SyrtAPI is a new entertainment platform that combines music and book data from multiple sources like MusicBrainz and NYTimes reviews. It uses Linked Data and SPARQL queries to extract lyrics and reviews and recommend songs that match the content of the books. The team learned about using Linked Data vocabularies and linking datasets while building the prototype, which currently retrieves 25 lyrics and 10 book reviews through its pipeline. Future work includes adding more data sources, developing a mobile app, and using natural language processing to better analyze texts.
Taking the Reins: Website Redesign by the Librarians, for the UsersMark O'English
Library website design from a librarian and user point of view. Presented at Pacific Northwest Library Association ( PNLA ) Annual Conference, Post Falls, Idaho, August 7, 2008 by Mark O'English.
Knowledge Technologies: Opportunities and ChallengesFariz Darari
How to be one step ahead of leveraging knowledge technologies for your apps!
When: Dec 8, 2017
Where: Fl. 6, Multimedia Tower, Central Jakarta
Thanks to Ragil for the invitation!
Blogging Librarian vs. Blogging Library: Who Makes the Best Use of Emerging T...headtale
A presentation I gave at the 2009 CLA Emerging Technology Interest Group pre-conference at the McGill University Cybertheque library.
My general topic was the use of emerging technologies in public libraries to a mostly academic librarian audience. My approach was to compare and contrast the use of technologies by myself as a generally but not always tech-savvy librarian and my employer, RPL, generally but not always a tech-savvy library.
The day also featured presentations by John Fink and Jessamyn West and all kinds of live blogging, Twittering and post-event blogging as well:
http://etigcamp2009.pbworks.com/coverage
Taking the Reins: Website Redesign by the Librarians, for the UsersMark O'English
Library website design from a librarian and user point of view. Presented at Pacific Northwest Library Association ( PNLA ) Annual Conference, Post Falls, Idaho, August 7, 2008 by Mark O'English.
Knowledge Technologies: Opportunities and ChallengesFariz Darari
How to be one step ahead of leveraging knowledge technologies for your apps!
When: Dec 8, 2017
Where: Fl. 6, Multimedia Tower, Central Jakarta
Thanks to Ragil for the invitation!
Blogging Librarian vs. Blogging Library: Who Makes the Best Use of Emerging T...headtale
A presentation I gave at the 2009 CLA Emerging Technology Interest Group pre-conference at the McGill University Cybertheque library.
My general topic was the use of emerging technologies in public libraries to a mostly academic librarian audience. My approach was to compare and contrast the use of technologies by myself as a generally but not always tech-savvy librarian and my employer, RPL, generally but not always a tech-savvy library.
The day also featured presentations by John Fink and Jessamyn West and all kinds of live blogging, Twittering and post-event blogging as well:
http://etigcamp2009.pbworks.com/coverage
This presentation was provided by Kyle Lo of The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) during the NISO hot topic event "Preprints." The virtual conference was held on April 21, 2021.
S2DS final project presentation: Building a recommendation engine for RefMEMartina Pugliese
Final project for the Science to Data Science school in London (Aug. 2014) where we worked with company RefME to build the prototype of their recommendation engine.
Literature Searching For Your Summer Scholarship 2011 - Science and EngineeringDeborah Fitchett
An introduction to library resources, including database search skills, to support the UC Summer Scholarship programme in the science and engineering fields.
Open access promises a great deal, but will your dataset be lost in cyberspace and remain unused? What are you doing to ensure discovery and utility for a range of publics? In this session you'll learn about the work done at OECD to make data both discoverable and useful to experts and lay users alike. You'll be introduced to OECD's citation tool and see some of the visualizations being developed to make data tell stories. You'll also see how OECD is presenting its datasets alongside books and journals in a single, seamless, service that is part of the global information network for researchers and students. Finally, Christmas comes early for anyone with an iPhone or iPad. Open Data? There's an OECD App for that.
