Guess this is a pretty special Easter holiday this year; at least for me …

Two months ago I’ve published as a book my PhD Thesis on usability of information discovery in Semantic Digital Libraries; few days ago I received my copy of the hardcover version.

This is also the iPad weekend, and my book is also published in the ePUB format, which makes it iPad-ready.

There also other things on the horizon, of which I will let you know pretty soon…

Therefore, I would like to wish you all a very Happy Easter.

(Psst, there is 25% discount on my recent book as an Easter gift)

Probably you heard by now, but if you didn’t – here is the big news: I have published a second book on Semantic Digital Libraries: Improving Usability of Information Discovery with Semantic and Social Services.
Compared to the previous one, it is not a compilation of articles contributed by myself and my colleagues; this book is based [...]

January was madness: I was hoping for this year to be more relaxed after all the rush with thesis and the company in 2009. But it did not start like one; guess I should blame my workholic attitude. Maybe I should do what my supervisor once did: hang a note (so I can see it) [...]

In case you were wondering what was my PhD thesis about – here is are some tips (thanks to Woordle):

That was a quick one. I hardly say “Semantic” and we are first month down the road with daily posts at our Semantic School blog.
We have published 21 articles so far. We went from reviewing Semantic Layer Cake to introducing OWL yesterday.
It is to early to tell, but we already heard voices of appreciation. Hopefully, [...]

Just had a very interesting conversation on how my research could help knowledge workers, e.g., people responsible for producing documentation in large corporations.
I have to say, I am glad that whatever I wrote here helped someone make this association with their work to my research. To be frank, when I invented notitio.us 2 years ago, [...]

Few days ago I found enough time to write about the last stages of my PhD process, namely my viva voce and what followed afterwards.
A friend of mine, Lukasz, told me that he still had the videos he recorded during my presentation. He was so kind to publish them on Vimeo.
Here they are:

Sebastian’s PhD Deffence [...]

Last week I have travelled to Trento, Italy.

I was invited by the organizers of the International Conference for the Semantic Web and Digital Libraries (ICSD’09) to give a full-day tutorial on Semantic Digital Libraries.
The key goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on solutions that span together these two worlds: [...]

Few months ago (in May) I had to face the most important point on my way to PhD – the viva voce (i.e., “thesis defense”).
I could not get myself around posting about that, mostly due to many activities related to our startup and to the final procedures related to the thesis itself.
Now, as my PhD [...]

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