.
For now - I’d rather patch the script and live on.
Many changes, including WordNet in RDF/OWL and OpenThesaurus (non-English thesauri) support, full-text index, etc.
I decided to check the current version (let’s call it JOnto 2.0 PR 1) with the most recent prototype.js.
To my surprise it did not work. Hanged with no logs whatsoever (as usually with prototype.js).
The bug was not, however, in my code.
It took me a while to recall the details of this deja-vu feeling.
To make sure I will not forget it next time, and for other people to know what is going wrong, here a short description:
If you catch exception with onException(resp, ex) you will see that your script is trying to perform illegal operation.
Firebug reports “Component returned failure code: 0x80070057”
Safari is a little more precise - reports problems with an attempt to set illegal header in the HTTP request.
Where is the bug?
Apparently since prototype.js v1.5, i.e., the first time I have discovered it (since it worked in v1.4) the setRequestHeaders method uses following implementation:
for (var name in headers)
this.transport.setRequestHeader(name, headers[name]);
which does not catch any exceptions
My fix is the following, change this two lines to
var transport = this.transport;
$H(headers).each(function (header){
try{
transport.setRequestHeader(header.key, header.value);
}catch(ex){
// YAHOO.log(header.key, header.value, ex);
}
});
The question remains how is that possible that some invocations of Ajax.Request do and some don’t produce this problem.
For now - I’d rather patch the script and live on.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Ordering cafe in Starbucks - be sure to spell your name right ...
Otherwise your surname might become “Cru” (instead of Kruk)
And, never, ever say your name is the “same” as the person who was ordering just before you ☺
And, never, ever say your name is the “same” as the person who was ordering just before you ☺
In case you've spent too much time abroad...
(Part 2) Wizzair teaches us new, unified language Polenglish
This is a photo of a boarding card. The whole card is in English, except for the large-font caption, which reads:
“Please go to the gate immedietally” in Polish. The only problem is that word “gate” can no longer be translated into Polish, right? It had to stay “Gate” (instead of “Bramka”). At least someone was trying to make it a Polish-kind of word and did declension (Gate’u).
This is a photo of a boarding card. The whole card is in English, except for the large-font caption, which reads:
“Please go to the gate immedietally” in Polish. The only problem is that word “gate” can no longer be translated into Polish, right? It had to stay “Gate” (instead of “Bramka”). At least someone was trying to make it a Polish-kind of word and did declension (Gate’u).
Some problems with geography ?
This is the first post (of many coming) with stuff that is so funny I could not resist myself to capture the moment with mobile phone camera ...
Part 1: Hertz and the the lesson of geography
I never knew for my whole life I was Czech, not Pole. Apparently, Hertz is convinced I am.
And this is not just the labels being switch. The prices sounds right - €50 for “the region I called Poland” and €34 for “the region I used to call Czech Republic”.
Part 1: Hertz and the the lesson of geography
I never knew for my whole life I was Czech, not Pole. Apparently, Hertz is convinced I am.
And this is not just the labels being switch. The prices sounds right - €50 for “the region I called Poland” and €34 for “the region I used to call Czech Republic”.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Leopard supporting Java programming
The problem I usually have when starting to use a new library/API is which JARs to include so that only those required are included, and none else. Usually this is a wild guess, or listing content of all available JARs.
With Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) this is no longer the case. The new “Preview” comes very handy in times like that.
With Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) this is no longer the case. The new “Preview” comes very handy in times like that.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Is Semantic Web Technology Taking the Wrong Turn?
This is the question Chris Bussler asks in his recent article in the IEEE Internet Computing "Peering" column, edited by Charles Petrie, from DERI Stanford. It is interesting that among few examples of successful, ongoing products of Semantic Web research, Chris mentions JeromeDL. I personally, consider it great success, since it is more than two years now since met the last time. That time JeromeDL was a little more than a rough idea. Now, it can even impress (maybe not everyone - but I do not care about these maggots).
Yesterday I got a chance to present JeromeDL and notitio.us to Nova Spivack from Radar Networks (I am still waiting for my beta account to Twine). He was clearly impressed, with access control module (Extensible Access Control - to be published soon) in JeromeDL, IKHarvester, SSCF (how isn't?), and last but not least - recommendations in notitio.us. TagsTreeMaps and MultiBeeBrowse weren't left without positive impression either. I think this were the best 15 minutes (stretched a little, I know) of sales pitch. Ok, meeting with INEK in Korea was jaw-dropping experience as well, but I had much more time than.
Tomorrow, I should be ready to announce the results of the our evaluation of Semantic and Social technologies in JeromeDL. Stay tuned - you might got surprised if you thought that semantic web technology has gone astray.
