Rinke Hoekstra

Aangezien de verkiezingen er aan zitten te komen, raad ik mijn vader aan om eens het KiesKompas te proberen.

De volgende ochtend ontvang ik een email met de volgende inhoud:

“Tjeemig; Nu worden mijn conservatieve pijnpunten zichtbaar. Gelukkig blijf ik, alhoewel niet zo consistent, binnen de linkse/progressieve range.
Het zal toch de PvdA moeten worden, denk ik. Alhoewel….”De luis in de pels” speelt nog steeds een rol. Ik stem gewoon op de PSP en verder bekijken ze het maar. Wat? Kan dat niet? Wie bepaalt dat eigenlijk? Hunk?!”

Gaan ze zeker een beetje bepalen wat ik moet stemmen zeker… is dat nou Democratie?

Well, that’s just what it is: it’s Jurix, the european AI&Law conference, and it’s in Paris!

Have a look at http://www.jurix2006.org

(for some reasons the menu-titles do not come up on my machine… but hey, you can’t have everything)

We are now in the final stages of releasing the next version of LegalAtlas. That is, the programming work has been done, and technical documents are being polished.

LegalAtlas is a tool that allows simultaneous viewing of spatial plans (or any other kind of map) and the regulations that govern specific parts of the map.

It’s actually really cool to see semantic web technology come to life: it’s built on RDF/OWL and uses SPARQL queries. The maps are generated by (our in-house developed) GML 3.1 adapter to OpenJUMP, the texts are (of course) in MetaLex format.

We have plenty of other ideas to extend this nifty technology, such as porting the whole thing to the Eclipse SWT plugin framework, combining it with Vex (a Wysywig XML editor) to write MetaLex documents, and using an RDF datastore as backend (such as Sesame). Integrating this with ontology tools such as TopBraid Composer or Protege will result in a really powerful semantic web workbench for legislative drafters, legal knowledge engineers etc.

I can hardly wait…

The maintainers of the OWL 1.1 website at http://owl1-1.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ have uploaded new versions of the OWL 1.1 draft specification. Listed are:

• Overview
• Structural Specification and Functional-Style Syntax
• Model Theoretic Semantics
• XML Syntax (to be part of DIG 2.0)
• Mapping to RDF Graphs
• Tractable Fragments

These documents are to be discussed at the OWLED 2006 workshop (nov 10-11).

Came accross this link in a post by Bijan Parsia: problems of commonsense reasoning, contributed by some of the greater minds in the field:

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/leora/commonsense/