Invited talk at USEWOD2014 (http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~bettina.berendt/USEWOD2014/)
A tremendous amount of machine-interpretable information is available in the Linked Open Data Cloud. Unfortunately, much of this data remains underused as machine clients struggle to use the Web. I believe this can be solved by giving machines interfaces similar to those we offer humans, instead of separate interfaces such as SPARQL endpoints. In this talk, I'll discuss the Linked Data Fragments vision on machine access to the Web of Data, and indicate how this impacts usage analysis of the LOD Cloud. We all can learn a lot from how humans access the Web, and those strategies can be applied to querying and analysis. In particular, we have to focus first on solving those use cases that humans can do easily, and only then consider tackling others.
Ken Chad presented the keynote at the EDS (Ebsco Discovery Services) conference at Regents University, London in July 2016. He reviewed future trends for Google and enterprise search including factors such as voice (‘conversational’) search, the ‘ultimate assistant’, entities (‘things not strings’), visual search and the role of big data, context and intention. He then looked and some trends in library discovery services. There will continue to be a multiplicity of approaches open to users and Ken recommended that libraries do more to focus on the needs of users– the ‘jobs’ they were trying to do– in order to acquire and/or innovate new approaches to library discovery services.
Hack Kid Con - Learn to be a Data Scientist for $1Adrian Cockcroft
Attempt to inspire some kids to pay attention in Math and Science classes so they can get a good job and help fill the skills gap in the years to come.
A Drupal case study on developing the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Dig Music website. I gave this talk at Drupal Downunder #ddu2011 in Brisbane, Australia (Jan 23, 2011).
I discuss how the Semantic Web was used to create a real time snapshot of a musical artist that is pulled live from the digital radio broadcast.
I also talk about performance issues we encountered and ways that they were overcome.
This presentation was provided by Kyle Lo of The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) during the NISO hot topic event "Preprints." The virtual conference was held on April 21, 2021.
S2DS final project presentation: Building a recommendation engine for RefMEMartina Pugliese
Final project for the Science to Data Science school in London (Aug. 2014) where we worked with company RefME to build the prototype of their recommendation engine.
Literature Searching For Your Summer Scholarship 2011 - Science and EngineeringDeborah Fitchett
An introduction to library resources, including database search skills, to support the UC Summer Scholarship programme in the science and engineering fields.
Open access promises a great deal, but will your dataset be lost in cyberspace and remain unused? What are you doing to ensure discovery and utility for a range of publics? In this session you'll learn about the work done at OECD to make data both discoverable and useful to experts and lay users alike. You'll be introduced to OECD's citation tool and see some of the visualizations being developed to make data tell stories. You'll also see how OECD is presenting its datasets alongside books and journals in a single, seamless, service that is part of the global information network for researchers and students. Finally, Christmas comes early for anyone with an iPhone or iPad. Open Data? There's an OECD App for that.
Invited talk at USEWOD2014 (http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~bettina.berendt/USEWOD2014/)
A tremendous amount of machine-interpretable information is available in the Linked Open Data Cloud. Unfortunately, much of this data remains underused as machine clients struggle to use the Web. I believe this can be solved by giving machines interfaces similar to those we offer humans, instead of separate interfaces such as SPARQL endpoints. In this talk, I'll discuss the Linked Data Fragments vision on machine access to the Web of Data, and indicate how this impacts usage analysis of the LOD Cloud. We all can learn a lot from how humans access the Web, and those strategies can be applied to querying and analysis. In particular, we have to focus first on solving those use cases that humans can do easily, and only then consider tackling others.
Ken Chad presented the keynote at the EDS (Ebsco Discovery Services) conference at Regents University, London in July 2016. He reviewed future trends for Google and enterprise search including factors such as voice (‘conversational’) search, the ‘ultimate assistant’, entities (‘things not strings’), visual search and the role of big data, context and intention. He then looked and some trends in library discovery services. There will continue to be a multiplicity of approaches open to users and Ken recommended that libraries do more to focus on the needs of users– the ‘jobs’ they were trying to do– in order to acquire and/or innovate new approaches to library discovery services.