Yesterday I got a chance to present JeromeDL and notitio.us to Nova Spivack from Radar Networks (I am still waiting for my beta account to Twine). He was clearly impressed, with access control module (Extensible Access Control - to be published soon) in JeromeDL, IKHarvester, SSCF (how isn't?), and last but not least - recommendations in notitio.us. TagsTreeMaps and MultiBeeBrowse weren't left without positive impression either. I think this were the best 15 minutes (stretched a little, I know) of sales pitch. Ok, meeting with INEK in Korea was jaw-dropping experience as well, but I had much more time than.
Tomorrow, I should be ready to announce the results of the our evaluation of Semantic and Social technologies in JeromeDL. Stay tuned - you might got surprised if you thought that semantic web technology has gone astray.
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
Why do I prefer ntriples?
A thought experiment (actually I had to do that just a minute ago): you have a number of publications backed up from JeromeDL. Each publication is in a separate folder, named as an ID of this publication. Inside you will find dublin core file (XML), couple of binary files (PDFs and such), and RDF description of the resource.
The task: Map a title to each resource using anything you can get on MacOSX or Linux.
Solution: The RDF description in JeromeDL is exported using ntriples format. Which means - one statement per line. Therefore a solution is a very simple workflow:
Which on any UNIX system will translate into:
find . -name "rdf.abstract.ntriples" | awk '{print "grep \"xontology#hasTitle\"",$0}' | sh -
Teaser: Try to do that spending only as little time as I did with either RDF/XML serialization or/and Windows. Good luck.
The task: Map a title to each resource using anything you can get on MacOSX or Linux.
Solution: The RDF description in JeromeDL is exported using ntriples format. Which means - one statement per line. Therefore a solution is a very simple workflow:
- find the RDF files
- prepare grep command
- execute
Which on any UNIX system will translate into:
find . -name "rdf.abstract.ntriples" | awk '{print "grep \"xontology#hasTitle\"",$0}' | sh -
Teaser: Try to do that spending only as little time as I did with either RDF/XML serialization or/and Windows. Good luck.
Friday, February 01, 2008
Snow in Ireland (First Day of Spring)
If you ever been to Ireland long enough you know certain facts:
And there you go - today is Feb, 1st - and we had quite a "snow storm" in the morning :)
- there is so much rain - you could start inventing names for different kinds
- the temperature (almost) never drops below 0C - so there is proper winter
- the seasons in the Celtic Calendar are different. Spring, for example, starts on Feb, 1st.
And there you go - today is Feb, 1st - and we had quite a "snow storm" in the morning :)
Saturday, January 26, 2008
What is keeping me so busy recently? (2)
Another missing piece of my PhD Thesis was evaluation - which for obvious reasons could not have been done before :)
The first phase has just finished - I have managed to convince 25 victims to finish the evaluation.
Now it is my time to process all the data (I still hope from some help from Ewelina - as usual :D)
The first phase has just finished - I have managed to convince 25 victims to finish the evaluation.
Now it is my time to process all the data (I still hope from some help from Ewelina - as usual :D)
What is keeping me so busy recently? (1)
One of the things missing in my PhD Thesis was a chapter on an architecture of a generic SemDL. But before one can move to SemDL architecture, first you need to understand the research in "classic" DLs, and what are the plans for the future. In order to do that, I had to:
1) Take this pile of almost 100 articles on digital libraries architectures, read them, annotate them
2) Compile all this information into a mindmap
3) Write up the results into a missing chapter in my thesis :)
1) Take this pile of almost 100 articles on digital libraries architectures, read them, annotate them
2) Compile all this information into a mindmap
3) Write up the results into a missing chapter in my thesis :)
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Why social Internet in Poland might not be a good idea ?
Before I came to DERI, I was working on the semantic digital library project called Elvis-DL (now JeromeDL). My idea was to add a feature allowing registered users to share their opinion on the resources in the digital library, and hence, build up the knowledge around it.
The response I got at that time was - that it would be a bad ideas - as free comments will lead only to “spam” texts, or worse - comments expressed with bad language, etc. In other words useless.
Shortly after I started developing social features for JeromeDL in DERI, I have also added this “blog-around” feature. Everyone was pleased.
Why?
Because in the social Internet around the world, your comments on blogs present who you are, and people tend to express themselves politely. Hence, their comments are if not useful, at least nice to the others.
Compare comments on Flickr with comments on wp.pl (large polish information portal). Huuge difference, right?
I am in the process of evaluating my solutions (both semantic and social) for digital libraries; these that have been implemented in JeromeDL. I have sent information around, using any possible information channels I could think about. Most of them were social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, GoldenLine; and mailing lists of all known to me social and semantic web groups.
One of my colleagues, helping me with the evaluation, suggested I should also send this information to the new and fast growing social networking site called nasza-klasa.pl.
I have to confess, I was not too much convinced to this idea; but since I wanted more people to help me, reluctantly, I have sent the information also there. The fora of my universities (GUT and NUIG) and the high school.
Shortly after, a very stupid (and frustrated, if you ask me) comment appeared at the GUT forum.
