My PhD
I’ve been intending to write a post overviewing my PhD for a while now. I started in December 2010, and am currently writing a progress report on what I’ve done so far. Rather than putting off posting something further, I thought I’d show you this talk by Tim Berners-Lee describing the Semantic Web:
I’m not working on linking data up on the internet, as cool as that is. I’m working at the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research & Education, and am applying what Tim talks about above to the railway industry. The idea is that by using the technology that’s being developed for the semantic web, it will be possible to bring the same sort of advantages (in terms of interoperability) to all the computer systems at work running the rail network in the UK. That means everyone that works with trains gets more knowledge, and more knowledge = no more late trains.
More to come…