Hack Kid Con - Learn to be a Data Scientist for $1Adrian Cockcroft
Attempt to inspire some kids to pay attention in Math and Science classes so they can get a good job and help fill the skills gap in the years to come.
A Drupal case study on developing the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Dig Music website. I gave this talk at Drupal Downunder #ddu2011 in Brisbane, Australia (Jan 23, 2011).
I discuss how the Semantic Web was used to create a real time snapshot of a musical artist that is pulled live from the digital radio broadcast.
I also talk about performance issues we encountered and ways that they were overcome.
Professional air quality monitoring systems provide immediate, on-site data for analysis, compliance, and decision-making.
Monitor common gases, weather parameters, particulates.
Slide 1: Title Slide
Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Slide 2: Introduction to Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Definition: Extrachromosomal inheritance refers to the transmission of genetic material that is not found within the nucleus.
Key Components: Involves genes located in mitochondria, chloroplasts, and plasmids.
Slide 3: Mitochondrial Inheritance
Mitochondria: Organelles responsible for energy production.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in mitochondria.
Inheritance Pattern: Maternally inherited, meaning it is passed from mothers to all their offspring.
Diseases: Examples include Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) and mitochondrial myopathy.
Slide 4: Chloroplast Inheritance
Chloroplasts: Organelles responsible for photosynthesis in plants.
Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in chloroplasts.
Inheritance Pattern: Often maternally inherited in most plants, but can vary in some species.
Examples: Variegation in plants, where leaf color patterns are determined by chloroplast DNA.
Slide 5: Plasmid Inheritance
Plasmids: Small, circular DNA molecules found in bacteria and some eukaryotes.
Features: Can carry antibiotic resistance genes and can be transferred between cells through processes like conjugation.
Significance: Important in biotechnology for gene cloning and genetic engineering.
Slide 6: Mechanisms of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Non-Mendelian Patterns: Do not follow Mendel’s laws of inheritance.
Cytoplasmic Segregation: During cell division, organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts are randomly distributed to daughter cells.
Heteroplasmy: Presence of more than one type of organellar genome within a cell, leading to variation in expression.
Slide 7: Examples of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Four O’clock Plant (Mirabilis jalapa): Shows variegated leaves due to different cpDNA in leaf cells.
Petite Mutants in Yeast: Result from mutations in mitochondrial DNA affecting respiration.
Slide 8: Importance of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Evolution: Provides insight into the evolution of eukaryotic cells.
Medicine: Understanding mitochondrial inheritance helps in diagnosing and treating mitochondrial diseases.
Agriculture: Chloroplast inheritance can be used in plant breeding and genetic modification.
Slide 9: Recent Research and Advances
Gene Editing: Techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 are being used to edit mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA.
Therapies: Development of mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) for preventing mitochondrial diseases.
Slide 10: Conclusion
Summary: Extrachromosomal inheritance involves the transmission of genetic material outside the nucleus and plays a crucial role in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology.
Future Directions: Continued research and technological advancements hold promise for new treatments and applications.
Slide 11: Questions and Discussion
Invite Audience: Open the floor for any questions or further discussion on the topic.
(May 29th, 2024) Advancements in Intravital Microscopy- Insights for Preclini...Scintica Instrumentation
Intravital microscopy (IVM) is a powerful tool utilized to study cellular behavior over time and space in vivo. Much of our understanding of cell biology has been accomplished using various in vitro and ex vivo methods; however, these studies do not necessarily reflect the natural dynamics of biological processes. Unlike traditional cell culture or fixed tissue imaging, IVM allows for the ultra-fast high-resolution imaging of cellular processes over time and space and were studied in its natural environment. Real-time visualization of biological processes in the context of an intact organism helps maintain physiological relevance and provide insights into the progression of disease, response to treatments or developmental processes.
