Tomas's Personal Blog
I write for ProgrammableWeb.com and occasionally for my personal blog when I
come across some interesting tool, software, idea, research or event.
Featured Posts
- Google Scholar Metadata: Monitoring Papers with Google Spreadsheets
Google Scholar is a great thing which you can use to monitor citations of (your) papers. The major problem I have with Google Scholar, though, is that it does not expose any metadata about papers and citations. I have thus ...
- hRESTS — a Microformat for RESTful Services
Our work on hRESTS, a microformat to describe RESTful services (co-authored by Jacek Kopecky, Karthik Gomadam and me) has been accepted to a Web Intelligence conference to be held in Sydney, Australia this year in December (the acceptance rate was ...
- Success of a PhD Endeavor
What are successful factors in completing a PhD degree? There is no ideal student who knows what he/she wants from the very beginning till the end, however, there are several aspects that a student should learn in order to be ...
- SAWSDL: Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema
In November/December, IEEE Internet Computing magazine published our article on the Semantic Annotations for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL). In this article we summarize the results of the W3C SAWSDL Wokring Group.
SAWSDL is the first step in W3C toward standardizing ...
Latest Posts
- Boxee Plugin for i-vysílání České televize (Czech TV)
The Czech TV has a great amount of TV shows available on the Web called i-vysílání. Not only you can watch the life TV over the Web but you can also watch most of the TV shows including news, documentaries, ...
- Our Book on Semantic Technologies for E-Government
Our book on Semantic Technologies for E-Government, co-edited by me, Vassilios Peristeras and Konstantinos Tarabanis, has finally been published by Springer Germany. It has over 30 contributing authors working on semantic technologies applied to e-government mainly as part of EU ...
- Google Scholar Metadata: Monitoring Papers with Google Spreadsheets
Google Scholar is a great thing which you can use to monitor citations of (your) papers. The major problem I have with Google Scholar, though, is that it does not expose any metadata about papers and citations. I have thus ...
- Context-aware Computing for Mac
A while ago I wrote a blog post about mounting a network file system in Ubuntu based on a specific network you are connected to. After I switched to Mac I was missing this feature a lot, until now. I ...
- Advances in Computers Chapter
Elsevier published our work on Semantic Web Services with Lightweight Descriptions of Services in its Advances in Computers, volume 76 (co-authored by me, Jacek Kopecky, Jana Viskova, Adrian Mocan, Mick Kerrigan and Dieter Fensel). In order to publish in ...
- Google’s Plans on Semantics
Google's VP research, Alfred Spector, reveals plans on exploiting the huge amount of data for building a "database of concepts and relationships between them" for better search results. He envisions that Google should be able to learn such information from ...
- Our Innovative B2B SOA Solution Wins €700 Prize
Our solution, an innovative SOA technology that we apply to solve various B2B real-world scenarios wins the prize of 700€ at the industrial track of the ASWC in Bangkok, Thailand. The development of the underlying technology (called WSMX) started in ...
- Exclude Self-traffic from your Website’s Access Reports
I use Google Analytics to track my website's traffic. Since I also often use information on my website to quickly search for a paper I wrote and refer to it, I access my website quite often. From this reason I ...
- hRESTS — a Microformat for RESTful Services
Our work on hRESTS, a microformat to describe RESTful services (co-authored by Jacek Kopecky, Karthik Gomadam and me) has been accepted to a Web Intelligence conference to be held in Sydney, Australia this year in December (the acceptance rate was ...
- Formal Model for Semantic-Driven Service Execution
Our work on formal model for semantic-driven service execution (co-authored by me, Adrian Mocan, and Maciej Zaremba) will be published in proceedings of the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany in November this year ...