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7 December 2006
Off we go up the learning curve once more
Posted by Paul Miller at December 7, 2006 11:58 AM
I've been at Talis for over a year now, and it's been both great fun and a challenging learning experience throughout. Although I'm certainly not leaving the company, it's time for a change of direction as from January I shift my attention toward something we're calling 'Project Calypso'.
In some ways, this is a return to issues with which I was involved in an earlier life, before becoming increasingly embroiled in all things library. It takes me back toward RDF and the Semantic Web, to my rather faded copy of that Scientific American article from 2001, and to seeing the huge distances thinking and doing have moved since the 'Miller Datamodel twins' sat down in a (Washington DC, I seem to remember) hotel room with Dan Brickley to write this.
Colleagues such as Ian Davis on the Platform team here have remained closer to these things in the intervening years than I, and I am somewhat daunted by the prospect of the mountains of physical and virtual paper heading my way to get me caught up.
It's challenging, exciting, a little scary, and definitely the right way to go. Watch out for more on Project Calypso here on Nodalities and elsewhere.
I thought I might start things off gently, though, using the next few posts to share some of my changing perspectives and new findings as I offload existing commitments and work to get myself up to speed in this area. I look forward to having those perspectives challenged, and to having those reading this blog chip in with their own views on the things I should be reading and thinking about, and the people I should be finding time to sit down with.
Come along as I ascend the steeply curving slopes of Mt. Learning. It'll be fun...
Image of Mount Everest by Thomas Wanhoff, downloaded from Flickr where it's CC licensed; Attribution-Sharealike.
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You can't say 'project calypso' and not link to anything.
What is it? Organising a Caribbean holiday for Talis staff and hangers-on?
Oh, hang on, you're going to help automate the hard parts of implementing the semantic web. That would be nice.
Posted by: David Tebbutt at December 10, 2006 04:00 AM