In this webinar we give an overview of advanced applications of the IVM system in preclinical research. IVIM technology is a provider of all-in-one intravital microscopy systems and solutions optimized for in vivo imaging of live animal models at sub-micron resolution. The system’s unique features and user-friendly software enables researchers to probe fast dynamic biological processes such as immune cell tracking, cell-cell interaction as well as vascularization and tumor metastasis with exceptional detail. This webinar will also give an overview of IVM being utilized in drug development, offering a view into the intricate interaction between drugs/nanoparticles and tissues in vivo and allows for the evaluation of therapeutic intervention in a variety of tissues and organs. This interdisciplinary collaboration continues to drive the advancements of novel therapeutic strategies.
Richard's entangled aventures in wonderlandRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
Richard's aventures in two entangled wonderlandsRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
Earliest Galaxies in the JADES Origins Field: Luminosity Function and Cosmic ...Sérgio Sacani
We characterize the earliest galaxy population in the JADES Origins Field (JOF), the deepest
imaging field observed with JWST. We make use of the ancillary Hubble optical images (5 filters
spanning 0.4−0.9µm) and novel JWST images with 14 filters spanning 0.8−5µm, including 7 mediumband filters, and reaching total exposure times of up to 46 hours per filter. We combine all our data
at > 2.3µm to construct an ultradeep image, reaching as deep as ≈ 31.4 AB mag in the stack and
30.3-31.0 AB mag (5σ, r = 0.1” circular aperture) in individual filters. We measure photometric
redshifts and use robust selection criteria to identify a sample of eight galaxy candidates at redshifts
z = 11.5 − 15. These objects show compact half-light radii of R1/2 ∼ 50 − 200pc, stellar masses of
M⋆ ∼ 107−108M⊙, and star-formation rates of SFR ∼ 0.1−1 M⊙ yr−1
. Our search finds no candidates
at 15 < z < 20, placing upper limits at these redshifts. We develop a forward modeling approach to
infer the properties of the evolving luminosity function without binning in redshift or luminosity that
marginalizes over the photometric redshift uncertainty of our candidate galaxies and incorporates the
impact of non-detections. We find a z = 12 luminosity function in good agreement with prior results,
and that the luminosity function normalization and UV luminosity density decline by a factor of ∼ 2.5
from z = 12 to z = 14. We discuss the possible implications of our results in the context of theoretical
models for evolution of the dark matter halo mass function.
7. What is SyrtAPI?
It is a linked data based application
It combines different datasets
www.musicbrainz.org
http://www.geonames.org
http://dbpedia.org
8. What is SyrtAPI?
With cool stuff!
Music lyrics
http://lyrics.wikia.com
And book reviews
NYTimes Reviews
9. How to cope with this …??
Syrtaki team, 4 september 2014, 16:00 …
12. SyrtAPI Architecture
Wikilyrics
HTML
NYTimes
Bestseller
JSON
NLP Module
CONVERTER
JSON LD
Recommended
URI songs
Music Brainz
(RDF)
BoilerPipe
Lyric
Extranctor
Harvester
SPARQL
COUCH – DB
(JSON)
JS
DOM
Client #LD
JS
Client #LD
JS
Client #LD
JS
13. Conclusions & Results
Always bet on JavaScript & JSON LD
Cool stuff like Linked Data Fragments
Full SPARQL query client side is 6 lines of JS!
It’s good to combine classical restful API,
hypermedia and Linked Data
14. Conclusions & Results
So far we got
Pipeline ready waiting for internet connection!
25 lyrics
10 books reviews
a cool website
15.
16. Lessons Learned
We’ve learned a lot! … not only SPARQL, but also
How to use Linked Data vocabularies
How to link Linked Data datasets
The difficulty of finding data
Teamworking
Other Cool technologies
17.
18. Future work…
Adding more datasets
Adding more and different sources of book reviews
Developing a mobile app html 5
Link our app to music libraries like iTunes
Add more NLP to anaylse the texts
Make money
