Irene's blog

http://www.dzone.com/articles/role-social-media-during

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The role of social media during disasters seems to be growing ever larger. The obvious recent example is during the Boston bombings, where social media was used throughout the event. [...]

http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/rome-workshop/rome-workshop-report
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The MultilingualWeb initiative examines best practices and standards related to all aspects of creating, localizing, and deploying the Web multilingually. The initiative aims to raise the visibility of existing best practices and standards and to identify gaps in web technologies that impact multilinguality online. The core vehicle for this effort is a series of events that started in 2010 (run by the initial MultilingualWeb Project and now by its successor, the MultilingualWeb-LT project).

http://www.kendoui.com/blogs/teamblog/posts/12-12-04/desktop_apps_the_fi...
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HTML5 takes another huge step forward with Chrome Packaged Apps. Packaged Apps open-up the desktop to HTML5 developers. Reusing all of the skills mastered for the web and mobile, Packaged Apps empowers developers to create complete app experiences that can be run anywhere you find Chrome: Windows, Mac, Linux, and, of course, Chrome OS!

http://readwrite.com/2013/05/15/google-search-anticipatory-system-io13
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Amit Singhal, a senior Google executive in charge of its search efforts, said that Google search, starting today, wouldn't just answer the question implied in the words we type into that ubiquitous search box. Google, Singhal said, would display results that "anticipate the next question."

https://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas/
https://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas/embedding-schemas-in-emails
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https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/dcat_application_profile/asset_release...
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The DCAT Application profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP) is a specification based on the Data Catalogue vocabulary (DCAT) for describing public sector datasets in Europe. Its basic use case is to enable a cross-data portal search for data sets and make public sector data better searchable across borders and sectors. This can be achieved by the exchange of descriptions of data sets among data portals.

http://datahub.io/dataset/shakespeare-review
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The Shakespeare Review into Public Sector Information (PSI) was commissioned by the UK Government to look into ways in which the public sector can improve access to data in order to promote efficiencies, stimulate economic growth and to bring wider benefits to society.

http://blog.ldodds.com/2013/05/15/summarising-geographic-coverage-of-dbp...
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I finally found the time to do some quick practical exploration of my own. One area that interests me is understanding the geographic coverage of a dataset. There's lots of ways to approach that, mainly because datasets can vary widely in how they include geographical data. Some might include direct references to regions, whilst others might have more fine-grained latitude/longitude data.

http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00498ED1V01Y201304WBE006
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http://www.stanford.edu/~jdlevin/Papers/BigData.pdf
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