For me it is a clear example that social solutions build in Poland cannot be left without moderation.
Sad, isn’t it?
---
16 January 2008 17:46
As an after match of this stupid conversation, sadly enough supported by other people with strange attitude, and having no answer from the moderators of the system, I have decided to do the only reasonable thing - remove my profile from that site, since it was impossible to continue the conversation as it went.
Shame on you nasza-klasa.pl.
---
16 January 2008 23:59
Maciej’ve just sent me a copy of the conversation that continues on nasza-klasa.pl. It is nice to see that other people share my understanding of “cultural” conversation.
I could re-register to the portal - but I will not do that.
Consider this my protest against zero-reaction from moderators.
I do not claim that people who behave wrong should be removed out of the sudden, but tuning in to close a pointless conversation would be enough.
As Jaroslaw said - I removed my account as being part of the social network means for me to identify with the people there, and use the SN for the purpose. If I cannot talk to other people without being abused for using technical language, what is the purpose of using such a SN? Good luck nasza-klasa - but you just lost a very strong supporter of social networking. I am getting back to Facebook, LinkedIn, and GoldenLine - see you all there.
---
17 January 2008 09:28
As I can see - the discussion continues. This time the feather was taken by some weird guy who cannot even spell “evaluations” - congratulations - how such a person can be subscribed to university forum? The most funny is that he claims that my evaluation was set up only for computer science; well, it was not. It was set up for people who have some more understanding of the current Internet. The truly sad is that the people who felt offended by not understanding my post were actually computer scientists (or so they claim). And of course, he could not write even a short post without using “french” (yeah, I still know what “chgw” means)
The response I got at that time was - that it would be a bad ideas - as free comments will lead only to “spam” texts, or worse - comments expressed with bad language, etc. In other words useless.
Shortly after I started developing social features for JeromeDL in DERI, I have also added this “blog-around” feature. Everyone was pleased.
Why?
Because in the social Internet around the world, your comments on blogs present who you are, and people tend to express themselves politely. Hence, their comments are if not useful, at least nice to the others.
Compare comments on Flickr with comments on wp.pl (large polish information portal). Huuge difference, right?
I am in the process of evaluating my solutions (both semantic and social) for digital libraries; these that have been implemented in JeromeDL. I have sent information around, using any possible information channels I could think about. Most of them were social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, GoldenLine; and mailing lists of all known to me social and semantic web groups.
One of my colleagues, helping me with the evaluation, suggested I should also send this information to the new and fast growing social networking site called nasza-klasa.pl.
I have to confess, I was not too much convinced to this idea; but since I wanted more people to help me, reluctantly, I have sent the information also there. The fora of my universities (GUT and NUIG) and the high school.
Shortly after, a very stupid (and frustrated, if you ask me) comment appeared at the GUT forum.
For me it is a clear example that social solutions build in Poland cannot be left without moderation.
Sad, isn’t it?
---
16 January 2008 17:46
As an after match of this stupid conversation, sadly enough supported by other people with strange attitude, and having no answer from the moderators of the system, I have decided to do the only reasonable thing - remove my profile from that site, since it was impossible to continue the conversation as it went.
Shame on you nasza-klasa.pl.
---
16 January 2008 23:59
Maciej’ve just sent me a copy of the conversation that continues on nasza-klasa.pl. It is nice to see that other people share my understanding of “cultural” conversation.
I could re-register to the portal - but I will not do that.
Consider this my protest against zero-reaction from moderators.
I do not claim that people who behave wrong should be removed out of the sudden, but tuning in to close a pointless conversation would be enough.
As Jaroslaw said - I removed my account as being part of the social network means for me to identify with the people there, and use the SN for the purpose. If I cannot talk to other people without being abused for using technical language, what is the purpose of using such a SN? Good luck nasza-klasa - but you just lost a very strong supporter of social networking. I am getting back to Facebook, LinkedIn, and GoldenLine - see you all there.
---
17 January 2008 09:28
As I can see - the discussion continues. This time the feather was taken by some weird guy who cannot even spell “evaluations” - congratulations - how such a person can be subscribed to university forum? The most funny is that he claims that my evaluation was set up only for computer science; well, it was not. It was set up for people who have some more understanding of the current Internet. The truly sad is that the people who felt offended by not understanding my post were actually computer scientists (or so they claim). And of course, he could not write even a short post without using “french” (yeah, I still know what “chgw” means)
Friday, January 11, 2008
Evaluation of social and semantic technologies in digital libraries
I would like to invite everyone to take part in the evaluation of the semantic and social technologies for digital libraries. The evaluation benchmarks search and browsing solutions delivered in our semantic digital library called JeromeDL [http://www.jeromedl.org/] against standard services offered by one of most popular open-source libraries - DSpace.
Please feel free to enter http://q.digime.name/ and help us with evaluating our prototype solutions.
Please feel free to enter http://q.digime.name/ and help us with evaluating our prototype solutions.
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