aspectweb  

about

We provide a FREE data service. Our goal is to locate/ relocate shareable meta-data from the exclusive ownership of specific application to a globally accessible context, simplify to extreme publishing, searching and integration of semantically rich information. The philosophical metaphor speaks about creating a generative field, about potentizing static, apparently complete information by means of active, dynamic knowledge, about leaving the control behind and let the unfolding happen, about transparency and emergence.

software

The pragmatic, short term goal is to develop a simple, dynamic, elastic data cluster software with special focus on scalability & availability. The long term objective, the aqoo anima (ting vision) is the data continuum, a living, open, transparent, omnipresent information space.

documentation

  pilot projects  

annoQ - web annotations (alpha)

The key is : small pieces loosely joined. Use tools that are : open and highly networked able to be personalized flexible individually owned disposable subversive -- Chris Lott, Tools of Web 2.0

Imagine that while you are browsing *any* web page you are able to enhance the content, supplement contextual navigation possibilities, see the contributions other people, filter and group relevant aspects to you based on logical/ semantic criteria, notify friends about your findings, etc. And all of these without any contribution, agreement or control from the entity publishing the core information.

soft~link (alpha)

Knowledge rests in networks Learning is a network formation process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources Ability to see connections between fields, ideas and concepts is a core skill Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities -- George Siemens, Connectivism - A Learning Theory for the Digital Age

A soft~link is a weak, annotated and remotely stored hyperlink. Complementary to web annotations (predominantly content centered) soft links provide dynamic, evolvable connectivity between information sources. Search engines may offer contextual integration as demonstrated by our query front-end: annoq.org .