Research Information Network (RIN)

Yesterday I was at a presentation organised by RIN
http://www.rin.ac.uk/

Handling the scientific data deluge…
Making research data more freely available…
Interoperating between heterogeneous Web databases…
Exploiting the potential of the Semantic Web and Web 2.0…

http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-webs
... data webs and semantic web developments; there were even more acronyms than usual but David Karger from MIT was talking about Piggy Bank (a Firefox plugin) and their Haystack Project http://simile.mit.edu/ http://simile.mit.edu/about.html
http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/

RDF seemed to be the key acronym, but SPARQL SOAP FOAF were also flung around.
- the presentations should appear on the RIN website

Also mentioned "Haskell" http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell functional programming language

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Met a woman called Sabine who probably runs "3D Metrics" http://www.3dmetrics.co.uk/

Visual Data Intelligence exists as a software prototype that demonstrates new mathematical methods for -

interpolation creating new ‘datascape visuals’
extrapolation allowing not only forecasting but also ‘back casting’
layering multi-dimensional data allowing for new visual comparisons.

"Visual Data Intelligence is currently used as the engine for a prototype web service producing financial forecasts with exceptional accuracy. See http://www.blogger.com/www.3dmetrics.net. This service is provided by my company 3D Metrics Ltd. "
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