Who am I?

I'm a Software Engineer with passion open source, open data with data management, especially the ones human oriented (AKA human readable formats, like XML).

Personal Projects

History of The World

The title is ambitious, and maybe it will be never achieved, but the project is simple to explain:

Data collection to facilitate historic data visualization

The world is changing and the way we think is deeply different from what we, commoners, thought decades ago.

During my reading I noticed that I don't have a clear view of what happened historically around the world at a given time (era, century) or during a given event. I also considered this unacceptable and in the hope to help nowadays students to have a better grasp at a what I like to think being a 4-dimensional history, I decided to start a project which collects data about events, collate them for possible visualisation.

How

So far I individuated some tools:

- Data Source:
 - Wikipedia History portal as the main source of information
 - DBPedia as the main source of structured information
- Data Formatting/Manipulation
 - XML related technologies: RDF,N-Tuple, N-Quads, SPARQL
- Data Visualisation
 - SMILE Widgets

--CosimoAlfarano (talk) 13:25, 22 June 2010 (UTC)