My reports from the ISWC 2007 and Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo

Posted on November 22, 2007 by John Breslin

I’ve written some summaries / transcripts of talks I attended at the recent 6th International Semantic Web Conference in Korea and also the 1st Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo event.
International Semantic Web Conference

Brewster Kahle, The Internet Archive - “Universal access to human knowledge (or public access to digital materials)”
Barney Pell, Powerset - “Natural language and the [...]

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Japanese civil servants reprimanded for Wikipedia anime article edits

Posted on October 8, 2007 by John Breslin

Six civil servants in the agriculture ministry of the Japanese government have been reprimanded for their combined 408 edits to the Wikipedia.
The most prolific of the six made 260 changes to pages related to “Mobile Suit Gundam”, a Japanese animation show (or “anime” ;) about giant robots.
A representative for the ministry, Tsutomu Shimomura, said: “The agriculture [...]

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